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NASDAQ · US · Communication Equipment

CSCO Cisco Systems

Switching and silicon for AI networks

Uptrend Trading above its 50-day average. (automatic: supply-chain trend + price vs 50-day average)
Last close (delayed) · 2026-10-26
$110.7
+3.92% today
1W
+3.9%
1M
+4.1%
3M
−3.9%
YTD
+46.3%
1Y
+59.6%
Off 52w high
−14.2%
Next earnings (est.): 2026-11-12
Market cap$420B
P/E (trailing)32.0Forward 18.9
EV / sales6.8×EV/EBITDA 23.0×
Revenue (TTM)$63.32BGrowth 17.6% y/y
Margins64.5%gross · op 27.7%
Free cash flow$11.18BCash $15.92B · debt $31.19B
Analyst target$136.2+23.0% upside · 25 analysts · buy
Riskβ 0.98Short 1.3% of float · yield 1.6%

Fundamentals from public market data, refreshed daily (2026-10-24 02:59 UTC). Figures in reporting currency.

CSCO · price with what management and the data said

Supply tighteningBeat / raiseMiss / cutData releaseEasing Hover a numbered marker for details · dashed lines = 50- and 200-day averages

Timeline: management commentary, data & earnings

8 events
  1. 8
    2026-08-12EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.22 vs 1.17 expected (+4.4% surprise).

  2. 7
    2026-05-13EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.06 vs 1.04 expected (+2.3% surprise).

  3. 6
    2026-02-11EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1.04 vs 1.02 expected (+1.8% surprise).

  4. 5
    2025-11-12EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 1 vs 0.98 expected (+1.8% surprise).

  5. 4
    2025-08-13EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.99 vs 0.98 expected (+1.3% surprise).

  6. 3
    2025-05-14EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.96 vs 0.92 expected (+4.6% surprise).

  7. 2
    2025-02-12EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.94 vs 0.91 expected (+3.4% surprise).

  8. 1
    2024-11-13EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 0.91 vs 0.87 expected (+4.5% surprise).

Earnings history

EPS vs expectations
DateExpected EPSReported EPSSurprise
2026-08-121.171.22+4.4%
2026-05-131.041.06+2.3%
2026-02-111.021.04+1.8%
2025-11-120.981.0+1.8%
2025-08-130.980.99+1.3%
2025-05-140.920.96+4.6%
2025-02-120.910.94+3.4%
2024-11-130.870.91+4.5%
2024-08-140.850.87+2.5%
2024-05-150.820.88+7.7%
2024-02-140.840.87+4.0%
2023-11-151.031.11+7.7%
2023-08-161.061.14+7.7%
2023-05-170.971.0+3.2%
2023-02-150.860.88+2.8%
2022-11-160.840.86+2.9%
2022-08-170.820.83+1.1%
2022-05-180.860.87+0.9%
2022-02-160.810.84+3.8%
2021-11-170.80.82+1.9%
2021-08-180.830.84+1.5%
2021-05-190.820.83+1.1%
2021-02-090.760.79+4.6%
2020-11-120.70.76+8.0%

About Cisco Systems

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Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and sells technologies to power, help, secure, and draw insights from the internet in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company provides data center switching; network security, identity and access management, and secure access service edge; identity and agentic security solutions; interconnects public and private wireline and mobile networks, delivering connectivity to campus, data center, and branch networks; WEBEX suite, collaboration devices, and contact center; communication platform as a service software, including perpetual licenses, subscription arrangements, and hardware solutions; network assurance and observability suite; accelerated issue resolution, software support, and hardware replacement; professional services, such as planning, design, implementation, and high-value consulting; s…

82,400 employees · San Jose, United States

Every additional GPU in a training domain multiplies switch ports and retimers. Ethernet vs proprietary fabrics decides who captures it.

SerDes→Switch ASIC→Retimer / AEC→Cluster

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if cluster sizes plateau and network spend per accelerator falls.

Peers at the same bottleneck

Who else supplies this

StockRoleLast1D1MYTDTrend
ANET
Arista Networks
Ethernet switching for AI back-end networks $178.9+3.81%−13.4%+36.6%
AVGO
Broadcom
Custom ASICs and Ethernet switch silicon for hyperscaler clusters $330.6+2.76%−6.3%−4.0%
CRDO
Credo Technology
Active electrical cables and SerDes $155.4+5.48%−26.4%+8.0%
ALAB
Astera Labs
PCIe/CXL retimers and scale-up connectivity $266.1+3.46%−27.0%+59.9%
NVDA
NVIDIA
Demand aggregator for HBM, packaging, optics and robotics compute $216.0+2.38%−4.0%+16.1%

Not investment advice. Prices delayed and in local currency. Quotes in "double quotes" are verbatim as reported by the linked source; other commentary is our paraphrase. Earnings dates are estimates.