Cisco Selloff Puts $9 Billion AI Order Goal Under a Fourth-Quarter Test
Cisco Systems, Inc. slid 4.5% on Wednesday, sharpening an investor question created by its own artificial-intelligence targets: can record orders from hyperscalers, the largest cloud operators, turn into enough sales and profit to support a roughly $445 billion market value? Cisco booked $5.3 billion of AI infrastructure orders from those customers through fiscal third-quarter 2026 and must add about $3.7 billion in the final quarter to reach its $9 billion full-year goal, nearly twice the prior quarter’s $1.9 billion.