Cisco Stock (CSCO) Week-Ahead Outlook: AI Networking Tailwinds Meet a New Zero‑Day Risk (Dec 22–26, 2025)
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) enters the Christmas-shortened trading week with momentum: shares last traded around $78.42 (latest available close from Friday, Dec. 19, 2025) and sit within reach of a $80.82 52‑week high. Simply Wall St+1 But the coming week isn’t just about “Santa rally” seasonality and thin liquidity. Investors will be balancing (1) a headline cyber risk tied to a critical, actively exploited zero‑day in Cisco’s email security appliances, against (2) a strengthening AI-and-campus-refresh growth narrative that has pushed Wall Street targets higher into year-end. Below is a detailed, week-ahead CSCO stock report as of Sunday, Dec. 21,