Tuesday, December 12, 2017 10:09:36 PM
1. They have the largest pile of overseas cash (relative to the size of their market cap). Their overseas cash pile is equal to about 34 percent of their market cap... that is huge!!! Tax reform will allow repatriation of that cash at a low tax rate.
2. They are on the record stating that they will use repatriated cash to get much more aggressive with their share buyback program. If they use only half of the repatriated cash for buybacks, the stock could possibly go up 15 percent
More info below
Background on companies with high tax reform repatriation potential
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/26/goldman-these-companies-are-headed-for-a-big-tax-break-on-overseas-cash.html
Related info from Cisco earnings call on 15 Nov 2017
James Faucette -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Thanks very much. I wanted to ask a question on capital structure. Can you give us an idea of what your preferences and priorities will be in capital structure in terms of buybacks and acquisitions, etc. if the proposed new tax changes pass versus if that change in tax law gets derailed? I'm particularly curious as to how you're thinking about the pacing of acquisitions versus buybacks, etc.
Thank you.
Kelly Kramer -- Chief Financial Officer
I'll take that one. What I'd say is in terms of acquisitions, the tax policy isn't impacting us either way because we are lucky to have a great cash flow and access to capital. So, it hasn't been stopping us from anything from an acquisition perspective and it won't. So, that will continue.
I would say we're definitely encouraged by the progress that's going on, on the tax reform. So, like we said in the past, when that happens and if we get a repatriation which both plans currently have, we're going to continue like we have, growing or dividend with our earnings growth and where we have opportunity is really to get much more aggressive than we have been on the share buyback and of course we want to make sure we continue to have enough firepower to continue to be able to do the right acquisitions to help position Cisco right for the long term.
https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2017/11/16/cisco-systems-csco-q1-2018-earnings-conference-cal.aspx
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