SouthState Bank Corp Buys 8,354 Shares of Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET

SouthState Bank Corp grew its stake in shares of Arista Networks, Inc. (NYSE:ANETFree Report) by 87.1% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 17,945 shares of the technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 8,354 shares during the period. SouthState Bank Corp’s holdings in Arista Networks were worth $2,351,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Arista Networks by 0.4% during the 4th quarter. Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada Inc. now owns 16,085 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $2,133,000 after purchasing an additional 70 shares in the last quarter. United Asset Strategies Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Arista Networks by 1.2% during the 4th quarter. United Asset Strategies Inc. now owns 6,311 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $827,000 after purchasing an additional 72 shares in the last quarter. West Family Investments Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Arista Networks by 0.9% during the 3rd quarter. West Family Investments Inc. now owns 8,364 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,219,000 after purchasing an additional 76 shares in the last quarter. Personal CFO Solutions LLC boosted its stake in shares of Arista Networks by 3.2% during the 4th quarter. Personal CFO Solutions LLC now owns 2,429 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $318,000 after purchasing an additional 76 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Clark Financial Services Group Inc. BD boosted its stake in shares of Arista Networks by 2.2% during the 4th quarter. Clark Financial Services Group Inc. BD now owns 3,776 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $518,000 after purchasing an additional 80 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 82.47% of the company’s stock.

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Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on ANET. Citigroup cut their target price on shares of Arista Networks from $176.00 to $173.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $200.00 target price (up from $170.00) on shares of Arista Networks in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Barclays reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $195.00 target price (up from $184.00) on shares of Arista Networks in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. Raymond James Financial raised shares of Arista Networks from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $164.00 target price on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 15th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on shares of Arista Networks from $190.00 to $200.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 16th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nineteen have issued a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Arista Networks has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $185.72.

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Insider Buying and Selling at Arista Networks

In related news, Director Charles H. Giancarlo sold 8,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $169.09, for a total transaction of $1,352,720.00. Following the sale, the director owned 200,333 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $33,874,306.97. The trade was a 3.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Kelly Bodnar Battles sold 422 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, May 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $146.44, for a total transaction of $61,797.68. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 10,078 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,475,822.32. This represents a 4.02% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold a total of 1,943,142 shares of company stock valued at $314,941,943 over the last three months. 2.70% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Arista Networks Price Performance

NYSE:ANET opened at $154.23 on Monday. Arista Networks, Inc. has a one year low of $85.58 and a one year high of $179.80. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $150.97 and its 200 day simple moving average is $138.90. The firm has a market capitalization of $194.21 billion, a P/E ratio of 52.82, a PEG ratio of 2.38 and a beta of 1.61.

Arista Networks (NYSE:ANETGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 5th. The technology company reported $0.87 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.81 by $0.06. Arista Networks had a net margin of 38.32% and a return on equity of 30.10%. The business had revenue of $2.71 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.62 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.65 earnings per share. Arista Networks’s quarterly revenue was up 35.1% on a year-over-year basis. Arista Networks has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.880-0.880 EPS. On average, equities research analysts expect that Arista Networks, Inc. will post 3.27 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About Arista Networks

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Arista Networks, Inc is a technology company that designs and sells cloud networking solutions for large-scale data centers and enterprise environments. The company is best known for its high-performance switching and routing platforms, which are used to build scalable, low-latency networks for cloud service providers, internet companies, financial services, telecommunications, and enterprise IT. Arista’s offerings emphasize programmability, automation and telemetry to support modern, software-driven network architectures.

Central to Arista’s product portfolio is its Extensible Operating System (EOS), a modular network operating system that provides consistent programmability, stateful control and advanced visibility across the company’s hardware platforms.

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