Cisco Systems (CSCO) Tax Rate (2009 - 2026)

Cisco Systems (CSCO) posted Tax Rate of 16.49% for Q2 2026, up 27.64% sequentially from 12.92% in Q1 2026, and up 102.0% YoY from 8.16% in Q2 2025.

Cisco Systems (CSCO) Tax Rate (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Cisco Systems has reported Tax Rate for 18 years, with the latest figure at 16.49% in Q2 2026.

Quarterly Tax Rate rose 102.0% year-over-year to 16.49% in Q2 2026, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Apr 2026 was 15.04% (up 832.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 8.29%, down 736.0% from the prior year.
Tax Rate climbed to 16.49% in Q2 2026 per CSCO's latest filing, from 12.92% in the prior quarter.
Over five years, Tax Rate peaked at 23.17% in Q4 2022 and troughed at 19.59% in Q4 2024.
A 5-year average of 14.4% and a median of 16.19% in 2025 frame the typical range for Tax Rate.
The sharpest annual moves came in 2024 and 2025: Tax Rate plunged 3769 bps in 2024, then soared 3524 bps in 2025.
Over 5 years, Tax Rate stood at 23.17% in 2022, then retreated by 22 bps to 18.1% in 2023, then slumped by 208 bps to 19.59% in 2024, then soared by 180 bps to 15.66% in 2025, then grew by 5 bps to 16.49% in 2026.
According to Business Quant data, Tax Rate over the past three periods registered 16.49%, 12.92%, and 15.66% for Q2 2026, Q1 2026, and Q4 2025 respectively.

#	Company	Market Cap	Enterprise Value	Gross Profit (Qtr)	Tax Rate (Qtr)
1	Cisco Systems	440.02 Bn	423.38 Bn	10.08 Bn	16.49%
2	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	77.69 Bn	72.40 Bn	3.94 Bn	10.73%
3	Motorola Solutions	77.25 Bn	76.56 Bn	1.68 Bn	24.80%
4	Lumentum Holdings	66.40 Bn	63.23 Bn	357.00 Mn	21.55%
5	Nokia	61.84 Bn	54.37 Bn	10.09 Bn	-
6	Ciena	60.71 Bn	59.51 Bn	691.55 Mn	5.56%
7	Ubiquiti	34.65 Bn	34.28 Bn	370.71 Mn	19.38%
8	Ericsson Lm Telephone	34.62 Bn	28.92 Bn	2.58 Bn	-29.00%
9	AST SpaceMobile	27.62 Bn	28.12 Bn	9.12 Mn	-0.37%
10	Zebra Technologies	17.79 Bn	17.63 Bn	825.00 Mn	18.25%

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