During the past 12 months, Cisco Systems's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 2.60% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 2.70% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 4.10% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 9.80% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Cisco Systems was 81.70% per year. The lowest was 2.70% per year. And the median was 14.00% per year.
The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.
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Cisco Systems Dividend Yield % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Cisco Systems's Dividend Yield % 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.
Competitive Comparison of Cisco Systems's Dividend Yield %
For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Cisco Systems's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % 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's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Cisco Systems's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Cisco Systems's Dividend Yield % falls into.
Cisco Systems Dividend Yield % Calculation
Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.
Cisco Systems (XAMS:CIS) Dividend Yield % Explanation
Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.
Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.
In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.
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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.
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