By Trefis Team
Publication Date: 2026-08-19 18:50:00
The options are charging only their usual premium, which makes the width of the price range a fact about the business rather than a mood in the market.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) trades near $111.61 after a 72.1% run over the trailing twelve months, and the options market has already priced the edges a holder should plan around. Contracts about a year out put the one-standard-deviation band at $80 to $156.87. That is very wide for a company most investors still file under steady networking, and the reason is the business, not the option premium.
What A Slide To $80 Would Cost A Holder
Those two prices are boundaries, not predictions. The chain gives roughly two chances in three of the stock finishing inside that band, and about one in six of finishing below $80. That floor is $31.61 a share below today’s price, a 28.3% fall, and the ceiling is a 40.6% rise. The top half is wider only because a stock can climb without limit and cannot fall past…