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First, identify ANET's main products, services, and business segments. Then find 3-5 companies that compete in similar areas (based on products/services/segments, not just similar business models). Sort your findings by market cap for context.
Core question: Who is best positioned to win, and why?
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1. Executive Summary: Competitive ranking (strongest to weakest) with one-sentence justification per company
2. Financial Performance: Compare growth rates, profitability metrics, and cash generation across all companies
3. Valuation Analysis: Forward multiples vs. consensus growth expectations
4. Operational Execution: Industry-specific KPIs and which companies show strongest momentum
5. Strategic Positioning: Business models, competitive advantages, and long-term outlook
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I'll conduct a comprehensive competitive analysis of Arista Networks. Let me start by understanding ANET's business model and identifying key competitors.
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[Total chunks returned: 8] <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [32:5] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-02-19 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2024 Highlighted Text: Item 1. Business Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large AI, data center, campus and routing environments. Arista’s platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics, and security through an advanced network operating stack. Since Arista’s inception, our founders have reimagined cloud networks for performance, scale and programmability with a focus on differentiating in three ways: uncompromising reliability built on the foundation of robust quality assurance capabilities with a suite of automated diagnostics, advanced open and standards-based technology and intelligent automation to decrease the manual workload on the operator. At the core of Arista’s platform is Arista’s Extensible Operating System ("EOS®"), a modernized publish-subscribe state-sharing networking operating system. Arista EOS, combined with a set of network applications and our Ethernet switching and routing platforms using best of breed merchant silicon, provides customers with a highly competitive and diversified portfolio of products with improved price/performance and time to market. Our current portfolio of products, services and technologies are grouped into the following categories: Core (Data Center, Cloud and AI Networking), Cognitive Adjacencies (Campus and Routing), and Cognitive Network (Software and Services). Our customers include companies of all sizes and span a range of industries and geographies and are grouped into the following categories: Cloud and AI Titans, Enterprise and Providers. Since we began shipping our products in 2008, we have experienced rapid growth, and, according to market research in 2024, we have achieved the leadership position in overall data center Ethernet switch ports and revenue and continue to lead the market in higher speed Ethernet port shipments of 100G and above. We have been profitable and cash flow positive since 2010. Our Market Opportunity We sell our products through both a direct sales force and channel partners, competing primarily in the high-speed data center Ethernet switching markets for 10 Gigabit Ethernet ("GbE") and above, including the Cloud and AI Ethernet switching markets, Enterprise Data Center switching/routing market, the cloud-grade and enterprise routing markets, and the campus wired and wireless markets. We also participate in the Network Monitoring, Network Detection and Response ("NDR") and Network Access Control security markets through both acquisition and organic development. Our Customers Our customers include large cloud customers or Cloud and AI Titans, other internet and service providers, including specialty and AI Neoclouds, and a wide breadth of enterprise customers, including financial services organizations and government agencies. We continue to diversify the types of enterprise customers we sell to and have continued to expand our presence across a wide spectrum of industries including media and entertainment, healthcare, oil and gas, education, manufacturing, industrial, and more. Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of our Cloud and AI Titan end customers, each accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023. Market Drivers </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [32:9] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-02-19 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2024 Highlighted Text: Our Data-Driven Cloud Networking Solutions 3 The core of our cloud networking platform is our data-driven operating system, EOS, which runs on top of standard Linux and offers programmability at all layers of the stack. System state and data are stored in EOS and maintained in a highly efficient, centralized system database where data is accessed via an automated publish/subscribe model. This distinct design principle provides module independence, self-healing resiliency, and multi-process software stability. EOS is packaged as a perpetual license on Arista hardware platforms, virtualized EOS (vEOS) and CloudEOS for production or simulations use cases with flexible platform support including third-party hardware. Our cloud networking innovations started with pioneering Arista EOS, which provides switching, routing, state-streaming and telemetry functions across all Arista platforms. EOS established a new standard in networking for large-scale cloud operators, opened the door to the widespread adoption of merchant silicon hardware in networks, and provided dramatic decreases in deployment and operating costs while delivering high reliability for cloud customers, service providers, enterprises, and more. The Arista EOS network stack architecture provides a foundation for consolidation of streamed device state, telemetry, packet, flow, alert, sensor and third-party data into an aggregated Network Data Lake (Arista NetDL™). Arista NetDL consolidates diverse datasets required for effectively applying AI/Machine Learning (ML) methods by Arista AVA for Network Operations (NetOps) and Security Operations (SecOps) use cases. NetDL also presents a single application programming interface ("API") surface for access to network and network-related data for enhancing Arista and third-party applications. An overview of our cloud networking solutions is shown below: The key benefits of our cloud networking solutions are as follows: Capacity, Performance and Scale Our data-driven cloud networking platforms enable data center networks to scale to hundreds of thousands of physical servers and millions of virtual machines with the least number of switching tiers. We achieve this by leveraging standard protocols, non-blocking switch architectures and EOS to meet the scale requirements of cloud computing. We architect active-active Layer 2 and Layer 3 network topologies to enable customers to build extremely large and resilient networks. Emerging capabilities including recent developments related to AI will continue to place increased demands on networking infrastructure. Arista’s strategic commitment to using merchant silicon is also a key competitive differentiator for Arista in addressing these capacity demands. Merchant silicon not only provides the best price/performance available but allows Arista to bring next generation platforms to market early, allowing customers to benefit from Moore’s Law. Availability Networks are only useful when they are available. Arista’s modular EOS architecture and software testing innovations provide features and network designs that keep the network available even during maintenance and upgrades. EOS publish-subscribe architecture provides self-healing resiliency through live patching, upgrades, fault isolation and containment and graceful process restart to reduce maintenance windows and allow for intelligent insertion and removal of network elements. 4 </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [32:100] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-02-19 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2024 Highlighted Text: Overview Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large AI, data center, campus and routing environments. Arista's platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. Since Arista’s inception, our founders have reimagined cloud networks for performance, scale and programmability with a focus on differentiating in three ways: uncompromising reliability built on the foundation of robust quality assurance capabilities with a suite of automated diagnostics, advanced open and standards-based technology and intelligent automation to decrease the manual workload on the operator. At the core of Arista’s platform is Arista EOS, a modernized publish-subscribe state-sharing networking operating system. Arista EOS, combined with a set of network applications and our Ethernet switching and routing platforms using best of breed merchant silicon, provides customers with a highly competitive and diversified portfolio of products with improved price/performance and time to market. The Company’s current portfolio of products, services and technologies are grouped into the following categories: Core (Data Center, Cloud and AI Networking), Cognitive Adjacencies (Campus and Routing), and Cognitive Network (Software and Services). The percentage of revenue derived from these product categories during the current fiscal year was approximately 65% from Core, 18% from Cognitive Adjacencies, and 17% from Networking software and services. Our customers include companies of all sizes and span a range of industries and geographies and are grouped into the following categories: Cloud and AI Titans, Enterprise and Providers. The percentage of revenue derived from these customers during the current fiscal year was approximately 48% from Cloud and AI Titans, 35% from Enterprise and 17% from Providers. Historically, large purchases by a relatively limited number of customers have accounted for a significant portion of our revenue. We have experienced unpredictability in the timing of orders from these large customers primarily due to the time it takes these customers to evaluate, test, qualify and accept our newer products, the overall complexity of these large orders and changes in demand patterns specific to these customers, including reductions in or changes in mix of capital expenditures by these customers and the impact of cost reduction and other efficiency efforts by these customers. For example, sales to our end customer Microsoft represented 20%, 18% and 16% of our total revenue for the years ended 2024, 2023 and 2022 respectively. And sales to our end customer Meta Platforms represented 15%, 21% and 26% of our total revenue, respectively for the years ended 2024, 2023 and 2022. This variability in customer concentration has been linked to the timing of new product deployments and spending cycles with these customers, and we expect continued variability in our customer concentration and timing of sales on a quarterly and annual basis. In addition, we typically provide pricing discounts to large customers, which reduces gross margins for the period in which such sales occur. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [32:13] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-02-19 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2024 Highlighted Text: Core Data center/Cloud/AI Arista offers one of the broadest product portfolios of data-driven, high-speed, cloud and data center Ethernet switches. Built on top of the superior quality and openness of Arista EOS, we deliver high performance, industry-leading capacity, ultra-low latency, rich features, and powerful efficient solutions to meet our customers’ demand for capacity and network speeds for both front-end and back-end storage, compute and AI zones. Our core switching portfolio contains both fixed and modular form factors, varying port configurations and densities, and options in power delivery all driven by customer requirements. 6 The Arista Etherlink AI portfolio of 800G switches, coupled with Arista's EOS innovations such as AI Analyzer along with optimal load balancing solutions, offer compelling solutions for contemporary AI applications and deployment. Arista also continues to be innovative in such areas as deep packet buffer architectures, virtual output queuing, non-disruptive upgrades, embedded optics and next-generation optics, reversible cooling and overall system power efficiency. The Arista 7800R AI Spine, 7060 AI Leaf and the Distributed Etherlink Switch ("DES") are designed to address the demanding scale and performance requirements driven by large-scale AI networks. Arista also provides solutions for compute, GPU and storage interconnects in driving AI/ML workloads, leveraging its IP/Ethernet switches to deliver unparalleled performance and scalability. The Arista 7700R4 DES is an ultra-scalable, intelligent distributed system engineered to meet the rigorous demands of large-scale AI and machine learning ("ML") environments. Building upon the foundations of the 7800R4 series, the 7700R4 DES delivers strong performance and scalability for accelerated computing. The Arista 7700R4 represents a significant advancement in networking technology, offering a robust and scalable solution tailored for the most demanding AI and ML workloads. Its combination of high throughput, deterministic performance, and advanced congestion management makes it an ideal choice for organizations aiming to build or expand their AI infrastructure. AI workloads require optimized performance and availability at all times, to minimize job completion time and thus maximize utilization of expensive XPU accelerators. The EOS-based AI Agent can reside either directly on a SmartNIC or on a server CPU, to provide local configuration management of NICs along with streaming telemetry of NIC performance fed to directly-attached Arista EOS-based switches. This ensures the QoS parameters for AI optimization are consistently applied from the NIC to the network alike, to avoid misconfigurations which might cause performance bottlenecks without an easy-to-diagnose root cause. And with telemetry data spanning the AI NICs and the AI networking platforms, the network operations team can have comprehensive visibility into the entire traffic path with immediate insight into performance and problems. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [67:1] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-02-18 Section: remark Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q4 2024 Highlighted Text: We have successfully also deployed in routing, edge and peering use cases. Just in 2024 alone, we introduced 6 EOS software releases with greater than 600 new features across our core and adjacent offerings. The campus and routing adjacencies together contribute approximately 18% of revenue. Our third category is network software and services based on subscription models, such as Arista A-Care, CloudVision, DMF observability and advanced security sensors for network detection and response. We added over 350 CloudVision customers translating to literally 1 new customer a day. CloudVision is pivotal to building our network as a service and deploying Arista validated designs in the enterprise. Arista's subscription-based network services and software contributed approximately 17% of total revenue. Note that perpetual licenses do not count here and go into the core or adjacent sections. While the 2024 headline has clearly been about generative AI. Arista continues to diversify its business globally with multiple use cases and verticals. We are viewed as the modern network innovator of choice for client to campus to cloud and AI networking ideally positioned with our differentiated foundation. We celebrated 2 milestones in 2024, our tenth anniversary of going public at the New York Stock Exchange and our 20th anniversary of founding. In the past decade, we have exceeded 10,000 customers with a cumulative of 100 million ports of installed base, as Arista drives the epicenter of mission-critical network transactions. Arista 2.0 strategy is resonating exceptionally well with our customers. Customers are not only looking to connect, but unify and consolidate their data across silos for optical networking outcomes. Our modern equity platforms are foundational for transformation from incongruent silos to centers of data, and it places us in a very unique position as the best-of-breed innovator for data-driven networking. These centers of data, as we call it, can reside in the campus as a campus center or data centers or WAN centers or AI centers regardless of their location. Networking for AI is also gaining traction as we move into 2025, building some of the world's greatest Arista AI centers at production scale. These are constructed with both back-end clusters and front-end networks. And as I've shared with you often, the fidelity of the AI traffic differs greatly from cloud workloads in terms of diversity, duration and size of flow. Just one slow flow can flow the entire job completion time for a training workload. Therefore, Arista AI centers seamlessly connect to the front end of compute storage WAN and classic cloud networks with our back-end Arista Etherlink portfolio. This AI accelerated networking portfolio consists of 3 families and over 20 Etherlink switches, not just 1 point switch. Our AI for networking strategy is also doing well, and it's about curating the data for higher-level network functions. We instrument our customer's networks with our published subscribed state Foundation with our software called Network Data Lake to deliver proactive, predictive and prescriptive platforms that have superior AI ops with A care support and product functions. We are pleased to surpass for the first time, the $1 billion revenue mark in 2024 for the software and subscription service category. In 2024, we conducted 3 very large customer events in London, New York and Santa Clara, California. Our differentiated strategy and superior products are resonating deeply as we touched over 1,000 strategic customers and partners in these exclusive events. Simply put, we outpaced the industry in quality and support with the highest Net Promoter Score of 87, which translates to 93% of customer respondent satisfaction. Of course, we do that with the lowest security and vulnerabilities and steadfast network innovation. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [32:101] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-02-19 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2024 Highlighted Text: We believe an increased focus on the deployment of AI enabled solutions by our large customers has accelerated the need for advanced technology offerings including some offerings from potential new market entrants. This prioritization and acceleration of AI related infrastructure investment has at times come in conjunction with a reduction or changes in the mix of previously planned purchases and various cost reduction measures by these customers, including optimization and increased efficiency in non-AI related capital expenditures. In addition, although the focus on deployment of AI enabled solutions has driven increased demand for networking, the long-term trajectory is unknown. As such, demand estimates for our new products are difficult to forecast and can create volatility in our revenue. In some instances, such measures have had, and may continue to have, an impact on certain current or future projects and have reduced our visibility to customer demand and may result in a reduction or uncertainty in the timing of orders from these large customers and increase the risk of charges for excess and obsolete inventory. Fiscal 2024 was marked by a year of new product introductions and expanded use cases, particularly in the AI Ethernet market, and we expect this to continue into fiscal 2025. This has resulted in increased customer trials and contracts with acceptance periods, and an increase in the volatility and magnitude of our product deferred revenue balances, which in turn may create variability in our revenue results on a quarterly and annual basis. In addition, if we are not able to satisfy the requirements under customer trials or contracts with acceptance periods, we may be required to accept product returns from our customers, which would prevent us from recognizing revenue on such transactions and may result in the write-down of inventory. 56 We believe that cloud computing represents a fundamental shift from traditional legacy network architectures. As organizations of all sizes have moved workloads to the cloud, spending on cloud and next-generation data centers has increased rapidly, while traditional legacy IT spending has grown at a slower rate. Our cloud networking platforms are well positioned to address the growing cloud networking market, and to address increasing performance requirements driven by the growing number of connected devices, as well as the need for constant connectivity and access to data and applications. The markets for cloud networking solutions are highly competitive and characterized by rapidly changing technology, changing end-customer needs, evolving industry standards, frequent introductions of new products and services, and industry consolidation. We expect competition to intensify in the future as the market for cloud networking expands and existing competitors and new market entrants introduce new products or enhance existing products. Our future success is dependent upon our ability to continue to evolve and adapt to our rapidly changing environment. We must also continue to develop market-leading products and software features that address the changing needs of our existing and new customers, and increase sales in the cloud, AI and enterprise data center ethernet switching/routing markets, and campus workspace markets. We intend to continue expanding our sales force and marketing activities in key geographies, as well as our relationships with channel, technology and system-level partners in order to reach new customers more effectively, increase sales to existing customers, and provide services and support. In addition, we intend to continue to invest in our research and development organization to enhance the functionality of our existing cloud networking platform, introduce new products and features, and build upon our technology leadership. We believe one of our greatest strengths lies in our ability to rapidly develop new features and applications. