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Cadence Design Systems Inc.
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356.12 (-1.27%) 4.51
Market cap
$98.07(B)
Earnings date
Oct-26-2026
Category
Sector
Information Technology
Industry
Software
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. In addition the company’s design IP portfolio includes serializer/deserializer peripheral component interconnect USB and other standard protocols; and Secure-IC a solution for embedded security IP. Additionally it provides System Design and Analysis (SD&A) platform a solution that enables end-to-end system-level design and verification across chips packages PCBs and electronic systems; Allegro X and Orca X platforms for PCB and advanced packaging; Sigrity X for signal and power integrity; AIR for RF design; Fidelity for computational fluid dynamics; Celsius for thermal and airflow analysis; Clarity 3D solver for electromagnetic and power electronics analysis and simulation; Integrity 3D-IC solution for 3D-IC and multi-chiplet designs; the Optimality Intelligent System Explorer Reality digital twin and Millennium enterprise multiphasic platforms; Allegro system design platform; and molecular modeling and simulation solutions and services. The company has a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in San Jose California.
EV: $98.75(B)
Total Equity: $6.86(B)
Debt/Equity: 0.39
Dividend/share: $0.0
Div. yield: 0.00%
P/E: 70.24
Forward P/E: 43.75
P/FCF: 58.38
P/S: 16.59
P/B: 14.30
EPS: $5.1
EPS (fwd): $8.1
FCF/share: $6.1
Revenue/share: $21.5
Book value/share: $24.9
ROIC: 14.1%
ROA: 11.3%
ROE: 21.7%
Margins: Gross | Op. | Net
85.9% | 31.5% | 23.6%
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PEvaluation
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Current price$356
Quality checklist score
8/8
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TTM Financials

Income (TTM)

RevenueGrossNet
Revenue$5.84(B)
Gross profit$5.01(B)
EBITDA$2.16(B)
Net income$1.38(B)
Gross margin85.9%
Operating margin31.5%
Net margin23.6%
Shares outstanding275.39(M)

Balance sheet

Cash & ST inv.Other ST assetsLong term assetsCurrent liabilitiesLong term debtOther LT liabilitiesEquity
Total assets$12.08(B)
Current assets$3.22(B)
Total liabilities$5.22(B)
Current liabilities$1.85(B)
Cash & Short-term inv.$1.53(B)
Long-term debt$2.48(B)
Total intangibles$6.79(B)
PP&E$560.16(M)

Cash flow (TTM)

CFOCFICFF
FCF$1.68(B)
CapEx$-176.17(M)
Dividends paid$0
Stock issued$156.42(M)
Stock repurchased$-1.02(B)
Stock-based comp.$514.31(M)
Debt issued$600.00(M)
Debt repaid$-600.00(M)

Per share data (TTM)

Price
Price
$356
Income
Revenue
$21.5•16.6x|6.0%
Gross profit
$18.2•19.6x|5.1%
Earnings (EPS)
$5.07•70.2x|1.4%
Cash flow
FCF
$6.10•58.4x|1.7%
Stock-based comp.
$1.87•190.7x|0.5%
CapEx
$0.64•556.7x|0.2%
Dividend
$0.00•—|0.0%
Balance sheet
Total assets
$43.9•8.1x|12.3%
Total liabilities
$19.0•18.8x|5.3%
Book value
$24.9•14.3x|7.0%
Cash & ST inv.
$5.56•64.0x|1.6%
Debt
$9.01•39.5x|2.5%
Forward earnings
EPS FY+1
$8.14•43.7x|2.3%
EPS FY+2
$9.56•37.3x|2.7%
EPS FY+3
$11.2•31.9x|3.1%
EPS FY+4
$11.3•31.6x|3.2%
EPS FY+5
$11.8•30.3x|3.3%
Forward FCF
FCF FY+1
$6.41•55.5x|1.8%
FCF FY+2
$8.40•42.4x|2.4%
FCF FY+3
$9.73•36.6x|2.7%
FCF FY+4
$10.6•33.6x|3.0%
FCF FY+5
$10.5•33.8x|3.0%

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