ANET Stock Analysis – A Quick Report for Investors

By Scott Lee • Friday, October 24 10:10 • Permanent Link

Large-cap Telecommunications company Arista Networks has moved 0.6% so far today on a volume of 1,027,390, compared to its average of 9,161,701. In contrast, the S&P 500 index moved 1.0%.

Arista Networks trades -3.86% away from its average analyst target price of $159.92 per share. The 23 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $113.0 to $185.0, and on average have given Arista Networks a rating of buy.

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

Arista Networks's current price is 676.9% above its Graham number of $19.79, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Arista Networks has moved 55.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 16.0%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 2.55, Arista Networks has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 60.3 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
ANET has a forward P/E ratio of 15.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $9.73 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 17.73 compared to its sector average of 1.86
Arista Networks Inc engages in the development, marketing, and sale of data-driven, client to cloud networking solutions for AI, data center, campus, and routing environments in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. Its cloud networking solutions consist of Extensible Operating System (EOS), a publish-subscribe state-sharing networking operating system offered in combination with a set of network applications.
Based in Santa Clara, the company has 4,412 full time employees and a market cap of $193.24 Billion.

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