Ciscovs.HPE
CSCO vs HPE · both in Data centers, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Servers, networking, optics and data center capacity that tie AI infrastructure together.
Cisco is about 4.8× larger than HPE by market cap; year to date, HPE leads (+195.6% vs +52.4%).
Side by side
| CSCO | HPE | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $467B | $96.7B |
| Price | $118.39 | $73.46 |
| Today | +3.0% | +3.5% |
| Return YTD | +52.4% | +195.6% |
| Return 1Y | +70.2% | +172.2% |
| Since June 26, 2026 | +4.1% | +68.1% |
| P/E | 35.2 | 34.6 |
| P/S | 7.4 | 2.3 |
| P/B | 9.3 | 3.6 |
Data as of 2026-10-09 · updates daily after U.S. close
Since June 26, 2026: the change in the closing price, from the daily closes Sectivia records itself since that date.
The two companies
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Switches and routers at a scale no other network vendor matches, plus Silicon One chips of its own design and the security business built around Splunk. AI orders from hyperscalers are the newer line.
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Cray supercomputers and ProLiant AI servers on one side; on the other, a networking business that grew considerably with the Juniper acquisition.
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