CSCO — Cisco Systems Inc

Technology · Communication Equipment · Chip equipment & AI hardware

About Cisco Systems Inc

Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and sells technologies that help to power, secure, and draw insights from the internet in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company offers data center switching; network security, identity and access management, and secure access service edge; threat intelligence, detection, and response 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, monitoring and analytics, and observability suite; issue resolution, software support, and hardware replacement; professiona

Chip equipment & AI hardware

This layer sells the machines, materials and hardware that make and connect AI systems — semiconductor manufacturing equipment, networking, optics, memory and servers. It is a concentrated, “picks-and-shovels” business one level below the chipmakers. As AI pushes fabs to expand and data centers to scale, demand rises, though the equipment side is cyclical and heavily exposed to China export restrictions. Cisco Systems Inc is tracked in this sub-theme as a Communication Equipment name — see the full Chip equipment & AI hardware list.

Key data · delayed ~15 min, as of 8 July 2026

Valuation read

What the price implies: a reverse-DCF on forward earnings ($4.78/sh) backs out roughly ~8%/yr earnings growth — modest expectations. Run your own scenario in the fair-value calculator.

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