Cisco (CSCO) stock & equity tools

Cisco Systems, Inc., doing business as Cisco, is an American multinational technology conglomerate corporation that develops, manufactures, and sells hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products focused on networking, cyber security and AI. Cisco specializes in specific tech markets, such as the Internet of things (IoT), domain security, videoconferencing, and energy management, including products such as Webex, OpenDNS, Jabber, and Jasper. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and, as of December 2025, has a market capitalization of $317 billion.

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Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, a Stanford couple, founded Cisco in 1984 to commercialize multiprotocol routing, then took the company public on NASDAQ in February 1990 under ticker CSCO. From San Jose headquarters, Cisco ships Catalyst switches and routers, Webex collaboration, Talos-backed security, and UCS servers tuned for AI infrastructure. The March 2024 Splunk acquisition closed at roughly $28 billion and lifted fiscal 2025 security revenue 117% to $8.09 billion. CEO Chuck Robbins, in the seat since 2015, reported $56.7 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue, up 5% year over year.

Sources: investor.cisco.com · cybersecuritydive.com

Equity comp at Cisco

• RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.

Researched 2026-05-07.