Arista Networks' accelerating revenue and gross profit against relatively flat operating expenses make existing shares hard to sell, and the AI revolution could take them higher down the road. EPS growth is strengthening. After a 20-fold run, P/E expansion from 25 to 58 and P/S from 8 to 22 leave it too expensive to enter now, though the valuation looks justified; the best gains may be over. If growth slows, prolonged consolidation is possible. x.com 

Arista Networks is a great, not widely known way to gain exposure to AI networking. It makes high-performance networking equipment and software that move data across data centers, cloud infrastructure, campus networks and AI clusters, used by hyperscalers, cloud companies and enterprises that need fast, reliable, programmable networks. x.com 

Arista is losing share in a record market, a bad combination. Evercore's Q2 Ethernet front-end tracker shows the market at a record $7.3B, up 34% year over year, with cloud up 54% and neoclouds up 208%, yet Arista lost 145bps of front-end share. The tracker doesn't show who gained, though IDC ranked Nvidia's own Ethernet business first in data-center switching revenue in Q1, on a different vendor cut. x.com 

Arista Networks' excellent Q2 shows quality wins in the end. Revenue of $3.0B beat the $2.82B Bloomberg consensus and grew 38% year on year, while adjusted EPS of $1.02 beat $0.88 and grew 40%. x.com 

Arista Networks posted a good quarter, so its selloff should bounce back as others have. Q1 revenue grew 35%, beating expectations, non-GAAP EPS rose to $0.87 from $0.66, and it guides Q2 revenue to about $2.8B with 46-47% operating margins and EPS of about $0.88. It also launched XPO optics to cut rack and floor space in AI data centers. x.com  x.com 

Arista Networks is expensive against its earnings at about 69 times trailing and 41 times next year's, while the industry usually gets 18 times. Eighteen times next year's estimated $4.84 per share, give or take 12%, puts fair value at about $76.62-$97.52, so the $199.42 price sits 105% above the high end, and the forward read already leans on a forecast 66% above trailing earnings. This is a levels-only screen with no fundamental work. x.com 

Arista Networks is one of the cleanest AI infrastructure winners as Google Cloud, AWS and Azure keep upgrading their data center networks for larger AI clusters. Strong AI networking demand, raised guidance and a wave of analyst upgrades have the stock set to close at a new all-time high. x.com 

Arista Networks continues to execute at an elite level, with revenue growth above 30%, operating margins above 42% and accelerating EPS, the profile of a high-quality compounder. x.com 

Arista Networks benefits from the AI interconnect buildout because every transceiver has to plug into a switch. Switch port counts scale with accelerator count, and speed per port climbs on top of that. Arista sells to the handful of cloud titans doing the building, which make up most of its revenue. x.com 

Arista Networks should clear $200 as its main customers, Meta and Microsoft, are both trending higher. x.com  x.com