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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Arista Networks is well-positioned to take advantage of the rapidly growing opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing landscape.</li><li>For the first quarter of 2024, the company reported revenue of $1.57 billion, representing a 16.3% year-over-year growth.</li><li>Contributing a substantial 16.9% of this revenue was services and software support renewals.</li></ul>

Arista Networks is well-positioned to take advantage of the rapidly growing opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing landscape.For the first quarter of 2024, the company reported revenue of $1.57 billion, representing a 16.3% year-over-year growth.Contributing a substantial 16.9% of this revenue was services and software support renewals.

Arista Networks: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Networking

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors, Fabricated Knowledge

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<li>This is the first edition of a quarterly summary piece to highlight my ideas and best pieces quarterly.</li>
<li>This is one of the 16th-best quarters in SOXX since 2002. While it’s a pretty solid showing at a 17% quarterly return, this doesn’t compare to the incredible returns in 2020 and 2023.</li>
<li>Now, the misleading thing is that SMH, a broader ETF, is up 30%.</li>
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This is the first edition of a quarterly summary piece to highlight my ideas and best pieces quarterly.
This is one of the 16th-best quarters in SOXX since 2002. While it’s a pretty solid showing at a 17% quarterly return, this doesn’t compare to the incredible returns in 2020 and 2023.
Now, the misleading thing is that SMH, a broader ETF, is up 30%.


<ul><li>Arista Networks concluded the fiscal year 2023 with outstanding results.</li><li>The company saw strong performance on various fronts, reporting a year-over-year revenue growth of 33.8%, exceeding their initial guidance of 25%, and driving revenue to $5.86 billion.</li><li>Additionally, Arista's non-GAAP earnings per share reached an all-time high of $6.94, marking an annual increase of over 50%.</li></ul>

Arista Networks concluded the fiscal year 2023 with outstanding results.The company saw strong performance on various fronts, reporting a year-over-year revenue growth of 33.8%, exceeding their initial guidance of 25%, and driving revenue to $5.86 billion.Additionally, Arista's non-GAAP earnings per share reached an all-time high of $6.94, marking an annual increase of over 50%.

Arista Networks: The Optimistic Outlook in AI Networking Space A Major Green Flag For The Stock? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Lattice is just too expensive for what it is. It’s one of the highest multiples in the space, but I acknowledge we are closer to the trough than the peak.</li><li>Tokyo Electron continues to be bullish high aspect etch and reports that they are winning in DRAM and hopefully in NAND in the future.</li><li>Arista says that AI revenue is yet to come, and 800G will mostly be in 2025, not 2024. The market got ahead of itself.</li></ul>

Lattice is just too expensive for what it is. It’s one of the highest multiples in the space, but I acknowledge we are closer to the trough than the peak.Tokyo Electron continues to be bullish high aspect etch and reports that they are winning in DRAM and hopefully in NAND in the future.Arista says that AI revenue is yet to come, and 800G will mostly be in 2025, not 2024. The market got ahead of itself.

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<ul><li>Marvell reported earnings recently, and I wanted to mention that at least before I continued onwards because that is a good context-setting event for the industry day.</li><li>Revenue exceeded expectations, but the mix beneath the results was illustrative.</li><li>Datacenter revenue grew 20% QoQ, cloud over 30% QoQ; while networking was strong, they guided for a 40% QoQ decline, consistent with networking OEM results.</li></ul>

Marvell reported earnings recently, and I wanted to mention that at least before I continued onwards because that is a good context-setting event for the industry day.Revenue exceeded expectations, but the mix beneath the results was illustrative.Datacenter revenue grew 20% QoQ, cloud over 30% QoQ; while networking was strong, they guided for a 40% QoQ decline, consistent with networking OEM results.

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Arista Networks Inc. provides cloud networking solutions for data-centers and computer environments. The Company offers ethernet switches, pass-through cards, transceivers, cards, and enhanced operating systems. Arista also provides host adapter solutions and networking services and markets its products globally.

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