Arista Networks – A Quick Overview of the Stock

By Emilio Sanchez • Saturday, September 07 15:06 • Permanent Link

Arista Networks logged a -4.3% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $314.31 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -2.0%. ANET's trading volume is 1,952,843 compared to the stock's average volume of 2,105,758.

Arista Networks trades -13.31% away from its average analyst target price of $362.58 per share. The 19 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $265.0 to $432.0, and on average have given Arista Networks a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in ANET, you'll want to know the following:

Arista Networks's current price is 441.4% above its Graham number of $58.05, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Arista Networks has moved 62.7% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 20.5%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 7.7, Arista Networks has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 40.8 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
ANET has a forward P/E ratio of 33.5 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $9.39 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 2.05 — a number near or below 1 signifying that Arista Networks is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 11.71 compared to its sector average of 2.29
Arista Networks, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, and sale of data-driven, client to cloud networking solutions for data center, campus, and routing environments in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific.
Based in Santa Clara, the company has 4,023 full time employees and a market cap of $98.74 Billion.

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