The going was painfully slow, but Chickenhound consoled himself on the long journey by boosting his own ego. âMaybe a silly bunch of rats could put one over on Sela. Huh, she was old and had lost a lot of her guile.
Even after the run Cisco stock has had over the past few years, the stock is still a buy. Cisco has reported earnings of $1.73 per share over the past four quarters, which puts the stock's P/E ratio at just about 17. This doesn't seem all that inexpensive, but there are a couple of things skewing Cisco's valuation.
As of January 25, 2014, Cisco had repurchased and retired 4.1 billion shares of Cisco common stock at an average price of $20.53 per share for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $84.9 billion since the inception of the stock repurchase program.