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Arista Networks, Inc.

Arista Networks, Inc. trades under the ticker symbol ANET on the NYSE. This page brings together its live stock price, an interactive price chart, and key fundamentals like market capitalization, 52-week range, dividend yield, and the next earnings date, with plain-English context to help you understand what the numbers mean.

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Executive summary

About Arista Networks, Inc.

Arista Networks builds the high-speed switches and routers that move data between the servers inside large data centers. In plain terms, when thousands of computers in a data center need to talk to each other quickly, Arista makes the equipment that connects them.

What sets Arista apart is its software. All of its switches run a single operating system, called EOS, which makes a big network easier to manage and automate. Arista buys the underlying switch chips from other companies rather than making its own, and concentrates its engineering on that software and on system design.

Most of Arista's sales go to a small number of very large cloud companies. Training and running AI models has become a major new source of demand, because AI computing requires huge numbers of processors to be wired together with very fast networking.

How does Arista Networks, Inc. make money?

Source: Arista Networks SEC filings (10-K) and investor relations · Last reviewed June 2026

Investment case

Arista sells the high-speed switches that tie together the servers in big data centers, and its real advantage is the single software system, EOS, that runs across all of them. A handful of large cloud companies provide most of its revenue, and the rise of AI has sharply increased the need for the fast networking it specializes in. The long term question that frames the stock is whether Arista can keep winning the giant AI buildouts, broaden beyond its few biggest customers, and keep Ethernet at the center of AI networking.

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Valuation in context

Sources: Arista Networks 10-K (SEC EDGAR), Arista Networks Investor Relations · Last reviewed June 2026

Concepts behind this investment case

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How management uses cash

Historically, the company has reinvested in the business and returned cash mainly through buybacks.

Reinvestment

On average, capital spending used about 4% of operating cash flow across 10 fiscal years (FY2016-FY2025) - a small share of the cash the business generated went back into it, leaving most available for other uses.

Buybacks

Reported share repurchases in 7 of the 7 fiscal years shown, totaling about $3.9B (FY2019-FY2025).

Cash position

As of FY2025, held about $2.0B in cash and equivalents.

Derived from annual figures this company reported to the SEC (EDGAR XBRL company facts). Descriptive history only: not a forecast, not a rating, not investment advice.

Frequently asked questions

What is the investment case for Arista Networks?

Arista sells the high-speed switches that tie together the servers in big data centers, and its real advantage is the single software system, EOS, that runs across all of them. A handful of large cloud companies provide most of its revenue, and the rise of AI has sharply increased the need for the fast networking it specializes in.

Does Arista Networks have an economic moat?

Running one operating system across every switch makes a customer's network simpler to manage and automate, and once a large network is built on EOS, moving to another vendor is costly and disruptive.

What is the bull case for Arista Networks?

AI computing needs thousands of processors wired together with very fast networking, and that back-end networking is exactly what Arista's products are designed for.

What is the bear case for Arista Networks?

A few cloud customers drive much of Arista's revenue, so a spending pause by even one of them can hit results hard.

What are the key risks for Arista Networks?

A large share of revenue comes from just a few big customers, and their orders can be lumpy, so a pause in spending by one of them can swing results. Competition in AI networking is intensifying, both from other switch makers and from rival networking technologies such as InfiniBand that some AI systems use instead of Ethernet.

How should investors think about Arista Networks's valuation?

Arista's results can be uneven because a few customers buy in large batches, so one quarter can look very different from the next. Judge the business using the revenue, margin, and customer-concentration details in the company's own filings rather than any outside estimate.

What should investors watch with Arista Networks?

Whether Arista keeps winning the big AI data-center buildouts and begins selling to a wider set of customers, which is what would need to go right to reduce its reliance on a few cloud giants.

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