Arista Networks (ANET) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Arista Networks' price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
ANET closed at $188.65 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +6.4% from its 50-day average and +26.6% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +27.0%, beating SPY by 23.9%. It remains 12.2% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +6.4% from its 50-day average and +26.6% from its 200-day average. Over three months, ANET returned +27.0% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +6.4%
- vs 200-day
- +26.6%
- From 52W high
- -12.2%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
ANET appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 1 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 1 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.25, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-07 | #25 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.121 calls, 0.070 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Arista Networks position in their latest filing, worth $17M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · ANET | $17M | 0.03% | 101,174 | -3.4% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open ANET Financials →How ANET trades — the working manual
Arista Networks sells high-speed switching and routing systems led by a common network operating system. For the stock, cloud and AI-cluster investment drive the largest opportunities, but customer concentration, deployment timing and Arista's ability to extend its architecture into enterprise and campus networks determine how durable that growth becomes.
What can move the tape
- 01Cloud-customer capital spending and demand for higher-speed data-center switching.
- 02Ethernet adoption in AI clusters, product cycles and network content per deployment.
- 03Enterprise and campus expansion beyond the largest cloud customers.
- 04Gross margin, supply execution, software contribution and cash generation.
What can fool the read
- 01A small number of cloud customers can make demand and deployment timing concentrated.
- 02Competing network architectures or in-house designs can redirect AI infrastructure spending.
- 03Product transitions and component availability can shift revenue between quarters.
- 04High growth expectations can make the stock sensitive to modest changes in customer forecasts.
Arista Networks triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was ANET on 2026-05-14: 1.6× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.7% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported ANET events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
ANET stock questions
Is ANET stock in an uptrend?+
ANET is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +6.4% from its 50-day average and +26.6% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in ANET mean?+
Arista Networks's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the ANET 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are ANET's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated ANET Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no ANET earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.