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.
The ex-dividend date for Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) is tomorrow, March 29, 2011. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of six cents per share. At a price of $17.36 as of 9:31 a.m., the dividend yield is 1.4%.