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Technology / Communication EquipmentUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

CSCO stock hub

CSCO trades against a final fair-value range of $50.52-$80.45, with the midpoint set by the accepted valuation synthesis rather than earlier draft model outputs.

Fair value midpoint
$65.4
$50.5 - $80.5
Upside to midpoint
-32.3%
Based on latest report
Confidence
87/100
Data quality and model convergence
Market cap
$381.4B
NASDAQ
Our take
Research highlights

What our analysis says

Pulled from the latest published report. The full reasoning lives under /analysis.

Biggest opportunity
Bull case
Fundamental models show a large disconnect versus implied market expectations.
Biggest risk
Cloud-Native Security Disruption
2-3 years
Recommended action
Sell
CSCO is rated Sell at $96.55 versus the reconciled fair value midpoint of $65.41, implying -32.25% upside/downside. Confidence is separately disclosed at 87/100.
Market data

Price

Recent price action with selectable time range.

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Forecast
Targets
Bull, base, and bear cases with expected-return framing.
Valuation
Models
Fair-value bridge, DCF, owner earnings, and peer multiples.
Sensitivity
Grid
Cost-of-equity and terminal-growth stress table.
Risks
Bear case
Kill scenarios, soft-pass flags, and downside catalysts.
Earnings
Decision tree
Next earnings setup and beat / inline / miss thresholds.
Position sizing
Checkpoints
Entry, exit, conviction, and quarterly monitoring rules.
Financials
History
Revenue, margins, cash flow, and balance-sheet context.
Peers
Comps
Relative valuation and profitability against the cohort.
Moat
Durability
Economic-profit evidence and competitive advantage risk.
Industry cycle
Context
Sector phase, capital cycle, and secular tailwinds.
Scorecard
Factors
Six-factor overlay and 9-category weighted scorecard.
Recommendation
Verdict
Final action, action steps, opportunity, and biggest risk.
Perspectives
Lenses
Growth, value, and income investor reads.
Archive
History
Prior monthly reports and rating changes.
Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E21.4
P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a
Trailing P/E0
P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a
ROE23.8
P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a
ROIC18.8
P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a
Benchmarks - 1M
S&P 500n/a
Nasdaq Compositen/a
Dow Jones Industrial Averagen/a
Russell 2000n/a
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Indicator catalog

All CSCO market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields
286
Groups with data
11
Currency
USD
Showing 286 of 286 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

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MetricValue
Cik
0000858877
Company name
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Country
United States
Country code
US
Cusip
17275R102
Employees
86,200
Employees Change
-4,200%
Employees Change Percent
-4.65
Enterprise value
$397.4B
Exchange
NASDAQ
Financial currency
USD
First seen
2026-05-09
In Index
SP500, NASDAQ100, DOW30
Industry
Communication Equipment
IPO Date
1990-02-16
Isin
US17275R1023
Last refreshed
2026-05-10
Market cap
$381.4B
Market cap category
Mega-Cap
Price
$96.57
Price currency
USD
Rev Per Employee
685,081.21x
Sector
Technology
Sic
3576
Symbol
CSCO
Website
https://www.cisco.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

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MetricValue
Earnings Yield
2.9%
EV Earnings
35.88x
EV Sales Forward
6.15x
EV/EBIT
29.02x
EV/EBITDA
24.39x
EV/FCF
32.47x
EV/Sales
6.73x
FCF yield
3.21%
Forward P/E
22.54x
P/B ratio
7.99x
P/E ratio
34.74x
P/S ratio
6.46x
PE Ratio10 Y
69.8x
PE Ratio3 Y
21.13x
PE Ratio5 Y
20.2x
PEG ratio
3.12x
PS Forward
5.91x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

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MetricValue
EBIT Margin
23.19%
EBITDA Margin
27.59%
FCF margin
20.73%
Gross margin
64.81%
Gross Profit
$38.3B
Gross Profit Growth
8.47%
Gross Profit Growth Q
9.45%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y
5.15%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y
4.43%
Net Income
$11.1B
Net Income Growth
20.56%
Net Income Growth Q
30.77%
Net Income Growth Quarters
4%
Net Income Growth Years
0%
Net Income Growth3 Y
-0.67%
Net Income Growth5 Y
1.8%
Pretax Margin
21.98%
Profit Margin
18.76%
Profit Per Employee
$128,492
Profitable Years
24
ROA
6.99
Roa5y
8.32
ROCE
15.82
ROE
23.75
Roe5y
26.18
ROIC
18.78
Roic5y
33.5

