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Cisco Systems
(NasdaqNM: CSCO)
USA
Along with fellow tech titans such as Microsoft, Dell, and Intel, Cisco has found life can be frustrating at the top. Although it continues to dominate the corporate networking world and has taken a big chunk of related markets for computer security and home routers, investors want more than the 12% revenue growth it posted in 2005. That's one reason Wall Street cheered Cisco's $6.9 billion acquisition of settop-box giant Scientific Atlanta last November. Still, the stock has given back much of those gains in recent weeks, leaving many to wonder if CEO John Chambers needs to make another bold move.
Company Info |
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| 2005 Rank | 53 |
| Sales* ($ Millions) | 27,081.0 |
| Sales Growth (over prev. year) |
12 % |
| Profits* ($ Millions) | 5,576.0 |
| Return on Equity | 22.7 % |
| Total Return on Sales (12-mo.) | 1.4 |
| Share Price As of 5/31/06 | 19.68 |
| CURRENT MARKET INFO | NasdaqNM: CSCO |
| No. of Employees | 38,413 |
| Industry | Communications Equipment |
| COMPANY WEB SITE > | |
*Trailing 12 months
Stock price data as of 5/31/06
DATA: Standard & Poor's Compustat
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Company Snapshot
Cisco Systems engages in the manufacture and sale of networking and communications products worldwide. The company provides products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings and across campuses. It offers routers, which interconnect computer networks by moving data, voice, and video from one network to another; and switching systems that are used to build local-area networks (LAN), metropolitan-area networks, and wide-area networks. Cisco's technology products comprise home networking products, which enable users to share Internet access, printers, music, movies, and games; Internet protocol telephony products for transmitting voice communications; optical networking products, which provide a path for telecommunications carriers, as well as for carriers and enterprises; and security products, which protect information systems from unauthorized use. It also offers storage networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems. In addition, the company offers wireless LAN and outdoor wireless bridging products. These products include access points; an integrated wireless and wireline switching system; wireless LAN client adapters; bridges; antennas; and accessories. Cisco offers its products and services primarily through its direct salesforce, as well as through distributors and retail partners. The company has strategic alliances with AT&T, BearingPoint, BellSouth, Cap Gemini, Electronic Data Systems, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Italtel, Microsoft, Motorola, SBC Communications, T-Systems, and Sprint. Cisco was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif.
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