Cisco stock drops 6% after earnings guidance disappoints

Revenue climbed 8% to $12.9 billion, from $11.9 cardinal a twelvemonth ago. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had expected net of 80 cents and gross of $12.98 billion.

“In Q1, we had robust maturation and continued beardown request contempt the precise dynamic proviso environment,” Cisco Chief Executive Chuck Robbins said successful a statement announcing the results.

The institution expects 64 cents to 68 cents a stock successful profit, oregon 80 cents to 82 cents connected an adjusted basis, successful the fiscal 2nd quarter. Analysts were forecasting 70 cents and 82 cents, respectively, according to FactSet.

Cisco, similar astir large tech constituent suppliers, is coping with proviso concatenation issues that person partially offset beardown endeavor sales. The conflicting dynamic was at the bosom of galore analysts’ notes heading into Monday’s repot.

“There were truthful galore things that went good successful the quarter,” Cisco Chief Financial Officer Scott Herren told MarketWatch successful a telephone interview, noting a 33% leap successful merchandise bid maturation complaint from a twelvemonth ago, a 21% emergence successful annualized gross run-rate, and beardown request crossed each sectors and geographies.

“But we couldn’t person the request into revenue, astatine slightest during the 90-day cycle” due to the fact that of supply-chain issues that constricted entree to parts similar semiconductors, powerfulness supplies and memory, arsenic good arsenic logistic snarls, helium added.

“All that backlog and ARR volition yet go revenue,” Herren said.

Secure, Agile income ($5.97 billion, up 10% year-over-year), Services gross ($3.4 billion, up 1%), and Internet for the Future ($1.38 billion, up 46%) led successful gross categories.

The 4th marked the archetypal clip Cisco broke retired merchandise and work gross into 7 caller categories: Secure, Agile Networks; Hybrid Work; End-to-End Security; Internet for the Future; Optimized Application Experiences; Other Products; and Services.

Cisco’s banal is up 27% truthful acold successful 2021, portion the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.58%,  which counts Cisco arsenic a component, has precocious 17%. The broader S&P 500 scale SPX, -0.26% has accrued 25% this year.