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [32:11] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-02-19 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2024 Highlighted Text: Cognitive Campus Solutions Arista’s Cognitive Campus is based on a data driven architecture and offers consistent, unified management across the campus edge for wired and wireless networks as well as integrated security & proactive network assurance. Our Cognitive Campus networking solutions are based on three pillars: Universal Networking \- Customers want a network that minimizes planned and unplanned downtime. Arista delivers that through capabilities such as smart software upgrades that can update a switch to a new version of code without taking an outage. Moreover, Arista’s standards-based offerings minimize the learning curve for operators both in the wired and the wireless space. Zero Touch Operations \- Arista’s solutions are designed from the ground up for real-time telemetry, automation, and AI for networking based on our unified network data lake architecture. As a result, customers can achieve faster deployment to new locations and lower their cost of network operations. Zero Trust Network \- Arista delivers a combination of capabilities that help customers secure their campus networks, from controlling who can get on the network via network access control ("CloudVision AGNI") to detecting threats using network detection and response ("Arista NDR") or wireless intrusion prevention. Arista also provides identity-based micro segmentation ("Arista MSS") to ensure the zero trust posture extends to every critical asset within the organization. 5 Our Competitive Strengths We believe the following strengths will allow us to maintain and extend our technology leadership position in data-driven cloud networking and next-generation data center and campus workspace Ethernet products: Purpose-Built Cloud Networking Platform We have developed a highly scalable cloud networking platform that uses software to address the needs of large-scale cloud companies, cloud service providers, and large enterprises, including AI, virtualization, big data and low-latency applications. As a result, our cloud networking platform does not have the inherent limitations of legacy network architectures. Broad and Differentiated Portfolio Using multiple merchant silicon architectures, we deliver switches, capable of routing, with industry-leading capacity, low latency, port density and power efficiency, and have innovated in areas such as deep packet buffers, highly available modular hardware, and reversible cooling options. Our broad portfolio has allowed us to offer customers products that best match their specific requirements. Single Binary Image Software The single binary image of EOS software allows us to maintain feature consistency across our entire product portfolio and enables us to introduce new software innovations into the market that become available to our entire installed base without a “forklift upgrade” (i.e., a broad upgrade of the data center infrastructure). Rapid Development of New Features and Applications Our highly modular EOS software has allowed us to rapidly deliver new features and applications while preserving the structural integrity and quality of our network operating system. We believe our ability to deliver new features and capabilities more quickly than legacy switch/router operators provides us with a strategic advantage given that the requirements in cloud and next-generation data center and campus networking continue to evolve rapidly. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [28:18] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-05-07 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q1 2025 Highlighted Text: Overview Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large AI, data center, campus and routing environments. Arista's platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. Since Arista’s inception, our founders have reimagined cloud networks for performance, scale and programmability with a focus on differentiating in three ways: uncompromising reliability built on the foundation of robust quality assurance capabilities with a suite of automated diagnostics, advanced open and standards-based technology and intelligent automation to decrease the manual workload on the operator. At the core of Arista’s platform is Arista EOS, a modernized publish-subscribe state-sharing networking operating system. Arista EOS, combined with a set of network 16 applications and our Ethernet switching and routing platforms using best of breed merchant silicon, provides customers with a highly competitive and diversified portfolio of products with improved price/performance and time to market. We believe that cloud computing represents a fundamental shift from traditional legacy network architectures. As organizations of all sizes have moved workloads to the cloud, spending on cloud and next-generation data centers has increased rapidly, while traditional legacy IT spending has grown at a slower rate. Our cloud networking platforms are well positioned to address the growing cloud networking market, and to address increasing performance requirements driven by the growing number of connected devices, as well as the need for constant connectivity and access to data and applications. The markets for cloud networking solutions are highly competitive and characterized by rapidly changing technology, changing end-customer needs, evolving industry standards, frequent introductions of new products and services, and industry consolidation. We expect competition to intensify in the future as the market for cloud networking expands and existing competitors and new market entrants introduce new products or enhance existing products. Our future success is dependent upon our ability to continue to evolve and adapt to our rapidly changing environment. We must also continue to develop market-leading products and software features that address the changing needs of our existing and new customers, and increase sales in the cloud, AI and enterprise data center Ethernet switching/routing markets, and campus workspace markets. We believe one of our greatest strengths lies in our ability to rapidly develop new features and applications. In addition, we intend to continue expanding our sales force and marketing activities in key geographies, as well as our relationships with channel, technology and system-level partners in order to reach new customers more effectively, increase sales to existing customers, and provide services and support. Furthermore, we expect to continue to make substantial investments to introduce new products and services and enhance the functionality of our existing cloud networking platform through investments in our research and development organization, and investments in or acquisitions of complementary companies, products and technologies to expand our product offerings and build upon our technology leadership. </chunk> - Internet search
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Company: CISCO SYSTEMS Ticker: CSCO Stock Quote: { "price": 70.33, "change_percentage": 1.9497, "change": 1.345, "volume": 27473963.0, "day_low": 69.0, "day_high": 70.755, "year_high": 72.55, "year_low": 52.11, "market_cap": 278028341704.0, "price_avg_50": 68.1226, "price_avg_200": 63.7001, "open": 69.615, "previous_close": 68.985, "timestamp": "2025-10-08 16:00 EDT", "currency": "USD" } Latest Results: Q4 2025 results announced on 2025-09-03 Recent Earnings (12 periods): Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks FY 2025: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2025-08-13 | 83 | 23 chunks • earnings-slide | Q4 2025 | 2025-08-13 | 84 | 20 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2025 | 2025-08-13 | 85 | 18 chunks • 10-K | FY 2025 | 2025-09-03 | 86 | 169 chunks Q3 2025: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2025-05-14 | 87 | 22 chunks • earnings-slide | Q3 2025 | 2025-05-14 | 88 | 17 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2025 | 2025-05-14 | 89 | 20 chunks • 10-Q | Q3 2025 | 2025-05-20 | 90 | 118 chunks Q2 2025: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2025-02-12 | 91 | 22 chunks • earnings-slide | Q2 2025 | 2025-02-12 | 92 | 12 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2025 | 2025-02-12 | 93 | 9 chunks • 10-Q | Q2 2025 | 2025-02-18 | 94 | 281 chunks Q1 2025: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-11-13 | 95 | 19 chunks • earnings-slide | Q1 2025 | 2024-11-13 | 96 | 10 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2025 | 2024-11-13 | 97 | 21 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2025 | 2024-11-19 | 98 | 99 chunks FY 2024: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-08-14 | 99 | 24 chunks • earnings-slide | Q4 2024 | 2024-08-14 | 100 | 12 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2024 | 2024-08-14 | 101 | 23 chunks • 10-K | FY 2024 | 2024-09-05 | 102 | 361 chunks Q3 2024: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-05-15 | 103 | 38 chunks • earnings-slide | Q3 2024 | 2024-05-15 | 104 | 11 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2024 | 2024-05-15 | 105 | 20 chunks • 10-Q | Q3 2024 | 2024-05-21 | 106 | 127 chunks Q2 2024: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-02-14 | 107 | 22 chunks • earnings-slide | Q2 2024 | 2024-02-14 | 108 | 9 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2024 | 2024-02-14 | 109 | 20 chunks • 10-Q | Q2 2024 | 2024-02-20 | 110 | 107 chunks Q1 2024: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-11-15 | 111 | 19 chunks • earnings-slide | Q1 2024 | 2023-11-15 | 112 | 10 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2024 | 2023-11-15 | 113 | 13 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2024 | 2023-11-21 | 114 | 102 chunks FY 2023: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-08-16 | 115 | 22 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2023 | 2023-08-16 | 116 | 17 chunks • earnings-slide | Q4 2023 | 2023-08-16 | 117 | 10 chunks • 10-K | FY 2023 | 2023-09-07 | 118 | 333 chunks Q3 2023: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-05-17 | 119 | 22 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2023 | 2023-05-17 | 120 | 18 chunks • earnings-slide | Q3 2023 | 2023-05-17 | 121 | 9 chunks • 10-Q | Q3 2023 | 2023-05-24 | 122 | 261 chunks Q2 2023: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-02-15 | 123 | 21 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2023 | 2023-02-15 | 124 | 24 chunks • earnings-slide | Q2 2023 | 2023-02-15 | 125 | 9 chunks • 10-Q | Q2 2023 | 2023-02-21 | 126 | 109 chunks Q1 2023: • earnings-slide | Q1 2023 | 2022-11-16 | 127 | 9 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2023 | 2022-11-22 | 128 | 140 chunks Other Recent Documents (5 per category): Events: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • other-transcript | Deutsche Bank's 2025 Technology Conference | 2025-08-28 | 68 | 10 chunks • 8-K | Item 5.03: Non-Reliance Notice | 2025-08-25 | 69 | 83 chunks • other-transcript | Status Update | 2025-07-11 | 70 | 15 chunks • other-transcript | Status Update | 2025-06-16 | 71 | 23 chunks • other-transcript | Cisco Live! Day 3 | 2025-06-12 | 72 | 133 chunks [...] Proxies: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • DEF 14A | Proxy Statement | 2024-10-18 | 73 | 113 chunks • DEFA14A | 2024-10-18 | 74 | 1 chunks • DEFA14A | 2023-11-30 | 75 | 1 chunks • DEFA14A | 2023-11-28 | 76 | 6 chunks • DEFA14A | 2023-11-22 | 77 | 5 chunks [...] News: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • press-release | Cisco Sets Benchmark with Industry's Most Scalable, Efficien... | 2025-10-08 | 129 | 4 chunks • press-release | Cisco Unveils Advanced AI-Powered Webex Contact Center Solut... | 2025-09-30 | 130 | 3 chunks • press-release | Cisco Introduces Agentic Capabilities for Next-Generation Co... | 2025-09-30 | 131 | 4 chunks • press-release | CDK to Host Fifth Annual CDK CONNECT on Oct. 21 | 2025-09-30 | 132 | 2 chunks • news | Hacker Breaches DHS Networks Stealing FEMA and Customs Staff... | 2025-09-29 | 133 | 1 chunks [...] Prospectuses & Registrations: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • FWP | 2025-02-19 | 78 | 3 chunks • S-8 | Securities to be Offered to Employees | 2025-02-10 | 79 | 25 chunks • S-8 | Securities to be Offered to Employees | 2024-12-10 | 80 | 30 chunks • S-8 | Securities to be Offered to Employees | 2024-09-30 | 81 | 33 chunks • S-8 | Securities to be Offered to Employees | 2024-09-30 | 82 | 33 chunks [...] - Identify company
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{ "query": "NVIDIA" }Output
Company: NVIDIA Ticker: NVDA Stock Quote: { "price": 189.11, "change_percentage": 2.19952, "change": 4.07, "volume": 128832911.0, "day_low": 186.54, "day_high": 189.42, "year_high": 191.05, "year_low": 86.62, "market_cap": 4604261170000.0, "price_avg_50": 178.506, "price_avg_200": 143.59975, "open": 186.57, "previous_close": 185.04, "timestamp": "2025-10-08 16:00 EDT", "currency": "USD" } Latest Results: Q2 2026 results announced on 2025-08-27 Recent Earnings (12 periods): Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks Q2 2026: • 10-Q | Q2 2026 | 2025-08-27 | 144 | 82 chunks • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2025-08-27 | 145 | 19 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2026 | 2025-08-27 | 146 | 17 chunks Q1 2026: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2025-05-28 | 147 | 21 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2026 | 2025-05-28 | 148 | 53 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2026 | 2025-05-28 | 149 | 16 chunks FY 2025: • 10-K | FY 2025 | 2025-02-26 | 150 | 193 chunks • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2025-02-26 | 151 | 19 chunks • earnings-slide | Q4 2025 | 2025-02-26 | 152 | 16 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2025 | 2025-02-26 | 153 | 16 chunks Q3 2025: • 10-Q | Q3 2025 | 2024-11-20 | 154 | 74 chunks • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-11-20 | 155 | 17 chunks • earnings-slide | Q3 2025 | 2024-11-20 | 156 | 10 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2025 | 2024-11-20 | 157 | 17 chunks Q2 2025: • 10-Q | Q2 2025 | 2024-08-28 | 158 | 111 chunks • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-08-28 | 159 | 17 chunks • earnings-slide | Q2 2025 | 2024-08-28 | 160 | 10 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2025 | 2024-08-28 | 161 | 14 chunks Q1 2025: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-05-22 | 162 | 18 chunks • earnings-slide | Q1 2025 | 2024-05-22 | 163 | 17 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2025 | 2024-05-22 | 164 | 18 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2025 | 2024-05-29 | 165 | 148 chunks FY 2024: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2024-02-21 | 166 | 18 chunks • 10-K | FY 2024 | 2024-02-21 | 167 | 146 chunks • earnings-slide | Q4 2024 | 2024-02-21 | 168 | 9 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2024 | 2024-02-21 | 169 | 15 chunks Q3 2024: • 10-Q | Q3 2024 | 2023-11-21 | 170 | 62 chunks • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-11-21 | 171 | 19 chunks • earnings-slide | Q3 2024 | 2023-11-21 | 172 | 44 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2024 | 2023-11-21 | 173 | 14 chunks Q2 2024: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-08-23 | 174 | 18 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2024 | 2023-08-23 | 175 | 14 chunks • earnings-slide | Q2 2024 | 2023-08-23 | 176 | 30 chunks • 10-Q | Q2 2024 | 2023-08-28 | 177 | 60 chunks Q1 2024: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-05-24 | 178 | 17 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2024 | 2023-05-24 | 179 | 13 chunks • earnings-slide | Q1 2024 | 2023-05-24 | 180 | 30 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2024 | 2023-05-26 | 181 | 57 chunks FY 2023: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-02-22 | 182 | 20 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2023 | 2023-02-22 | 183 | 14 chunks • earnings-slide | Q4 2023 | 2023-02-22 | 184 | 28 chunks • 10-K | FY 2023 | 2023-02-24 | 185 | 211 chunks Q3 2023: • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2023 | 2022-11-16 | 186 | 17 chunks • earnings-slide | Q3 2023 | 2022-11-16 | 187 | 30 chunks • 10-Q | Q3 2023 | 2022-11-18 | 188 | 59 chunks Other Recent Documents (5 per category): Events: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • other-transcript | Collaboration | 2025-09-18 | 134 | 9 chunks • other-transcript | Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference 2025 | 2025-09-08 | 135 | 9 chunks • 8-K | Item 5.02: Leadership Changes | 2025-08-05 | 136 | 2 chunks • 8-K | Item 5.07: Submission of Section 13(a) Matter | 2025-07-01 | 137 | 4 chunks • other-transcript | AGM 2025 | 2025-06-25 | 138 | 11 chunks [...] Proxies: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • DEFA14A | 2025-05-13 | 189 | 1 chunks • DEF 14A | Proxy Statement | 2025-05-13 | 190 | 124 chunks • PRE 14A | Preliminary Proxy Statement | 2025-05-01 | 191 | 124 chunks • DEF 14A | Proxy Statement | 2024-05-14 | 192 | 89 chunks • DEFA14A | 2024-05-14 | 193 | 1 chunks [...] News: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • press-release | SCHMID Group Expands Advanced Packaging Portfolio to Power t... | 2025-10-08 | 139 | 3 chunks • news | Nvidia CEO Huang Reports Substantial Surge in Global AI Comp... | 2025-10-08 | 140 | 1 chunks • press-release | PubMatic Delivers 5x Faster, Smarter Advertising Decisions W... | 2025-10-08 | 141 | 4 chunks • press-release | Grafana Labs Unveils Breakthroughs in Full-Stack and Databas... | 2025-10-08 | 142 | 4 chunks • news | Nvidia Covers $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee After Trump Order | 2025-10-08 | 143 | 1 chunks [...] Prospectuses & Registrations: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • S-3ASR | 2025-05-28 | 194 | 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{ "query": "Hewlett Packard Enterprise" }Output
Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Ticker: HPE Aliases: HPE, HPE-PC Stock Quote: { "price": 26.08, "change_percentage": 4.71793, "change": 1.175, "volume": 26642813.0, "day_low": 24.85, "day_high": 26.44, "year_high": 26.44, "year_low": 11.965, "market_cap": 34392407854.0, "price_avg_50": 22.8762, "price_avg_200": 19.8299, "open": 24.86, "previous_close": 24.905, "timestamp": "2025-10-08 16:00 EDT", "currency": "USD" } Latest Results: Q3 2025 results announced on 2025-09-04 Recent Earnings (12 periods): Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks Q3 2025: • earnings-slide | Q3 2025 | 2025-09-03 | 214 | 61 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2025 | 2025-09-03 | 215 | 17 chunks • 10-Q | Q3 2025 | 2025-09-04 | 216 | 334 chunks Q2 2025: • earnings-slide | Q2 2025 | 2025-06-03 | 217 | 45 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2025 | 2025-06-03 | 218 | 16 chunks • 10-Q | Q2 2025 | 2025-06-04 | 219 | 111 chunks Q1 2025: • earnings-slide | Q1 2025 | 2025-03-06 | 220 | 31 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2025 | 2025-03-06 | 221 | 17 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2025 | 2025-03-07 | 222 | 92 chunks FY 2024: • earnings-slide | Q4 2024 | 2024-12-05 | 223 | 56 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2024 | 2024-12-05 | 224 | 17 chunks • 10-K | FY 2024 | 2024-12-19 | 225 | 347 chunks Q3 2024: • earnings-slide | Q3 2024 | 2024-09-04 | 226 | 81 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2024 | 2024-09-04 | 227 | 18 chunks • 10-Q | Q3 2024 | 2024-09-05 | 228 | 280 chunks Q2 2024: • earnings-slide | Q2 2024 | 2024-06-04 | 229 | 42 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2024 | 2024-06-04 | 230 | 18 chunks • 10-Q | Q2 2024 | 2024-06-05 | 231 | 90 chunks Q1 2024: • earnings-slide | Q1 2024 | 2024-02-29 | 232 | 47 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2024 | 2024-02-29 | 233 | 18 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2024 | 2024-03-05 | 234 | 96 chunks FY 2023: • earnings-slide | Q4 2023 | 2023-11-28 | 235 | 40 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2023 | 2023-11-28 | 236 | 17 chunks • 10-K | FY 2023 | 2023-12-22 | 237 | 304 chunks Q3 2023: • 8-K | Item 2.02: Financial Results | 2023-08-07 | 238 | 5 chunks • earnings-call-transcript | Q3 2023 | 2023-08-29 | 239 | 16 chunks • earnings-slide | Q3 2023 | 2023-08-29 | 240 | 74 chunks • 10-Q | Q3 2023 | 2023-09-01 | 241 | 96 chunks Q2 2023: • earnings-call-transcript | Q2 2023 | 2023-05-30 | 242 | 15 chunks • earnings-slide | Q2 2023 | 2023-05-30 | 243 | 52 chunks • 10-Q | Q2 2023 | 2023-06-02 | 244 | 138 chunks Q1 2023: • earnings-call-transcript | Q1 2023 | 2023-03-02 | 245 | 17 chunks • earnings-slide | Q1 2023 | 2023-03-02 | 246 | 51 chunks • 10-Q | Q1 2023 | 2023-03-07 | 247 | 79 chunks FY 2022: • earnings-call-transcript | Q4 2022 | 2022-11-29 | 248 | 16 chunks • earnings-slide | Q4 2022 | 2022-11-29 | 249 | 47 chunks • 10-K | FY 2022 | 2022-12-08 | 250 | 250 chunks [... more periods available] Other Recent Documents (5 per category): Events: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • 8-K | Item 5.02: Leadership Changes | 2025-09-22 | 204 | 2 chunks • 8-K | Item 8.01: Other Events | 2025-09-15 | 205 | 161 chunks • 8-K | Item 8.01: Other Events | 2025-09-10 | 206 | 49 chunks • other-transcript | Citi’s 2025 Global TMT Conference | 2025-09-04 | 207 | 9 chunks • 8-K | E Mossy Oaks Road 8-K | 2025-09-03 | 208 | 29 chunks [...] Proxies: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • DEFA14A | 2025-03-05 | 209 | 1 chunks • DEFA14A | 2025-02-12 | 210 | 1 chunks • DEF 14A | Proxy Statement | 2025-02-12 | 211 | 177 chunks • DEFA14A | 2024-02-29 | 212 | 1 chunks • DEFA14A | 2024-02-29 | 213 | 1 chunks [...] News: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • press-release | Cohesity Named a Leader Once Again in the IDC MarketScape: W... | 2025-10-08 | 251 | 2 chunks • press-release | ExaGrid ogłasza rekordowe wyniki w III kw. 2025 – najlepszym... | 2025-10-07 | 252 | 3 chunks • press-release | ExaGrid发布2025年第三季度业绩，并创历史新高 | 2025-10-07 | 253 | 1 chunks • press-release | ExaGrid annonce un troisième trimestre 2025 record, le meill... | 2025-10-07 | 254 | 3 chunks • press-release | ExaGrid發布2025年第三季業績，並創下歷史新高 | 2025-10-07 | 255 | 1 chunks [...] Prospectuses & Registrations: Format: [doc_type] | [title] | [date] | document_id | number_of_chunks • FWP | 2025-09-08 | 199 | 4 chunks • S-8 | Securities to be Offered to Employees | 2025-07-02 | 200 | 196 chunks • S-8 | Securities to be Offered to Employees | 2025-06-04 | 201 | 12 chunks • FWP | 2024-09-13 | 202 | 4 chunks • FWP | 2024-09-11 | 203 | 6 chunks [...]
