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.
Cisco is also announcing that earlier today its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.19 per common share, a two-cent increase over the previous quarter's dividend, to be paid on April 23, 2014 to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 3, 2014.