Based on the aggregated intelligence of 125,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, networking giant Cisco Systems
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Cisco's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Cisco facts
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Headquarters (Founded) |
San Jose, Calif. (1984) |
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Market Cap |
$87.65 Billion |
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Industry |
Communications Equipment |
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Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$40.32 Billion |
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Management |
Chairman/CEO John Chambers CFO Frank Calderoni |
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Return on Equity (Average, Past Three Years) |
25.1% |
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Competitors |
Juniper Networks
Alcatel-Lucent |
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CAPS Members Bullish on CSCO Also Bullish on: |
Microsoft
Google |
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CAPS Members Bearish on CSCO Also Bearish on: |
General Motors
Dell |
Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, fully 7,905 of the 8,331 members who have rated Cisco -- some 95% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include CAPS All-Star ValuePEG, who is ranked in the top 20% of our community, and PuntoBrain.
Late last month, ValuePEG pegged Cisco as a cash-rich bargain with a tantalizing tailwind in its favor: "1-year value play, Obama infrastructure, VOIP commitment/Nortel bankruptcy, huge cash reserves (currently 75% of book value?? $26-Billion = 25% more [cash] than Microsoft)."
In a pitch from three days earlier, PuntoBrain shares that sentiment and writes:
[Cisco] seems stodgy in many ways -- after all, routers and such are old hat aren't they? Yet this company has a dominant presence in its market, a unique culture -- thanks to its CEO -- and a lot of cash. Like a lot of big cap tech companies, their share price is beaten down but the company is unbowed. At current prices, a screaming buy.
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