Cisco: A 10% Dividend Increase Could Be On the Way

Cisco: A 10% Dividend Increase Could Be On the Way

- By Ben Reynolds

Published Jan. 22 by Bob Ciura

Cisco Systems (CSCO) has an impressive dividend yield of 3.6%. It's even more impressive considering Cisco is a tech stock.

It wasn't too long ago that the mere mention of Cisco paying a dividend to shareholders was almost considered sacrilege.

During the tech sector's heyday of the late 1990s, tech CEOs scoffed at the idea of paying dividends. Dividends were something utilities did, because they had no better use of capital.