Arista Networks Inc (NYSE:ANET) price on current trading day, rose 1.59% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $108.53.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $106.83, moving within a range at $105.1 and $108.75. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.077 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 52.10. Turning to its 52-week performance, $108.97 and $53.12 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ANET moved 2.60% over the past month.
Arista Networks Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $136.72 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in January.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.9B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.86B and 1.99B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 23.33% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 6.97B, representing a 18.92% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ANET is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
17 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 3 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 14 recommend ANET as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 2.89, with ANET’s current price about 8.34% and 8.56% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 66.71, while 7-day volatility ratio is 3.34% and 3.15% in the 30-day chart. Further, Arista Networks Inc (ANET) has a beta value of 1.10, and an average true range (ATR) of 3.42. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $395, forecast between a low of $380 and high of $430. Looking at the price targets, the low is -250.13% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -296.2%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -263.95% jump to $395 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Arista Networks Inc (NYSE:ANET), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 7.62 over the past 10 days and 7.38 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 1.26 billion shares.
The 79.53% of Arista Networks Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 17.15% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 12.0 million on 2024-11-15, giving us a short ratio of 1.39. The data shows that as of 2024-11-15 short interest in Arista Networks Inc (ANET) stood at 115.99999999999999 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 10.5 million registered in 2024-10-15. Current price change has pushed the stock 84.32% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ANET stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
