CSCO
Cisco trades at 33.3 times earnings with a market cap of $442.4 billion, a multiple that prices in steady growth from a company whose ownership base looks more parked than convicted.
Active conviction is thin. Quality compounder funds, the group that typically buys durable franchises and holds, account for just 12.6%. Income and defensive strategies hold 2.7%, systematic quant funds 0.8%, tactical macro 0.5%. Deep value and growth momentum funds each hold a rounding error at 0.1%, and activists hold 0.0%. That spread indicates a stock few active managers are fighting over in either direction, consistent with the institutional pressure reading of neutral at a score of negative 0.01. The market regime score is also neutral, at negative 0.13, reinforcing the picture of a stock sitting still rather than being pushed. None of this ownership data is live: 13F filings run 45 to 90 days behind the market, so the percentages above describe last quarter's positioning, not this afternoon's. Short interest, not supplied here, is itself only refreshed twice a month when tracked. None of these figures forecast where Cisco's shares go next. The P/E, the market cap and the ownership mix are a snapshot of positioning as last reported, and the neutral readings on institutional pressure and market regime describe the recent past, not what happens at the next print.
§ 03 · SIGNAL STACK · WHAT THE INPUTS SAY
§ 04 · FUNDAMENTALS · THE BOOKS
| P/E | 33.3 | P/B | 8.98 |
| EPS (TTM) | 3.33 | Dividend | 3.23% |
Cisco trades at 33.3 times earnings with a market cap of $442.4 billion, a multiple that prices in steady growth from a company whose ownership base looks more parked than convicted. The behavioral breakdown shows 32.7% of shares in the other_unclassified bucket, the largest single slice, a reminder that a third of the register does not fit a clean label. Dealer and bank holdings run 19.2%, largely market making and hedging flow rather than a directional view. Passive index funds hold 16.1%, money that stays regardless of what Cisco's earnings do next quarter.
| Fund | Shares | % port | Δ Q/Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. | 365.1M | 0.5% | −4% |
| VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC | 243.8M | n/a | n/a |
| State Street | 193.6M | 0.5% | −1% |
| VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC | 117.8M | n/a | n/a |
| Geode Capital Management | 102.1M | 0.5% | +3% |
| Invesco Ltd | 82.9M | n/a | n/a |
Top institutional owners for CSCO as of the most recent 13F reporting period (Q1 2026 · Period ended Mar 31). Δ Q/Q reflects share-count change vs. the prior filing — positive green means adding, negative red means trimming. Cross-reference with the ownership-mix bars below to see which strategy cohort is driving the flow.
§ 06 · WHO OWNS IT · BY STRATEGY
Ownership mix by behavioral cohort. Top bars indicate which style of capital dominates the float — passive indexing, quality compounders, dealer/bank, systematic quant, etc. Big quality-compounder share means concentrated active conviction; heavy passive share means flows are dictated by index rebalances, not fundamentals.
§ 07 · INSIDER ACTIVITY · LAST 180 DAYS
| Date | Insider | Action | Shares | $ value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEP 14 | Tuszik Oliver | SELL | 680 | −$75K |
| SEP 14 | Subaiya Thimaya K. | SELL | 312 | −$34K |
| SEP 14 | Patterson Mark | SELL | 2K | −$195K |
| SEP 09 | Fink Nichlas A | SELL | 2K | −$249K |
| JUN 11 | Tuszik Oliver | SELL | 100 | −$12K |
| JUN 11 | Patterson Mark | SELL | 200 | −$24K |
0 insider buys, 11 sells in the last 180 days. Scheduled 10b5-1 sales are pre-programmed and neutral; discretionary clusters are the tape worth reading. Cross-reference with the signal stack above for context.
§ 08 · COVERAGE · OUR RECENT NOTES
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