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A 46 Percent Drop in Profit and Cisco Still Beats Estimates?

in News on August 5, 2009 at 1:23 pm PT

Hard to believe that this is good news: Cisco reported a 46 percent decline in quarterly profit this afternoon. An appalling drop. But one that investors welcomed, because as lousy as its performance might seem, Cisco’s earnings still managed to beat the Street.