SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ —

Information Abstract:

• Product series enlargement of 14% 12 months over 12 months; up 6% aside from Splunk
• Earnings of $13.6 billion in This fall FY 2024, above the prime finish of our steerage area
• Sturdy margins:
  • This fall FY 2024 GAAP improper margin of 64.4% and Non-GAAP improper margin of 67.9%
  • FY 2024 GAAP improper margin of 64.7% and Non-GAAP improper margin of 67.5%, the perfect in two decades
• Forged enlargement in device and routine metrics in FY 2024, enhanced via Splunk
  • Overall subscription earnings of $27.4 billion together with Splunk, representing 51% of general earnings
  • Overall annualized routine earnings (ARR) at $29.6 billion, together with $4.3 billion from Splunk, up 22% 12 months over 12 months
  • Overall device earnings at $18.4 billion, up 9% 12 months over 12 months, with device subscription earnings of $16.4 billion, up 15% 12 months over 12 months, making up 89% of general device earnings
• This fall FY 2024 Effects:
  • Earnings: $13.6 billion
    • Trim of 10% 12 months over 12 months
  • Profits in step with Percentage: GAAP: $0.54; Non-GAAP: $0.87
    • GAAP EPS reduced 44% 12 months over 12 months
    • Non-GAAP EPS reduced 24% 12 months over 12 months
• FY 2024 Effects:
  • Earnings: $53.8 billion 
    • Trim of 6% 12 months over 12 months
  • Profits in step with Percentage: GAAP: $2.54; Non-GAAP: $3.73
    • GAAP EPS reduced 17% 12 months over 12 months
    • Non-GAAP EPS reduced 4% 12 months over 12 months
• Q1 FY 2025 Steerage:
  • Earnings: $13.65 billion to $13.85 billion
  • Profits in step with Percentage: GAAP: $0.35 to $0.42; Non-GAAP: $0.86 to $0.88
• FY 2025 Steerage:
  • Earnings: $55.0 billion to $56.2 billion
  • Profits in step with Percentage: GAAP: $1.93 to $2.05; Non-GAAP: $3.52 to $3.58

Cisco lately reported fourth quarter and financial 12 months effects for the length ended July 27, 2024. Cisco reported fourth quarter earnings of $13.6 billion, internet source of revenue on a most often accredited accounting rules (GAAP) foundation of $2.2 billion or $0.54 in step with proportion, and non-GAAP internet source of revenue of $3.5 billion or $0.87 in step with proportion.

“We delivered a strong close to fiscal 2024,” mentioned Chuck Robbins, chair and CEO of Cisco. “In our fourth quarter, we saw steady customer demand with order growth across the business as customers rely on Cisco to connect and protect all aspects of their organizations in the era of AI.”

“Revenue, gross margin and EPS in Q4 were at the high end or above our guidance range, demonstrating our operating discipline,” mentioned Scott Herren, CFO of Cisco. “As we look to build on our performance, we remain laser focused on growth and consistent execution as we invest to win in AI, cloud and cybersecurity, while maintaining capital returns.”

The purchase of Splunk, together with financing prices, had a detrimental have an effect on of $0.16 to GAAP EPS, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024.

The purchase of Splunk, together with financing prices, had a detrimental have an effect on of $0.04 to Non-GAAP EPS, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024.

The purchase of Splunk, together with financing prices, had a detrimental have an effect on of $0.25 to GAAP EPS, for fiscal 2024.

The purchase of Splunk, together with financing prices, had a detrimental have an effect on of $0.04 to Non-GAAP EPS, for fiscal 2024.

Reconciliations between internet source of revenue, EPS, and alternative measures on a GAAP and non-GAAP foundation are supplied within the tables situated within the division entitled “Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP Measures.”

Cisco Announces Quarterly Dividend

Cisco has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.40 in step with familiar proportion to be paid on October 23, 2024, to all stockholders of document as of the akin of industrial on October 2, 2024. Past dividends might be matter to Board approbation.

Monetary Abstract

All comparative percentages are on a year-over-year foundation until in a different way famous.

