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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001596532-24-000402"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ANET"
cik: "0001596532"
company_name: "Arista Networks, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T09:51:47.069263+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Arista Networks files amendment to effect 4-for-1 stock split, effective Dec 3

## Summary
- Four-for-one forward stock split effective December 3, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. ET.
- Authorized common stock increased from 1 billion to 4 billion shares.
- Stock split does not change proportional ownership or par value of $0.0001.
- Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation filed with Delaware.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001596532-24-000402
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ANET
- cik: 0001596532
- company_name: Arista Networks, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596532/000159653224000402/0001596532-24-000402-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596532/000159653224000402/anet-20241203.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001596532-24-000402.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Arista Networks, Inc.: Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect a four-for-one forward stock split and increase authorized common stock from 1,000,000,000 to 4,000,000,000 shares (effective 2024-12-03).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-12-03
  source text: On December 3, 2024, the Company filed an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to effect the Stock Split and proportionately increase the number of shares of the Company’s authorized common stock from 1,000,000,000 to 4,000,000,000.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596532/000159653224000402/0001596532-24-000402-index.htm

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