Cisco Systems, Inc. Plans Quarterly Dividend of $0.41 (NASDAQ:CSCO)

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, November 12th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 2nd will be paid a dividend of 0.41 per share by the network equipment provider on Wednesday, January 21st. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.2%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 2nd.

Cisco Systems has increased its dividend by an average of 0.0%annually over the last three years and has increased its dividend every year for the last 13 years. Cisco Systems has a dividend payout ratio of 40.8% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Equities analysts expect Cisco Systems to earn $3.21 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $1.64 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 51.1%.

Cisco Systems Price Performance

CSCO opened at $73.96 on Thursday. Cisco Systems has a 52-week low of $52.11 and a 52-week high of $74.84. The company has a 50 day moving average of $69.46 and a two-hundred day moving average of $67.20. The company has a market cap of $291.46 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.23, a P/E/G ratio of 3.00 and a beta of 0.95. The company has a quick ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 1.00 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, November 12th. The network equipment provider reported $1.00 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.98 by $0.02. Cisco Systems had a net margin of 18.45% and a return on equity of 27.06%. The business had revenue of $14.88 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $14.77 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.91 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 7.5% on a year-over-year basis. Cisco Systems has set its FY 2026 guidance at 4.080-4.140 EPS. Q2 2026 guidance at 1.010-1.030 EPS. On average, analysts expect that Cisco Systems will post 3.04 earnings per share for the current year.

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.