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Cisco Systems, Inc.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
Signals align: quality at a discount to the sector
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4 of 5 met · composite in line with peers
Business quality, valuation against the sector, and position in the 52-week range — whether they line up or not.
Strong fundamentals
Profitability
4/4
Debt & liquidity
2/3
Efficiency
2/2
Revenue growth tells the clearest story here: 5.3% against a sector median of 11.8% — -55% below the median — and EPS growth of 0.4% trails the sector median of 31.1% by -99%, placing CSCO firmly in the bottom quartile on growth. The F-Score of 8/9 signals that the underlying business is financially sound — profitability, leverage, and efficiency all read well — yet the composite of 35/100 reflects how far growth lags the sector. Valuation sits near the middle: P/B of 9.2× runs -8% below the sector median, and FCF yield of 2.7% exceeds the median by +49%, so the cash return is real. The forward picture adds a caution: consensus models earnings growth that the realized three-year EPS CAGR of {{value:eps_cagr_3y}} does not support, and the beat rate over eight quarters has been weak — the market's forward assumptions carry the usual optimistic lean.
| Ticker | Name | F-Score | ROE | Revenue YoY | Op. margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple | 8/9 | 171% | +6% |
Quarter-by-quarter classification · a retrospective read by the current logic · not a price forecast
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. The method did not see these quarters in real time; this is the current logic applied to past reports.
The market prices in earnings growth; analyst sentiment is steady; has not always beaten consensus.
Price against next year's expected earnings. The forward P/E already carries analyst optimism — read it alongside the “Versus consensus” line.
A forward P/E below the current one means the market expects earnings to grow; above it, to fall. The historical growth is realized figures from SEC filings, not a forecast.
The three-month change in the share of positive analyst ratings. This is sentiment, not an earnings-estimate revision, and not a call to act.
When Cisco reports on 2026-11-10, track revenue year-over-year growth against the current 11.8% figure — 55% below the sector median — and check whether EPS growth recovers from its near-flat position. A sustained F-Score profitability block of 4/4 alongside improving top-line momentum would shift the picture materially.
On SEC EDGAR, open Cisco's most recent 10-K and focus on management's discussion of product-to-subscription transition and any disclosures tied to FCF generation, which currently yields 1.82% — 49% above the sector median. Cross-reference that against the leverage and liquidity sub-score of 2/3 to understand which ratio is under pressure.
In section 06, pick two or three companies from the alphabetical table and line up one metric — FCF yield or P/B of 10.0× are natural starting points. No company in the table is ranked; the exercise is to place Cisco's figures in a broader sector context that you define.
Steps you can check yourself, based on the figures in this brief.
Piotroski F-Score: nine binary tests of financial strength from the annual report. A ✓ marks a test passed, a dot (·) a test failed.
Over 4 years: -14%+49%-46%+30%
Over 4 years: 0.570.421.521.83
Over 4 years: +3%+11%-6%+5%
The context on the right shows how each figure compares with the sector median. The trend below tracks the change over recent fiscal years.
Beat consensus in 7 of 7 recent quarters — the company clears estimates regularly (consensus is often set conservatively).
Last quarter's EPS against consensus, plus the estimated date of the next report.
| 32% |
| ACN | Accenture | 4/9 | 26% | +7% | 15% |
| ADBE | Adobe | 7/9 | 55% | +11% | 37% |
| AMAT | Applied Materials | 6/9 | 36% | +4% | 29% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | 7/9 | 7% | +34% | 11% |
| AVGO | Broadcom | 7/9 | 43% | +24% | 40% |
| CRM | Salesforce | 7/9 | 12% | +10% | 20% |
| CSCO | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 8/9 | 22% | +5% | 21% |
| IBM | IBM | 6/9 | 35% | +8% | — |
| INTC | Intel | 6/9 | -0% | -0% | -4% |
| INTU | Intuit | 8/9 | 20% | +16% | 26% |
| MSFT | Microsoft | 6/9 | 34% | +18% | 47% |
| NOW | ServiceNow | 4/9 | 15% | +21% | 14% |
| NVDA | NVIDIA | 3/9 | 101% | +65% | 60% |
| ORCL | Oracle | 5/9 | 54% | +17% | 31% |
| TXN | Texas Instruments | 7/9 | 30% | +13% | 34% |
A sample of 16 companies in the sector including the target, alphabetical, unranked. Data from the latest SEC annual reports.
Rule-based classification of fundamentals against the sector. Not a price forecast and not investment advice.
A simplified retrospective read: no analyst forecast (not available historically); the source is the annual report as of the date, so neighbouring quarters can rest on the same data. Quarters with the same classification in a row are merged into one row — each row is one change in the read, not a separate quarter. One ticker is an illustration of the classification logic, not statistics. How we calculate →
The last few quarters are recent context, not a fixed rate. Consensus for near quarters is set low, so companies clear it routinely; over long horizons the forecasts run the other way, too high.
A description of what the market and analysts expect. Not a price forecast and not investment advice. Analyst forecasts run systematically optimistic over long horizons — read them with that discount.