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

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MetricValue
Cagr10y
17.29%
Cagr15y
15.35%
Cagr1y
65.9%
Cagr20y
10.14%
Cagr3y
31.39%
Cagr5y
15.84%
Div CAGR10
6.37%
Div CAGR3
2.55%
Div CAGR5
2.62%
EPS Growth
22.12
EPS Growth Q
31.17
EPS Growth Quarters
4
EPS Growth Years
1
EPS Growth3 Y
0.6
EPS Growth5 Y
3.07
FCF Growth
-4.44%
FCF Growth Q
-24.23%
FCF Growth3 Y
-7.46%
FCF Growth5 Y
-3.16%
OCF Growth
-2.04%
OCF Growth Q
-18.7%
OCF Growth10 Y
-0.4%
OCF Growth3 Y
-5.99%
OCF Growth5 Y
-2.48%
Revenue Growth
9x
Revenue Growth Q
9.71x
Revenue Growth Quarters
5x
Revenue Growth Years
1x
Revenue Growth3 Y
3.57x
Revenue Growth5 Y
4.22x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

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MetricValue
Asset Turnover
$0.48
Assets
$123.4B
Cash
$15.8B
Current Assets
$35.1B
Current Liabilities
$36.8B
Debt
$31.7B
Debt EBITDA
$1.85
Debt Equity
$0.67
Debt FCF
$2.59
Equity
$47.7B
Interest Coverage
9.19
Liabilities
$75.6B
Long Term Assets
$88.2B
Long Term Liabilities
$38.9B
Net Cash
$-16B
Net Cash By Market Cap
$-4.18
Net Debt EBITDA
$0.98
Net Debt Equity
$0.33
Net Debt FCF
$1.3
Tangible Book Value
$-19.8B
Tangible Book Value Per Share
$-5.02
WACC
8.86

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

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MetricValue
Current ratio
0.96
Inventory Turnover
6.07
Net Working Capital
$-8.3B
Quick ratio
0.74
Working Capital
$-1.7B
Working Capital Turnover
$-16.89

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

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MetricValue
Buyback Yield
0.97%
Dividend Growth
2.48%
Dividend Growth Years
15%
Dividend per share
$1.68
Dividend Years
16
Dividend Yield
1.74%
Ex Div Date
2026-04-02
Last Dividend
$0.42
Payout Frequency
Quarterly
Payout Ratio
59.35%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

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MetricValue
10Y total return
392.46%
1Y total return
65.84%
200-day SMA
75.69
3Y total return
126.87%
50-day SMA
83.22
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA
50over200
5Y total return
108.53%
All Time High
97.02
All Time High Change
-0.46%
All Time High Date
2026-05-08
All Time Low
0.07
All Time Low Change
140,672.59%
All Time Low Date
1990-10-10
ATR
2.32
Beta
0.91
Beta1y
0.77
Beta2y
0.91
Ch YTD
25.37
High
97.02
High52
97.02
High52 Date
2026-05-08
High52ch
-0.46%
Low
93.14
Low52
59.43
Low52 Date
2025-05-08
Low52ch
62.51%
Ma50ch
16.04%
Premarket Change Percent
1.05
Premarket Price
$93.13
Premarket Volume
96,281
Price vs 200-day SMA
27.59%
RSI
72.51
RSI Monthly
82.28
RSI Weekly
76.44
Sharpe ratio
1.92x
Sortino ratio
2.94
Total Return
2.71%
Tr YTD
26.72
Tr15y
751.55%
Tr1m
19.7%
Tr1w
5.14%
Tr3m
14.47%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

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MetricValue
Analyst Count
16
Analyst Count Top
10
Analyst Price Target Top
$94.67
Analyst Ratings
Buy
Analyst Ratings Top
Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate
$1
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth
4.17
Earnings Revenue Estimate
15,564,126,272x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth
10x
Operating Income
$13.7B
Operating Income Growth
17.32
Operating Income Growth Q
22.22
Operating Income Growth3 Y
-1.04
Operating Income Growth5 Y
0.19
Operating margin
23.19
Price target
$90.47
Price Target Change
$-6.32
Price Target Change Top
$-1.97

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

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MetricValue
Float
3,943,327,621%
Float Percent
99.83%
Net Borrowing
-849,000,000
Shares Insiders
0.04%
Shares Institutions
79.24%
Shares Out
3,949,893,042
Shares Qo Q
-0.23%
Shares Yo Y
-0.97%
Short Float
1.47%
Short Ratio
2.59
Short Shares
1.47

