{"id":6579,"date":"2026-09-23T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/09\/23\/piper-sandler-downgrades-cisco-amid-ai-growth-doubts-stock-plunges-5\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T08:44:51","slug":"piper-sandler-downgrades-cisco-amid-ai-growth-doubts-stock-plunges-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/09\/23\/piper-sandler-downgrades-cisco-amid-ai-growth-doubts-stock-plunges-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Piper Sandler Downgrades Cisco Amid AI Growth Doubts, Stock Plunges 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cisco shares dropped almost 5% after Piper Sandler cut its price target to $125 from $132, citing concerns about peaking industry growth and lower price-to-earnings expectations. Despite hitting a record high in June due to the AI boom and reporting strong Q4 earnings, analysts remain cautious regarding its long-term growth trajectory, leading to the stock’s recent decline.<\/p>\n

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Cisco shares dropped almost 5% after Piper Sandler cut its price target to $125 from $132, citing concerns about peaking industry growth and lower price-to-earnings expectations. Despite hitting a record high in June due to the AI boom and reporting strong Q4 earnings, analysts remain cautious regarding its long-term growth trajectory, leading to the stock’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108291985-1678893976698-gettyimages-1815598696-AFP_34N637T.jpeg?v=1713210403&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_executive-chuck-robbins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108291985-1678893976698-gettyimages-1815598696-AFP_34N637T.jpeg?v=1713210403&w=1920&h=1080","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}