Cisco (CSCO) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Cisco's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
CSCO closed at $111.04 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -4.5% from its 50-day average and +19.5% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “split trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -6.1%, trailing SPY by 9.2%. It remains 14.8% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -4.5% from its 50-day average and +19.5% from its 200-day average. Over three months, CSCO returned -6.1% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -4.5%
- vs 200-day
- +19.5%
- From 52W high
- -14.8%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
CSCO appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 4 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 4 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.18, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | #13 | — |
| 2026-08-13 | #10 | — |
| 2026-06-12 | #27 | — |
| 2026-05-23 | #28 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.054 calls, 0.043 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
None of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Cisco position in their latest filing. That is an explicit absence within this focused panel, not evidence that the company has no institutional holders.
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open CSCO Financials →How CSCO trades — the working manual
Cisco sells networking infrastructure, security, collaboration and observability products with a growing recurring-software component. For the stock, enterprise and cloud orders must be separated from shipment timing, while subscription growth, acquisition integration and gross margin show whether the mix is becoming more durable.
What can move the tape
- 01Enterprise, service-provider and cloud networking orders, backlog conversion and product shipments.
- 02Security and observability growth, recurring subscriptions and renewal behavior.
- 03AI-related data-center networking demand and Cisco's position in switching and optics.
- 04Gross margin, acquisition integration, operating cash flow and capital returns.
What can fool the read
- 01Customer inventory corrections can create long gaps between end demand and reported product revenue.
- 02Cloud operators and specialist vendors can pressure networking share and pricing.
- 03Large acquisitions can add recurring revenue while creating integration and execution risk.
- 04A mature installed base can support cash flow even when underlying product growth remains slow.
Cisco triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was CSCO on 2026-05-15: 1.8× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.1% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported CSCO events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
CSCO stock questions
Is CSCO stock in an uptrend?+
CSCO is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -4.5% from its 50-day average and +19.5% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in CSCO mean?+
Cisco's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the CSCO 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are CSCO's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated CSCO Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no CSCO earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.