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Cisco Systems Inc

CSCO#35 of 134 by buybacks

NASDAQ · Technology · Communication Equipment · USA

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Buybacks · TTM to Jul 2026$6.87Blatest four quarters
Buyback yield1.5%repurchases ÷ market cap
Dividends · TTM to Jul 2026$6.47Bdividend yield 1.4%
Shareholder yield2.9%buybacks + dividends ÷ market cap
Shares outstanding · 5 yr−6.0%3.99B shares (2026)
Buybacks ÷ free cash flow53%payout incl. dividends 103%
Buybacks and dividends by fiscal year
Cash returned to shareholders, in USD. Fiscal years end in July.
Shares outstanding
Share count down 6.0% over roughly five years. Falling is what a real buyback looks like.
Quarterly repurchases
Last 8 reported quarters, in USD. Orange bars mark quarters where the company issued more shares than it bought.

Fiscal-year detail

From the cash-flow statement as reported, in USD. Negative repurchases mean net share issuance.

Fiscal yearRepurchasesDividendsFree cash flow
FY2026Jul 2026$6.11B$6.55B$12.8B
FY2025Jul 2025$7.22B$6.44B$13.3B
FY2024Jul 2024$6.78B$6.38B$10.2B
FY2023Jul 2023$4.89B$6.30B$19.0B
FY2022Jul 2022$8.38B$6.22B$12.7B
FY2021Jul 2021$3.51B$6.16B$14.8B
FY2020Jul 2020$3.39B$6.02B$14.7B

Repurchases in FY2026 were −15.5% versus the prior year.

About Cisco Systems Inc

Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and sells technologies to power, help, secure, and draw insights from the internet in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company provides data center switching; network security, identity and access management, and secure access service edge; identity and agentic security solutions; interconnects public and private wireline and mobile networks, delivering connectivity to campus, data center, and branch networks; WEBEX suite,…

Market cap
$467B
P/E (trailing)
34.5×
Fiscal year end
July
ISIN
US17275R1023
Reporting currency
USD
Data updated
Oct 9, 2026
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