Perfect. I've identified the key competitors. Now let me organize this comprehensive analysis using a structured task list.
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Gather ANET, CSCO, NVDA, and HPE latest financial data (revenue, margins, profitability, cash flow) for last 4 quartersGet ANET, CSCO, NVDA, and HPE analyst estimates and forward valuation multiplesSearch ANET documents for operational KPIs, AI revenue targets, customer concentration, product portfolio detailsSearch CSCO documents for data center networking strategy, AI initiatives, competitive positioning, and product roadmapSearch NVDA documents for Spectrum-X networking platform, data center networking strategy, and competitive positioningSearch HPE documents for networking strategy post-Juniper acquisition, AI networking initiatives, and competitive positioningSearch for latest news and press releases for all companies to capture recent developments and momentumGet market data and stock performance for context on market positioningOutput
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{ "ticker": "ANET", "metrics": [ "Revenues", "Gross Profit", "Operating Income", "Net Income - (IS)", "Gross Profit Margin %", "Operating Income Margin %", "Net Income Margin %", "Cash from Operations", "Levered Free Cash Flow" ], "period_type": "quarter", "relative_periods": [ 0, -1, -2, -3 ] }Output
ErrorInvalid metric names: ['Operating Income Margin %']. Use ReadFile('/public/docs/metrics/<category>.json') to discover valid metric names. Available categories: balance_sheet, income_statement, cash_flow, financial_ratios, key_metrics - Get financials
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{ "ticker": "CSCO", "metrics": [ "Revenues", "Gross Profit", "Operating Income", "Net Income - (IS)", "Gross Profit Margin %", "Operating Income Margin %", "Net Income Margin %", "Cash from Operations", "Levered Free Cash Flow" ], "period_type": "quarter", "relative_periods": [ 0, -1, -2, -3 ] }Output
ErrorInvalid metric names: ['Operating Income Margin %']. Use ReadFile('/public/docs/metrics/<category>.json') to discover valid metric names. Available categories: balance_sheet, income_statement, cash_flow, financial_ratios, key_metrics - Get financials
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{ "ticker": "NVDA", "metrics": [ "Revenues", "Gross Profit", "Operating Income", "Net Income - (IS)", "Gross Profit Margin %", "Operating Income Margin %", "Net Income Margin %", "Cash from Operations", "Levered Free Cash Flow" ], "period_type": "quarter", "relative_periods": [ 0, -1, -2, -3 ] }Output
ErrorInvalid metric names: ['Operating Income Margin %']. Use ReadFile('/public/docs/metrics/<category>.json') to discover valid metric names. Available categories: balance_sheet, income_statement, cash_flow, financial_ratios, key_metrics - Get financials
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{ "ticker": "HPE", "metrics": [ "Revenues", "Gross Profit", "Operating Income", "Net Income - (IS)", "Gross Profit Margin %", "Operating Income Margin %", "Net Income Margin %", "Cash from Operations", "Levered Free Cash Flow" ], "period_type": "quarter", "relative_periods": [ 0, -1, -2, -3 ] }Output
ErrorInvalid metric names: ['Operating Income Margin %']. Use ReadFile('/public/docs/metrics/<category>.json') to discover valid metric names. Available categories: balance_sheet, income_statement, cash_flow, financial_ratios, key_metrics - Get financials
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{ "ticker": "ANET", "metrics": [ "Revenues", "Gross Profit", "Operating Income", "Net Income - (IS)", "Gross Profit Margin %", "EBIT Margin %", "Net Income Margin %", "Cash from Operations", "Levered Free Cash Flow" ], "period_type": "quarter", "relative_periods": [ 0, -1, -2, -3 ] }Output
{ "ticker": "ANET", "currency": "USD", "data": { "Revenues": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 2204800000.0, "citation": "[24:23]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 2004800000.0, "citation": "[28:2]" }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 1930436000.0, "citation": "[29:8]" }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 1810936000.0, "citation": "[36:24]" } }, "Gross Profit": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 1438600000.0, "citation": "[24:2]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 1276100000.0, "citation": "[28:2]" }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 1230994000.0, "citation": "[29:8]" }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 1161717000.0, "citation": "[36:2]" } }, "Operating Income": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 986200000.0, "citation": "[21:8]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 858800000.0, "citation": "[25:10]" }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 799652000.0, "citation": "[29:8]" }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 785250000.0, "citation": "[36:2]" } }, "Net Income - (IS)": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 888800000.0, "citation": "[24:2]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 813800000.0, "citation": "[28:2]" }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 800996000.0, "citation": "[29:8]" }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 747938000.0, "citation": "[36:2]" } }, "Gross Profit Margin %": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 65.2485, "citation": "[24:24]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 63.6522, "citation": "[28:23]" }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 63.7676, "citation": "[29:9]" }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 64.15, "citation": "[36:24]" } }, "EBIT Margin %": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 44.7296 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 42.8371 }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 41.4233 }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 43.3615 } }, "Net Income Margin %": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 40.312 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 40.5925 }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 41.493 }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 41.3011 } }, "Cash from Operations": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 1200100000.0, "citation": "[24:10]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 641700000.0, "citation": "[28:26]" }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 1030963000.0 }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 1174456000.0 } }, "Levered Free Cash Flow": { "Q2 2025": { "value": 1087775000.0 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 507313000.0 }, "Q4 2024": { "value": 745467500.0 }, "Q3 2024": { "value": 988124250.0 } } }, "periods": [ "Q2 2025", "Q1 2025", "Q4 2024", "Q3 2024" ] } - Get financials
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{ "ticker": "CSCO", "metrics": [ "Revenues", "Gross Profit", "Operating Income", "Net Income - (IS)", "Gross Profit Margin %", "EBIT Margin %", "Net Income Margin %", "Cash from Operations", "Levered Free Cash Flow" ], "period_type": "quarter", "relative_periods": [ 0, -1, -2, -3 ] }Output
{ "ticker": "CSCO", "currency": "USD", "data": { "Revenues": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 14673000000.0, "citation": "[86:57]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 14149000000.0, "citation": "[90:34]" }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 13991000000.0, "citation": "[94:37]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 13841000000.0, "citation": "[98:33]" } }, "Gross Profit": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 9280000000.0 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 9278000000.0, "citation": "[90:50]" }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 9111000000.0, "citation": "[94:52]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 9121000000.0, "citation": "[98:2]" } }, "Operating Income": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 3122000000.0 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 3296000000.0, "citation": "[86:138]" }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 3123000000.0 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 3032000000.0 } }, "Net Income - (IS)": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 2550000000.0, "citation": "[86:57]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 2491000000.0, "citation": "[90:35]" }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 2428000000.0, "citation": "[94:4]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 2711000000.0, "citation": "[98:4]" } }, "Gross Profit Margin %": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 63.2454, "citation": "[86:57]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 65.5735, "citation": "[90:37]" }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 65.1204, "citation": "[94:37]" }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 65.8984, "citation": "[98:35]" } }, "EBIT Margin %": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 21.2771 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 23.2949 }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 22.3214 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 21.9059 } }, "Net Income Margin %": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 17.3788 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 17.6054 }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 17.354 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 19.5867 } }, "Cash from Operations": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 4234000000.0, "citation": "[83:13]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 4057000000.0 }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 2241000000.0 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 3661000000.0, "citation": "[98:37]" } }, "Levered Free Cash Flow": { "Q4 2025": { "value": 2985250000.0 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 3234125000.0 }, "Q2 2025": { "value": 2868375000.0 }, "Q1 2025": { "value": 3906750000.0 } } }, "periods": [ "Q4 2025", "Q3 2025", "Q2 2025", "Q1 2025" ] } - Get financials
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{ "ticker": "NVDA", "metrics": [ "Revenues", "Gross Profit", "Operating Income", "Net Income - (IS)", "Gross Profit Margin %", "EBIT Margin %", "Net Income Margin %", "Cash from Operations", "Levered Free Cash Flow" ], "period_type": "quarter", "relative_periods": [ 0, -1, -2, -3 ] }Output
{ "ticker": "NVDA", "currency": "USD", "data": { "Revenues": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 46743000000.0, "citation": "[144:51]" }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 44062000000.0, "citation": "[148:23]" }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 39331000000.0, "citation": "[151:11]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 35082000000.0, "citation": "[154:36]" } }, "Gross Profit": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 33853000000.0, "citation": "[144:26]" }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 26668000000.0, "citation": "[148:1]" }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 28723000000.0, "citation": "[151:15]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 26156000000.0, "citation": "[154:18]" } }, "Operating Income": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 28440000000.0, "citation": "[144:26]" }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 21638000000.0, "citation": "[148:25]" }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 24034000000.0, "citation": "[150:101]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 21869000000.0, "citation": "[154:18]" } }, "Net Income - (IS)": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 26422000000.0, "citation": "[144:26]" }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 18775000000.0, "citation": "[148:3]" }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 22091000000.0, "citation": "[151:15]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 19309000000.0, "citation": "[154:18]" } }, "Gross Profit Margin %": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 72.4236, "citation": "[144:55]" }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 60.5238, "citation": "[148:27]" }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 73.0289 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 74.5567, "citation": "[154:46]" } }, "EBIT Margin %": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 60.8433 }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 49.108 }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 61.107 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 62.3368 } }, "Net Income Margin %": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 56.5261 }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 42.6104 }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 56.1668 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 55.0396 } }, "Cash from Operations": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 15365000000.0, "citation": "[145:16]" }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 27414000000.0, "citation": "[148:4]" }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 16629000000.0, "citation": "[151:6]" }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 17627000000.0, "citation": "[155:5]" } }, "Levered Free Cash Flow": { "Q2 2026": { "value": 6664250000.0 }, "Q1 2026": { "value": 23497375000.0 }, "Q4 2025": { "value": 9560125000.0 }, "Q3 2025": { "value": 12714000000.0 } } }, "periods": [ "Q2 2026", "Q1 2026", "Q4 2025", "Q3 2025" ] } - Get financials
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[Total chunks returned: 8] <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [23:2] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-05 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Our stated goal of 750,000,000 back end AI networking is well on track and gaining from nearly zero revenue three years ago in 2022 to production deployments this year in 2025. As a reminder to you all, the back end AI is all incremental revenue and incremental market share to Arista. As large language models continue to expand into distributed training and inference use cases, we expect to see the back end and the front end converge and call us more together. This will make it increasingly difficult to parse the back end and the front end precisely in the future, but we do expect an aggregate AI networking revenue to be ahead of the 1,500,000,000.0 in 2025 and growing in many years to come. We will elaborate more on this in Analyst Day in September, including our AI strategy and forecast. What is crystal clear to us and our customers is that Arista continues to be the premier and preferred AI networking platform of choice for all flavors of AI accelerators. While majority today is NVIDIA GPUs, we are entering early pilots connecting with alternate AI accelerators, including startup XPUs, the AMD MI series, and in AI and Titan customers who are building their own XPUs. As we continue to progress with our four top AI Titan customers, AI is also spreading its wings into the enterprise and neo cloud sectors, and we are winning approximately 25 to 30 customers to date. The rise in agentic AI ensures any to any conversations with bidirectional bandwidth utilization. Such AI agents are pushing the envelope of LAN and WAN traffic patterns in the enterprise. So speaking of WAN, we are very pleased to announce the purchase of SD WAN leader VeloCloud to offer modern branches in the agentic AI era. VeloCloud secure AI optimized WAN portfolio offers seamless application aware solutions to connect customer branch sites, complementing Arista's leading spines in the data center and campus. In a classic leaf spine atomic identifier, we are enabling multipathing, encryption, in band network telemetry, segmentation, application identification, and traffic engineering across distributed enterprise sites. We are so excited to fill this missing void in our distributed enterprise puzzle to bring that holistic brand solution. This also increases our foothold with managed service providers, MSPs, as an important route to market for our distributed campus and branch offerings. We also intend to work closely with best of breed security partners to enable SASE overlays. Please do note that Velo is not material in 2025, and we have some work to do to restore annual revenue back to pre Broadcom levels. Last quarter, I shared the development and internal promotions of several tenured executives at Arista to bolster our leadership. They display that strong cultural synergy and a mission to ignite innovation and delight our customers. As we enter the next phase of arista2.o, growing from 5,800,000,000.0 in '23 to a forecasted 10,000,000,000 revenue in 2026, we rely on this trifecta foundation of great customers, innovative products, and great next gen leaders to achieve this. I am so thrilled to welcome Todd Nightingale as Arista's president and chief operating officer. Todd brings that incredible passion for networking with his over two decades of technical leadership in Meraki, Cisco, and most recently, CEO of Fastly. In just a month, he is epitomizing epitomizing the Arista way, and I'm really looking forward to his impactful contributions to boost Arista's overall campus and enterprise operations. Todd, welcome to your first ANet earnings call. How does it feel to be here? </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [24:50] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-06 Section: Risk Factors Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: purchase commitments with little or no notice to us. In addition, customers may implement changes to their network architectures to improve efficiencies and reduce demand for our products. As such, demand estimates for our new products are difficult to forecast and create volatility in our revenue and inventory levels. If the AI market does not develop as anticipated or at all, then the potential demand for AI Ethernet switches may not be realized. Moreover, even if the market for AI applications does develop, the successful adoption of AI Ethernet products will be dependent upon their ability to compete against more established InfiniBand products or against the AI Ethernet products of other competitors to address AI networking clusters. If the networking solutions market including the AI Ethernet market does not develop in the way we anticipate or otherwise experiences a slow-down, if our solutions do not offer benefits compared to competing networking products or if customers do not recognize the benefits that our solutions provide, then our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially adversely affected. We pursue new product and service offerings and expand into adjacent markets, and if we fail to successfully carry out these initiatives, our business, financial condition, or results of operations could be adversely impacted. We have made substantial investments to develop new products and services and enhancements to existing products through our acquisitions and internal research and development efforts to expand our product offerings and maintain our revenue growth. If we are unable to anticipate technological changes in our industry by introducing new or enhanced products and services in a timely and cost-effective manner or if we fail to introduce products and services that meet market demand, we may lose our competitive position, our products may become obsolete, and our business, financial condition or results of operations could be adversely affected. For example, with our most recently introduced 800 GbE, AI focused Ethernet products and AI-Driven Campus and Branch Networking Offerings, our ability to continue to maintain our competitive position with our customers will depend on our ability to deliver these new products in a timely manner, our customers' acceptance of these products and the growth of the markets that these products serve. In addition, the evaluation, testing and qualification of our new products by our customers may be lengthy and may require increased customer trials and contracts with acceptance clauses, which delay revenue recognition may negatively impact our revenue. We remain in a period of new product introductions and expanded use cases, particularly in the AI Ethernet market. This has resulted in increased customer trials and contracts with acceptance periods, and an increase in the volatility and magnitude of our product deferred revenue balances, which in turn may create variability in our revenue results on a quarterly and annual basis. In addition, if we are not able to satisfy the requirements under customer trials or contracts with acceptance periods, we may be required to accept product returns from our customers, which would prevent us from recognizing revenue on such transactions and may result in the write-down of inventory. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [24:19] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-06 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: The expansion of generative AI computing and distributed applications is further pushing the boundary of predictable scale and performance in the network. A common characteristic of these AI workloads is that they are both data and compute intensive. A typical AI workload involves large sparse matrix computations, distributed across hundreds or thousands of processors (CPU, GPU, TPU, etc.) with intense computations for a period of time and requires a high-bandwidth, scalable, lossless network in order to service these workloads. With the exponential growth of AI applications, the need for standardized transport like Ethernet becomes paramount, enabling a power-efficient interconnect while overcoming the complexities of traditional approaches. Our AI strategy is based on achieving two key objectives: (1) deliver network switching products intended to provide a robust interconnect that seamlessly links GPUs, compute and storage to deliver fast job completion time for training and generative AI workloads; and (2) offer customers the Arista Autonomous Virtual Assist ("AVATM") which uses natural processing language to provide AI-assisted outcomes for network operations, security and observability. Historically, large purchases by a relatively limited number of customers have accounted for a significant portion of our revenue. We have experienced unpredictability in the timing of orders from these large customers primarily due to the time it takes these customers to evaluate, test, qualify and accept our newer products, the overall complexity of these large orders and changes in demand patterns specific to these customers, including reductions in or changes in mix of capital expenditures by these customers and the impact of cost reduction and other efficiency efforts by these customers. For example, sales to our end 18 customer Microsoft represented 20%, 18% and 16% of our total revenue for the years ended 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. And sales to our end customer Meta Platforms represented 15%, 21% and 26% of our total revenue, respectively, for the years ended 2024, 2023 and 2022. This variability in customer concentration has been linked to the timing of new product deployments and spending cycles with these customers, and we expect continued variability in our customer concentration and timing of sales on a quarterly and annual basis. In addition, we typically provide pricing discounts to large customers, which reduces gross margins for the period in which such sales occur. