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Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has many attractive qualities that make it a good choice for today’s times. The company is a blue-chip tech business focused on the infrastructure of the Internet and networking. Hence, it has well-established operations and some insulation from consumer activity; it offers value and pays a nice dividend, about 3.15%.

These qualities were just affirmed by the Q2 results, which outpaced the Marketbeat.com consensus estimates and came with solid guidance. The takeaway is that Cisco Systems' business transformation from a pure play on products to a subscription-based service company is working and delivering value for shareholders. 

Cisco Systems Accelerates, Guides Higher 

Cisco Systems had an above-average quarter on many levels. Not only did the $13.6 billion in revenue grow by 7.1% versus 4.6% for the average S&P 500 company but it outpaced the consensus estimate by 141 basis points while average S&P 500 companies are underperforming. The gain was driven by a 9% increase in product revenue and a smaller 2% increase in services.

ARR increased in by 6%, driving an increase in the guidance. Product ARR drove the gain here and is up 11% on a YOY basis. Software sales were also strong, up 10%, and came with a 15% increase in subscriptions. 

"We are raising our full-year outlook driven by our growing recurring revenue base and RPO, along with our healthy backlog and the steps we have taken to Excellerate supply. We have again increased our dividend, reflecting the strength of our cash flow generation and our commitment to shareholder returns,” said Scott Herren, CFO of Cisco. 

The company experienced margin pressure at both the gross and operating levels and on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis but none were as bad as expected. The contraction resulted in a decline in GAAP earnings of 6% but adjusted earnings rose by 5% and beat the consensus.

Perhaps more importantly, cash flow improved by nearly 100% and helped to increase the cash balance while paying a dividend, repurchasing shares and paying down some debt. 

Cisco Issues Strong Guidance, Shares Pop 

Cisco Systems' guidance for Q3 and the FY is impressive. The company essentially doubled its outlook for growth from 9% to 10% versus the consensus of 5.72%, and the earnings will also be robust. The company is now expecting adjusted EPS from $3.73 to $3.78 for the full year, which is $0.20 above consensus at the low end of the range.

The takeaway is that Cisco Systems is producing growth, better than expected growth, trades at a very reasonable 13.5X earnings, and pays a market-beating dividend yield. The yield may not stay at 3% with share prices on the move but the distribution is safe. Cisco Systems is paying only 45% of its earnings, has a strong balance sheet and is growing earnings. 

Cisco Systems' price action hit bottom in early 2022 and is now in the final stages of what could turn out to be a nice reversal. Price action is up more than 3.5% in early trading and confirming support at key levels within a Head & Shoulders Pattern. The next hurdle is the neckline at $50. If this market can get above that level, it will open the door for a more sustained rally.

The analyst consensus estimate is already above this level and moving higher so it is very likely a breakout will occur. If not, this stock could remain range-bound until other news comes out. 

© Provided by MarketBeat Cisco Systems Is Ready To Run Higher 

Cisco Systems shares were trading sharply higher after the networking equipment provider posted solid results for its fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 28, while sharply increasing its outlook for the full year.

Cisco (ticker: CSCO) now expects fiscal 2023 to be its best growth year in at least a decade. The strong earnings report and surprising outlook should provide a boost to investor sentiment on the outlook for enterprise technology spending.

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Feb 17, 2023 (The Expresswire) -- "Final Report will add the analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on this industry."

Telerehabilitation Systems Market report elaborates the market size, market characteristics, and market growth of the Telerehabilitation Systems industry, and breaks down according to the type, application, and consumption area of Telerehabilitation Systems. The report also conducted a PESTEL analysis of the industry to study the main influencing factors and entry barriers of the industry.

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With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.  

DUBLIN, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The "ICT Role in Smart Grid Development: Technologies, Standards, Markets" report has been added to  ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The concept behind smart energy and Smart Grid (SG) is controlling energy consumption internally, within the home, office, and similar; and externally from the home to outside connected devices, networks, and the smart grid itself - all with the goal of optimizing energy production, distribution, and usage. Bi-directional communication between home networks and the power grid opens up possibilities for improved reliability and sustainability as well as reducing energy consumption.

This report presents an in-depth analysis of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for the Smart Grid.

Both wireless and wireline communications technologies are considered. Designers of SG networks have multiple choices, and the report presents a comparison of various technologies with their benefits and issues.

In addition to "traditional" technologies, such as 802.15.4g and 802.22, the report concentrates on newer cellular technologies, such as LTE for low-powered and low-speed UEs. It also analyzes a group of IoT technologies that support SG connectivity (such as SigFox, LoRa, Weightless, and RPMA).

The detailed survey of organizations that are involved in SG ICT development and standardization is also presented together with the survey of the industry. Marketing statistics also have been developed and included in the report.

This report is useful to a wide audience of technical, managerial, and sale staff involved in the SG ICT development and implementation.

