General American Investors Co. Inc. Cuts Holdings in Arista Networks, Inc. $ANET

General American Investors Co. Inc. lowered its stake in Arista Networks, Inc. (NYSE:ANET) by 11.0% during the first quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 125,142 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 15,537 shares during the period. General American Investors Co. Inc.’s holdings in Arista Networks were worth $15,365,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Lighthouse Financial Services Inc. ADV purchased a new stake in shares of Arista Networks in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $1,549,000. Bensler LLC acquired a new position in shares of Arista Networks during the fourth quarter worth $6,350,000. QRG Capital Management Inc. increased its holdings in Arista Networks by 6.4% in the fourth quarter. QRG Capital Management Inc. now owns 169,613 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $22,224,000 after buying an additional 10,217 shares during the last quarter. Reaves W H & Co. Inc. purchased a new position in Arista Networks in the fourth quarter valued at $3,058,000. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group Inc. raised its stake in Arista Networks by 59.8% in the fourth quarter. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. now owns 17,621 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $2,309,000 after buying an additional 6,591 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 82.47% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at Arista Networks

In other Arista Networks news, insider Kenneth Duda sold 17,333 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, June 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $171.42, for a total transaction of $2,971,222.86. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 12,976 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,224,345.92. This trade represents a 57.19% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Charles H. Giancarlo sold 8,000 shares of Arista Networks stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $167.06, for a total transaction of $1,336,480.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 192,333 shares in the company, valued at approximately $32,131,150.98. This represents a 3.99% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold 3,147,080 shares of company stock worth $513,396,642 in the last quarter. 2.70% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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Arista Networks Stock Performance

NYSE ANET traded up $2.77 on Friday, reaching $187.46. The stock had a trading volume of 5,583,081 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,973,050. The stock has a market cap of $236.05 billion, a P/E ratio of 64.20, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.88 and a beta of 1.60. Arista Networks, Inc. has a 12-month low of $104.68 and a 12-month high of $189.82. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $159.79 and its 200 day moving average price is $145.74.

Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The technology company reported $0.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.81 by $0.06. The business had revenue of $2.71 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.62 billion. Arista Networks had a net margin of 38.32% and a return on equity of 30.10%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 35.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.65 earnings per share. Arista Networks has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.880-0.880 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts predict that Arista Networks, Inc. will post 3.27 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. KeyCorp reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $200.00 price objective (up from $178.00) on shares of Arista Networks in a research report on Thursday, June 18th. Truist Financial set a $175.00 target price on Arista Networks in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Rosenblatt Securities upped their price target on Arista Networks from $180.00 to $210.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price target 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. Finally, Zacks Research cut shares of Arista Networks from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, May 14th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-one have issued a Buy rating and two have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $187.63.

About Arista Networks

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.