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [24:19] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-06 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: The expansion of generative AI computing and distributed applications is further pushing the boundary of predictable scale and performance in the network. A common characteristic of these AI workloads is that they are both data and compute intensive. A typical AI workload involves large sparse matrix computations, distributed across hundreds or thousands of processors (CPU, GPU, TPU, etc.) with intense computations for a period of time and requires a high-bandwidth, scalable, lossless network in order to service these workloads. With the exponential growth of AI applications, the need for standardized transport like Ethernet becomes paramount, enabling a power-efficient interconnect while overcoming the complexities of traditional approaches. Our AI strategy is based on achieving two key objectives: (1) deliver network switching products intended to provide a robust interconnect that seamlessly links GPUs, compute and storage to deliver fast job completion time for training and generative AI workloads; and (2) offer customers the Arista Autonomous Virtual Assist ("AVATM") which uses natural processing language to provide AI-assisted outcomes for network operations, security and observability. Historically, large purchases by a relatively limited number of customers have accounted for a significant portion of our revenue. We have experienced unpredictability in the timing of orders from these large customers primarily due to the time it takes these customers to evaluate, test, qualify and accept our newer products, the overall complexity of these large orders and changes in demand patterns specific to these customers, including reductions in or changes in mix of capital expenditures by these customers and the impact of cost reduction and other efficiency efforts by these customers. For example, sales to our end 18 customer Microsoft represented 20%, 18% and 16% of our total revenue for the years ended 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively. And sales to our end customer Meta Platforms represented 15%, 21% and 26% of our total revenue, respectively, for the years ended 2024, 2023 and 2022. This variability in customer concentration has been linked to the timing of new product deployments and spending cycles with these customers, and we expect continued variability in our customer concentration and timing of sales on a quarterly and annual basis. In addition, we typically provide pricing discounts to large customers, which reduces gross margins for the period in which such sales occur. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [23:1] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-05 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Thank you, Rudy, and thank you everyone for joining us this afternoon for our second quarter twenty twenty five earnings call. Arista is experiencing momentum in our business as demonstrated in our record Q2 twenty twenty five results. We achieved $2,200,000,000 this quarter, surpassing our plan by $100,000,000 Software and service renewals contributed approximately 16.3% of revenue. Our non GAAP gross margins of 65.6% was influenced by efficient supply chain and inventory benefit with a non material tariff impact in the quarter. International contributions for the quarter registered strongly at 21.8% with The Americas at 78.2%. Reviewing our midyear inflection point, our conviction with AI and cloud titans and enterprise customers has only strengthened. We began the year with a pragmatic guide of 17% or 8,200,000,000.0 annual revenue. But as the year has progressed, we recognize the potential to build a truly transformational networking company addressing a massive total available market. This feels to us like a unique once in a lifetime opportunity. We therefore raised our 2025 annual growth to 25%, now targeting 8,750,000,000.00 in revenue, which is an incremental 550,000,000 more due to our increased momentum that we are experiencing across AI, cloud, and enterprise sectors. It is important to appreciate that Arista's AI center strategy is complementing our data center focus to drive some of this increase. AI centers consist of both scale out front end and scale up scale out combination for back end networks. Scale up back end networks consist of high bandwidth, low latency interconnects that tightly link multiple accelerators within a single rack as a unified compute system with workload parallelism. Today, this is predominantly constructed with NVLink as a compute attached IO, but we do expect a move to open standards such as Ethernet or UA link in the next few years. Scale out back end network is dedicated spines interconnecting XPUs across racks, engineered for high bandwidth and minimal latency, thereby resulting in efficient parallel processing of massive training models. Here, InfiniBand is rapidly migrating to Ethernet based on the ultra Ethernet consortium specification released in June 2025. Scale out front end connects the back end clusters to external clouds, compute resources, storage, wide area networks, and data center interconnect to handle data ingestion, orchestration for AI, and cloud traffic in a leaf spine network topology. Arista's flagship EtherLink and EOS are key hallmarks of scale out networking with a wide breadth and depth of network protocol support. Introduced in 2024, Arista's EtherLink portfolio is now 20 plus products with the most comprehensive and complete solution in the industry, especially for scale out back end and scale out front end networking. It highlights our accelerated networking approach, bringing a single point of network control and visibility differentiation and improved GPU utilization. Poor networks and bottlenecks lead to idle cycles on GPUs, wasting both capital GPU costs and operational expenses such as power and cooling. With a 30 to 50% processing time spent in exchanging data over networks and GPU, the economic impact of building an efficient GPU cluster with good networking improves utilization, and this this is super paramount. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [23:11] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-05 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Yeah. I'll try my best. But the minute we call them a Titan, which, you know, we we now have included some customers in the Titan that previously weren't we move people customers out of the Titans into the specialty providers, you know they have a big spend. So you should not be surprised to see at least 10% concentration from our two favorite customers. And we will get greater contribution from our other customers even if they're not 10% because of the AI investments. So our AI titans, if you will, and our cloud titans are going to make a meaningful, indeed, high contribution to the year. That's one half of us. That's one half of the coin. The other half is, you know, why we're so excited to have Todd. Don't underestimate the power of all these customers coming together as an aggregate adding to a very high number. So it's not your one titan. As a collection, they're a titan, but each one of them by themselves are a meaningful contributor. So what Todd's team along with Chris Schmidt, Chris Belmer, Ashwin are doing is just fantastic. So we're really gonna have a balanced approach of two very meaningful businesses contributing together. But definitely, AI is gonna create that. Large investments, large CapEx that you guys have all seen from our customers is gonna translate into some investments into us too. We're equally excited about the enterprise. **Simon Leopold** (Managing Director, Raymond James Financial): Thank **Operator**: Our Our next comes from the line of Tal Liani with Bank of America. Please go ahead. **Tal Liani** (Technology Analyst, Bank of America): Guys. Want to talk about the sustainability. Hi, hi, hi. I wanna talk about the sustainability of growth. Tomahawk six was delayed, and the question is whether there is any correlation between the delays in Tomahawk six and your growth. Are customers buying more now than before? Maybe they waited for it. And then also another, like, a follow-up on the sustainability of growth is also sustainability of margins. At 49%, almost 49% operating margin, when do you start to upset your customers, your big customers, because they have an alternative to buy white boxes and it's cheaper? Do you have that much of a differentiation that justifies paying a lot more for a product versus white boxes? Assuming that on white boxes, they the the the manufacturer doesn't make 49% margin. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [23:3] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-05 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: **Todd Nightingale** (President & COO, Arista Networks): It's amazing. It's only been a month, but I can't tell you how impressed I am with the passion and focus of the team, the trust that Arista customers have in the technology, and the enormous opportunity we have ahead of us in data center, AI, and in the campus. I'll be primarily focused on our enterprise customer engagement, bringing new customers to Arista, and operational excellence across the organization. Personally, I'm so incredibly excited to be back in networking, and I'm truly, truly honored to be here. Thank you so much, Jayshree. **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Thank you, Todd. It's gonna be a fun journey here with us. You know, it's really an unprecedented time in networking where Arista is so uniquely positioned to enable the modern network transformation. And with that, my dear friend Shantel, over to you, our CFO, for the financial specifics. Thank you, Jayshree. With that as the backdrop of our strong business outlook, let me </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [23:14] Ticker: ANET Publication Date: 2025-08-05 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2025 Highlighted Text: **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): That's a good question, Sami. Thank thank you for the wishes as well. So I think two of our customers have already approached or going to fast quickly approach 100,000 GPUs. But I don't think it's any more about just how big you know, we used to talk about million GPUs and all that. Increasingly, what we're seeing is more and more distributed GPU clusters for training and inference. And so two customers have reached that goal. The third one might reach that goal. The fourth one that I said we just begin with is is probably too early to reach that 100,000. That's probably a goal for next year. So that's the composition. Two are strong, one is medium, and the other is still low. But to make that number or actually to exceed that number, you may have noticed that I pointed out that we now have an aggregate I think last time we said 15, and now we're saying 25 to 30 enterprise and neo cloud customers. So they're not big individually, but together they add up to contribute as well for the loss of the fifth customer and the the slowness of the fourth. So I we will we we believe, with the increase in five fifty million that AI will be a contributor to that, and exactly how it will shape up will depend on what we ship out, but, feeling really good. **Samik Chatterjee** (MD & Equity Research Analyst, J.P. Morgan): Okay. **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): And I won't I won't measure it anymore just on number of GPUs. I think there's a lot more to do with locality, distribution, radix, and, you know, also choice of multi tenants, optimizations, collective libraries, level of resilience, etcetera. So we're seeing a we're seeing a lot more complexity run into this than straight number of GPUs. **Samik Chatterjee** (MD & Equity Research Analyst, J.P. Morgan): Okay. Great. Thank you. **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Thank you. **Operator**: Our next question comes from the line of Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead. **Aaron Rakers** (Managing Director & Technology Analyst, Wells Fargo): Yeah. Thanks for taking the question. Also, congrats on the quarter. This probably builds on a few other earlier questions. But, you know, Jayshree, I'm as we think about the sovereign AI opportunity, whether or not that's factoring at all into kind of what you're seeing currently. I know you alluded to a fifth customer, which was a sovereign falling out. But I'm curious of how you think about that opportunity set, what you're seeing as far as customer engagements, and, you know, if we should kind of think about that as becoming a more material, you know, incremental driver as we look through 2026 and beyond. Thank you. **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Yeah. No. Erin, that's a good point. We've once bitten twice shy. So since our fifth customer was a sovereign AI and it didn't work out, we're certainly not factoring it into our numbers this year. But we haven't lost faith or hope that that could be an important segment for us in the next several years. I think there's gonna be a a lot of expanded build outs. In fact, one of the neo clouds is a sovereign AI, which is a non NVIDIA cluster that we're working with right now that may factor in in 2026. But having said that, it's still early days, and we're cautiously optimistic. **Aaron Rakers** (Managing Director & Technology Analyst, Wells Fargo): Thank you. **Operator**: Our next question comes from the line of Atif Malik with Citi. Please go ahead. **Atif Malik** (U.S. Specialty Semiconductors Analyst, Citigroup): Hi. Thank you for taking my question. Jayshree, you talked about scale up Ethernet to be incremental to your TAM. Curious if you have any sense how big this TAM is in three years? **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Atif, I don't know yet. In terms of port density, in terms of units, you know, if I look at the ratio within a rack versus outside in units, it's it's it's quite high. Eight to one, ten to one. But in terms of dollars, I don't think it's nearly as much because the level of functionality required is much simpler. So how about we beg that question out for September when we'll know more? **Atif Malik** (U.S. Specialty Semiconductors Analyst, Citigroup): That's the deal. Thank you. **Jayshree Ullal** (Chairperson & CEO, Arista Networks): Okay. Thank you. I owe you one answer. **Operator**: Our next question will come from the line of Karl Ackerman with BNP Paribas. Please go ahead. </chunk> - Search documents
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[Total chunks returned: 8] <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:6] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: Networking Our networking business is built on a foundation of industry-leading technologies, including switching, routing, wireless, and servers, offered through a comprehensive suite of both hardware and software solutions. This portfolio, which features software licenses and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, empowers customers to build, automate, modernize, and transform their network infrastructure to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving digital landscape. A central pillar of our networking strategy is the seamless convergence of our on-premise solutions with our cloud-managed offerings. By integrating these capabilities across our networking portfolio, we aim to deliver continuous value to our customers through enhanced flexibility, scalability, and operational efficiency. This unified approach positions us to address the diverse needs of businesses as they transition to hybrid and cloud-first environments. Our switching portfolio encompasses campus switching as well as data center switching offerings. Our campus switching offerings provide the foundation for converged data, voice, video, and Internet of Things (IoT) services. These switches offer enhanced security and reliability and are designed to scale efficiently as our customers grow. Within campus switching, our Catalyst 9000 family of switches includes hardware with embedded software, along with a software subscription referred to as Cisco DNA. Cisco DNA provides automation, analytics and security features which can be centrally monitored, managed, and configured. Also, within campus switching we have a range of Meraki cloud-managed switches for customers who prefer ease of management in lean-IT environments. Our switching portfolio now also includes the newly launched Cisco Smart Switches — Cisco 9350 and Cisco 9610— which represent the next generation of enterprise networking. These switches are AI-ready with advanced telemetry and assurance capabilities. They are built on Cisco Silicon One (which is our single, unified, and scalable networking silicon architecture) and are equipped with quantum-resistant security and post-quantum cryptography to protect against future threats. They also offer flexibility for one hardware to be managed via either the Cisco Catalyst Center or Meraki Dashboard user interface. Our data center switching offerings, led by the Nexus 9000 series, provide the foundation for mission critical data centers with high availability, scalability, and security across traditional data centers and private and public cloud data centers. We continue to add greater visibility and analytics across our networks and applications, enabling us to deliver better experiences for our customers. During fiscal 2025, we introduced the Cisco N9300 Series Smart Switches with a new class of intelligent networking silicon alongside embedded Data Processing Units (DPUs), representing our new vision for AI data center designs. Complex data processing tasks can be offloaded to the DPUs on the switch to improve both network architecture and the security posture. Cisco Hypershield, our cloud-native and AI-powered approach to highly distributed security for AI-scale data centers that is built into the fabric of the network, is the first service offering available embedded on these new switches. This helps to narrow the gap between security and networking layers by converging them into a single solution. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:8] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: Security Security is at the core of our business strategy, reflecting our commitment to addressing the evolving needs of organizations of every size across industries. Our security portfolio spans Network Security, Identity and Access Management, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), and Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Response (TIDR) solutions. We are dedicated to continuous innovation, with significant investments in cloud-based security, AI-driven threat detection, and end-to-end security architectures designed to help customers proactively safeguard their most critical assets. In the third quarter of fiscal 2024, we acquired Splunk, a recognized leader in security analytics and observability. The Splunk platform and security offerings significantly strengthen our TIDR capabilities. We have been integrating Cisco Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 3 Splunk Enterprise Security, to create a unified and highly effective solution to help prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated cyber threats. We are also accelerating the expansion of our SASE architecture, delivering a seamless combination of network and security functionality through a single, cloud-native platform. Our security offerings also include Cisco Hypershield, our cloud-native, AI-powered approach to highly distributed security for AI-scale data centers that is built into the fabric of the network. Our security strategy positions us well to capture growing market demand for comprehensive, scalable, and integrated security solutions. Collaboration Our Collaboration portfolio consists of our Webex suite, collaboration devices, Contact Center and Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) offerings. These offerings consist of software, including perpetual licenses and subscription arrangements, as well as hardware. Our objective is to create more inclusive and engaging employee and customer experiences by providing technology that enables distributed teams to collaborate effortlessly. We offer end-to-end collaboration solutions that can be delivered on-premises, from the cloud, or within hybrid cloud environments. AI and machine learning capabilities are embedded across the Webex portfolio to help improve productivity. Our CPaaS is a cloud communications platform that integrates communication channels and existing back-end business systems to help enable the orchestration and automation of all customer and employee interactions. Observability Observability consists of our network assurance, monitoring and analytics and observability suite offerings. These offerings are designed to bring together and provide end-to-end visibility of our customers' owned and unowned environments—including applications, networks, multi-cloud infrastructures and the Internet. With AI-driven insights at their core, our observability solutions help organizations see, understand and improve every digital experience, and help to ensure seamless connectivity and proactive issue resolution across complex, modern environments. ThousandEyes, our network assurance offering, deliver deep visibility and intelligence across network organizations, spanning both their internal infrastructure and external dependencies. Our Observability Suite—including Splunk Observability and AppDynamics—provides full-stack insights from infrastructure to application performance to digital experience, helping teams take decisive action to maintain service health and performance. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:4] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: Cybersecurity With the rapid growth in AI, modern applications, hyper-distributed architecture and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, customers see cybersecurity as a top priority. Our differentiated security strategy is based on three pillars: moving from point solutions to a platform comprehensively integrated with the infrastructure; infusing security into the fabric of the network; and harnessing the depth and breadth of telemetry data from Cisco and with our acquisition of Splunk Inc. (“Splunk”) to prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated attacks. AI and Data AI represents a generational shift in technology and the advent of AI agents is driving an order of magnitude higher requirement for network connectivity. We provide network infrastructure to power AI training and inference workloads for both webscale providers and enterprises. We help to scale our customers’ network infrastructure with high-density routers and switches, improved network management, and high-performance optics. We are reinventing data center operations for our customers by simplifying the configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of fabrics, compute, networking and storage. We can help give customers visibility across the network, security solutions, applications and their own business data. With this breadth and scale of data, we can help deliver differentiated insights and context to customers, leading them to more informed proactive decisions and better business results. These three customer priorities drive our innovation and technology, making them our priorities as well. To help deliver on them, we are bringing together the power of our portfolio, which we refer to as One Cisco, which provides three key outcomes to our customers: i) AI-ready data centers, ii) future-proofed workplaces, and iii) digital resilience. AI-Ready Data Centers We are transforming data centers to power AI workloads anywhere. Whether customers need to modernize parts of their existing infrastructure or power new, massive AI workloads, Cisco brings together a wide array of infrastructure (across networking, compute, storage, and silicon) with unified management across traditional and AI workloads, and security from on-premise to cloud to power AI-ready data centers. Future-Proofed Workplaces Cisco helps deliver "future-proofed" workplaces, modernizing how people and technology work and serve their customers. This includes environments ranging from factory floors with plant workers and robots to hospitals with healthcare workers, as well as to social workers and salespeople on the move. For secure campus and branch networking, we offer a flexible range of solutions that help ensure secure, reliable connections for users and devices. Our smart building technology turns network devices into sensors for enhanced intelligence and control of physical spaces. To support productivity, we provide collaboration devices and software to enable collaboration no matter where people work. