Cisco Systems (CSCO), a world leader in networking and communication technologies based on IP, is now approaching a key moment with its results for the fourth quarter of the 2025 financial year scheduled for Wednesday August 13 after the closing of the market. Investors have surrounded the date, eager to see if the strong race for the action will extend.
The announcement alone returned shares of 2% on August 4, adding to an already impressive gain of 21% for the start of the year (YTD). The CSCO action is now at hand of its highest $ 72.55, which was carried out on August 11.
Anticipation has been fueled by improving the demand for networking products covering switching, business routing, web -scale infrastructure and industrial applications. The initiatives fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) have been just as central in history.
The company managed by Meraki Cloud’s networking solution ensured the authorization of Fedramp in the third quarter, opening the door to a deeper penetration of the federal market. Its strategy to integrate AI into security platforms and developing agent capacities through its portfolio has become a determining catalyst.
Investors are now turning on the coming results to assess Cisco’s trajectory for the coming months and to validate the recent momentum.
With its head office located in San Jose, California, Cisco Systems is a major player in the IP -based networking market. Cisco, valued at $ 280 billion, unifies its product portfolios in the fields of networking, security, cloud, applications and collaboration.
In the past 52 weeks, CSCO’s shares have climbed 59%, easily surpassing 29% of the S&P 500 Technology Sector SPDR (XLK).
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Assessment remains a key discussion point. Trading at 21.9 times the profits adjusted in advance, CSCO shares are below the average of the industry, aroused interest in investors who like a good discount.
The Cisco shareholders’ file is just as solid, with 13 consecutive years of increased dividends. The current annual payment amounts to $ 1.64, which reports 2.29%, and the most recent quarterly dividend of $ 0.41 was paid on July 23 to record shareholders on July 3.
On May 14, Cisco’s 2010 T-201 TT results exceeded Wall Street’s forecasts, blowing 4.9% of the shares. Income reached $ 14.15 billion, an increase of 11% compared to the previous year and slightly greater than an estimates of $ 14.06 billion. Network income increased by 8% to 7.07 billion dollars, while security income jumped from $ 2.01 billion to $ 2.01 billion.
The non-Gaap net profit increased by 7.8% compared to the value of the previous year to 3.8 billion dollars, with an adjusted BPA of $ 0.96, up 9.1% from one year to another (Yoy () and comfortably before the consensus of $ 0.91.
In addition, March has seen the introduction of agent Webex AI for customer service, while the Fedramp authorization of the Meraki solution has strengthened its foot in the government sector. The strategic alliances with NVIDIA (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), G42 and the human of Saudi Arabia have expanded its role in the constructions of IA data centers in the world.
For the future, Cisco guided T2 2025 revenues between $ 14.5 billion and $ 14.7 billion, with an adjusted BPA from $ 0.96 to $ 0.98. Annual income is expected to be between $ 56.5 billion and $ 56.7 billion, as well as $ 3.77 BPA to $ 3.79. The results of the fourth quarter have helped consolidate business status as an increasing force in AI, new generation security and networking.
On the other hand, analysts expect the BPA from the fourth quarter of 2025 to increase by 12.7% in annual sliding to $ 0.80. Most of the 2025 fiscal year could see a drop of 1.9% to $ 3.06. However, the momentum is expected to run during the year 2026 when the BPA can again increase by 6.9% to $ 3.27 per share.
The community of analysts continues to look positively with regard to CSCO’s actions, which attributes it to it a global note of “moderate purchase”. Of the 22 analysts according to the action, 12 recommend a “strong purchase”, we suggest a “moderate purchase” and a Cisco with nine rates as “conservation”.
The average price of CSCO of $ 72.67 represents an increase of increase of 1.8% compared to current levels. Meanwhile, the high street goal of $ 79 suggests a potential ascent of 10.7% compared to current levels.
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On the date of publication, Aanchal Sugandh did not (directly or indirectly) have positions in any of the titles mentioned in this article. All information and data of this article are only for information purposes. This article was initially published on Barchart.com
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