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With a market capitalization of $270.6 billion, Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industries in the Americas and internationally.
The California-based company is set to release its fiscal Q4 earnings results on Wednesday, Aug. 13. Ahead of the event, analysts expect CSCO to report a profit of $0.80 per share, up 12.7% from $0.71 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company surpassed Wall Street’s bottom-line estimates in each of the past four quarters, which is impressive.