Taking Share and Taking Names

No one's been a bigger critic of John Chambers and Cisco (CSCO) of late.

The networking giant seemed to be bloated, without direction, blowing with the breeze of macro events. The company had promised a juicy dividend and then gave you a paltry one. We had to hear endlessly why the company wasn't living up to expectations created by the company itself on the previous call. The company seemed to have lost its way entirely, to the point when you read the release and it was positive you had to bang out of the stock immediately because you knew that Chambers would somehow talk you out of buying the stock by saying he had a muted outlook, or that customers weren't buying or that the prospects weren't as strong as he thought because of global woes....393 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.

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