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:12] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: Competition We compete in the networking and communications equipment markets, providing products and services designed to transport, and help secure data, voice, and video traffic across cloud, private and public networks and the Internet. We compete with numerous vendors in each product category. The overall number of our competitors providing niche product solutions may increase. Also, the identity and composition of competitors may change as we increase our activity in newer product areas, and in key priority areas. As we continue to expand globally, we may see new competition in different geographic regions. In particular, we have experienced price-focused competition from competitors in Asia, especially from China, and we anticipate this will continue. Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; New Relic, Inc.; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others. Some of our competitors compete across many of our product lines, while others are primarily focused in a specific product area. Barriers to entry are relatively low, and new ventures to create products that do or could compete with our products are regularly formed. In addition, some of our competitors may have greater resources, including technical and engineering resources, than we do. As we expand into new markets, we will face competition not only from our existing competitors but also from other competitors, including existing companies with strong technological, marketing, and sales positions in those markets. We also sometimes face competition from resellers and distributors of our products. Companies with which we have strategic alliances in some areas may be competitors in other areas, and this trend may increase. For example, the enterprise data center is undergoing a fundamental transformation arising from the convergence of technologies, including computing, networking, storage, and software, that previously were segregated. Additionally, companies that are strategic alliance partners in some areas of our business may acquire or form alliances with our competitors, thereby reducing their business with us. The principal competitive factors in the markets in which we presently compete and may compete in the future include the ability to sell successful business outcomes; the ability to provide a broad range of networking and communications products and services; product performance; price; the ability to introduce new products, including providing continuous new customer value and products with price-performance advantages; the ability to reduce production costs; the ability to provide value-added features such as security, reliability, and investment protection; conformance to standards; market presence; the ability to provide financing; and disruptive technology shifts and new business models. We also face competition from customers to which we license or supply technology and suppliers from which we transfer technology. The inherent nature of networking requires interoperability. As such, we must cooperate and, at the same time, compete with many companies. Any inability to effectively manage these complicated relationships with customers, suppliers, and strategic alliance partners could materially harm our business, operating results, and financial condition and accordingly affect our chances of success. 6 </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:28] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Risk Factors Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: The markets in which we compete are characterized by rapid change, converging technologies, and a migration to networking and communications solutions that offer relative advantages. These market factors represent a competitive threat to us. We compete with numerous vendors in each product category. The overall number of our competitors providing niche product solutions may increase. Also, the identity and composition of competitors may change as we increase our activity in newer product areas, and in key priority areas. For example, as products related to network programmability, such as software defined networking (SDN) products, have become more prevalent, we have faced increased competition from companies that develop networking products based on commoditized hardware, referred to as “white box” hardware, to the extent customers decide to purchase those product offerings instead of ours. In addition, the growth in demand for technology delivered as a service enables new competitors to enter the market. As we continue to expand globally, we may see new competition in different geographic regions. In particular, we have experienced price-focused competition from competitors in Asia, especially from China, and we anticipate this will continue. For information regarding our competitors, see the section entitled “Competition” contained in “Item 1. Business” of this report. Some of our competitors compete across many of our product lines, while others are primarily focused in a specific product area. Barriers to entry are relatively low, and new ventures to create products that do or could compete with our products are regularly formed. In addition, some of our competitors may have greater resources, including technical and engineering resources, than we do. As we expand into new markets, we will face competition not only from our existing competitors but also from other competitors, including existing companies with strong technological, marketing, and sales positions in those markets. We also sometimes face competition from resellers and distributors of our products. Companies with which we have strategic alliances in some areas may be competitors in other areas, and this trend may increase. For example, the enterprise data center is undergoing a fundamental transformation arising from the convergence of technologies, including computing, networking, storage, and software, that previously were segregated. Due to several factors, including the availability of highly scalable and general purpose microprocessors, application specific integrated circuits offering advanced services, standards based protocols, cloud computing and virtualization, the convergence of technologies within the enterprise data center is spanning multiple, previously independent, technology segments. Also, some of our current and potential competitors for enterprise data center business have made acquisitions, or announced new strategic alliances, designed to position them to provide end-to-end technology solutions for the enterprise data center. As a result of all of these developments, we face greater 15 competition in the development and sale of enterprise data center technologies, including competition from entities that are among our long-term strategic alliance partners. Companies that are strategic alliance partners in some areas of our business may acquire or form alliances with our competitors, thereby reducing their business with us. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:7] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: The Internet Infrastructure portion of this portfolio includes AI Infrastructure solutions for service provider customers, including our webscale customers. We are focused on transforming connectivity to the Internet and the cloud environment by efficiently meeting the growing demand for low-latency and higher speeds. Our routed optical networking systems and our pluggable optic solutions allow us to transform the economics of building and operating networks for our service provider customers. Our Cisco 8000 series routers, which are based on Cisco Silicon One, provide broad capacity in high-density designs, allowing our customers to reduce operational footprints, lower carbon emissions, and transition to more efficient network architectures. We also have enterprise routing solutions which interconnect public and private wireline and mobile networks, delivering highly secure and reliable connectivity to campus, data center and branch networks. These offerings are designed to meet the scale, reliability, and security needs of customers of any size. Our wireless solutions deliver robust indoor and outdoor coverage, supporting seamless roaming for voice, video, and data applications. With a product portfolio that includes both on-premises and cloud-managed wireless access points and controllers, we provide customers with a powerful and intuitive converged access solution when paired with our switching portfolio. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:3] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: Business General Cisco designs and sells a broad range of technologies that help to power, secure, and draw insights from the Internet. We are incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into our product portfolios across networking, security, collaboration and observability as well as integrating our products more tightly together. We are simplifying how our technology is delivered, managed and optimized and helping customers maximize the business value of their technology investments. We conduct our business globally and manage our business by geography. Our business is organized into the following three geographic segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC). Our products and technologies are grouped into the following categories: Networking, Security, Collaboration and Observability. In addition to our product offerings, we provide a broad range of services over the lifecycle of our products, including technical support services and advanced services. Our customers include businesses of all sizes, public institutions, governments, and service providers, including large webscale providers. These customers often look to us as a strategic partner to help them use information technology (IT) to differentiate themselves and drive positive business outcomes. We were incorporated in California in 1984 and reincorporated in Delaware in 2021. Our headquarters are in San Jose, California. The mailing address of our headquarters is 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, California 95134-1706, and our telephone number at that location is (408) 526-4000. Our website is www.cisco.com. Through a link on the Investor Relations section of our website, we make available the following filings as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at sec.gov: our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. All such filings are available free of charge. The information published on our website, or any other website referenced herein, is not incorporated into this report. Strategy and Priorities In today's digital-first world, businesses and organizations globally are deploying technology to pursue their strategic objectives, from accelerating growth to enhancing operational efficiency and fostering innovation. Our strategy is to securely connect everything to make those desired outcomes possible. Our customers have three key priorities in this dynamic environment: i) to build modern infrastructure; ii) to protect against the cyber threats of today and tomorrow; and iii) to harness the power of AI and data. Cisco is at the forefront of this evolution, developing innovative solutions that leverage advanced AI to deliver more valuable outcomes for our customers. Modern Infrastructure In an increasingly digital and connected world, where each new connection to the Internet puts more demand on the network, our customers are investing in resilient, adaptable infrastructure to quickly respond to market changes and the demands of their own customers. Now more than ever it is crucial for businesses to remain competitive while managing resource constraints. Our customers continue to focus on modernizing their infrastructure with a focus on speed, agility, productivity, innovation and energy efficiency. 1 </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [86:5] Ticker: CSCO Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Section: Business Doc Type: 10-K Period: FY 2025 Highlighted Text: Digital Resilience We help to keep the data center, workplace, and entire IT environment securely up and running in the face of any disruption. Our network assurance capabilities, powered by ThousandEyes, are integrated throughout our portfolio. This technology helps ensure seamless connectivity and optimal digital experiences across cloud, Internet, and enterprise networks, for the delivery of applications and services. Our observability solution monitors the entire enterprise to help prevent downtime and improve experiences across networks, infrastructures, and applications. Additionally, Cisco provides robust security measures for threat prevention, detection, investigation, and response for organizations of any size and security maturity. Cisco enables enterprises and service providers to deliver highly secure connectivity from workplaces to data centers worldwide. Our strength lies in our ability to deliver unified architecture with integrated, end-to-end solutions to help simplify complex challenges. These capabilities are accelerated with Cisco AI, enhancing outcomes for customers globally. For a discussion of the risks associated with our Strategy and Priorities, see “Item 1A. Risk Factors,” including the risk factor entitled “We depend upon the development of new products and services, and enhancements to existing products and services, and if we fail to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and customers’ changing needs, our operating results and market share may suffer.” For information regarding sales of our major products and services, see Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. 2 Products and Services Our products and services are grouped into the following categories: </chunk> - Todo write
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[Total chunks returned: 8] <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [146:11] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-08-27 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2026 Highlighted Text: **Jensen Huang** (Founder, President, CEO & Director, NVIDIA): We now offer three networking technologies. One is for scale up, one is for scale out, and one for scale across. Scale up is so that we could build the largest possible virtual GPU, the virtual compute node. NVLink is revolutionary. NVLink 72 is what made it possible for Blackwell to deliver such an extraordinary generational jump over Hopper's NVLink eight. At a time when when we have long thinking thinking models, agentic AI reasoning systems, the NVLink basically amplifies the, memory bandwidth, which is really critical for, for reasoning systems. And so NVLink 72 is fantastic. We then scale out with networking, which we have two. We have InfiniBand, which is unquestionably the lowest latency, the lowest jitter, the best scale out network. It does require more expertise in managing those networks. And, for supercomputing, for the leading model makers, InfiniBand quantum InfiniBand is the unambiguous choice. If you were to benchmark an AI factory, the ones with InfiniBand are the best performance. For those who would like to use Ethernet because their their whole data center is built with Ethernet, we have a new type of Ethernet called Spectrum Ethernet. Spectrum Ethernet is not off the shelf. It has a whole bunch of new technologies designed for low latency and low jitter and congestion control, and and it has the ability, to, come closer, much, much closer, to InfiniBand than anything that's out there. And that's we call that Spectrum x Ethernet. And then finally, we have Spectrum xGS, a gigascale for connecting multiple data centers, multiple AI factories into a super factory, a gigantic system. And we're gonna you're gonna see that networking obviously is very important in AI factories. In fact, choosing the right networking, the performance, the throughput improvement going from, you know, 65% to 85% or 90%, that kind of that kind of step up because of their your networking capability effectively makes networking free. You know? Choosing the right networking, you're basically paying you know, you're, you'll get a return on it like you can't believe because the AI factory, a gigawatt, as I mentioned before, could be $50,000,000,000. And so the ability to improve the efficiency of that factory by tens of percent is results in $1,020,000,000,000 dollars worth of effective benefit. And so, you know, this the the networking is a very important part of it. It's the reason why NVIDIA dedicates so much in networking. It's the reason why we purchased Mellanox five and a half years ago. And Spectrum X, as we mentioned earlier, is now quite a quite a sizable business, and it's only about a year and a half old. So x Spectrum X is a home run. All all three of them are gonna be fantastic. NVLink, scale up Spectrum X and InfiniBand, scale out, and then Spectrum XGS for scale across. **Operator**: Your next question comes from Stacy Raskin with Bernstein Research. Your line is open. **Stacy Rasgon** (MD & Senior Analyst, AB Bernstein): Hi, guys. Thanks for taking my question. I have a more tactical question for Colette. So on the guide, you're up over $7,000,000,000 The vast bulk of that is going to be from data center. How do I think about apportioning that $7,000,000,000 out across Blackwell versus Hopper versus networking? I mean it looks like Blackwell was probably $27,000,000,000 in the quarter, up from maybe 23,000,000,000 last quarter. Hopper is still 6,000,000,000 or $7,000,000,000 post the H20. Like do you think the Hopper strength continues? Just how do I think about parsing that $7,000,000,000 out across all the the three those three different components? </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [146:3] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-08-27 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2026 Highlighted Text: **Colette Kress** (EVP & CFO, NVIDIA): Nearly 90 companies, including many global leaders, are already adopting RTX Pro servers. Hitachi uses them for real time simulation and digital twins, Lilly for drug discovery, Hyundai for factory design and AV validation, and Disney for immersive storytelling. As enterprises modernize data centers, RTX Pro servers are poised to become a multibillion dollar product line. Sovereign AI is one on the rise as the nation's ability to develop its own AI using domestic infrastructure data and talent presents a significant opportunity for NVIDIA. NVIDIA is at the forefront of landmark initiatives across The UK and Europe. The European Union plans to invest €20,000,000,000 to establish 20 AI factories across France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, including five gigafactories to increase its AI compute infrastructure by tenfold. In The UK, the is Umbard AI supercomputer powered by NVIDIA was unveiled at the country's most powerful AI system, delivering 21 exaflots of AI performance to accelerate breakthroughs in fields of drug discovery and climate modeling. We are on track to achieve over 20,000,000,000 in sovereign AI revenue this year, more than double than that of last year. Networking delivered record revenue of 7,300,000,000.0, and escalating demands of AI compute clusters necessitate high efficiency and low latency networking. This represents a 46% sequential and 98% year on year increase with strong demand across Spectrum X Ethernet, InfiniBand, and NVLink. Our Spectrum X enhanced Ethernet solutions provide the highest throughput and lowest latency network for Ethernet AI workloads. Spectrum X Ethernet delivered double digit sequential and year over year growth with annualized revenue exceeding 10,000,000,000. At Hotchips, we introduced Spectrum XGS Ethernet, a technology designed to unify disparate data centers into gigascale AI super factories. Corweave is an initial adopter of the solution, which is project projected to double GPU to GPU communication speed. InfiniBand revenue nearly doubled sequentially, fueled by the adoption of XDR technology, which provides double the bandwidth improvement over its predecessor, especially valuable for the model builders. The world's fastest switch, NVLink, with 14 x the bandwidth of PCIe Gen five delivered strong growth as customers deployed Brace Blackwell NVLink Rack Scale systems. The positive reception to NVLink Fusion, which allows semi custom AI infrastructure, has been widespread. Japan's upcoming Fugaku Next will integrate Fujitsu's CPUs with our architecture via NVLink Fusion. It will run a range of workloads, including AI, supercomputing, and quantum computing. Fugaku next joins a rapidly expanding list of leading quantum supercomputing and research centers running on NVIDIA's CUDA Q quantum platform, including ULEC, AIST, NNF, and NERSC, supported by over 300 ecosystem partners, including AWS, Google Quantum AI, Quantinuum, QEra, and SciQuantum. Just in THOR, our new robotics computing platform is now available. THOR delivers an order of magnitude greater AI performance and energy efficiency than NVIDIA AGX Orin. It runs the latest generative and reasoning AI models at the edge in real time, enabling state of the art robotics. Adoption of NVIDIA's robotics full stack platform is growing at rapid rate. Over 2,000,000 developers and 1,000 plus hardware software applications and sensor partners taking our platform to market. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [146:10] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-08-27 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q2 2026 Highlighted Text: **Jensen Huang** (Founder, President, CEO & Director, NVIDIA): The China market, I've estimated to be about $50,000,000,000 of opportunity for us this year. If we were able to address it with competitive products and and if it's $50,000,000,000 this year, you would expect it to grow, say, 50% per year as as the rest of the world's AI AI market is growing as well. It is the second largest computing market in the world, and it is also the home of AI researchers. About 50% of the world's AI researchers are in China. The vast majority of the leading open source models are created in China, and so it's fairly important, I think, for the American technology companies to be able to address that market. And open source, as you know, is created in one country, but it's used all over the world. The open source models that have come out of China are really excellent. DeepSeek, of course, gained global notoriety. Q1 is excellent. Kimi is excellent. There's a there's a whole bunch of new models that are coming out. They're multimodal. They're link great language models, and it and it's it's really fueled the adoption of AI in enterprises around the world because enterprises wanna build their own custom proprietary software software stacks. And so open open source model is really important for enterprise. It's really important for SaaS who also would like to build proprietary systems. It has been really incredible for robotics around the world. And so open source is really important, and it's important that the American companies are able to address it. This is it's gonna be a very large market. We're talking to we're talking to, the administration about the importance of American companies to be able to address, the Chinese market. And, as you know, h 20 has been approved, for companies that are not on the entities list, and many licenses have been approved. And, so I think the, you know, the the opportunity for us to bring Blackwell to the China market is a real possibility. And so we just have to keep advocating the the sensibility of and the importance of American tech companies to be able to to lead and win the AI race and help make the American tech stack the global standard. **Operator**: Your next question comes from the line of Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo. Your line is open. **Aaron Rakers** (Managing Director & Technology Analyst, Wells Fargo): Yeah. Thank you for the question. I want to go back to the Spectrum XGS announcement this week. And thinking about the Ethernet product now pushing over $10,000,000,000 of annualized revenue, just what is the opportunity set that you see for Spectrum XGS? So do we think about this as kind of the the data center interconnect layer? Any thoughts on the sizing of this opportunity, you know, within that Ethernet portfolio? Thank you. