>>> Cisco Systems beats by $0.02, beats on revs; raises quarterly dividend 10.5%

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Cisco Systems beats by $0.02, beats on revs; raises quarterly dividend 10.5% to $0.21/share

Reports Q2 (Jan) earnings of $0.53 per share, $0.02 better than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $0.51; revenues rose 7.0% year/year to $11.94 bln vs the $11.8 bln consensus.

Cisco is also announcing that earlier today its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.21 per common share, a two-cent increase over the previous quarter's dividend, to be paid on April 22, 2015 to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 2, 2015; yield now 3.1%.