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Cisco Systems (NasdaqGS: CSCO) joined Verizon's 6G Innovation Forum, taking part in work on AI native wireless and sensing architectures. The firm is collaborating with quantum company Infleqtion on distributed quantum networking research that uses the Cisco Universal Quantum Switch. Cisco and Infleqtion plan to explore scalable quantum network designs aimed at connecting multiple quantum processing nodes across wider telecom infrastructure. Cisco's move into Verizon's 6G forum and its...
SCHD's 0.06% expense ratio gets all the attention, but something that happened quietly in March may have cost dividend investors far more than a decade of fees combined.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) trades near $62, at the top of its 52-week range and up about 160% over the past year. The company just reported record revenue of $12.2 billion for fiscal Q3 2026 and a raised outlook for fiscal 2027. The easy read is that you are early in an AI cycle. The harder question is what paid for it.
The release combines infrastructure and software while leaving customers responsible for operating their own deployment.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) stock has run from about $24 to roughly $62 over the past year, a gain of about 159% against close to 19% for the S&P 500. That move was legible in advance, but only one place told you which way. The order book moved long before the profit line did.
Dell Technologies (DELL) has returned more than 360% over the past year and now sits right at the top of its 52-week range. Measured against sales it is still cheaper than the S&P 500. Measured against the cash it produces, it costs about twice the index. Both readings describe the same company, and the gap is the decision.
AMD's 34% revenue surge and 12.5% net margin contrast sharply with ASML's 29.4% profitability and $12.3 billion in free cash flow.
Arista published its batch of security advisories on September 9, turning an advance warning into an immediate customer maintenance task. The release includes critical vulnerabilities affecting EOS and VeloCloud. Cisco’s September 4 security commentary describes the broader problem: vulnerability discovery is accelerating beyond customers’ ability to remediate it. For Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Arista […]
Ken Fisher’s latest disclosed positions put two different approaches to AI infrastructure and security in the same portfolio. Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) combines networking equipment with security software. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PANW) offers more concentrated exposure to security platforms, with acquisitions adding an integration test. September coverage brought renewed attention to Fisher’s position increases. […]
Nvidia's chief sees continuous AI defense following coding, placing Cisco's security and networking platforms inside the next demand contest.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) stock trades at $107.44, and its options price a range over the next twelve months from near $74 to near $156. The market gives the shares about a two-in-three chance of finishing inside that band, and the band carries no view on direction. It measures size, and for Cisco that is about as much movement as the stock has shown over the past year.
Dell Technologies (DELL) stock more than quadrupled over the past year, a 323% gain, against about 18% for the S&P 500, and even Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), up 130.6%, finished far behind. Management had described most of the drivers before the run began: customers sitting on old servers, AI orders that had outrun shipments earlier in the year, and costs falling while sales rose. Those signs could not tell you how far the stock would go.
Wall Street snapped a four-day losing streak as falling oil prices and strong gains for several tech stocks offset inflation fears and rising rate-hike odds.
Arista Networks (ANET) stock has gained about 51% since mid-December, against about 12% for the S&P 500. Peers Dell Technologies (DELL) rose 293% and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) 135%, while Cisco Systems (CSCO) gained about 40%. AI demand is the obvious explanation, and it is real. But management linked its latest outlook raise to a better supply position, and the CEO says the industry is still short of parts. From here, the shares are a bet on those parts arriving.
Networking stocks are surging well beyond the broader tech sector, and no earnings report, contract award, or company announcement explains why Ciena, Arista, and Cisco are all moving together on the same Friday afternoon.
If you own Ciena (CIEN) or Arista Networks, you own one idea: AI is driving fast growth in network traffic, and both sell the equipment that carries it. Both raised their revenue outlooks in their latest reports, and both say they could ship more if supply loosened. Then the pair splits. Ciena's case rests on orders it cannot yet fill, while Arista already keeps about 43 cents of every sales dollar as operating profit.
Ciena targets at least 30% fiscal 2027 revenue growth as AI demand rises, but its premium valuation, supply risks and cloud concentration raise the stakes.
Cisco (CSCO) reported earnings 30 days ago. What's next for the stock? We take a look at earnings estimates for some clues.
Morningstar strategist Tom Lauricella says the funds retirees bought specifically to escape tech concentration have quietly filled up with the same AI bets they were meant to offset, and the shift happened faster than almost anyone noticed.
Jensen Huang rebuffed AI catastrophe warnings while highlighting massive infrastructure demand as key growth drivers.
“Too big to fail” is how we would describe the megacap stocks in this article today. While they will likely stand the test of time, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows as their scale can limit their ability to find new sources of growth.
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) used its AIPCon event to highlight customer deployments of its Foundry, Ontology and Artificial Intelligence Platform products across supply chains, aviation safety, defense manufacturing, insurance, media, pharmaceuticals and industrial operations. Speakers repea
Justin and Travis Maderia, Lobsterboys co-founders, join Asking For A Trend host Josh Lipton to discuss the impact of fuel prices and the effects of tariffs exchanged between the US and Canada.
The courtroom dispute concerns historic technology; Cisco's $9.3 billion AI order book drives today's financial case.
Growth is oxygen. But when it evaporates, the consequences can be severe - ask anyone who bought Cisco in the Dot-Com Bubble or newer investors who lived through the 2020 to 2022 COVID cycle.