Key courses Covered:

1.0 Introduction

2.0 General: SG ICT Industry Activities
2.1 Main Organizations - Functionalities
2.2 Structure
2.2.1 SG Layers
2.2.1.1 ETSI Layering
2.2.2 ETSI Subnetworks Architecture
2.3 Requirements: SG Networking
2.3.1 View: SG ICT Layers
2.4 Industry and User Groups Projects
2.4.1 ETSI
2.4.1.1 Major Items
2.4.1.2 M490
2.4.1.3 ETSI Documents
2.4.2 IEC
2.4.3 IEEE
2.4.4 Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition
2.4.5 Smart Networks Council (SNC)
2.4.6 U-SNAP Alliance
2.4.6.1 Specification and HAN
2.4.6.2 Merge
2.4.6.3 Further Development
2.4.7 ESMIG
2.4.8 Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG)
2.4.9 EPRI (Electrical Power Research Institute)
2.4.10 ZigBee and Wi-Fi Alliances
2.4.11 NIST
2.4.12 OpenHAN
2.4.13 Federal Smart Grid Task Force
2.4.14 Open Smart Grid Users Group (OSGUG)
2.4.15 ITU
2.4.16 OpenADR
2.4.17 Comments

Story continues

3.0 SG ICT and Smart Meters
3.1 Function and Structure: SG ICT
3.2 Current Status
3.3 Current Objectives
3.4 Choices
3.5 Smart Meters
3.5.1 Objectives
3.5.2 Details
3.5.3 Functions
3.5.4 Components
3.5.4.1 Communications
3.6 Security
3.6.1 AMI Security Task Force
3.6.2 NIST Contributions
3.7 Market
3.7.1 Market Drivers
3.7.2 Market Projections: Smart Meters
3.8 Industry

4.0 Major Standards and Technologies: SG ICT
4.1 IEEE
4.1.1 IEEE 2030
4.1.2 IEEE 1901-2020
4.1.3 802.15.4g-Smart Utility Networks
4.1.4 Cognitive Radio: IEEE 802.22
4.2 3GPP LTE and SG
4.2.1 3GPP
4.2.2 LTE Objectives
4.2.3 Key Features of LTE
4.2.4 Benefits
4.2.5 Market
4.2.5.1 Drivers
4.2.6 Industry
4.2.6.1 Trends
4.2.6.2 Vendors
4.2.7 Role of LTE in Smart Grid Development
4.3 Wireline ICT - SG
4.3.1 IEEE 1901.2

5.0 IoT Technologies and SG
5.1 Weightless Technologies
5.1.1 Weightless Alliance
5.1.2 Common Features
5.1.2.1 Protocol Details
5.1.3 Weightless-W
5.1.4 Changes
5.1.5 Weightless-N
5.1.6 Weightless-P
5.1.7 Comparison of Weightless Technologies
5.1.8 Example
5.2 RPMA
5.2.1 Major Features
5.2.2 Expansion
5.2.3 Components and Structure
5.2.4 Use Cases
5.3 LoRa
5.3.1 Alliance
5.3.2 Technology Building Blocks
5.3.3 Industry
5.4 SigFox
5.4.1 Company
5.4.2 Technology - Details
5.4.3 Coverage
5.4.4 Use Cases
5.4.5 Industry
5.5 The G3-PLC Hybrid and SG

6.0 Conclusions

Companies Mentioned

• Aclara (Software and Systems, BPL)

• Actility

• Adeunis RF

• Advantech

• Aeris (Wireless Network Provider)

• Bittium

• Carlson Wireless (Radio Platforms)

• Cisco

• CommAgility

• Connected Energy (Software Platform)

• Eaton (Cooper Power Systems)

• Embit

• Ericsson

• Fujitsu

• GridPoint (Network Platform)

• Honeywell (Connectivity, SM)

• Huawei

• Innocomm

• Itron (Intelligent Metering)

• LORIOT.io

• Landis+Gyr (Metering Devices)

• Microchip

• Motorola Solutions

• MultiTech

• Murata

• Nokia

• On Semiconductor

• Oracle (Software)

• Qualcomm

• STMicroelectronics

• Sagemcom

• Semtech

• Sensus (Data Collection and Metering)

• Sequans

• Siemens (Software, Hardware)

• Spinwave (Building Control, HAN)

• TI

• Tantalus (Networking and Devices)

• Tektelic

• Telit

• TransData (Wireless AMI/AMR Meter)

• Trilliant (Intelligent Metering)

• Uplight

• ZTE

• u-blox

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© Provided by Business Insider Jenny Woo went from marketing her product as a card game to an "educational learning tool," which helped her business take off. Courtesy of Jenny Woo

• Jenny Woo is the founder of Mind Brain Emotion, which sells emotional-intelligence card games.
• She started her company in 2018 after polling parents and school counselors for ideas.
• Woo has made six figures a year by leveraging Amazon Ads and customer surveys.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jenny Woo, the 40-year-old founder of Mind Brain Emotion, from Irvine, California. Insider has Checked her business' revenue with documentation. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I moved to the US from China when I was 10 and am the first one to earn multiple advanced degrees in my family. While in school, I learned to maintain a positive attitude in the face of adversity, advocate for myself, and develop authentic relationships — the starting point for what would later become a brand for teaching emotional intelligence.

