Insider Selling: Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) EVP Sells $74,922.40 in Stock

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) EVP Oliver Tuszik sold 680 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $110.18, for a total value of $74,922.40. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president owned 163,337 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $17,996,470.66. This trade represents a 0.41% 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. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Oliver Tuszik also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, August 14th, Oliver Tuszik sold 2,760 shares of Cisco Systems stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $112.46, for a total value of $310,389.60.

Cisco Systems Price Performance

Cisco Systems stock opened at $107.74 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $424.77 billion, a PE ratio of 32.26, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.29 and a beta of 1.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.39, a current ratio of 0.93 and a quick ratio of 0.79. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $113.42 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $104.13. Cisco Systems, Inc. has a one year low of $66.38 and a one year high of $130.37.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, August 12th. The network equipment provider reported $1.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.17 by $0.05. Cisco Systems had a return on equity of 30.16% and a net margin of 20.95%.The firm had revenue of $17.25 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $16.84 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.99 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 17.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Cisco Systems has set its FY 2027 guidance at 5.050-5.110 EPS and its Q1 2027 guidance at 1.320-1.340 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that Cisco Systems, Inc. will post 4.43 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Cisco Systems Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, October 21st. Shareholders of record on Friday, October 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.42 per share. This represents a $1.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.6%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, October 2nd. Cisco Systems’s dividend payout ratio is presently 50.30%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Cisco Systems

Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. BlackRock Inc. bought a new stake in Cisco Systems during the 2nd quarter worth $42,129,647,000. Norges Bank bought a new position in Cisco Systems in the fourth quarter valued at about $4,473,272,000. Auto Owners Insurance Co boosted its stake in shares of Cisco Systems by 8,718.3% during the fourth quarter. Auto Owners Insurance Co now owns 51,952,421 shares of the network equipment provider’s stock valued at $400,190,000 after purchasing an additional 51,363,281 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE acquired a new stake in shares of Cisco Systems during the second quarter valued at about $5,892,379,000. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp bought a new stake in shares of Cisco Systems during the second quarter worth about $4,714,574,000. 73.33% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Cisco Systems News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting Cisco Systems this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Cisco is expanding Splunk’s AI capabilities with Tokenomics, which tracks AI spending and coding-agent usage in real time, helping customers measure costs and business value. New observability tools also monitor AI-agent performance, behavior and risks. Cisco Gains as Splunk Starts Tracking AI’s Token Bill
• Positive Sentiment: Cisco introduced AI POD for Splunk, enabling customers to run and secure Splunk AI workloads on premises. The company also expanded its NVIDIA partnership and deepened AWS ties, potentially broadening enterprise AI adoption and supporting Cisco’s target of substantial AI-related revenue growth. Cisco Delivers Trusted AI at Scale Through New Splunk Advancements
• Positive Sentiment: Management continues positioning Cisco as a cybersecurity provider for the AI era, arguing that security controls and industry collaboration must keep pace with increasingly autonomous AI agents. Cisco also joined Verizon’s 6G Innovation Forum and is researching quantum networking, adding longer-term technology options.
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts remain broadly constructive, with a “Moderate Buy” consensus and an average price target above recent trading levels. Cisco’s $0.42 quarterly dividend, equivalent to a 1.5% yield, provides ongoing shareholder support but is unlikely to drive the day’s move.
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are questioning whether Cisco’s campus-refresh business is losing leadership or momentum, while Datadog and CrowdStrike continue developing competing observability and security products. That competition could limit the payoff from Cisco’s Splunk AI strategy.
• Negative Sentiment: Two Cisco executives sold small portions of their holdings under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans. The transactions are not necessarily a fundamental warning, but they add modest sentiment pressure. Cisco Executive Insider Sale

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have recently commented on CSCO. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price target on shares of Cisco Systems from $116.00 to $125.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, June 3rd. Zacks Research cut shares of Cisco Systems from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, August 4th. Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Cisco Systems in a research report on Wednesday, August 26th. HSBC cut Cisco Systems from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and cut their target price for the stock from $137.00 to $120.00 in a research note on Friday, August 14th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft started coverage on Cisco Systems in a report on Tuesday, September 1st. They issued a “buy” rating and a $135.00 target price on the stock. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Buy rating and seven have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $129.68.

Cisco Systems Company Profile

Cisco Systems, Inc is a global technology company that provides networking, cybersecurity, collaboration, observability and other information technology solutions. Its offerings include routers, switches, wireless networking equipment, data center infrastructure, security platforms, unified communications tools and software designed to help organizations connect, manage and protect their digital environments.

Cisco serves businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, telecommunications providers and other organizations worldwide.