Weekly Analysts’ Ratings Updates for Arista Networks (ANET)

Several brokerages have updated their recommendations and price targets on shares of Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) in the last few weeks:

• 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 Transactions at Arista Networks

In other Arista Networks news, major shareholder Andreas Bechtolsheim sold 260,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $165.57, for a total transaction of $43,048,200.00. Following the transaction, the insider owned 182,543,048 shares in the company, valued at approximately $30,223,652,457.36. This represents a 0.14% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Jayshree Ullal sold 428,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $177.44, for a total value of $75,944,320.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 5,209,207 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $924,321,690.08. This represents a 7.59% 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. Over the last three months, insiders sold 2,786,844 shares of company stock valued at $467,941,533. 2.70% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.