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Brian Madden Arista Networks ANET-N BUY Apr 24, 2025

Buy at these levels. Upstream of the hyperscalers like META, MSFT and AMZN. Came off with concerns on hyperscalers' AI spending and ROI. Still in early innings, demand will come back, and this name will grow quickly.

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Supplier of hardware like switches and routers for the hyperscalers within the cloud. Good managers. Tremendous company that can compete with the leader, CSCO. 

WATCH

Very volatile, since it's expensive and grows at a pretty decent clip. Networking solutions for AI, among other things. Coming into 2025, his team was super-optimistic about networking. But questions arose on how much inter-connectivity of data centres the hyperscalers will need, so he's on the sidelines. 

Wait and see. He'll revisit at some point.