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Although Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO | CSCO Price Prediction) has spent 2026 riding a fresh wave of AI networking orders, Wall Street still measures the company against one trading day from the dot-com era. At the close on Monday, March 27, 2000, the Associated Press reported, Cisco had a market value of $555.5 billion on basic shares. That inched past Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) at $541.6 billion and made Cisco the world’s most valuable company. Sherwood News reporter Matt Phillips put Cisco’s dot-com closing high at $80.06. But buyers who paid that price waited more than 25 years for a higher…
