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Cisco Systems Inc CSCO

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$112.20 +3.44 (3.16%)
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As of Delayed Price Post-Trading: $112.15 −0.04

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Cisco Remains a Networking Heavyweight With AI as a Meaningful Driver

William Kerwin

We view Cisco Systems as a dominant force in enterprise networking and expect it to retain strong positioning in legacy and future networks. Cisco holds high market shares across switching, routing, and wireless access, with strong complementary positions in security and collaboration. We believe Cisco’s portfolio is appropriately positioned to benefit from trends toward hybrid work and hybrid cloud environments. It offers the most comprehensive suite of capabilities across converging networking and security markets, and we deem its intertwined products as sticky and worthy of a wide economic moat.

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Bulls Say, Bears Say

Bulls

Cisco holds dominant market shares across many parts of networking, and leading shares in areas like switching software and software-defined wide-area networking, or SD-WAN, bode well for its position in the next era.

Bears

Cisco has historically generated low growth, and recently higher AI-driven growth could be finite.

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Trading Information

Previous Close Price
$108.76
Day Range
$109.00–112.23
52-Week Range
$66.81–130.37
Bid/Ask
$112.15 / $112.15
Shares Outstanding
3.94B
Market Cap
$442.36B
Volume/Avg
16M / 20M

Key Statistics

Price/Earnings (Normalized)
25.18
Price/Sales
6.85
Dividend Yield (Trailing)
1.53%
Dividend Yield (Forward)
1.54%
Dividend Payment Schedule
Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
Total Yield
3.20%

Company Profile

Cisco Systems is the largest provider of networking equipment in the world and one of the largest software companies in the world. Its largest businesses are selling networking hardware and software (where it has leading market shares) and cybersecurity software such as firewalls. It also has collaboration products, like its Webex suite, and observability tools. It primarily outsources its manufacturing to third parties and has a large sales and marketing staff-25,000 strong across 90 countries. Overall, Cisco employs 80,000 people and sells its products globally.
Sector
Technology
Industry
Communication Equipment
Stock Style Box
Large Value
Total Number of Employees
82,400
Website
https://www.cisco.com

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CSCO
PANW
ANET
Price/Earnings (Normalized)
 25.18103.4659.11
Price/Book Value
 8.5311.7517.43
Price/Sales
 6.8526.3724.75
Price/Cash Flow
 23.4076.1858.80
Price/Earnings
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Financial Strength

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CSCO
PANW
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Quick Ratio
 0.640.732.29
Current Ratio
 0.930.872.96
Interest Coverage
 11.30——
Quick Ratio
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Profitability

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PANW
ANET
Return on Assets (Normalized)
 13.87%8.79%22.23%
Return on Equity (Normalized)
 35.85%18.08%34.81%
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized)
 22.89%15.20%32.04%
Return on Assets
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