Company name | Arista Networks Inc |
Stock ticker | ANET |
Live stock price | [stckqut]ANET[/stckqut] |
P/E compared to competitors | Fair |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
Employee productivity | Poor |
Sales growth | Good |
EPS growth | Good |
P/E growth | Poor |
EBIT growth | Good |
Price growth | Good |
R&D growth | Fair |
Income growth | Good |
Assets growth | Good |
Return on Assets growth | Poor |
Income / Rev growth | Good |
TWCA Plus | Good |
Standard TWCA | Good |
Weighted ann. stock price increase | Good |
ANALYSIS
Confident Investor Rating | Good |
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $353.29 |
Target stock price (averages with growth) | $207.18 |
Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $216.48 |
Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $258.66 |
The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/anet/profile?p=anet
Arista Networks, Inc. develops, markets, and sells cloud networking solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific. The company’s cloud networking solutions consist of extensible operating systems, a set of network applications, as well as gigabit Ethernet switching and routing platforms, including universal leaf, spline, and universal spine products. It also provides post contract customer support services, such as technical support, hardware repair and parts replacement beyond standard warranty, bug fix, patch, and upgrade services. The company serves a range of industries comprising Internet companies, service providers, financial services organizations, government agencies, media and entertainment companies, and others. It markets and sells its products through distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators, and original equipment manufacturer partners, as well as through its direct sales force. The company was formerly known as Arastra, Inc. and changed its name to Arista Networks, Inc. in October 2008. Arista Networks, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Arista Networks Inc as long as the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable.
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How was this analysis of Arista Networks Inc calculated?
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:
- Stock price at the time of the calculation: $228.66
- Growth: 0.18
- Current EPS (TTM): $8.52833333333333
- P/E: 21.3512203277157
- Future EPS Calc: $19.51
- Future Stock Price Calc: $416.57
- Target stock price: $258.66
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