Previous close | 48.38 |
Open | 48.28 |
Bid | 48.41 x 3200 |
Ask | 48.50 x 4000 |
Day's range | 48.03 - 48.77 |
52-week range | 45.56 - 58.19 |
Volume | |
Avg. volume | 18,095,401 |
Market cap | 196.957B |
Beta (5Y monthly) | 0.89 |
PE ratio (TTM) | 14.64 |
EPS (TTM) | 3.31 |
Earnings date | 14 Feb 2024 |
Forward dividend & yield | 1.56 (3.22%) |
Ex-dividend date | 03 Jan 2024 |
1y target est | 54.40 |
Rising interest rates drove many investors from tech stocks toward more conservative sectors, while rising yields for fixed-income investments made dividend stocks a lot less appealing. Cisco, the world's largest networking hardware and software company, recently disappointed investors by slashing its full-year guidance.
A cluster of servers with tens of thousands of GPUs linked together requires some heavy-duty networking gear to make it all work. Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the longtime leader in the switching and routing markets, with its proprietary products maintaining dominant market shares. A more flexible approach makes sense for the major cloud providers, which build data centers at incredible scale and have very specific networking needs.
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