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

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MetricValue
Adjusted FCF
$8.4B
Average Volume
17,944,124.4x
Bv Per Share
12.08
CAPEX
$-1.1B
Ch10y
264
Ch15y
449.9
Ch1m
19.7
Ch1w
5.14
Ch1y
62.11
Ch20y
344
Ch3m
13.85
Ch3y
108.8
Ch5y
80.74
Ch6m
35.88
Change
4.79%
Change From Open
3.47
Close
92.16
Days Gap
1.27
Depreciation Amortization
2,596,000,000
Dollar Volume
2,380,693,373.5
Earnings Date
2026-05-13
Earnings Time
amc
EBIT
$13.7B
EBITDA
$16.3B
EPS
$2.78
F Score
5
FCF
$12.2B
FCF EV Yield
3.08x
FCF Per Share
$3.1
Financing CF
-14,388,000,000
Fiscal Year End
July
Founded
1,984
Goodwill
59,234,000,000
Graham Number
27.49347
Graham Upside
-71.53
Income Tax
$1.9B
Investing CF
-918,000,000
Is Primary Listing
1
Is Spac
No
Last Earnings Date
2026-02-11
Last Report Date
2026-01-24
Last Split Date
2000-03-23
Last Split Type
Forward
Last10k Filing Date
2025-09-03
Lynch Fair Value
$13.9
Lynch Upside
-85.61
Ma150
78.22
Ma150ch
23.47%
Ma20
88.91
Ma20ch
8.61%
Net CF
-2,049,000,000
Next Earnings Date
2026-05-13
Open
93.33
Optionable
Yes
P FCF Ratio
31.16
P OCF Ratio
28.63
Payment Date
2026-04-22
Position In Range
88.4
Post Close
96.57
Postmarket Change Percent
0.17
Postmarket Price
$96.73
Ppne
3,759,000,000
Pre Close
92.16
Price Date
2026-05-08
Price EBITDA
$23.41
Relative Volume
1.37x
Revenue
59,054,000,000x
SBC By Revenue
6.57x
Share Based Comp
3,882,000,000
Tax By Revenue
3.23x
Tax Rate
14.69%
Tr20y
589.91%
Tr6m
37.35%
Us State
California
Views
255
Volume
24,652,515
Z Score
2.95
Fast facts

Decision checkpoints

A compact product layer over the same report payload.

Risk gate
3
Named kill scenarios are reviewed before any bullish rating can stand.
Moat score
9/10
Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.
Forward P/E
21.4x
Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.
Next action
Sell
Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.
Our take
Income

CSCO dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield
+1.7%
$1.68 annual per share
Payout ratio
+59.4%
Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.
5Y dividend CAGR
+2.6%
15 consecutive years of growth
Total shareholder yield
+2.7%
Next ex-dividend date: 2026-04-02
Performance

CSCO stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

1Y total return
+65.8%
S&P 500 1Y: n/a
3Y total return
+126.9%
S&P 500 3Y: n/a
5Y total return
+108.5%
S&P 500 5Y: n/a
10Y total return
+392.5%
S&P 500 10Y: n/a
Ownership

Who owns CSCO?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership
+79.2%
Float: +99.8% of shares outstanding
Insider ownership
+0.0%
Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.
Short interest
+1.5%
2.6 days to cover
Y/Y dilution
-1.0%
Negative means the company is buying back shares.
Technical

CSCO momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)
72.5
Above 70: short-term overbought
Price vs 200-day MA
+27.6%
50/200-day relationship not available
Beta (5Y)
0.91
Moves roughly with the market
Sharpe ratio
1.92
Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.
Peers

CSCO vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

TickerNameMarket capP/EP/SROIC5Y rev CAGR1Y total returnRating
ABBVAbbVie Inc.356.1B99.3x5.7x22.2%+4.6%+10.6%Halten
ABTAbbott Laboratories146.9B23.6x3.3x9.6%+3.9%-35.8%Starker Kauf
ACNAccenture plc110.8B14.8x1.5x27.2%+9.6%-39.5%Kaufen
LITELumentum Holdings Inc.64.8B171.8x26.0x8.3%+7.7%+1264.4%Reduzieren
Questions

About CSCO

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What is the current CSCO stock rating?

Cisco Systems, Inc. is currently shown with Sell in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full CSCO analysis?

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What fair-value range is used for CSCO?

The latest report frames CSCO around $51 to $80. Treat that range as the entry point, then check the valuation, sensitivity, and bear-case tabs before making an investment decision.

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