Every New York stock exchange trading day I'm posting a daily dividend stock or fund review. I'll share the three chief qualities of just one equity or fund that could be selected for a dividend stock portfolio I've named the Safari to Sweet Success.

This week the portfolio I'm building (my Safari To Sweet Success portfolio) seeks a high-yield and growing stock in the technology sector. 

The technology sector includes nineteen industries ranging from communication equipment, computers, consumer electronics, and contract manufacturing, to health and information technology and services to internet, scientific instruments, software, solar and all such technological enterprises.

Today I'm reviewing a Large-Cap Silicon Valley-based communication equipment firm that supplies data networking equipment and software worldwide. The company's name is Cisco Systems, Inc. Its trading ticker symbol is CSCO. 

Back on April 19, I did another report on CISCO.

CSCO products include routers, switches, access equipment, and security and network management software which allow data communication among dispersed computer networks.

It serves businesses of various sizes, public institutions, governments, and service providers. The company sells its products directly, as well as through channel partners, such as systems integrators, service providers, other resellers, and distributors. 

The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

I use three key data points gauge the value of any dividend equity or fund like Cisco Systems, Inc (CSCO): 

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

After those three, four more keys will finally unlock an equity or fund in which to invest. 

No matter what, it's the first three primary traits that best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money. 

CSCO Price

 Cisco ‘s price was $45.70 per share at yesterday's market close. A year ago its price was $34.30 for a gain of $11.40 per share in the past year.