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CSCO is the stock symbol for network equipment supplier Cisco Systems, Inc. This page features the best available information concerning Cisco stock.

Fast Facts

1. Stock symbol: CSCO (NASDAQ)
2. Annual revenue (2007): $34.9 billion¹
3. Founders: Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner
4. Year established: 1984²
5. Went public: February 16, 1990²
6. Industry: Computer networking
7. Phone: 800-553-6387, 408-526-4000
8. Fax: 408-526-4100
9. HQ: San Jose, California²
10. President/CEO: John T. Chambers³
11. CFO: Frank Calderoni⁴
12. Staff: 65,225²

Cisco Systems "just beat" analysts' expectations regarding its fiscal fourth quarter earnings, according to Forbes. Despite an "economic downturn," the company's net sales during the period totaled $10.4 billion, 9.9% higher than the same quarter last year.⁵

Cisco Systems also earned a net income of $2.0 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, a 4.4% increase from the previous year.⁶

Cisco Chairman John Chambers predicted that "economic recovery" would start in early 2009. As a result, he expected only a respective 8% and 8.5% revenue growth in the company's upcoming fiscal first and second quarters.⁷