Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) operates as a global technology company designing and selling hardware, software, and artificial intelligence-powered digital infrastructure solutions. The company's website is www.cisco.com. From the company’s description.
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What Cisco does
In the company’s own words
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) operates as a global technology company designing and selling hardware, software, and artificial intelligence-powered digital infrastructure solutions. The company's website is www.cisco.com.
Cisco's core business centers on enabling secure connectivity across networks, data centers, and workplaces worldwide. The company organizes its operations into four primary product categories: Networking, Security, Collaboration, and Observability. The Networking segment encompasses switching, routing, wireless solutions, and optical interconnect technologies built on Cisco Silicon One architecture. The Security portfolio spans network security, identity and access management, secure access service edge platforms, and extended detection and response offerings. Collaboration products include the Webex Suite, collaboration devices, contact center solutions, and communication platform services. Observability solutions combine Splunk and AppDynamics offerings with ThousandEyes network assurance capabilities.
The company operates through three geographic segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. Cisco serves diverse customer markets including enterprises of all sizes, public sector organizations, governments, and service providers including hyperscalers. The company employs approximately 82,400 people globally and maintains a substantial sales and marketing workforce of roughly 25,400 employees.
Cisco's business model combines direct sales with indirect distribution through systems integrators, service providers, resellers, and distributors. The company complements its product offerings with comprehensive technical support and professional services delivered through Cisco IQ, a unified digital platform integrating artificial intelligence and automation.
The company's strategic priorities focus on three customer imperatives: building modern infrastructure, protecting against cyber threats, and harnessing artificial intelligence and data. Cisco's "One Cisco" approach integrates its portfolio to deliver AI-ready data centers, future-proofed workplaces, and digital resilience capabilities. The company was incorporated in California in 1984 and reincorporated in Delaware in 2021, with headquarters in San Jose, California.
Company details
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry (SIC)
- Industrial Machinery
- Headquarters
- SAN JOSE, CA
- Fiscal year end
- July
- CIK
- 858877
- SIC
- 3576
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2012–2026 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Cisco — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Cisco · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · Cisco’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
Could not be determined for this company: bond issues.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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