
Cisco Beats Revenue, but Margin Pressures Dim Outlook as AI Infra Grows
Cisco beat Q4 revenue and non-GAAP EPS estimates ($17.3B and $1.22) and AI infrastructure orders reached $4B, lifting fiscal 2026 AI revenue to $9.3B, but gross margins declined to 66.3% overall and 64.8% for products, prompting a Q1 margin guide of 65–66%. Inventories rose to $5.69B from $3.16B and cash flow was flat at $14.2B, while Cisco guided fiscal 2027 revenue of $72.2–$73.4B and non-GAAP EPS of $5.05–$5.11 with about $7.5B in AI infrastructure revenue; the stock fell about 6% premarket on the news.