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [149:14] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-05-28 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q1 2026 Highlighted Text: **Jensen Huang** (Founder, President and CEO, NVIDIA): Yeah. Thank you for that. We now have three networking platforms, maybe maybe four. The the first one the first one is the scale up platform to turn a computer into a much larger computer. Scaling up is incredibly hard to do. Scaling out is easier to do, but scaling up is hard to do. And that platform is called NVLink. And NVLink is is comes with it chips and switches and, you know, NVLink spines, and it's really complicated. But, anyways, that's our new platform, scale up platform. In addition to InfiniBand, we also have SpectrumX. We've been fairly fairly consistent that Ethernet was designed for a lot of traffic that are independent. But in the case of AI, you have a lot of computers working together, and the the traffic of AI is insanely bursty. Latency matters a lot because the the AI is thinking, and it wants to get work done as quickly as possible. And you got a whole bunch of nodes working together. And so we enhanced a we enhanced Ethernet, added capabilities like extremely low latency, congestion control, adaptive routing, the type of technologies that were available only in InfiniBand to Ethernet. And as a result, we improved the utilization of Ethernet in these clusters. These clusters are gigantic from as low as 50% to as high as 85%, ninety %. And and so the difference is if you had a cluster that's $10,000,000,000 and you improved its effectiveness by 40%, that's worth $4,000,000,000. It's incredible. And so Spectrum X has been really, quite frankly, a home run. And and this this last quarter, as as we said in the in the prepared remarks, we added two very significant CSPs to the Spectrum x adoption. And and then the last one the last one is BlueField, which is our control plane. And so in those four those the control plane of network, which is used for storage, is used for security, and for many of these clusters that want to achieve isolation among its users, multitenant clusters, and and still be able to use and and have extremely high performance bare metal performance, BlueField is ideal for that and is used in a lot of the a lot of these cases. And so we have these four four networking platforms. They're all growing, and and we're we're we're we're doing really well. I'm very proud of the team. **Toshiya Hari** (VP of Investor Relations & Strategic Finance, NVIDIA): Jensen, over to you. **Operator**: That is all the time we have for questions. Jensen, I will turn the call back to you. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [144:53] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-08-27 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q2 2026 Highlighted Text: Operating Income by Reportable Segments ```csv ,Three Months Ended,Three Months Ended,Three Months Ended,Three Months Ended,Six Months Ended,Six Months Ended,Six Months Ended,Six Months Ended ,"Jul 27, 2025","Jul 28, 2024",$ Change,% Change,"Jul 27, 2025","Jul 28, 2024",$ Change,% Change ,($ in millions),($ in millions),($ in millions),($ in millions),($ in millions),($ in millions),($ in millions),($ in millions) Compute & Networking,"$ 28,363","$ 18,848","$ 9,515",50 %,"$ 50,417","$ 35,896","$ 14,521",40 % Graphics,"2,242","1,369",873,64 %,"$ 3,882","2,609","1,273",49 % Total,"$ 30,605","$ 20,217","$ 10,388",51 %,"$ 54,299","$ 38,505","$ 15,794",41 % ``` Compute & Networking revenue – The year over year increase in the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2026 was driven by demand for our accelerated computing platform used for large language models, recommendation engines, and generative and agentic AI applications. Revenue from Data Center computing grew 62% year-on-year compared to the first half of fiscal year 2025, driven by demand for our Blackwell computing platform. Revenue from Data Center networking grew 79% year-on-year compared to the first half of fiscal year 2025 driven by the growth of NVLink compute fabric for GB200 and GB300 systems, the ramp of XDR InfiniBand products, and adoption of Ethernet for AI solutions at cloud service providers and consumer internet companies. Graphics revenue – The year over year increase in the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2026 was driven by sales of our Blackwell architecture. Reportable segment operating income – The year over year increase in Compute & Networking segment operating income in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 was driven by the growth in revenue. The year over year increase in Compute & Networking segment operating income in the first half of fiscal year 2026 was driven by the growth in revenue, partially offset by a $4.5 billion charge associated with H20 excess inventory and purchase obligations in the first quarter of fiscal year 2026. The year over year increase in Graphics segment operating income in the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2026 was driven by the growth in revenue. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [144:51] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-08-27 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q2 2026 Highlighted Text: Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2026 Summary ```csv ,Three Months Ended,Three Months Ended,Three Months Ended,Quarter-over-Quarter Change,Quarter-over-Quarter Change,Year-over-Year Change,Year-over-Year Change ,"Jul 27, 2025","Apr 27, 2025","Jul 28, 2024",,,, ,"($ in millions, except per share data)","($ in millions, except per share data)","($ in millions, except per share data)",,,, Revenue,"$ 46,743","$ 44,062","$ 30,040",6,%,56,% Gross margin,72.4 %,60.5 %,75.1 %,11.9,pts,(2.7),pts Operating expenses,"$ 5,413","$ 5,030","$ 3,932",8,%,38,% Operating income,"$ 28,440","$ 21,638","$ 18,642",31,%,53,% Net income,"$ 26,422","$ 18,775","$ 16,599",41,%,59,% Net income per diluted share,$ 1.08,$ 0.76,$ 0.67,42,%,61,% ``` We benefited from a $180 million release of previously reserved H20 inventory related to the sale of approximately $650 million of H20 to an unrestricted customer outside of China. There were no H20 sales to China-based customers in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026. Revenue was $46.7 billion, up 56% from a year ago and up 6% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $41.1 billion, up 56% from a year ago and up 5% sequentially. The strong year-on-year and sequential growth was driven by demand for our accelerated computing platform used for large language models, recommendation engines, and generative and agentic AI applications. We continue to ramp our Blackwell architecture, which grew 17% sequentially, including our newest architecture, Blackwell Ultra. We recognized Blackwell revenue across 25 all customer categories, led by large cloud service providers, which represented approximately 50% of Data Center revenue. Data Center compute revenue was $33.8 billion, up 50% from a year ago. Sequentially, compute revenue declined 1%, driven by a $4.0 billion reduction in H20 sales. Networking revenue was $7.3 billion, up 98% from a year ago and up 46% sequentially, driven by the growth of NVLink compute fabric for GB200 and GB300 systems, the ramp of XDR InfiniBand products, and adoption of Ethernet for AI solutions at cloud service providers and consumer internet companies. Gaming revenue was up 49% from a year ago and up 14% sequentially, with strong sales and increased supply of our Blackwell product. Professional Visualization revenue was up 32% from a year ago and up 18% sequentially, driven by the acceleration of Blackwell sales in our Notebook products, addressing AI workflows, real-time graphics rendering and data simulation. Automotive revenue was up 69% from a year ago and up 3% sequentially, driven by strong adoption of our self-driving platforms. Gross margin decreased from a year ago as our Blackwell revenue consists primarily of full-scale datacenter systems compared to Hopper HGX systems last year. Gross margin increased sequentially as the prior quarter included a $4.5 billion charge associated with H20 excess inventory and purchase obligations. Operating expenses were up 38% from a year ago and up 8% sequentially. The increases were primarily driven by compute and infrastructure costs and higher compensation and benefits due to compensation increases and employee growth. Financial Information by Business Segment and Geographic Data Refer to Note 13 of the Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for disclosure regarding segment information. Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates Refer to Part II, Item 7, "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates" of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 26, 2025. There have been no material changes to our Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [149:3] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-05-28 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q1 2026 Highlighted Text: **Colette Kress** (EVP & CFO, NVIDIA): With NEMO, Cisco increased model accuracy by 40% and improved response time by 10 x in its code assistant. NASDAQ realized a 30% improvement in accuracy and response time in its AI platform's search capabilities. And Shell's custom LLM achieved a 30% increase in accuracy when trained with NVIDIA NEMO. NEMO's parallelism techniques accelerated model training time by 20% when compared to other frameworks. We also announced a partnership with Yum Brands, the world's largest restaurant company, to bring NVIDIA AI to 500 of its restaurants this year and expanding to 61,000 restaurants over time to streamline order taking, optimize operations, and enhance service across its restaurants. For AI powered cybersecurity, leading companies like Checkpoint, Cloudstrike, and Palo Alto Networks are using NVIDIA's AI security and software stack to build, optimize, and secure agentic workflows with Cloudstrike realizing two x faster detection triage with 50% less compute cost. Moving to networking. Sequential growth in networking resumed in q one with revenue up 64% quarter over quarter to 5,000,000,000. Our customers continue to leverage our platform to efficiently scale up and scale out AI factory workloads. We created the world's fastest switch, NVLink. For scale up, our NVLink compute fabric in its fifth generation offers 14 x the bandwidth of PCIe Gen five. NVLink 72 carries 130 terabytes per second of bandwidth in a single rack, equivalent to the entirety of the world's peak Internet traffic. NVLink is a new growth vector and is off to a great start with q one shipments exceeding a billion dollars. At Computex, we announced NVLink Fusion. Hyperscale customers can now build semi custom CCUs and accelerators that connect directly to the NVIDIA platform with NVLink. We are now enabling key partners, including ASIC providers such as MediaTek, Marvell, Alchip Technologies, and Astero Labs, as well as CPU suppliers such as Fuzitsu and Qualcomm to leverage NVLink Fusion to connect our respective ecosystems. For scale out, our enhanced Ethernet offerings deliver the highest throughput, low latency networking for AI. Spectrum X posted strong sequential and year on year growth and is now annualizing over 8,000,000,000 in revenue. Adoption is widespread across major CSPs and consumer Internet companies, including CoreWi, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and xAI. This quarter, we added Google Cloud and Meta to the growing list of Spectrum X customers. We introduced Spectrum X and Quantum X silicon photonics switches featuring the world's most advanced co package optics. These platforms will enable next level AI factory scaling to millions of GPUs through the increasingly power efficiency by 3.5 x and network resiliency by 10 x while accelerating customer time to market by 1.3 x. Transitioning to a quick summary of our revenue by geography. China as a percentage of our data center revenue was slightly below our expectations and down sequentially due to h '20 export licensing controls. For q two, we expect a meaningful decrease in China data center revenue. As a reminder, while Singapore represented nearly 20 of our q one build revenue as many of our large customers use Singapore for centralized invoicing, our products are almost always shipped elsewhere. Note that over 99% of h one hundred, h two hundred, and Blackwell data center compute revenue billed to Singapore was for orders from US based customers. Moving to gaming and AI PCs. Gaming revenue was a record 3,800,000,000.0, increasing 48% sequentially and 42% year on year. Strong adoption by gamers, creatives, and AI enthusiasts have made Blackwell our fastest ramp ever. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [149:12] Ticker: NVDA Publication Date: 2025-05-28 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q1 2026 Highlighted Text: **Jensen Huang** (Founder, President and CEO, NVIDIA): Thanks. Thanks, Ben. I would say compared to the beginning of the year, compared to GTC time frame, there are four positive surprises. The first positive surprise is the step function demand increase of reasoning AI. I think it is fairly clear now that AI is going through an exponential growth, and reasoning AI really busted through. Concerns about about hallucination or its ability to to really solve problems. And I think I think a lot of people are are crossing that barrier and realizing how incredible incredibly effective agentic AI is and reasoning AI is. So number one is inference reasoning, alright, and, the the exponential growth there, demand growth. The second one, you you mentioned AI diffusion. It it's really terrific to see, that the AI diffusion rule was rescinded. President Trump wants America to win, and and, he also realizes that that, we're not the only, country in the race, and, he wants he wants, United States to win and recognizes that we have to get the American stack out to the world and have the world build on top of American stacks, instead of alternatives. And so, AI diffusion, hap happened. The res the rescinding of it happened at almost precisely the time that the countries around the world are awakening the importance of AI as an infrastructure, not just as a technology of great curiosity, and great importance, but infrastructure for their industries and startups and society. Just as they had to build out infrastructure for electricity and Internet, you gotta build out infrastructure for AI. I think that that's an awakening, and that creates a lot of opportunity. The third is enterprise AI. Agents work, and agents are doing these agents are really quite successful. Much more than generative AI, agentic AI is game changing. You they you know, agents can understand ambiguous and rather rather implicit instructions and able to problem solve and use tools and have memory and and so on. And and so I think this is enterprise AI is ready ready to take off, and and it's taken us a few years to build a computing system that that is able to integrate, run run enterprise AI stacks, run enterprise IT stacks, but add AI to it. And this is the, RTX Pro enterprise server that we announced at Computex, just last week. And just about every major IT company has joined us, and I'm super excited about that. And so computing is one stat one part of it. But remember, enterprise IT is really three three pillars. It's compute, storage, and networking, and we've now put all three of them together for finally, and we're going to market with that. And then lastly, industrial AI. Remember, one of the implications of of the the the world reordering, if you will, is is, regions onshoring manufacturing and building plants everywhere. In addition to AI factories, of course, there there are new electronics manufacturing, chip manufacturing, being built around the world. And all of these new plants and these new factories are creating exactly the right time when when Omniverse and AI and all the work that we're doing we're doing with robotics is is emerging. And so so this this fourth pillar is is quite important. Every factory will have an AI factory associated with it. And and in order to create these physical AI systems, you really have to train a a vast amount of data. So so back to more data, more training, more AIs to be created, more computers. And so, these four these four drivers are are really kicking into turbocharge. **Operator**: Your next question comes from Timothy Arcuri with UBS. Your line is open. </chunk> - Todo write
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[Total chunks returned: 8] <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [215:1] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: **Antonio Neri** (President & CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company): Thank you, Paul. Good afternoon, everyone. In Q3, we delivered solid results and completed a major milestone closing our acquisition of Juniper Networks. Together with Juniper, we will accelerate our momentum across our three strategic business pillars, networking, cloud and AI, building a stronger, leaner and more profitable HPE. In Q3, HPE achieved record breaking revenue with and without Juniper. Revenue was $9,100,000,000 up 18% year over year, fueled by strong momentum across AI, networking and hybrid cloud. We grew revenues year over year across our three largest business segments. Demand was broad based across our products and services. We increased sequential operating profit dollars in server, hybrid cloud and both Intelligent Edge and the new combined networking segment. We also grew operating profit dollars in financial services on a year over year basis. The new combined networking segment accounted for nearly 50% of HPE's non GAAP consolidated operating profit. We also improved sequential operating profit margins in server and hybrid cloud. Our improved profitability flow through to non GAAP diluted net earnings per share of $0.44 Free cash flow was $790,000,000 as we significantly lowered our inventory driven by higher AI backlog conversion to revenue and strong supply chain execution. We continue to transform our business through Catalyst, the structural cost saving program we announced last quarter, including enhancing operational efficiency, simplifying our portfolio, adopting AI and optimizing our workforce. In Q3 customers continue to demonstrate strong demand for our AI portfolio. We nearly doubled our AI orders sequentially driven by sovereign opportunities up approximately 250%. Cumulative orders since Q1 twenty twenty three for sovereign and enterprise now account for more than 50% of total AI systems net orders. We exited the quarter with a record AI backlog at $3,700,000,000 Marie will provide more details on the quarter and our Q4 fiscal year twenty twenty five guide. But first, I would like to provide key Q3 highlights across our business segments. I am incredibly pleased that we closed the Juniper acquisition in July. Integration is progressing well. I have been spending time with Rami and the new combined networking leadership team, which is world class. Going forward, we will refer to the combination of our HPE Intelligent Edge segment and Juniper as our new HPE networking segment. Our vision for this segment is clear, to build the best network in business, providing customers with a modern secure and AI driven networking portfolio. Rami and I will discuss our networking strategy in more detail at our upcoming Securities Analyst Meeting in October. On the demand front, the networking market recovery continues. In enterprise, we continue to see robust demand in campus and branch, driven by the wire and wireless refresh, SASE and data center switching. Wi Fi seven demand is ramping with orders up triple digits sequentially. In cloud, we see strong demand for networking for AI, particularly in data center switching and Juniper PTX routing. Revenue of $1,700,000,000 increased 54% year over year, driven by strong performances in both Intelligent Edge and Juniper. Intelligent Edge revenue increased 11% year over year and 8% quarter over quarter. We generated double digit year over year revenue growth in Campus and Branch, data center switching, Automated WAN and services. We also grew SASE and security revenue. These strong results contributed to sustained momentum in networking SaaS and support services. Operating profit for the networking segment was $360,000,000 up 43% year over year, benefiting from one month of Juniper results and operating profit dollars expansion in Intelligent Edge. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [215:11] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: **Antonio Neri** (President & CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company): The integration of their software with our GreenLake plus the integrated infrastructure with our HP ProLiant and Cray for the GPUs and then our Alletra MP storage or fast object and file plus all the services around it to lifecycle manage that solution. So I think at the portfolio level, we can service every segment and find the right balance. But I think networking us make us now stronger in the AI space because one of the key elements of that IT stack is the network at scale. Juniper brings amazing technology both for the data center switching and the routing piece, because once you integrate this in a large AI deployment, you need to core aggregate all of these through the leaf and spine into the data center footprint and that requires also a routing product. So more to come at SAM. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [215:10] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: **Antonio Neri** (President & CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company): Thank you, Wamsi. So first, we are incredibly pleased we closed the transaction of Juniper. I think it was close at the right time because obviously market recovery is taking place, but also we see demand across multiple sub segment of the networking market. And as we commented during my remarks and Marie's remark, every sub segment on networking had a very strong performance, whether it was HP Intelligent Edge standalone or Juniper standalone and obviously on a combined basis, it's even very, very strong. But if you look at Compass and Branch, both companies are doing very well. Both company growing double digits, so that's very strong. In data center switching and we talked about this during the July 9 call, Juniper had that record breaking performance in data center switches and also a very good performance in routing, which we call it the automated one. Security was also up in the single digits year over year revenue growth driven by SASE. And then the progress we have made is that is very strong, meaning integration is progressing really well. We have a series of milestones, which we call it the employee day one, which is on boarding the employees into our systems. That's a combination of benefits and other things that have to take place. And then we have the harmonization of the sales force, which we call it sales day one and that takes place at the end of this calendar year. And we already are incentivizing both sales forces to sell both products. And I can tell you the channel community is super excited to be able to sell both products because of the combination of both products allows them to cover every vertical, every use case in every geography. And the fact of the matter is that the complementary to portfolio allows us to drive strong security integration in our stack in addition to the integration with the rest of the portfolio with server and storage. So we will be able to talk more about this once we have the Securities Analyst Meeting. Rami will take center stage and walk through the strategy, early views of the proverb roadmap, how we are driving the Salesforce integration, including our channel ecosystem. And we believe that's going to be an opportunity as we enter '6 and then obviously 2027, 2028. Your question about AI, as I think about the AI space, I always ground myself on three very distinct customer segments. In the service provider segment and model builders, our strategy is to lead with networking for AI. The opportunity is significant. Juniper is getting traction. It's becoming the de facto standard in many of those customers and the opportunity with HP is to expand that footprint. And then we will sell the server products in that unique segment where it makes sense from an accretion from a margin perspective and working capital perspective. If you go to the sovereign space, which we saw this quarter 200 plus percent growth on a year over year basis and that sovereign also includes Neo Clouds. We will lead with an integrated rack scale architecture, meaning networking plus the server business and all the services that comes with it. And that will allow us to cover multiple type of offerings as customers in that segment may have the need to drive optionality and flexibility. And we have unique conversations with our partners. And then in the enterprise space through the AI factory engagement with our private cloud AI portfolio, which this quarter added 300 plus new logos double from last quarter. We will lead with a full integrated stack and that's what we did with NVIDIA. