Winnow Wealth LLC Makes New Investment in Cisco Systems, Inc. $CSCO

Winnow Wealth LLC acquired a new position in shares of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund acquired 669 shares of the network equipment provider’s stock, valued at approximately $46,000.

Several other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of CSCO. Financial Connections Group Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Cisco Systems by 89.4% during the 2nd quarter. Financial Connections Group Inc. now owns 409 shares of the network equipment provider’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 193 shares during the period. Legacy Investment Solutions LLC bought a new position in Cisco Systems during the second quarter worth $28,000. Pandora Wealth Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Cisco Systems in the first quarter valued at $31,000. Nova Wealth Management Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Cisco Systems during the 1st quarter worth about $31,000. Finally, Brown Shipley& Co Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Cisco Systems during the 2nd quarter worth about $32,000. 73.33% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Cisco Systems Price Performance

Cisco Systems stock opened at $79.34 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 1.00. Cisco Systems, Inc. has a 52 week low of $52.11 and a 52 week high of $79.50. The stock has a market capitalization of $312.66 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.19, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.00 and a beta of 0.95. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $70.49 and a 200-day moving average of $67.90.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, November 12th. The network equipment provider reported $1.00 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.98 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $14.88 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $14.77 billion. Cisco Systems had a return on equity of 27.06% and a net margin of 18.45%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 7.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.91 earnings per share. 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, sell-side analysts expect that Cisco Systems, Inc. will post 3.04 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Cisco Systems Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 21st. Investors of record on Friday, January 2nd will be issued a dividend of $0.41 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 2nd. This represents a $1.64 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.1%. Cisco Systems’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 61.65%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CEO Charles Robbins sold 281,860 shares of Cisco Systems stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $78.35, for a total transaction of $22,083,731.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 820,887 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $64,316,496.45. This trade represents a 25.56% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, EVP Oliver Tuszik sold 17,526 shares of Cisco Systems stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $67.95, for a total transaction of $1,190,891.70. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 198,855 shares in the company, valued at approximately $13,512,197.25. This represents a 8.10% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 961,950 shares of company stock worth $74,696,164. Company insiders own 0.01% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on CSCO. Citic Securities boosted their price objective on Cisco Systems from $75.00 to $90.00 in a report on Monday. Argus boosted their price target on Cisco Systems from $80.00 to $100.00 in a research note on Thursday, November 13th. Barclays increased their price objective on Cisco Systems from $71.00 to $76.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, November 13th. Evercore ISI boosted their price objective on shares of Cisco Systems from $74.00 to $80.00 and gave the company an “in-line” rating in a report on Thursday, November 13th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on shares of Cisco Systems from $80.00 to $90.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, November 13th. Seventeen analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and nine have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Cisco Systems has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $84.14.

Cisco Systems Profile

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.