Cisco Systems, Inc.
Information Technology · Communications Equipment
Structural read: CSCO is the legacy enterprise networking incumbent in transition - campus/branch switching is mature and share-loss-prone to $ANET / $HPE / white-box, while three growth vectors (AI ethernet fabric, Splunk security/observability, Silicon One merchant silicon) determine whether the multi-year revenue line re-rates above flat.
Splunk closed Mar 2024 for $28B, adding ~$4B ARR but levering the balance sheet ~$24B net debt. AI orders crossed $1B cumulative FY25, guided $1B+ in FY26 alone - small vs $54B total revenue but the highest-growth bucket.
- AI infrastructure: $1B+ AI orders FY25, hyperscaler ethernet wins (Silicon One in 5/6 top hyperscalers), Cisco-NVIDIA AI Pods reference designs
- Splunk integration: ~$4B recurring ARR + cross-sell into Cisco security install base, observability TAM expanding
- Cash return: ~$10B/yr buyback + ~3.0% dividend yield, ~$30B Splunk debt paydown on track
- Subscription mix: ~56% revenue recurring, software ARR $30B+
- Campus switching share loss to $ANET (cloud), $HPE / Aruba (enterprise), white-box ODMs (hyperscaler)
- Splunk synergies execution risk + customer overlap less than guided
- Enterprise IT capex flat YoY, hyperscaler ethernet TAM dominated by $ANET / Broadcom Tomahawk
- Webex losing collaboration to $MSFT Teams + $ZM; segment shrinking
- $54B revenue base means even $5B AI = single-digit growth contribution
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