Arista Networks, Inc. Q4 FY2022 Earnings Call

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Quarterly and Full-Year Performance

  • Q4 2022 revenue was $1.276B, up 54.7% year-over-year and above guidance of $1.175B–$1.2B.
  • Full-year 2022 revenue reached $4.38B, growing 48% year-over-year (far above the 30% guidance set in 2021).
  • Non-GAAP EPS for Q4 was $1.41, up 72% from the prior year; full-year non-GAAP EPS was $4.58, up 58% year-over-year.
  • Non-GAAP gross margin was 61% in Q4 (midpoint of guidance), pressured by supply chain overhead and cloud titan mix.
  • Operating income was $543M (42.6% margin), with net income of $445M (34.9% margin).

Revenue Mix and Customer Trends

  • Cloud titans contributed ~46% of total 2022 revenue, with triple-digit annual growth.
  • Enterprise and financials combined contributed ~32% of revenue.
  • Providers represented ~22% of revenue.
  • Meta (25.5%) and Microsoft (16%) were both >10% customers and are expected to remain so in 2023.
  • International revenue reached $300M in Q4 (23.7% of total), up from 17% in Q3.

Product and Technology Highlights

  • Core cloud and data center products represented ~68% of revenue.
  • Arista doubled its customer base for 400-gig solutions, from 300 customers in 2021 to over 600 in 2022.

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Operator: Welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2022 Arista Networks Financial Results Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded and will be available for replay from the Investor Relations section at the Arista website following this call. Ms. Liz Stine, Arista’s Director of Investor Relations, you may begin. Liz Stine: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining us. With me on today’s call are Jayshree Ullal, Arista Networks’ President and Chief Executive Officer and Ita Brennan, Arista’s Chief Financial Officer. This afternoon, Arista Networks issued a press release announcing the results for its fiscal fourth quarter ending December 31, 2022. If you would like a copy of this release, you can access it online at our website. During the course of this conference call, Arista Networks management will make forward-looking statements, including those relating to our financial outlook for the first quarter of the 2023 fiscal year, longer term financial outlook for 2023 and beyond, our total addressable market and strategy for addressing these market opportunities, supply chain constraints, component costs, manufacturing capacity, inventory purchases and inflationary pressures on our business, extended lead times, product innovation, and the benefits of acquisitions, which are subject to the risks and uncertainties that we discuss in detail in our documents filed with the SEC, specifically in our most r

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