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The company's largest acquisition as of October 2023 is the purchase of Splunk —a software company that develops software for the analysis and monitoring of machine-generated data — US$ 28 billion. [3] Cisco's previous largest acquisition was tied between Cerent Corporation and Scientific Atlanta for $6.9 billion in 1999 and 2005 respectively.
January 28, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Geocities for $4.58 billion in stock. April 1, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion in shares. 2000s 2000. January 3, 2000: Yahoo stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. This price propelled them to the most valuable company in the world at the time.
Lucent became a "darling" stock of the investment community in the late 1990s, and its split-adjusted spinoff price of $7.56/share rose to a high of $84. Its market capitalization reached a high of $258 billion, and it was at the time the most widely held company with 5.3 million shareholders. In 1995, Carly Fiorina led corporate operations.
Its annual net income has gone from $2.7 billion in 1999 — this flipped to a loss of around $1 billion in 2000 — to north of $13 billion on a 12-month trailing basis. Notably, the company’s ...
Data by YCharts. Cisco's stock was very overvalued for most of its trading history before the stock reached its all-time high in March 2000. Its valuation was particularly bloated in 1999, the ...
Cisco has a rich history of buying its way to global success. And it's remained quite active, acquiring more than 30 startups over the last four years for a total of 229 over the life of the company.
The bad news goes beyond the numbers. For starters, Cisco said revenue was flat from a year earlier at $12.8 billion, while analysts were expecting $13.3 billion — a substantial gap ...
I'm not holding my breath for Cisco to return to its robust growth levels of the dot-com era. But with shares making new 52-week highs, it seems that the Street is at least willing to consider ...