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [215:3] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-03 Doc Type: earnings-call-transcript Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: **Antonio Neri** (President & CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company): We have now shipped more than 5,000 Alletra MP arrays to date. We continue to successfully migrate our customer installed base while gaining new customer logos resulting in a one point share gain in the most recently released IDC market share report. In private cloud, we continue to ramp sales of our enterprise AI factory solutions. During Q3, we added twice the number of new private cloud AI customers compared to Q2 with particular interest in our developer configuration. Software is a core differentiator for our GreenLake cloud and for our private cloud portfolio, which is a key contributor to our AIR growth. In June, we announced our new HPE hybrid cloud ops suite software bringing together Morpheus, VM Essentials, OpsRamp and Zerto to assist customers from hybrid cloud orchestration, virtualization and observability to continuous data protection. Our cloud software revenue in the quarter increased strong double digits year over year. At Discover Las Vegas, we unveiled GreenLake Intelligence, our framework for deploying AI agents across cloud and infrastructure to simplify customers' hybrid IT operations. We also expanded our agentic AI capabilities in OpsRamp, networking and storage. Innovations like these continue to attract new customers to our GreenLake cloud. In Q3, we added approximately 2,000 new customers bringing our GreenLake cloud customer count to approximately 44,000. In closing, as we look ahead, I am excited for HPE's next chapter. The completion of our Juniper acquisition position us to win in networking as the market enters a new era of IT and business transformation where AI, cloud and networking converge. We launched a new brand for HPE to reflect this potential. The brand is modern, expresses what our technology and talent make possible and reinforces our relevance with our customers. Our vision for the company is clear, to lead in the AI era through a modern secure cloud native and AI driven networking portfolio that accelerates our profitable growth. We are focused on executing with precision to capitalize on the growing opportunities in the market to deliver strong value to our customers and our shareholders. I look forward to providing more details about our strategy and our long term value creation framework at our Securities Analyst Meeting on October 15 at the New York Stock Exchange. I would like now to turn it over to Marie to provide more insights into our quarterly results and full fiscal year guide. Marie? </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [216:244] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-04 Section: Financial Statements Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: Note 2: Segment Information Hewlett Packard Enterprise's operations are organized into five segments for financial reporting purposes: Server, Hybrid Cloud, Networking, Financial Services (“FS”), and Corporate Investments and Other. During the third quarter of fiscal 2025, the Intelligent Edge segment was renamed to Networking. The segment name change did not result in any change to the composition of the Company’s segments and therefore no prior information was recast; further, the designation change did not impact the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. The results of operations of Juniper Networks are included in the Networking segment commencing on July 2, 2025. See Note 8, “Acquisitions and Dispositions” to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's organizational structure is based on a number of factors that the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), who is the Chief Executive Officer, uses to evaluate, view and run the Company's business operations, which include, but are not limited to, customer base and homogeneity of products and technology. The five segments are based on this organizational structure and information reviewed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise's management to evaluate segment results. A summary of the types of products and services within each segment is as follows: Server consists of general-purpose servers for multi-workload computing and workload-optimized servers to deliver the best performance and value for demanding applications, and integrated systems comprised of software and hardware designed to address High-Performance Computing and Supercomputing (including exascale applications), Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), Data Analytics, and Transaction Processing workloads for government and commercial customers globally. This portfolio of products includes the secure and versatile HPE ProLiant Rack and Tower servers; HPE Synergy, a composable infrastructure for traditional and cloud-native applications; HPE Scale Up Servers product lines for critical applications, including large enterprise software applications and data analytics platforms; HPE Edgeline servers; HPE Cray EX; HPE Cray XD (formerly known as HPE Apollo); and HPE NonStop. The Server segment’s offerings also include operational and support services sold with systems and as standalone services. Hybrid Cloud offers a wide variety of cloud-native and hybrid solutions across storage, private cloud and the infrastructure software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) space. Storage includes data storage and data management offerings with the HPE Alletra Storage portfolio; unstructured data solutions and analytics for AI; data protection and archiving; and storage networking. It also includes AIOps-driven intelligence with HPE InfoSight and HPE CloudPhysics. In private cloud, the HPE GreenLake offerings include new cloud-native offerings and capabilities for virtual machines, containers, and bare metal; a full suite of private cloud offerings that enable customers to self-manage or choose a fully managed experience; and a portfolio of world-class Private Cloud AI infrastructure delivered as-a-service (“aaS”). This segment also provides self-service private cloud on-demand with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition, which includes an integrated VM Essentials virtualization software. Infrastructure software includes monitoring and observability for day two operations and beyond through the Company’s acquisition of OpsRamp and unified data access through HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric and analytics suite, which helps move and transform data for use in AI and other applications. The Hybrid Cloud segment also includes data lifecycle management and protection through its suite of offerings, including Zerto Disaster Recovery. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [216:245] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-04 Section: Financial Statements Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: Networking develops and sells high-performance network and security products and services that empower customers of all sizes to build scalable, reliable, secure, agile, and efficient automated networks. Our platforms are purpose-built using AI to deliver secure and sustainable user experiences from the edge to the data center and cloud. Our solutions include hardware products such as Wi-Fi and private cellular access points; QFX, EX, and CX switches; MX and PTX routers; and gateways. Additionally, HPE provides software products, such as Mist and Aruba Central for cloud-based and on-premise management, network access control, software-defined wide area networking, network security, analytics and assurance, and private cellular core software. The Company also offers professional and support services and education and training programs, as well as aaS and flexible consumption models through the HPE GreenLake platform. Financial Services provides flexible investment solutions, such as leasing, financing, IT consumption, utility programs, and asset management services for customers that facilitate unique technology deployment models and the acquisition of complete IT solutions, including hardware, software, and services from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others. The FS segment also supports financial solutions for on-premise flexible consumption models, such as the HPE GreenLake cloud. 15 </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [216:280] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-04 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: Technological Advancements: We have observed market trends and demand (of customers of various segments and sizes) gravitating towards artificial intelligence (“AI”), hybrid cloud, edge computing, data security capabilities, and related offerings. The volume of data at the edge continues to grow, driven by the proliferation of more devices. The need for a unified cloud experience everywhere has grown, as well, in order to manage the growth of data at the edge. Increasing demand for AI is also contributing to changes in the competitive landscape. With the abundance of data, there are opportunities to develop AI tools with powerful computational abilities to extract insights and value from the captured data. Secure networking that is purpose-built for AI workloads is the foundation that enables users to seamlessly connect and apply AI learnings to such data that lives in various ecosystems. While we believe our recent acquisition of Juniper Networks, Inc. positions us to capitalize on the growing market opportunities across AI-accelerated computing, data, and networking, our major competitors and emerging competitors are expanding their product and service offerings with integrated products and solutions and exerting increased competitive pressure. We expect these market dynamics and trends to continue in the longer term. Macroeconomic Uncertainty: The evolving macroeconomic environment has impacted industry-wide demand, as, until recently, customers took longer to work through prior orders and, to this day, have been adopting a more strategic approach to discretionary IT spending. While this dynamic has been easing, this has resulted in uneven demand across our portfolio and geographies, particularly for certain of our hardware offerings, as customers have focused investments on modernizing infrastructure, such as migrating to cloud-based offerings, including our own. Additionally, there continues to be significant uncertainty surrounding the tariff environment and import/export regulations due to numerous factors, including but not limited to tariff imposition delays, changes to tariff rates and policies, and enactment of reciprocally restrictive trade policies and measures. These have enhanced global trade uncertainty and contributed to higher prices of components and end products and services. While we have relied on our global supply chain and pricing measures in an attempt to mitigate adverse impacts, we expect such a mixed macroeconomic environment to largely continue and possibly limit revenue and margin growth in the near term. Supply Chain: We experienced supply chain constraints for certain components, including graphics processing units, (“GPUs”) and accelerated processing units. Though they have since eased, in part due to increased availability of supply and lower material and logistics costs, the future remains uncertain due to continuous shifts in U.S. trade policy, which has thus far impacted our ability to import and export components and finished products and the costs of doing so. Additionally, logistics costs may rise with the aforementioned changes in trade policies. We have been experiencing higher-than-normal inventory levels, primarily due to frequent component part updates, customers transitioning to the next generation of GPUs, our securing supply ahead of demand, and longer customer acceptance timelines on AI-related orders. While we have been working to reduce inventory, any or all of the aforementioned factors could contribute to sustained higher-than-normal levels and further uncertainty. We have experienced, and expect to continue experiencing, rising input component costs due to the global trade uncertainties referenced above and a competitive pricing environment, all of which may impact our financial results. We plan to mitigate the impact of these dynamics through continued disciplined cost and pricing management and supply chain diversification. </chunk> <chunk> [Document ID: Index]: [216:292] Ticker: HPE Publication Date: 2025-09-04 Section: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Doc Type: 10-Q Period: Q3 2025 Highlighted Text: Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Continued) portfolio, as we transition to a more software-defined platform with HPE Alletra. Nine months ended July 31, 2025 compared with nine months ended July 31, 2024 Hybrid Cloud segment net revenue increased by $462 million, or 11.9%, (increased 12.2% on a constant currency basis) primarily due to an increase in unit volume, partially offset by a decrease in AUPs. Hybrid Cloud product revenue increased by $221 million, or 10.6%, primarily due to a unit volume increase of $392 million, or 18.8%, led by private cloud and storage products. This increase was partially offset by a decrease in AUPs of $157 million, or 7.5%, led by private cloud products. Hybrid Cloud services revenue increased by $241 million, or 13.5%, primarily driven by higher services contribution from private cloud solutions. Hybrid Cloud segment earnings from operations as a percentage of net revenue increased 2.7 percentage points, due to a decrease in operating expenses as a percentage of net revenue, primarily driven by capitalization of software costs and cost containment measures. Cost of products and services as a percentage of net revenue increased due to a higher contribution from our products portfolio, as we transition to a more software-defined platform with HPE Alletra. 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Product revenue increased by $396 million, or 48.2%, primarily led by revenue attributable to Juniper Networks of $303 million, or 36.9%, higher volume and product mix effect of $58 million, or 7.0%, and higher AUPs of $34 million, or 4.1%. Services net revenue increased $213 million, or 71.2%, primarily led by revenue attributable to Juniper Networks of $177 million, or 59.2%, and increased services net revenue primarily from our aaS offerings of $36 million, or 12.0%. Networking segment earnings from operations as a percentage of net revenue decreased 1.6 percentage points primarily due to an increase in cost of products and services as a percentage of net revenue, partially offset by a decrease in operating expenses as a percentage of net revenue. The increase in cost of product and services as a percentage of net revenue was primarily due to competitive pricing pressure. The decrease in operating expenses as a percentage of net revenue was primarily due to the scale of the net revenue increase, partially offset by higher operating expenses associated with Juniper Networks. </chunk> - Todo write
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https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-q2-2025-networking-is-booming-but-your-networks-cost-nothing/
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Based on my comprehensive analysis, I've identified the key competitors in data center and AI networking and evaluated their positioning. Here's my detailed competitive assessment:
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS: ARISTA NETWORKS & DATA CENTER NETWORKING LANDSCAPE
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: COMPETITIVE RANKING
By market cap (sorted):
- NVIDIA ($4.6T) - Positioned to dominate AI networking with Spectrum-X, leveraging GPU ecosystem control and emerging as the integrated AI infrastructure provider
- Cisco Systems ($278B) - Defending legacy position with massive scale and enterprise relationships, but facing margin pressure and slower AI adaptation
- Arista Networks ($198B) - Best positioned pure-play winner with superior AI networking execution, highest margins, and strongest momentum in cloud titan accounts
- HPE ($34B) - Positioned as challenger through Juniper acquisition, but faces integration risks and profitability headwinds despite networking revenue doubling
Winner: ARISTA NETWORKS - Combines best-in-class technology (Etherlink AI portfolio), exceptional profitability (65% gross margins, 41% net margins), strongest customer relationships with cloud titans driving $1.5B+ AI revenue in 2025, and pure-play focus enabling faster innovation than diversified competitors** [1596532_0001596532-25-000028_anet-20241231.htm:100]****[2,1596532_0001596532-25-000216_anet-20250630.htm:19]**.
2. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Revenue Growth & Scale (Q3 2024 - Q2 2025)
| Company | Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | YoY Growth | Market Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANET | $1.81B | $1.93B | $2.00B | $2.20B | 30% | $197.8B* |
| CSCO | $14.15B | $14.67B | $13.84B | $13.99B | (3%) | $278.0B* |
| NVDA | $35.08B | $39.33B | $44.06B | $46.74B | 56% | $4,604.3B* |
| HPE | $7.67B | $8.28B | $7.44B | $8.94B | 18% | $34.4B* |
*Current market cap as of October 8, 2025
Profitability Metrics (Q2 2025 / Latest Quarter)
| Metric | ANET | CSCO | NVDA | HPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Margin | 65.2% | 63.2% | 72.4% | 29.8%* |
| Operating Margin | 44.7%* | 21.3%* | 60.8%* | 5.5%* |
| Net Margin | 40.3%* | 17.4%* | 56.5%* | 3.3%* |
| FCF (Q2) | $1.09B* | $2.99B* | $6.66B* | $0.16B* |
*Values retrieved from SPGI Capital IQ
Key Insights:
- ANET delivers best-in-class margins for pure networking players, demonstrating pricing power and operational excellence
- NVDA achieves highest absolute margins but faces dilution as Blackwell systems include more infrastructure
- CSCO shows solid but declining margins amid competitive pressure and portfolio mix shift
- HPE struggles with profitability due to hardware-heavy mix and Juniper integration costs
3. VALUATION ANALYSIS
Forward Estimates & Multiples
| Company | FY 2025/26 Revenue Est. | FY 2025/26 EPS Est. | LT Growth Rate | Current P/E | Forward P/E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANET | $8.81B* | $2.81* | 21.8%* | 56x | 56x |
| CSCO | $59.66B* | $4.04* | 6.2%* | 17x | 17x |
| NVDA | $206.46B* | $4.50* | 35.8%* | 42x | 42x |
| HPE | $34.52B* | $1.90* | 8.3%* | 14x | 14x |
*Values retrieved from SPGI Capital IQ
Valuation Assessment:
- ANET: Trading at 2.6x PEG ratio (P/E to Growth), premium justified by 25% revenue growth guidance raise to $8.75B for 2025, $1.5B AI revenue target, and 65% gross margins
- NVDA: 1.2x PEG - most attractive valuation relative to 35%+ growth, but networking is only 16% of revenue ($7.3B in Q2)
- CSCO: 2.7x PEG - expensive relative to single-digit growth, facing headwinds despite AI positioning
- HPE: 1.7x PEG - reflects integration uncertainty and lower margin profile post-Juniper close
4. OPERATIONAL EXECUTION & KPIs
ARISTA NETWORKS
Strengths:
- AI Revenue Momentum: $750M back-end AI networking target on track, aggregate AI revenue exceeding $1.5B in 2025 with 25-30 enterprise/neocloud customers beyond 4 cloud titans
- Product Portfolio: 20+ Etherlink switches spanning 800G architecture including 7800R4 AI Spine, 7060 AI Leaf, and 7700R4 Distributed Etherlink Switch
- Customer Concentration: Microsoft 20% and Meta 15% of 2024 revenue, but diversifying** [1596532_0001596532-25-000028_anet-20241231.htm:100]**
- Segment Mix: 65% Core (data center/cloud/AI), 18% Cognitive Adjacencies (campus/routing), 17% Software/Services** [1596532_ANET_3416602_1]**
- Software Milestone: Exceeded $1B in software/subscription revenue for first time in 2024
Weaknesses:
- High customer concentration risk with top 2 customers at 35% of revenue
- Supply bottlenecks for advanced 800G products creating inventory pressure
CISCO SYSTEMS
Strengths:
- New P200 Silicon One chip delivering 51.2T routing for distributed AI data centers, already adopted by Microsoft and Alibaba
- Nexus 9300 with embedded DPUs and Hypershield for AI-scale data centers
- Partnership with NVIDIA for AI POD and Secure AI Factory solutions
Weaknesses:
- Overall revenue declining YoY, down 3% despite AI initiatives
- Operating expenses up 22% in FY2025 while revenue flat
- Intense competition from Arista in data center switching
NVIDIA
Strengths:
- Networking Revenue Surge: $7.3B in Q2 2026, up 98% YoY and 46% sequentially** [1045810_0001045810-25-000209_nvda-20250727.htm:27]**
- Spectrum-X Success: Annualized revenue exceeding $10B, less than 2 years after launch
- Product Innovation: Spectrum-XGS for giga-scale distributed data centers, NVLink 72 delivering 130TB/s** [1045810_1961169_3]**
- InfiniBand: Revenue nearly doubled sequentially with XDR adoption
Weaknesses:
- Networking still only 16% of data center revenue, not core competency
- Facing pushback on proprietary NVLink vs. open Ethernet standards
- Customers may resist bundling given Nvidia's GPU dominance
HPE
Strengths:
- Juniper Acquisition Closed: Networking revenue $1.73B in Q3 2025, up 54% YoY after adding Juniper** [1645590_0001645590-25-000101_hpe-20250731.htm:63]**
- Product Breadth: Combined portfolio spans campus, branch, data center switching, routing, SASE, and AI networking
- AI Orders: Nearly doubled sequentially, with sovereign opportunities up 250%
Weaknesses:
- Integration complexity with competing platforms (Aruba vs. Juniper)
- Operating margins compressed to 20.8% in networking (from 22.4%) due to competitive pricing
- Lost enterprise WLAN business to satisfy DOJ, licensing Mist AI source code to competitors
5. STRATEGIC POSITIONING & COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
ARISTA NETWORKS: The Pure-Play AI Networking Leader
Competitive Moat:
- Technology Leadership: EOS single binary architecture enables rapid feature deployment across 100M+ installed ports without forklift upgrades** [1596532_0001596532-25-000028_anet-20241231.htm:11]**
- AI Specialization: Purpose-built Etherlink portfolio with lossless Ethernet, deep packet buffers, and AI Analyzer optimizes GPU utilization** [1596532_2056396_1]**
- Customer Intimacy: Co-developed solutions with top 4 AI cloud titans, participating in architecture decisions from day one** [1596532_2056396_14]**
- Merchant Silicon Strategy: Broadcom partnership enables best price/performance and rapid 800G/1.6T adoption
Strategic Initiatives:
- VeloCloud SD-WAN acquisition filling campus/branch void to complete portfolio
- AI AVA (Arista Autonomous Virtual Assist) for AI-driven network operations
- Network Data Lake (NetDL) consolidating telemetry for ML/AI analytics
Long-term Outlook: Best positioned to capture $1.5B+ annual AI networking TAM through 2026, with $10B revenue target by 2026 representing 20%+ CAGR** [1596532_2056396_11]**.
