Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Cisco Systems has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
The historical rank and industry rank for Cisco Systems's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:
CSCO'
s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4 Med: 6 Max: 9
Current: 6
During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of Cisco Systems was 9. The lowest was 4. And the median was 6.
Cisco Systems Piotroski F-Score Historical Data
The historical data trend for Cisco Systems's Piotroski F-Score can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
* Premium members only.
Cisco Systems Annual Data
Trend
Jul13
Jul14
Jul15
Jul16
Jul17
Jul18
Jul19
Jul20
Jul21
Jul22
Piotroski F-Score
5.00
8.00
9.00
6.00
7.00
Cisco Systems Quarterly Data
Apr18
Jul18
Oct18
Jan19
Apr19
Jul19
Oct19
Jan20
Apr20
Jul20
Oct20
Jan21
Apr21
Jul21
Oct21
Jan22
Apr22
Jul22
Oct22
Jan23
Piotroski F-Score
7.00
7.00
7.00
6.00
6.00
Competitive Comparison
For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Cisco Systems's Piotroski F-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Piotroski F-Score data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Cisco Systems Piotroski F-Score Distribution
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Cisco Systems's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Cisco Systems's Piotroski F-Score falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Piotroski F-Score's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.
How is the Piotroski F-Score calculated?
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
*Note: If the latest quarterly/semi-annual/annual total assets data is 0, then we will use previous quarterly/semi-annual/annual data for all the items in the balance sheet.
Profitability
Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)
Net income before extraordinary items for the year divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.
Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.
Cisco Systems's current Net Income (TTM) was 11,302.
==> Positive ==> Score 1.
Question 2. Cash Flow Return on Assets (CFROA)
Net cash flow from operating activities (operating cash flow) divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.
Cisco Systems's return on assets of this year was 0.11989985. Cisco Systems's return on assets of last year was 0.12369117.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Score 1 if CFROA > ROA, 0 if CFROA <= ROA.
Cisco Systems's current Net Income (TTM) was 11,302. Cisco Systems's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 16,039.
==> 16,039 > 11,302 ==> CFROA > ROA ==> Score 1.
Funding
Question 5. Change in Gearing or Leverage
Compare this year's gearing (long-term debt divided by average total assets) to last year's gearing.
Score 0 if this year's gearing is higher, 1 otherwise.
Cisco Systems's gearing of this year was 0.08125246. Cisco Systems's gearing of last year was 0.09396799.
==> This year is lower or equal to last year. ==> Score 1.
Question 6. Change in Working Capital (Liquidity)
Compare this year's current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) to last year's current ratio.
Score 1 if this year's current ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower
Cisco Systems's current ratio of this year was 1.41329077. Cisco Systems's current ratio of last year was 1.41998842.
==> Last year's current ratio is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 7. Change in Shares in Issue
Compare the number of shares in issue this year, to the number in issue last year.
Score 0 if there is larger number of shares in issue this year, 1 otherwise.
Cisco Systems's number of shares in issue this year was 4116. Cisco Systems's number of shares in issue last year was 4205.
==> There is smaller number of shares in issue this year, or the same. ==> Score 1.
Efficiency
Question 8. Change in Gross Margin
Compare this year's gross margin (Gross Profit divided by sales) to last year's.
Score 1 if this year's gross margin is higher, 0 if it's lower.
Cisco Systems's gross margin of this year was 0.61923214. Cisco Systems's gross margin of last year was 0.63300937.
==> Last year's gross margin is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 9. Change in asset turnover
Compare this year's asset turnover (total sales for the year divided by total assets at the beginning of the year) to last year's asset turnover ratio.
Score 1 if this year's asset turnover ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower
Cisco Systems's asset turnover of this year was 0.56397064. Cisco Systems's asset turnover of last year was 0.53920984.
==> This year's asset turnover is higher. ==> Score 1.
Evaluation
Piotroski F-Score
=
Que. 1
+
Que. 2
+
Que. 3
+
Que. 4
+
Que. 5
+
Que. 6
+
Que. 7
+
Que. 8
+
Que. 9
=
1
+
1
+
0
+
1
+
1
+
0
+
1
+
0
+
1
=
6
Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3
Cisco Systems has an F-score of 6 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.
Cisco Systems (NAS:CSCO) Piotroski F-Score Explanation
The developer of the system is Joseph D. Piotroski is relatively unknown accounting professor who shuns publicity and rarely gives interviews.
He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accounting in 1989, received an M.B.A. from Indiana University in 1994. Five years later, in 1999, after earning a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Michigan, he became an associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago.
He wanted to see if he can develop a system (using a simple nine-point scoring system) that can increase the returns of a strategy of investing in low price to book (referred to in the paper as high book to market) value companies.
What he found was something that exceeded his most optimistic expectations.
Buying only those companies that scored highest (8 or 9) on his nine-point scale, or F-Score as he called it, over the 20 year period from 1976 to 1996 led to an average out-performance over the market of 13.4%.
Even more impressive were the results of a strategy of investing in the highest F-Score companies (8 or 9) and shorting companies with the lowest F-Score (0 or 1).
Over the same period from 1976 to 1996 (20 years) this strategy led to an average yearly return of 23%, substantially outperforming the average S&P 500 index return of 15.83% over the same period.
Cisco Systems Piotroski F-Score Related Terms
Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Cisco Systems's Piotroski F-Score provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.
Cisco Systems is the largest provider of networking equipment in the world and one of the largest software companies in the world. Its largest businesses are selling networking hardware and software (where it has leading market shares) and cybersecurity software like firewalls. It also has collaboration products, like its Webex suite, and observability tools. It primarily outsources its manufacturing to third parties and has a large sales and marketing staff—25,000 strong across 90 countries. Overall, Cisco employees 80,000 employees and sells its products globally.
Create New Portfolio
Portfolio Contest
Personalize
Premium Gurus 
0.78(1.57%) Volume: 19,376,536 4:00PM EDT
Email Alerts
Stock PDF
RSS
Website
Filings
Download
Manual of Stocks™ Web APP
CSCO has been successfully added to your 
