Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)?

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) currently has a daily average trading volume of 21.05M but it saw 45802280 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 195.52B USD, the company’s current market price of $48.53 came rising about 6.80 while comparing to the previous closing price of $45.44. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $58.19 and as low as $44.50. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $48.1615 while lowest mark touched by it was $50.28.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) gives us an average price of $46.58, while its current price level is -16.59% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 9.06% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $46.65 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $48.66. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.33% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.14%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 61.43 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Exane BNP Paribas upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Neutral” from “Underperform” on May 13, 2024 while assigning a price target of $50. JP Morgan issued its recommendations for the stock as it resumed the price target for the stock in the range of between $62 and $53.

Over the week, CSCO’s stock price is moving 5.89% up while it is 0.02% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -3.94% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -9.03%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 1.11 beat the consensus estimate of 1.03 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Nov-13, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.87 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.58. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $13.78B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $55.75B and seeing the company making $58.07B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $13.77B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Cisco Systems, Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 4.07B. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 15.86% and return on equity (ROE) at 22.98%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 19.13 while having a 12.58 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.83. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 4.27 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.63. Its return on asset (ROA) is 9.12% on average.