Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)

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Cisco Systems, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Cisco Systems, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $48 billion in fiscal 2017 to $63 billion in fiscal 2026, up 3.1% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-07-25, Cisco Systems, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 95% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 95 sales (92 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-07-25, Cisco Systems, Inc. earned about 26 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 32 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 61 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Cisco Systems, Inc.'s standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $63 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 3% by size; a net margin of 21% ranks in the top 17%; revenue growth of 3.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 43% (its annual reports).

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Cisco Systems, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Robbins, Charles (Chair and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2015-09-11, 11.2 years (top 44% of its family); the 19 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.3 years (bottom 31%); 15 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 19 people in charge now (bottom 28%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Cisco Systems, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $7.2 billion against debt of $23 billion leaves -12.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 23% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 20.2% of revenue (top 30%); a gross margin of 64.5% (top 30%); research spending of 15.1% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

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Cisco Systems, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 3.6% a year over the last three filed years against 3.1% over all 10, speeding up (top 18% of its family); the newest year grew 11.8% (top 43%); research spending grew 8.2% a year (top 25%); capital spending grew 18.5% a year (top 32%) (its annual reports). Cisco Systems, Inc. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2026: Networking at $35 billion (55%), Service at $15 billion (24%), Security at $8.2 billion (13%), and 2 more; 4 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Cisco Systems, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $63 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 12.1% above the $56 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 43% of its family); net income of $13 billion against a prior three-year average of $11 billion (bottom 37%); a net margin of 21% against 19.8% before (bottom 23%) (its annual reports).