Shares in Cisco Systems, Inc. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term, which suggests that the rising trend should be followed.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● According to Refinitiv, the company's ESG score for its industry is good.
Strengths
● The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● The company's earnings growth outlook lacks momentum and is a weakness.
● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. is the world leader in designing, developing, and marketing Internet network equipment. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- network equipment (68.9%); switches and routers, technological software and systems (storage, Internet access, and security systems, wiring, gateways, connection interfaces and modules, etc.), etc.;
- services (24.3%): technical assistance, network design, execution, and integration services, etc.;
- security products (6.8%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (58.7%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (26.6%) and Asia/Pacific (14.7%).