This fall FY 2024 Highlights 

Earnings — Overall earnings used to be $13.6 billion, indisposed 10%, with product earnings indisposed 15% and services and products earnings up 6%. Splunk contributed roughly $960 million of general earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024.

Earnings via geographic department used to be: Americas indisposed 11%, EMEA indisposed 11%, and APJC indisposed 6%. Product earnings efficiency mirrored enlargement in Safety up 81% and Observability up 41%. Networking used to be indisposed 28%. Product earnings in Collaboration used to be flat. Safety and Observability, aside from Splunk, grew 6% and 12%, respectively, within the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024.

Improper Margin — On a GAAP foundation, general improper margin, product improper margin, and services and products improper margin had been 64.4%, 63.0%, and 67.8%, respectively, as in comparison with 64.1%, 63.6%, and 65.7%, respectively, within the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.

On a non-GAAP foundation, general improper margin, product improper margin, and services and products improper margin had been 67.9%, 67.0%, and 70.3%, respectively, as in comparison with 65.9%, 65.5%, and 67.5%, respectively, within the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.

Overall improper margins via geographic department had been: 67.7% for the Americas, 69.2% for EMEA and 66.4% for APJC.

Running Bills — On a GAAP foundation, working bills had been $6.2 billion, up 12%, and had been 45.2% of earnings. Non-GAAP working bills had been $4.8 billion, up 4%, and had been 35.4% of earnings.

Running Source of revenue — GAAP working source of revenue used to be $2.6 billion, indisposed 38%, with GAAP working margin of nineteen.2%. Non-GAAP working source of revenue used to be $4.4 billion, indisposed 17%, with non-GAAP working margin at 32.5%.

Provision for Source of revenue Taxes — The GAAP tax provision fee used to be 9.8%. The non-GAAP tax provision fee used to be 16.6%.

Web Source of revenue and EPS — On a GAAP foundation, internet source of revenue used to be $2.2 billion, a shorten of 45%, and EPS used to be $0.54, a shorten of 44%. On a non-GAAP foundation, internet source of revenue used to be $3.5 billion, a shorten of 25%, and EPS used to be $0.87, a shorten of 24%. 

Money Current from Running Actions — $3.7 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, a shorten of 37% in comparison with $6.0 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2023.

FY 2024 Highlights

Earnings — Overall earnings used to be $53.8 billion, a shorten of 6%. Splunk contributed roughly $1.4 billion of general earnings for fiscal 2024.

Web Source of revenue and EPS — On a GAAP foundation, internet source of revenue used to be $10.3 billion, a shorten of 18%, and EPS used to be $2.54, a shorten of 17%. On a non-GAAP foundation, internet source of revenue used to be $15.2 billion, a shorten of five% in comparison to fiscal 2023, and EPS used to be $3.73, a shorten of four%.

Money Current from Running Actions — $10.9 billion for fiscal 2024, a shorten of 45% in comparison with $19.9 billion for fiscal 2023.

Stability Sheet and Alternative Monetary Highlights

Money and Money Equivalents and Investments — $17.9 billion on the finish of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, in comparison with $18.8 billion on the finish of the 3rd quarter of fiscal 2024, and in comparison with $26.1 billion on the finish of fiscal 2023.

Excess Efficiency Tasks (RPO) — $41.0 billion, up 18% in general, with 51% of this quantity to be identified as earnings over the after three hundred and sixty five days. Product RPO had been up 27% and services and products RPO had been up 10%.

Deferred Earnings — $28.5 billion, up 11% in general, with deferred product earnings up 15%. Deferred carrier earnings used to be up 9%. 

Capital Allocation — Within the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, we returned $3.6 billion to stockholders via proportion buybacks and dividends. We declared and paid a money dividend of $0.40 in step with familiar proportion, or $1.6 billion, and repurchased roughly 43 million stocks of familiar keep underneath our keep repurchase program at a mean value of $46.80 in step with proportion for an combination acquire value of $2.0 billion. The residue licensed quantity for keep repurchases underneath this system is $5.2 billion without a termination occasion.

Steerage

Cisco estimates refer to effects for the primary quarter of fiscal 2025:

Cisco estimates that GAAP EPS might be $0.35 to $0.42 for the primary quarter of fiscal 2025.

