Jim Cramer on Cisco: “This Company’s at the Heart of the AI Revolution”

Jim Cramer on Cisco: “This Company’s at the Heart of the AI Revolution”

By Syeda Seirut Javed
Publication Date: 2025-12-13 15:34:00

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) is one of the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar recently. Cramer highlighted the change in the company’s valuation over time, as he remarked:

“At the top, in 2000, Cisco’s forward price to earnings multiple was somewhere near, over 130. That’s ridiculously high for any market. That should have been a clarion call. Now, Cisco is valued at less than 19 times forward earnings now, literally less than a sixth of its peak valuation in the dot-com era. These days, it’s viewed as a stable, growing tech company that helps clients manage their networks and keep them secure. That’s a much more prosaic version of Cisco than we were being pitched 25 years ago. I know it well because my hedge fund owned Cisco for years and made a killing in it…

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Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) creates networking, security, and collaboration tools that help organizations stay connected and protected.

While we…