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Ciscovs.Super Micro

CSCO vs SMCI · 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 18× larger than Super Micro by market cap; Super Micro trades at the lower P/E (20.4 vs 37.4); year to date, Cisco leads (+43.1% vs +20.2%).

Side by side

CSCOSMCI
Market cap$447B$25.4B
Price$111.11$38.46
Today+0.8%+9.4%
Return YTD+43.1%+20.2%
Return 1Y+63.7%−19.8%
P/E37.420.4
P/S7.40.8
P/B9.23.4

Data as of 2026-08-26 · updates daily after U.S. close

The two companies

CiscoCSCO

NASDAQ · USA

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.

NetworkingCybersecurity exposure
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Super MicroSMCI

NASDAQ · USA

Racks of GPU servers, liquid-cooled, put together quickly after each new GPU arrives.

AI serversData center exposure
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