Briefing From The Editor -- ANET Stock

By Ken Smith • Saturday, February 08 15:08 • Permanent Link

Large-cap Telecommunications company Arista Networks Inc has moved 2.8% so far today on a volume of 8,007,485, compared to its average of 8,225,041. In contrast, the S&P 500 index moved -1.0%.

Arista Networks Inc trades 5.31% away from its average analyst target price of $112.5 per share. The 24 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $75.0 to $145.0, and on average have given Arista Networks Inc a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying ANET should be aware of the facts below:

Arista Networks Inc's current price is 104.1% above its Graham number of $58.05, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Arista Networks Inc has moved 68.7% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 20.0%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 2.09, Arista Networks Inc has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 56.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
ANET has a forward P/E ratio of 12.2 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $9.73 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 4.03 compared to its sector average of 2.36
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 $149.24 Billion.

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