I started working when I was 15 at dim-sum restaurants and Denny's, but I've always had various entrepreneurial projects on the side, like scalping concert tickets in high school and selling photo-booth props and custom event designs on Etsy. As someone passionate about human development, I later held jobs as a human-capital consultant at Deloitte, a manager of talent strategy at Cisco Systems, an MBA career coach at UC Berkeley, a director of a Montessori school network, and a fitness trainer.

But in 2018, I quit my job at the Montessori school and founded my company, Mind Brain Emotion, where I sell practical card games on emotional intelligence. My company's revenue in 2022 was more than $877,000.

This is how I did it.

The idea came together for me when I had 3 kids under 3 who would endlessly send me on an emotional roller coaster

My work in child development as a school director had highlighted to me the value of learning social and emotional skills early on in life. And as a student, I was in a class once where the instructor grouped students in pairs and had them draw poker cards with ice-breaker questions on them. I learned that a deck of cards was the perfect simple and tactical medium for my idea.

Next came the conceptualization stage. I studied the kind of language my target audience was using in Facebook groups for parents, counselors, and educators, and I polled a couple of groups to see how my products resonated with them.

Many moms in the groups said they struggled to connect with their kids because they didn't know what to ask and didn't have enough time in the day, so I highlighted a feature to respond to this pain point — "engaging prompts to connect with your kids on the go: in the car, while waiting in line, and at the dinner table" — in my product description.

In the early stages, I was iterating my product design myself almost every other week. I picked the card-deck design because I thought repurposing card suits and numbers would help users understand which skills they were working on without having to read a manual — the suits categorized the skills into competencies, and the numbers sorted them by level of difficulty.

I now hire a part-time copywriter and a seasonal designer when I'm working on a new product. My team is currently three people: a part-time content developer, a part-time salesperson, and me.

I started with a campaign on Kickstarter

In May 2018, I advertised 1,000 preorders on Kickstarter for my first product, a deck called 52 Essential Conversations. I told friends and family, emailed schools and parent organizations, posted in Facebook groups, ran Facebook ads, and made an Amazon storefront.

More than a third of the decks were bought via that Kickstarter campaign. I allocated the remaining decks to promote on Amazon and my website for the rest of the year, but everything sold out within the next two months after The Harvard Gazette published an article about my product. The publicity skyrocketed my sales on Amazon, and I plastered it all over my marketing copy and packaging.

I also invited teachers, counselors, and college professors to record audio on the theme and content of a single card in the deck on my podcast, then integrated a "lessons by topic" section into my website and promoted it as a virtual-card feature on Amazon. The expert guests and I then cross-promoted each other on social media.

I used Amazon Ads to bid on keywords that consumers used to search for similar products

A bid is the amount of money you're willing to spend toward a keyword or advertisement. Amazon Ads includes an algorithm that recommends keyword bid prices to you. I bid on keywords related to what someone on Amazon might type when they searched for products related to emotional intelligence, such as "EQ for kids."

To get preliminary data on which keywords were the most effective for driving people to my product, I used an Amazon tool that chooses keywords for you to bid on based on your product listing and related customer searches.

I learned that product-listing optimization was vital to my profitability and organic indexing, where you don't have to pay to get on top of the search-results page. You have limited time to catch a shopper's attention, so your product title, image, and description need to be as relevant as possible to what people are searching for and what you're providing. The more people who click to buy your product after a relevant search, the more likely Amazon will rank your product higher in the search results.

I also talked to game-industry buyers at a conference in Chicago, and their feedback gave me the clarity I needed: I'd been marketing my cards as children's toys, which would mean I'd be competing in vain against fun games backed by giant game makers. I decided to switch my language from "card game" to "educational learning tool."

Next, I conducted a satisfactory survey

The survey consisted of 74 of my customers across dozens of schools in 11 countries. I used Qualtrics, an online-survey platform, and my email list to invite people to fill out the survey.

My goal was to get an inside look at how, where, and why my customers were using my product. I came up with 20 questions — a mix of multiple choice, checking all boxes that apply, and open-ended inquiries — and was amazed to discover that educators and mental-health professionals were using this tool more than parents were, as I thought it'd surely be the opposite. Their reasons were that my cards complied with their educational standards and were easy to use and understand.

The results helped me fine-tune my marketing copy on Amazon. I made it more educator-oriented by focusing on the learning and behavioral benefits in schools and after-school settings — speech and language support, class discussion, reflective writing prompts, and peer mentorship — and including photos from the educators' classrooms on my website.

I did more market research in late 2018 and by the following March, another card deck was born: 52 Essential Relationships.

I've since expanded, and I now sell seven different decks. I went backward to move forward in my business because I recognized that in order to have genuine conversations, trust and understanding are prerequisites. 

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