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Arista Networks (ANET 3.77%) posted gains in Wednesday's trading. The networking technologies company's share price closed out the daily session up 3.8% and had been up as much as 5.2%.
Fundamentals alone don't drive stock movements. Sentiment plays a crucial role, as seen with Arista Networks' recent performance despite strong earnings. I called the stock's sentiment would peak around $125-$130, leading to a predictable pullback regardless of positive earnings or news like DeepSeek. Fundamentally, the company is seeing an increase in customer spend and is now pushing into the "back end" of the data center successfully where Nvidia dominates.
Arista Networks (ANET) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.
Arista Networks (ANET -5.71%) held its fourth-quarter 2024 earnings call on February 18, 2025, highlighting strong momentum in artificial intelligence (AI) networking and cloud infrastructure. For long-term investors, the discussion revealed important insights about Arista's competitive positioning in high-performance networking, its expansion beyond core cloud customers, and its strategy for capturing the growing AI infrastructure opportunity.
Shares of computer networking firm Arista Networks Inc (NYSE:ANET) are experiencing a pullback, last seen down 4.1% at $94.28 and on track for their fourth consecutive daily decline.
Shares of Arista Networks (ANET -4.93%) slipped despite the cloud computer networking switch maker reporting solid fourth quarter results and increasing its full-year 2025 guidance. The stock is now down more than 5% year to date, as of this writing.
Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?
Arista Networks reported strong FY24 revenue of $7 billion, surpassing guidance, and is projected to grow 17% in FY25, driven by hyperscaler investments. The cadence in transitioning from 100G, 200G, and 400G switches was around 3-5 years, with 800G to 1.6T expected to compress to 2 years, potentially leading to accelerated growth. Management is focusing on reinvesting in the company, expanding its R&D, sales, and G&A, in order to scale the company for its future growth opportunity.
Arista Networks looks a lot more compelling now, thanks to the robust data center related spending trends, as similarly reiterated by numerous market leaders. This is on top of the growing High Speed Data Center Switching dollar share and 100G/ 200G/ 400G switch port market share, with it likely to drive further growth. We believe that ANET is likely to benefit from the recently announced Stargate Project, thanks to its new partnerships with ORCL, beyond other hyperscalers.
Increased fiber densification, cloud focus and accelerated pace of 5G deployment should help the Zacks Communication - Components industry thrive despite short-term headwinds. ANET, GLW and AUDC are well-positioned to make the most of the demand for seamless connectivity solutions.
Shares of Arista Networks Inc ANET were trading lower on Wednesday, despite the company reporting upbeat fourth-quarter results.