Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) Issues Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) updated its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.890-0.910 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.870. The company issued revenue guidance of $13.8 billion-$14.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.8 billion. Cisco Systems also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 3.600-3.660 EPS.

Cisco Systems Stock Down 2.1 %

Shares of NASDAQ CSCO opened at $57.92 on Friday. The business has a 50-day moving average of $53.82 and a two-hundred day moving average of $49.64. The company has a market capitalization of $231.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.86, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.90 and a beta of 0.83. Cisco Systems has a 1 year low of $44.50 and a 1 year high of $59.38. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43, a current ratio of 0.91 and a quick ratio of 0.83.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 14th. The network equipment provider reported $0.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.85 by $0.02. Cisco Systems had a return on equity of 25.62% and a net margin of 17.73%. The firm had revenue of $13.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.53 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.01 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was down 10.3% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts forecast that Cisco Systems will post 2.89 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Cisco Systems Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 22nd. Investors of record on Friday, January 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.76%. Cisco Systems’s dividend payout ratio is currently 68.67%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

CSCO has been the subject of several research reports. Hsbc Global Res raised Cisco Systems to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, August 16th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upgraded shares of Cisco Systems from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and raised their target price for the stock from $55.00 to $66.00 in a research report on Monday. Evercore ISI upped their price target on shares of Cisco Systems from $55.00 to $60.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, September 20th. Jefferies Financial Group dropped their price objective on shares of Cisco Systems from $56.00 to $53.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, August 15th. Finally, Bank of America increased their target price on shares of Cisco Systems from $60.00 to $72.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday. Eleven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, eleven have given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Cisco Systems currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $59.42.

Insider Buying and Selling at Cisco Systems

In other Cisco Systems news, SVP Maria Victoria Wong sold 3,379 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $50.36, for a total transaction of $170,166.44. Following the sale, the senior vice president now owns 47,182 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,376,085.52. This represents a 6.68 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CFO Richard Scott Herren sold 22,309 shares of Cisco Systems stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $50.00, for a total value of $1,115,450.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 293,184 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $14,659,200. This represents a 7.07 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 35,924 shares of company stock worth $1,798,131. 0.01% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

About Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company also offers switching portfolio encompasses campus switching as well as data center switching; enterprise routing portfolio interconnects public and private wireline and mobile networks, delivering highly secure, and reliable connectivity to campus, data center and branch networks; wireless products include wireless access points and controllers; and compute portfolio including the cisco unified computing system, hyperflex, and software management capabilities, which combine computing, networking, and storage infrastructure management and virtualization.