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Arista Networks, Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 35% YoY at strong marginsStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (2.5K/wk), no spike
$ANET·$235B·Computer Hardware·Technology
$168.61+0.0%YTD+25.8%1Y+60.1%
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ANANET
$ANETArista Networks, Inc.
$168.61+0.03%2.5k posts+4%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $ANET, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-07-17

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

The AI-networking leader with best-in-class margins — and $215M of insider selling into the highs.

Arista Networks is the premium data-center networking specialist — the specific vendor Meta, Microsoft and every AI hyperscaler uses for high-throughput switching. The stock is at fresh all-time highs on confirmed AI-networking demand.

How the tape and the signals split:

  • Fundamentals are exceptional: 43% operating margin, 22% return on invested capital, zero debt, and 64% gross margin — SaaS-grade economics on physical hardware, which is why the multiple has been able to expand.
  • The AI-networking demand is confirmed by the top-line: AWS, GCP and Azure are all in active infrastructure upgrade cycles that flow specifically to Arista's switch portfolio, and the $200+ community target reflects a genuine mix tailwind.
  • The insider signal is the specific check: $215.5M of officer/10% sales in the last week, including chairman Andreas Bechtolsheim's $54M and CEO Jayshree Ullal's $75M across two trades — the largest concentrated insider distribution on this ticker in memory.
  • The valuation is stretched by any measure: 20x TTM sales and 52x P/E — the retail response ('secular re-rating, not a top') is plausible, but the size of the insider selling is the specific data point that says executives disagree.

What keeps the leg extending is Aug 4 earnings printing above the AI-networking bar with no more concentrated insider distribution. What breaks it is exactly the setup insiders are positioning for — a soft print at a fully priced multiple.

Differs from X sentimentX is bullish on the breakout, the AI-networking tailwind, and the sector re-rating framing, and the fundamentals genuinely support the story. But $215M of insider selling in a week — including the founder and the CEO — is the exact data point the corpus is treating as noise while the tape prices in secular re-rating. Executives selling with this size and speed disagree with the retail bull thesis.

What to watch: The Aug 4 print — Meta, Azure and AWS-tied revenue commentary, gross margin trajectory in the AI-mix, and any FY guide raise. A guide raise plus continued AI-networking capex extends the leg; a soft print with muted guide meets the insider positioning.

On the calendar: 2026-08-04 — Q2 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment49 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15

Arista Networks is at new all-time highs with a confirmed ascending-triangle breakout on the daily chart and traders targeting $200+. IBD names ANET as a top Computer Networking growth stock (sector now ranked #3 of 145). Options traders posted repeated big wins on 190C 7/17 (176%+) and various 190C lottos gone 300% overnight. Bulls note strong AI-networking demand for AWS/GCP/Azure upgrades and multiple over-night swing wins. The one caution is that ANET is near its highest forward valuation ever - though the community's response is to treat that as evidence of secular re-rating rather than a top signal.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Makes high-speed Ethernet switches and EOS software for hyperscale cloud data centers and large enterprise networks.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Computer Hardware sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $ANET.

Computer Hardware · Technology

No material change from last week — STX and WDC (SanDisk spinoff) benefit from LLM training requiring petabyte-scale nearline storage infrastructure.

What this means for $ANET

Direct beneficiary — Makes high-speed Ethernet switches and EOS software for hyperscale cloud data centers and large enterprise networks; core operations sit in the path of the LLM training data storage demand pulling HDD/SSD production cycle.

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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
52.2How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
22.4%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
42.8%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
2.7%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
20.0Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
30.6%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
63.5%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.0Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 5, 2026$0.87$0.81+7.7%
Q4 2025Feb 12, 2026$0.82$0.76+8.2%
Q3 2025Nov 4, 2025$0.75$0.72+4.5%
Q2 2025Aug 5, 2025$0.73$0.65+12.5%
Next earningsTue, Aug 4·consensus EPS $0.89

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$2.7B+35.1%61.9%42.7%$0.81$1.6B
Q4 FY25$2.5B+28.9%62.9%41.5%$0.76$1.2B
Q3 FY25$2.3B+27.5%64.6%42.4%$0.68$1.2B
Q2 FY25$2.2B+30.4%65.2%44.7%$0.71$1.2B

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 20 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$11.6B$11.5B – $11.7B$3.63$3.56 – $3.7320
FY27$14.4B$13.7B – $15.1B$4.45$4.12 – $4.8220
FY28$17.3B$17.2B – $17.3B$5.39$4.62 – $6.0418
FY29$21.5B$20.8B – $22.7B$7.09$6.79 – $7.5811

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.0×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.75%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+4.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+16.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMega float · 1.0B shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.8% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.605-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 14Andreas Bechtolsheim10% owner300.0K sh$54.2MSellJul 10Jayshree UllalCEO197.7K sh$37.0MSellJul 9Jayshree UllalCEO204.3K sh$38.4MSellJul 2Andreas Bechtolsheim10% owner240.0K sh$39.0MSellJul 1Andreas Bechtolsheim10% owner260.0K sh$42.7MSellJul 1Charles H GiancarloDirector8.0K sh$1.3MSellJun 22Kenneth DudaCTO16.0K sh$2.7MSellJun 15Andreas Bechtolsheim10% owner260.0K sh$43.0MSellJun 5Andreas Bechtolsheim10% owner220.0K sh$34.7MSellJun 4Andreas Bechtolsheim10% owner5.4K sh$848K
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteJun 28-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Arista Networks held its 2026 Annual Meeting on May 29, 2026; stockholders voted on election of three Class III directors, advisory say-on-pay, and ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor. Routine annual meeting.

+ 10 other (2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 13Gs · 2 proxys · 1 SD) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Here's Why Arista Networks (ANET) is a Strong Momentum Stockzacks.com·1d agoArista, Seagate and Astera Lead AI Picksgurufocus.com·2d agoBeyond the Foundry: 5 Infrastructure Stocks Tackling the AI Bottlenecksmarketbeat.com·4d agoThe Physical AI Proof Points Are Suddenly Everywhereinvestorplace.com·4d agoArista Networks (ANET) Suffers a Larger Drop Than the General Market: Key Insightszacks.com·4d ago

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