Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Stock Overview

Develops computational, AI-driven software, hardware, and silicon intellectual property products and solutions. More details

CDNS fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	0/6
Future Growth	4/6
Past Performance	2/6
Financial Health	4/6
Dividends	0/6

Rewards

Earnings are forecast to grow 14.85% per year

Earnings have grown 11.2% per year over the past 5 years

Risk Analysis

Shares are highly illiquid

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Cadence Design Systems
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$378.00
52 Week High	US$0
52 Week Low	US$0
Beta	1.15
1 Month Change	n/a
3 Month Change	n/a
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	-1.65%

Recent News & Updates

No updates

Recent updates

No updates

Shareholder Returns

	CDNS	CH Software	CH Market
7D	n/a	3.6%	1.8%
1Y	n/a	-41.5%	18.1%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how CDNS performed against the Swiss Software industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how CDNS performed against the Swiss Market.

Price Volatility

Is CDNS's price volatile compared to industry and market?
CDNS volatility
CDNS Average Weekly Movement	n/a
Software Industry Average Movement	6.3%
Market Average Movement	4.3%
10% most volatile stocks in CH Market	7.4%
10% least volatile stocks in CH Market	2.1%

Stable Share Price: CDNS's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months compared to the Swiss market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine CDNS's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1987	13,800	Anirudh Devgan	www.cadence.com

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. develops computational, AI-driven software, hardware, and silicon intellectual property products and solutions. The company offers functional verification services, such as Jasper, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Verisium, a generative AI solution; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification, as well as digital IC design and sign off products, including In novus platform; and custom IC design and simulation product include Virtuoso, a platform to design and verify analog. It also provides Xcelium logic simulator and other front-end verification and virtual prototyping technologies; controllers and physical interfaces; PCI Express, universal accelerator and compute express links, and multiple memory interfaces; and Ten Silica, a digital signal processor.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do Cadence Design Systems's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
CDNS fundamental statistics
Market cap	US$102.92b
Earnings (TTM)	US$1.17b
Revenue (TTM)	US$5.53b

87.9x

P/E Ratio

18.6x

P/S Ratio

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
CDNS income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$5.53b
Cost of Revenue	US$769.66m
Gross Profit	US$4.76b
Other Expenses	US$3.59b
Earnings	US$1.17b

Last Reported Earnings

Mar 31, 2026

Next Earnings Date

Jul 28, 2026

Earnings per share (EPS)	4.25
Gross Margin	86.08%
Net Profit Margin	21.18%
Debt/Equity Ratio	44.3%

How did CDNS perform over the long term?

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/07/05 07:11
End of Day Share Price	2026/07/03 00:00
Earnings	2026/03/31
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more.

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Analyst Sources

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is covered by 38 analysts. 24 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Joseph Vruwink	Baird
Gary Mobley	Benchmark Company
Gustav Froberg	Berenberg