Key Points
- EVP Thimaya Subaiya sold 1,745 shares on Dec. 12 at an average price of $79.46 for $138,657.70, and now owns 176,319 shares valued at about $14.01M, a 0.98% reduction in her stake.
- Cisco beat estimates with $1.00 EPS (vs. $0.98) and $14.88B revenue (up 7.5% YoY) for the quarter, and provided FY2026 guidance of $4.080–$4.140 EPS and Q2 guidance of $1.010–$1.030.
- The company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.41 (annualized $1.64, yield 2.1%; ex-dividend Jan. 2, payable Jan. 21), while analysts hold a consensus "Moderate Buy" rating with a $84.14 price target.
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO - Get Free Report) SVP Maria Victoria Wong sold 428 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, December 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $80.33, for a total transaction of $34,381.24. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 32,176 shares in the company, valued at $2,584,698.08. This trade represents a 1.31% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website.
Maria Victoria Wong also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Monday, November 24th, Maria Victoria Wong sold 9,801 shares of Cisco Systems stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $76.38, for a total transaction of $748,600.38.
Cisco Systems Price Performance
Cisco Systems stock opened at $77.80 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.83, a current ratio of 0.93 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46. Cisco Systems, Inc. has a 52-week low of $52.11 and a 52-week high of $80.82. The firm has a market cap of $307.40 billion, a PE ratio of 29.25, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.00 and a beta of 0.87. The company's 50 day moving average is $73.77 and its two-hundred day moving average is $69.69.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 12th. The network equipment provider reported $1.00 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.98 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $14.88 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $14.77 billion. Cisco Systems had a net margin of 18.38% and a return on equity of 27.29%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 7.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.91 earnings per share. Cisco Systems has set its FY 2026 guidance at 4.080-4.140 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 1.010-1.030 EPS. On average, research analysts expect that Cisco Systems, Inc. will post 3.04 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Cisco Systems Announces Dividend
The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 21st. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 2nd will be given a $0.41 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.1%. Cisco Systems's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 61.65%.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of brokerages have recently commented on CSCO. Rosenblatt Securities boosted their price objective on Cisco Systems from $87.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research report on Thursday, November 13th. HSBC lifted their price target on shares of Cisco Systems from $69.00 to $74.00 and gave the stock a "hold" rating in a research note on Friday, November 14th. Weiss Ratings reissued a "buy (b)" rating on shares of Cisco Systems in a research report on Thursday, October 30th. UBS Group raised their price objective on shares of Cisco Systems from $88.00 to $90.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, November 13th. Finally, Evercore ISI boosted their target price on shares of Cisco Systems from $74.00 to $80.00 and gave the stock an "in-line" rating in a research note on Thursday, November 13th. Seventeen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and nine have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $84.14.
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Institutional Trading of Cisco Systems
Several institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of CSCO. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Cisco Systems by 49.5% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 74,187 shares of the network equipment provider's stock valued at $4,392,000 after purchasing an additional 24,562 shares during the last quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC increased its position in Cisco Systems by 37.0% during the fourth quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC now owns 9,156 shares of the network equipment provider's stock worth $542,000 after buying an additional 2,474 shares during the period. Sit Investment Associates Inc. lifted its stake in Cisco Systems by 11.9% in the first quarter. Sit Investment Associates Inc. now owns 144,275 shares of the network equipment provider's stock valued at $8,903,000 after buying an additional 15,350 shares during the last quarter. Vestmark Advisory Solutions Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Cisco Systems by 107.3% in the first quarter. Vestmark Advisory Solutions Inc. now owns 113,193 shares of the network equipment provider's stock valued at $6,985,000 after acquiring an additional 58,598 shares during the period. Finally, Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Cisco Systems by 78.2% in the first quarter. Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC now owns 587,576 shares of the network equipment provider's stock valued at $36,259,000 after acquiring an additional 257,832 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 73.33% of the company's stock.
About Cisco Systems
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Cisco Systems, Inc designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company also offers switching portfolio encompasses campus switching as well as data center switching; enterprise routing portfolio interconnects public and private wireline and mobile networks, delivering highly secure, and reliable connectivity to campus, data center and branch networks; wireless products include wireless access points and controllers; and compute portfolio including the cisco unified computing system, hyperflex, and software management capabilities, which combine computing, networking, and storage infrastructure management and virtualization.
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