Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American company in the telecommunications industry. It is primarily known for its routers and switches, which are used by a substantial part of the Internet backbones. Cisco was founded in December 1984 by a group of scientists (primarily Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner) from Stanford University near San Francisco.
According to Cisco's latest financial reports and stock price the company's current number of shares outstanding is 3,981,000,000. At the end of 2025 the company had 3,981,000,000 shares outstanding. The number of outstanding shares is usually impacted by stock plits and shares buy back.