Weekly Analysts’ Ratings Updates for Arista Networks (ANET)

A number of firms have modified their ratings and price targets on shares of Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) recently:

• 7/29/2026 – Arista Networks was downgraded by Weiss Ratings from “buy (b)” to “buy (b-)”.
• 7/22/2026 – Arista Networks had its price target raised by Needham & Company LLC from $185.00 to $200.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 7/16/2026 – Arista Networks had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by Wells Fargo & Company. They now have a $200.00 price target on the stock, up from $185.00.
• 7/15/2026 – Arista Networks was upgraded by Erste Group Bank AG from “hold” to “buy”.
• 7/13/2026 – Arista Networks was upgraded by Weiss Ratings from “buy (b-)” to “buy (b)”.
• 7/13/2026 – Arista Networks had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by TD Cowen. They now have a $210.00 price target on the stock, up from $200.00.
• 6/18/2026 – Arista Networks had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by KeyCorp. They now have a $200.00 price target on the stock, up from $178.00.
• 6/15/2026 – Arista Networks was downgraded by Weiss Ratings from “buy (b)” to “buy (b-)”.
• 6/12/2026 – Arista Networks had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by Morgan Stanley. They now have a $190.00 price target on the stock, up from $180.00.
• 6/10/2026 – Arista Networks was upgraded by Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft to “buy”.
• 6/10/2026 – Arista Networks had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by Wolfe Research. They now have a $175.00 price target on the stock.
• 6/8/2026 – Arista Networks had its price target raised by Bank of America Corporation from $185.00 to $200.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director Charles H. Giancarlo sold 8,000 shares of Arista Networks stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $167.06, for a total value 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. The trade was a 3.99% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, major shareholder Andreas Bechtolsheim sold 240,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, July 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $162.67, for a total value of $39,040,800.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider directly owned 182,043,048 shares in the company, valued at $29,612,942,618.16. The trade was a 0.13% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 2,300,316 shares of company stock worth $382,160,575. Corporate insiders own 2.70% of the company’s stock.

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.