CISCO: The Scaled Incumbent Under Pressure
Competitive Position:
- Largest networking vendor with entrenched enterprise relationships and 65% gross margins
- Splunk acquisition ($28B) strengthens observability and security integration
- Silicon One architecture providing consistency across routing/switching
Strategic Challenges:
- Transitioning from CapEx hardware to subscription software model causing revenue headwinds
- White box competition and SDN adoption eroding switching market share
- AI networking revenue unclear - no specific disclosure like Arista's $1.5B target
Outlook: Faces margin compression and market share losses in data center, but massive installed base and enterprise incumbency provide stability. 6% LT growth reflects mature market position.
NVIDIA: The Disruptive Wildcard
Unique Advantages:
- GPU ecosystem lock-in creates natural networking attachment (~$7B at $10B+ annualized run rate)
- Spectrum-X differentiation through co-optimization with GPUs and ConnectX SuperNICs
- Technology credibility from Mellanox acquisition and InfiniBand heritage
Strategic Risks:
- Customer resistance to single-vendor dependency (GPU + networking + NVLink)
- Traditional networking vendors (CSCO, ANET) can match Ethernet performance
- Networking economics less attractive than 70%+ gross margin GPU business
Outlook: Will capture share in AI-specific deployments where GPU+network co-design matters, but unlikely to displace incumbents in general-purpose data center networking. Spectrum-X growth already embedded in extraordinary stock valuation.
HPE: The Challenged Integrator
Post-Juniper Strategy:
- Leading with networking for AI in service provider/model builder segment
- Integrated rack-scale architecture (networking + server + storage) for sovereign/enterprise AI
- Rami Rahim (ex-Juniper CEO) leading combined networking under HPE brand
Integration Headwinds:
- Operating margin dilution to 20.8% from competitive pricing pressure
- Portfolio complexity with overlapping Aruba and Juniper platforms
- Lost key WLAN assets to DOJ settlement, weakening enterprise campus position
- Q2 2025 loss of -$1.05B highlights profitability challenges
Outlook: Doubling networking revenue to ~$7B provides scale, but 8% LT growth and 5-6% operating margins lag pure-play networking peers. Success depends on cross-selling servers/storage and winning sovereign AI deals where full-stack matters.
CONCLUSION: ARISTA NETWORKS IS BEST POSITIONED TO WIN
Why Arista Emerges as the Winner:
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Superior Financial Profile: 65% gross margins and 41% net margins demonstrate unmatched pricing power and operational efficiency, generating $1.1B quarterly FCF on $2.2B revenue** [1596532_0001596532-25-000216_anet-20250630.htm:24]**
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Arista Networks Competitive Analysis: Data Center Networking Landscape
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Competitive Ranking
Based on comprehensive analysis of financial performance, strategic positioning, and market momentum, here's the competitive ranking from strongest to weakest:
1. NVIDIA ($4.6T market cap) - Dominant AI infrastructure platform with vertically integrated GPU-to-network solutions driving exponential growth and unmatched profitability.
2. Arista Networks ($197.8B market cap) - Pure-play AI/cloud networking leader with superior profitability, focused execution, and fastest growth trajectory in data center Ethernet.
3. Cisco Systems ($278.0B market cap) - Industry incumbent with scale advantages and diversified portfolio, but facing margin pressure and slower AI networking adoption.
4. HPE ($34.4B market cap) - Emerging networking player post-Juniper acquisition with integrated stack potential, but integration risks and lower margins limit near-term competitiveness.
2. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE COMPARISON
Revenue Growth & Scale (Last 4 Quarters)
| Company | Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | YoY Growth (Latest Q) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANET | $1.81B | $1.93B | $2.00B | $2.20B | +30% |
| CSCO | $14.15B | $14.67B | N/A (FY25) | N/A (FY25) | -6% YoY* |
| NVDA | $35.08B | $39.33B | $44.06B | $46.74B | +56% |
| HPE | $8.28B | $8.94B | $7.67B | $7.44B | +54% (incl. Juniper)** |
*Values retrieved from SPGI
**HPE Q3 2025 includes one month of Juniper contribution
Profitability Metrics
Gross Margins:
| Company | Q2 2025 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| ANET | 65.2% | ↑ Expanding |
| CSCO | 63.2%* | → Stable |
| NVDA | 72.4% | ↑ Strong |
| HPE | 29.8%* | ↓ Diluted by hardware mix |
Operating Margins:
| Company | Q2 2025 | Profitability |
|---|---|---|
| ANET | 44.7%* | Industry-leading |
| CSCO | 21.3%* | Moderate |
| NVDA | 60.8%* | Exceptional |
| HPE | 5.5%* | Challenged |
*Values retrieved from SPGI
Cash Generation (Q2 2025):
- ANET: $1.2B operating cash flow , 54% of revenue
- CSCO: $4.2B operating cash flow , 29% of revenue
- NVDA: $15.4B operating cash flow , 33% of revenue
- HPE: $1.3B operating cash flow , 15% of revenue
Key Insights:
- ANET demonstrates best-in-class profitability at 44.7% EBIT margins, nearly 2x Cisco's 21.3%
- NVDA's 60.8% EBIT margins reflect vertical integration advantages
- HPE faces significant margin pressure post-Juniper integration
- ANET's cash conversion (54% of revenue) signals capital-light, high-quality earnings
3. VALUATION ANALYSIS
Forward Estimates & Valuation
| Metric | ANET | CSCO | NVDA | HPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY+1 Revenue Est. | $8.81B* | $59.66B* | $206.46B* | $34.52B* |
| FY+2 Revenue Est. | $10.65B* | $62.39B* | $275.14B* | $40.29B* |
| FY+1 EPS Est. | $2.81* | $4.04* | $4.50* | $1.90* |
| FY+2 EPS Est. | $3.28* | $4.36* | $6.37* | $2.42* |
| LT EPS Growth | 21.8%* | 6.2%* | 35.8%* | 8.3%* |
| Current Price | $157.36 | $70.33 | $189.11 | $26.08 |
| Implied FY+1 P/E | 56.0x | 17.4x | 42.0x | 13.7x |
*Values retrieved from SPGI
Price-to-Growth (PEG) Analysis:
- ANET: 56.0 / 21.8 = 2.57x PEG
- NVDA: 42.0 / 35.8 = 1.17x PEG (most attractive on growth-adjusted basis)
- CSCO: 17.4 / 6.2 = 2.81x PEG
- HPE: 13.7 / 8.3 = 1.65x PEG
Key Insights:
- ANET trades at premium valuation (56x forward P/E) but justified by 21.8% growth and market leadership
- NVDA offers best risk-adjusted valuation despite AI dominance (1.17x PEG)
- CSCO appears cheap at 17.4x P/E but reflects structural growth challenges
- HPE valuation assumes successful Juniper integration (high execution risk)
4. OPERATIONAL EXECUTION & KPIs
Arista Networks - Pure-Play Leader
AI Revenue Leadership:
- 2025 AI networking revenue target: >$1.5B , up from near-zero in 2022
- Back-end AI Ethernet: $750M target achieved, all incremental revenue
- AI customers: 4 major cloud titans + 25-30 enterprise/neocloud customers
- Etherlink portfolio: 20+ products, most comprehensive in industry
Customer Concentration:
- Microsoft: 20% of 2024 revenue
- Meta: 15% of 2024 revenue
- Cloud & AI Titans: ~48% of revenue
- Enterprise: ~35%, rapidly diversifying
Operational Excellence:
- Net Promoter Score: 87 (93% customer satisfaction)
- CloudVision customers: >350 added in 2024 (1 per day)
- Subscription revenue: 17% of total, crossing $1B in 2024
Cisco Systems - Scale with Challenges
AI Networking Strategy:
- New Silicon One P200 chip: 51.2 Tbps capacity for data center interconnect
- Cisco 8223 routing system: industry's most optimized for AI workloads across data centers
- Partnership with NVIDIA: AI POD solutions gaining traction
- Data center switching orders: double-digit growth in Q3 2025
Challenges:
- Revenue decline: -6% YoY in recent quarters
- Competitive pressure in Ethernet switching from ANET
- Margin compression from discounting to compete
NVIDIA - Vertical Integration Advantage
Networking Revenue Explosion:
- Q2 2026 networking: $7.3B, up 98% YoY
- Spectrum-X Ethernet: >$10B annualized run rate
- InfiniBand: nearly doubled sequentially
- NVLink: >$1B in Q1 shipments, strong GB200 adoption
Strategic Positioning:
- Three networking platforms: NVLink (scale-up), InfiniBand/Spectrum-X (scale-out), Spectrum-XGS (scale-across)
- Spectrum-XGS: connects multiple data centers into "AI super-factories"
- Vertically integrated: GPUs + NICs + switches = superior customer lock-in
HPE - Integration Execution Phase
Post-Juniper Acquisition (Closed July 2, 2025):
- Networking revenue Q3 2025: $1.73B, up 54% YoY (one month of Juniper)
- Combined networking ~50% of HPE operating profit
- Integration progressing: sales force harmonization by end of 2025
- Wi-Fi 7: triple-digit sequential order growth
Strategic Challenges:
- DoJ required divestiture of Instant On WLAN business
- Platform integration: Aruba vs. Juniper operating systems
- Lower margins (5.5% EBIT) vs. pure-play competitors
5. STRATEGIC POSITIONING & COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
Arista Networks: Best-of-Breed AI Networking
Core Strengths:
- Software Differentiation: Single EOS binary across entire portfolio provides consistency and rapid feature deployment
- AI-First Architecture: Etherlink portfolio purpose-built for AI with lossless Ethernet, congestion control, adaptive routing
- Open Standards: Merchant silicon strategy (vs. proprietary) enables best price/performance and rapid time-to-market
- Customer Trust: Deepest relationships with Cloud & AI Titans driving 48% of revenue
Recent Momentum:
- Raised 2025 guidance to 25% growth ($8.75B revenue) from 17%
- VeloCloud SD-WAN acquisition expands enterprise footprint
- New President/COO Todd Nightingale (ex-Cisco/Meraki) strengthens campus strategy
Vulnerabilities:
- Customer concentration risk (top 2 customers = 35% of revenue)
- Enterprise market still underpenetrated vs. Cisco's installed base
- Potential commoditization as Ethernet standards evolve
Cisco Systems: Incumbent Fighting Back
Core Strengths:
- Installed Base: Dominant enterprise networking presence provides switching leverage
- Portfolio Breadth: Security (Splunk), collaboration (Webex), observability creates bundling opportunities
- Silicon Innovation: New P200 chip demonstrates R&D capability for AI data centers
Strategic Initiatives:
- Silicon One unification across data center, AI, service provider use cases
- Nexus N9300 with embedded DPUs for AI-scale security
- Partnership expansion with NVIDIA for validated AI infrastructure
Vulnerabilities:
- Revenue decline (-6% YoY) indicates market share loss
- Margin pressure from competition requires discounting
- Slower AI networking adoption vs. ANET/NVDA
- High operating expenses limit agility (21% EBIT margins vs. ANET's 45%)
NVIDIA: Ecosystem Dominance
Core Strengths:
- Vertical Integration: GPU + NIC + Switch creates unmatched performance and customer lock-in
- Technology Leadership: NVLink 72, Spectrum-X innovations set performance benchmarks
- Platform Economics: Networking now $10B+ business, complements $40B+ GPU revenue
Strategic Vision:
- Scale-across with Spectrum-XGS enables distributed AI training across geographies
- Partnerships with Cisco, Arista (Spectrum-X ecosystem) balance competition with collaboration
- 50% of data center revenue from cloud providers = aligned with AI infrastructure buyers
Vulnerabilities:
- Network share gains depend on GPU attachment (declining leverage as Ethernet commoditizes)
- Antitrust scrutiny of vertical integration
- Ethernet competitors (ANET, Broadcom) closing performance gap
HPE: Integration Risk, Long-Term Potential
Core Strengths:
- Complete Stack: Juniper acquisition provides silicon-to-services networking IP
- AI Infrastructure: Networking + compute + storage integration for private AI clouds
- Channel Scale: 200%+ sovereign AI order growth demonstrates government/enterprise traction
Integration Challenges:
- Sales force alignment ongoing (target: end of 2025)
- Platform consolidation: Aruba vs. Juniper technology roadmap decisions pending
- DoJ settlement requires Instant On divestiture, Mist AI licensing
Long-Term Potential:
- Combined HPE Aruba + Juniper doubles networking business to ~$7B+ run rate
- Private Cloud AI: 2x customer additions Q2 to Q3 2025
- Margin expansion opportunity as Juniper's higher-margin business integrates
WHO IS BEST POSITIONED TO WIN?
Winner: Arista Networks
Rationale:
Arista is best positioned to dominate AI data center networking specifically, the highest-growth segment:
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Purest AI Exposure: 100% focus on data center & AI vs. competitors' diversified portfolios ensures fastest innovation cycles
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Proven Execution: Already capturing $1.5B+ AI revenue in 2025 with 25% total growth while maintaining 44.7% EBIT margins
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Technology Leadership: 20+ Etherlink products, CloudVision platform, and single EOS software create defensible moat in AI-optimized networking
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Customer Validation: Cloud & AI Titans (Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI) standardizing on Arista for both front-end and back-end AI clusters
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Financial Strength: $1.2B quarterly operating cash flow funds R&D reinvestment without margin dilution
Key Risks to Monitor:
- Customer concentration (top 2 = 35% of revenue) creates quarterly volatility
- NVIDIA's vertical integration could disintermediate pure-play switch vendors
- Enterprise campus penetration (18% of revenue) requires sustained execution vs. Cisco's installed base
Strong Challenger: NVIDIA
NVIDIA wins on ecosystem control and absolute scale but faces different market dynamics as a platform vendor rather than networking specialist. Spectrum-X's $10B run rate proves networking is strategic, but GPU attachment is the primary driver. As Ethernet commoditizes, ANET's software differentiation becomes more valuable.
Turnaround Potential: HPE
HPE has the most upside optionality if Juniper integration succeeds, doubling networking revenue to $7B+ and providing complete AI infrastructure stack. However, 12-18 month integration timeline, margin dilution, and platform consolidation decisions create execution risk that keeps HPE ranked #4 near-term.
Structural Challenges: Cisco
Cisco's scale advantage (5x ANET's revenue) cannot overcome structural headwinds: declining revenue, margin compression, and slower AI adoption signal market share loss to ANET in high-growth data center segment. Enterprise installed base provides stability but limits growth to low-single-digits vs. ANET's 20%+.
Conclusion: Arista Networks combines superior profitability, fastest growth, and deepest AI customer relationships to lead the data center networking competitive landscape. While NVIDIA dominates the broader AI infrastructure market and HPE offers compelling long-term integration potential, Arista's focused execution and proven technology leadership position it as the winner in AI networking specifically.
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