Cisco estimates refer to effects for fiscal 2025:

Cisco estimates that GAAP EPS might be $1.93 to $2.05 for fiscal 2025.

Our Q1 FY 2025 and FY 2025 steerage assumes an efficient tax provision fee of roughly 17% for GAAP and roughly 19% for non-GAAP effects.

A reconciliation between the steerage on a GAAP and non-GAAP foundation is equipped within the tables entitled “GAAP to non-GAAP Guidance” situated within the division entitled “Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP Measures.”

Essayist’s Notes:

• This fall fiscal 12 months 2024 convention name to talk about Cisco’s effects at the side of its steerage might be hung on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Week. Convention name quantity is 1-888-848-6507 (United States) or 1-212-519-0847 (global).
    
• Convention name replay might be to be had from 4:00 p.m. Pacific Week, August 14, 2024 to 4:00 p.m. Pacific Week, August 20, 2024 at 1-866-510-4837 (United States) or 1-203-369-1943 (global). The replay can be to be had by way of webcast at the Cisco Investor Members of the family web page at https://investor.cisco.com.
    
• Backup data referring to Cisco’s financials, in addition to a webcast of the convention name with optical designed to steer contributors throughout the name, might be to be had at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Week, August 14, 2024. Textual content of the convention name’s ready remarks might be to be had inside of 24 hours finishing touch of the decision. The webcast will come with each the ready remarks and the question-and-answer consultation. This data, at the side of the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation data, might be to be had at the Cisco Investor Members of the family web page at https://investor.cisco.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

⁽¹⁾ On August 14, 2024, Cisco introduced a restructuring plan to permit it to put money into key enlargement alternatives and force extra efficiencies in its trade. In reference to this restructuring plan, Cisco recently estimates that it is going to acknowledge pre-tax fees of as much as $1 billion consisting of severance and alternative one-time termination advantages, and alternative prices. Cisco expects to acknowledge roughly $700 million to $800 million of those fees within the first quarter of fiscal 2025 with the residue quantity anticipated to be identified throughout the remainder of the fiscal 12 months.

⁽²⁾ Estimated changes to GAAP income in step with proportion are proven later source of revenue tax results.

Apart from as famous above, this steerage does now not come with the results of any generation acquisitions/divestitures, important asset impairments and restructurings, important litigation settlements and alternative contingencies, Russia–Ukraine conflict prices, positive aspects and losses on investments, important tax issues, or alternative pieces, which might or is probably not important.

