Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.860-0.880 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.850. The company issued revenue guidance of $13.7 billion-$13.9 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $13.7 billion. Cisco Systems also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 3.520-3.580 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts have recently commented on the company. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a hold rating on shares of Cisco Systems in a research report on Monday, June 10th. Wells Fargo & Company raised their price objective on Cisco Systems from $52.00 to $57.00 and gave the company an equal weight rating in a research note on Thursday, May 16th. Barclays boosted their target price on Cisco Systems from $48.00 to $50.00 and gave the company an equal weight rating in a research note on Friday, May 17th. StockNews.com lowered Cisco Systems from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research report on Thursday, May 23rd. Finally, Piper Sandler reaffirmed a neutral rating and issued a $52.00 price target on shares of Cisco Systems in a research note on Wednesday, June 5th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have issued a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average target price of $56.47.

Cisco Systems Stock Performance

Shares of CSCO traded up $0.07 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $45.44. 28,034,832 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 19,703,311. Cisco Systems has a 1 year low of $44.50 and a 1 year high of $58.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44, a quick ratio of 0.82 and a current ratio of 0.89. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $46.63 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $47.94. The stock has a market cap of $183.07 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.35, a P/E/G ratio of 2.97 and a beta of 0.85.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 14th. The network equipment provider reported $0.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.70 by $0.17. Cisco Systems had a return on equity of 30.82% and a net margin of 21.88%. The firm had revenue of $13.64 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.53 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.01 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was down 10.3% on a year-over-year basis. Equities analysts anticipate that Cisco Systems will post 3.14 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity

In other news, SVP Maria Victoria Wong sold 3,378 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 29th. The shares were sold at an average price of $45.89, for a total transaction of $155,016.42. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president now owns 52,953 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,430,013.17. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. In other news, SVP Maria Victoria Wong sold 3,378 shares of Cisco Systems stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $45.89, for a total transaction of $155,016.42. Following the transaction, the senior vice president now directly owns 52,953 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,430,013.17. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, EVP Deborah L. Stahlkopf sold 8,016 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $48.24, for a total transaction of $386,691.84. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 180,705 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,717,209.20. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 41,106 shares of company stock valued at $1,908,923 in the last quarter. 0.02% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Cisco Systems Company 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.