Dow Today: Cisco Systems (CSCO) Higher

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) is trading up 43 points (+0.3%) at 14,296 as of Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013, 12:35 p.m. ET. During this time, 294 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 621.3 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,411 issues advancing vs. 1,485 declining with 141 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO), which is sporting a 33-cent gain (+1.5%) bringing the stock to $21.54. This single gain is lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 2.5 points or roughly accounting for 5.8% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for Cisco Systems currently sits at 21.7 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 36.8 million shares.

Cisco Systems has a market cap of $110.59 billion and is part of the technology sector and computer hardware industry. Shares are up 5.6% year to date as of Tuesday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.7%.

Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP) based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industries worldwide. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7.

TheStreet Ratings rates Cisco Systems as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.

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