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Investors' Interest in CSCO Stock – What's Driving the Surge?

Cisco Systems stock is trading -9.93% below its average target price of $75.81 after marking a 1.7% during today's afternoon session. Analysts are giving the Large-Cap Communication Equipment company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $61.0 to $87.0 per share.

The stock has a very low short interest at 1.2%, and a short ratio of 2.68. At 0.07%, the company's rate of insider ownership does not indicate that management is heavily invested in the corporation. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 80.7% of Cisco Systems's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Cisco Systems

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2025-06-30 Vanguard Group Inc 10% 393,989,568 $26,905,547,959
2025-06-30 Blackrock Inc. 9% 369,706,195 $25,247,236,395
2025-06-30 State Street Corporation 5% 194,695,250 $13,295,738,800
2025-06-30 Geode Capital Management, LLC 3% 99,252,395 $6,777,946,145
2025-06-30 Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC 2% 98,156,000 $6,703,073,329
2025-06-30 FMR, LLC 2% 93,093,345 $6,357,344,615
2025-06-30 Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. 2% 76,640,882 $5,233,805,901
2025-06-30 Morgan Stanley 2% 70,334,963 $4,803,174,687
2025-06-30 NORGES BANK 1% 55,013,326 $3,756,860,082
2025-06-30 Bank of America Corporation 1% 49,805,983 $3,401,250,624

Besides an analyst consensus of some upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on Cisco Systems.

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