Ahead Having a look Statements, Non-GAAP Knowledge and Backup Knowledge

This let fall could also be deemed to include forward-looking statements, that are matter to the preserve harbor provisions of the Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Work of 1995. Those forward-looking statements come with, amongst alternative issues, statements referring to generation occasions (similar to our shoppers’ reliance on Cisco to fasten and offer protection to their organizations within the presen of AI and our center of attention on enlargement and constant execution as we put money into AI, cloud and cybersecurity, era keeping up capital returns) and the generation monetary efficiency of Cisco (together with the steerage for Q1 FY 2025 and whole 12 months FY 2025) that contain dangers and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that those forward-looking statements are handiest predictions and might range materially from latest generation occasions or effects because of quite a lot of elements, together with: trade and financial situations and enlargement tendencies within the networking trade, our buyer markets and diverse geographic areas; international financial situations and uncertainties within the geopolitical order; our construction and usefulness of man-made logic; general data generation spending; the expansion and evolution of the Web and ranges of capital spending on Web-based programs; permutations in buyer call for for services, together with gross sales to the carrier supplier marketplace, cloud, endeavor and alternative buyer markets; the go back on our investments in positive priorities, key enlargement boxes, and in positive geographical places, in addition to keeping up management in Networking and services and products; the timing of orders and production and buyer supremacy instances; provide constraints; adjustments in buyer series patterns or buyer combine; inadequate, abundance or out of date stock; variability of attribute prices; permutations in gross sales channels, product prices or combine of goods bought; our skill to effectively gain companies and applied sciences and to effectively combine and function those got companies and applied sciences; our skill to succeed in anticipated advantages of our partnerships; larger festival in our product and services and products markets, together with the knowledge heart marketplace; dependence at the advent and marketplace acceptance of untouched product choices and requirements; speedy technological and marketplace exchange; production and sourcing dangers; product defects and returns; litigation involving patents, alternative highbrow trait, antitrust, stockholder and alternative issues, and governmental investigations; our skill to succeed in the advantages of restructurings and imaginable adjustments within the dimension and timing of linked fees; cyber assaults, information breaches or alternative incidents; vulnerabilities and demanding safety defects; our skill to give protection to non-public information; evolving regulatory lack of certainty; terrorism; herbal terrible occasions (together with because of international order exchange); any pandemic or epidemic; our skill to succeed in the advantages expected from our investments in gross sales, engineering, carrier, advertising and marketing and production actions; our skill to contract and secure key body of workers; our skill to govern monetary possibility, and to govern bills throughout financial downturns; dangers linked to the worldwide nature of our operations, together with our operations in rising markets; forex fluctuations and alternative global elements; adjustments in provision for source of revenue taxes, together with adjustments in tax regulations and laws or adversarial results attributable to examinations of our source of revenue tax returns; doable volatility in working effects; and alternative elements indexed in Cisco’s most up-to-date studies on Methods 10-Q and 10-Ok filed on Might 21, 2024 and September 7, 2023, respectively. The monetary data contained on this let fall will have to be learn along with the consolidated monetary statements and notes thereto integrated in Cisco’s most up-to-date studies on Methods 10-Q and 10-Ok as each and every could also be amended from day to day. Cisco’s result of operations for the 3 months and the 12 months ended July 27, 2024 don’t seem to be essentially indicative of Cisco’s working effects for any generation classes. Any projections on this let fall are in accordance with restricted data recently to be had to Cisco, which is matter to modify. Even if such a projections and the criteria influencing them will most likely exchange, Cisco is not going to essentially replace the ideas, since Cisco will handiest grant steerage at positive issues throughout the 12 months. Such data speaks handiest as of the occasion of this let fall.

This let fall contains non-GAAP internet source of revenue, non-GAAP improper margins, non-GAAP working bills, non-GAAP working source of revenue and margin, non-GAAP efficient tax charges, non-GAAP passion and alternative source of revenue (loss), internet, and non-GAAP internet source of revenue in step with proportion information for the classes introduced. It additionally contains generation estimated levels for improper margin, working margin, tax provision fee and EPS on a non-GAAP foundation.

Those non-GAAP measures don’t seem to be in keeping with, or an spare for, measures ready in keeping with most often accredited accounting rules (GAAP) and could also be other from non-GAAP measures impaired via alternative corporations. As well as, those non-GAAP measures don’t seem to be in accordance with any complete i’m ready of accounting laws or rules. Cisco believes that non-GAAP measures have barriers in that they don’t mirror the entire quantities related to Cisco’s result of operations as aspiring in keeping with GAAP and that those measures will have to handiest be impaired to guage Cisco’s result of operations along with the corresponding GAAP measures.

Cisco believes that the presentation of non-GAAP measures when proven along with the corresponding GAAP measures, supplies helpful data to buyers and control referring to monetary and trade tendencies on the subject of its monetary situation and its ancient and projected result of operations.

For its inside budgeting procedure, Cisco’s control makes use of monetary statements that don’t come with, when appropriate, share-based repayment expense, amortization of acquisition-related intangible property, acquisition-related/divestiture prices, important asset impairments and restructurings, important litigation settlements and alternative contingencies, Russia–Ukraine conflict prices, positive aspects and losses on investments, the source of revenue tax results of the foregoing and demanding tax issues. Cisco’s control additionally makes use of the foregoing non-GAAP measures, along with the corresponding GAAP measures, in reviewing the monetary result of Cisco. In prior classes, Cisco has excluded alternative pieces that it now not excludes for functions of its non-GAAP monetary measures. From day to day going forward there could also be alternative pieces that Cisco might exclude for functions of its inside budgeting procedure and in reviewing its monetary effects. For backup data at the pieces excluded via Cisco from a number of of its non-GAAP monetary measures, please see the Method 8-Ok referring to this let fall furnished lately to the Securities and Alternate Fee.

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