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its strategic focus of increasing recurring revenue via selling software and services to supplement its hardware products. Software and services were more than half of fiscal 2020 revenue, up from 43% in fiscal 2017. In our view, Cisco embracing software from hardware disaggregation, and even selling networking chips, can help keep demand for its solutions high although some customers rely on cloud-based resources or generic hardware.
The company is the dominant supplier of switches, routers, cybersecurity, and complementary networking products. Cisco’s products are mission critical for network performance, stability, and security. Cisco is proliferating software, analytics, wireless, and security offerings to satisfy nascent trends, and we see Cisco as the only one-stop-shop networking vendor. Despite Cisco’s commanding position in switches and routers, IT professionals are increasingly shifting computer workloads to the cloud, in turn buying less data center hardware. Alongside changing its product offerings, Cisco is moving product sales toward subscription-based offerings, which is the preferred method of consumption for cloud-based resources.
Financial Strength
Cisco a financially healthy Company. With a fiscal 2021 debt/capital ratio of 22%, abundant free cash flow generation, and expected on-time debt payments. The company could safely lever back up to fund development projects, acquisitions, and shareholder returns if needed. Cisco has continually exceeded its commitment to return at least 50% of free cash flow, calculated as cash from operating activities minus capital expenditures, to shareholders. Cisco initiated its share repurchase program in 2001, has increased the authorization over time, had about $8 billion remaining at the end of fiscal 2021, with no termination date.
Cisco has recurrently raised its dividend year over year, and modest annual increases. Even after shareholder returns and debt repayments, the company remains financially flexible with plenty of cash to support acquisitions and its large marketing and R&D expenditures. Growing recurring revenue will provide a steadier income stream, and we expect strong operational and free cash flow generation to continue in the future. Our view is that Cisco will manage its growing war chest with future cash deployments into strategic developments and acquisitions.
Bulls Say’s
- Cisco’s one-stop-shop ecosystem, from switches to data analytics, should remain valued as more networking customers migrate to hybrid clouds.
- Despite the rise of public clouds, Cisco should continue to grow its customer base via hybrid cloud and software offerings.
- The expected rapid proliferation of devices to hit networks should drive customer demand for Cisco products. We foresee Cisco’s hardware as needed for access points, routing, and switching while software is crucial for analytics, security, and intent-based networking.
Company Profile
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the world’s largest hardware and software supplier within the networking solutions sector. The infrastructure platforms group includes hardware and software products for switching, routing, data center, and wireless applications. Its applications portfolio contains collaboration, analytics, and Internet of Things products. The security segment contains Cisco’s firewall and software-defined security products. Services are Cisco’s technical support and advanced services offerings. The company’s wide array of hardware is complemented with solutions for software-defined networking, analytics, and intent-based networking. In collaboration with Cisco’s initiative on growing software and services, its revenue model is focused on increasing subscriptions and recurring sales.
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According to a report by Bloomberg, SBI intends to launch a fund that will invest in Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin.
The fund, according to Tomoya Asakura, President of SBI affiliate Morningstar Japan K.K., would be geared at investors who are familiar with crypto assets and their volatility. Investors may need to invest anywhere from $9,100 (1 million yen) to $27,200 (3 million yen).
According to the report, SBI wants to launch the first crypto asset fund by the end of November, with a second crypto asset fund to follow depending on performance. Asakura also alluded to SBI creating a separate crypto fund for institutional investors if the interest was high enough.
SBI had intended to launch its crypto fund as an investment trust, which is a common way to invest in Japan. However, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the country’s primary financial regulator, has prohibited corporations from selling crypto investments using this way. After that, the corporation modified its approach and will now offer its crypto fund to investors through an “anonymous collaboration.” Due to Japan’s strict laws, it took the company more than four years to get the fund up and running.
The SEC vs. Ripple case takes another turn, making investors bullish on XRP.
- The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on 22 Dec,2020 that it has filed an action against Ripple Labs Inc. and two of its executives, who are also significant security holders, alleging that they raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered, ongoing digital asset securities offering.
- Ripple Holdings is still the largest public holder of XRP, and the payments giant is facing legal action. Since December 2020, this has had a persistent negative influence on the price of the native asset XRP.
- Recently, in the ongoing litigation, both Ripple and the SEC admit that Ripple owes no fiduciary duty to XRP holders. As a result, the XRP army is prepared to advocate for its own interests in the lawsuit.
- This indicates that the XRP community has stepped up to protect the altcoin from unfavourable price impact.
- Following a flash meltdown that saw the global crypto market value drop, the XRP price recovered primarily due to a spike in on-chain activity. XRP price rose 10% following a slight reversal, according to data from Santiment, a behavioural analytics platform, as address activity intensified.
- Further, positive developments in Ripple fuel the bullish narrative of XRP.
- SBI Holdings (Strategic Business Innovator Group) is working on a cryptocurrency fund that will invest in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and XRP. The announcement of the fund by the Japanese financial behemoth is a positive move for Ripple and is expected to boost the utility of the native asset XRP.
(Source:FXStreet, https://news.bitcoin.com)
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nearly 15% less than the previous day and reflecting a loss of more than $410 billion. A selling spree among the investors drove the prices of nearly every single coin, erasing the gains of the retail traders amidst the news of El Salvador’s first day accepting bitcoin as legal tender. This move resulted from the $4 billion cascading liquidations from the over-leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum futures.
In the middle of the flash crash, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele remarked that the country took advantage of crashing prices to purchase 150 bitcoins in addition, boosting its total to 550 coins, which amounts to about $25 million. The correction in the Bitcoin market highlighted the need to book profits consistently along the rally.
The Bitcoin fear and greed index, which is considered as an indicator of the overall sentiment of traders in the market, recently indicated ‘fear’. Analysts expect a potentially volatile period ahead for Bitcoin, as nearly 336,000 traders positions were liquidated in the crash. However, post Tuesday’s downfall, BTC is now on its road to recovery. Spent output ratios that look at profitability and losses taken over a particular time frame shows that the long-term holders have largely maintained their positions indicating the larger wallet moves were on-balance active short-term traders. On the contrary, it is observed by the analysts that the whales have been significantly buying BTC, increasing their holdings. Historically, whenever large wallet investors have increased their holdings and accumulated BTC, a price rally has followed. The proponents have claimed that if new buyers constantly inject capital in Bitcoin, it could break key resistance and set an all-time new record, further in 2021. Analysts expect Bitcoin to continue upwards climb and target the $57,000 level next.
About Bitcoin:
Bitcoin is the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency- a type of digital asset that uses public-key cryptography to record, sign and send transactions over the Bitcoin blockchain.
Launched in 2009, bitcoin is the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Unlike fiat currency, bitcoin is created, distributed, traded, and stored with the use of a decentralized ledger system, known as a blockchain. Bitcoin’s history as a store of value has been turbulent; it has gone through several cycles of boom and bust over its relatively short lifespan. As the earliest virtual currency to meet widespread popularity and success, bitcoin has inspired a host of other cryptocurrencies in its wake.
(Source: FXStreet, Investopedia, Forbes)
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