Analyzing Cisco Systems Stock Performance

By Harris Dyer • Friday, October 31 15:22 • Permanent Link

Cisco Systems logged a 0.4% change during today's afternoon session, and is now trading at a price of $73.23 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. CSCO's trading volume is 10,402,070 compared to the stock's average volume of 19,420,839.

Cisco Systems trades -4.01% away from its average analyst target price of $76.29 per share. The 21 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $61.0 to $87.0, and on average have given Cisco Systems a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying CSCO should be aware of the facts below:

Cisco Systems's current price is 188.4% above its Graham number of $25.39, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Cisco Systems has moved 31.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 19.1%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 2.55, Cisco Systems has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 28.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
CSCO has a forward P/E ratio of 18.8 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.9 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 6.19 compared to its sector average of 1.86
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, developes, 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.
Based in San Jose, the company has 86,200 full time employees and a market cap of $288.6 Billion. Cisco Systems currently returns an annual dividend yield of 2.2%.

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