Cramer's Morning Take: Cisco Systems 7/17/25
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kramer, and this is my morning take on the market from today's CNBC Investing Club morning meeting. |
| 0:08.1 | Let's get into some stocks. Got some good stuff, some bad stuff happening today. Let's talk about a new buy for Cisco calling it up from the bullpen. |
| 0:15.2 | It's roughly unchanged since we first added on June 23rd. This is a networking equipment powerhouse, also cybersecurity through the Splunk deal. |
| 0:23.4 | But they have this newer AI angle to it first. |
| 0:26.2 | For so many years, Cisco, known as really serving enterprise customers. |
| 0:29.8 | But now they're really emphasizing the cloud computing side. |
| 0:33.3 | Yeah, you look at Oracle. |
| 0:34.5 | They're going to be in all the Oracle, all the data centers. |
| 0:38.5 | And he's Jensen's partner, and the stock did not move that much when they announced that. |
| 0:44.0 | They have a guy who is great at cybersecurity, who's moving on up, |
| 0:48.8 | and they're going to be the way that you connect all these data centers to the rest of your system. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, so they reach their goal of a billion in AI infrastructure orders from WebScale |
| 0:59.0 | customers. |
| 1:00.0 | Web scale is what, it's another word for the hyperscaler customers. |
| 1:03.0 | That's what they refer to them as. |
| 1:05.0 | They hit that goal quarter early. |
| 1:07.0 | Some other things like here, there's an ongoing transition to software revenues, which are, |
| 1:11.6 | especially subscription software, which are predictable, they're sticky, they're higher margins, |
| 1:15.6 | so the gross margin profile at the company has been going up steadily through the years. |
| 1:20.6 | You got a buyback, 2.4% dividend yield, valuation, undemanding, high teens multiple. |
| 1:26.6 | People just think it's the same old Cisco, like they didn't buy Splunk. |
| 1:31.1 | Splunk gave them visibility, it gave them some very good, really, really good cyber defense |
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