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Cadence Design Systems Inc.
CDNS
290.63 (3.87%) 11.25
Information Technology
Software
Cadence Design Systems Inc. develops computational AI-driven software hardware and silicon intellectual property (IP) 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 Innovus 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 Tensilica a digital signal processor. In addition the company’s design IP portfolio includes high-speed 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 critical end-to-end system-level design and verification across chips packages PCBs and complete electronic systems; Allegro X and OrCAD X platforms for PCB and advanced packaging; Sigrity X for signal and power integrity; AWR 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 advanced 3D-IC and multi-chiplet designs; the optimality intelligent system explorer Reality digital twin and Millennium enterprise multiphysics platforms; Allegro system design platform; and molecular modeling and simulation solutions and services. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in San Jose California.

Quality Checklist 8/8

5Y Shares Out Change < 0%
ROIC > 10%
Debt/Equity < 1
Current Ratio > 1
Quick Ratio > 1
Net Margin > 10%
Past Net Income CAGR > 0%
Est. EPS Growth > 5%
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Market cap: $79.24(B)
EV: $82.37(B)
Total Equity: $5.47(B)
Earnings date: Apr-27-2026
P/E: 71.06
Forward P/E: 35.66
P/FCF: 49.77
P/S: 14.89
P/B: 14.43
EPS: $4.1
EPS (fwd): $8.2
FCF/share: $5.8
Revenue/share: $19.5
Book value/share: $20.1
ROIC: 14.1%
ROA: 11.3%
ROE: 21.7%
Debt/Equity: 0.49
Current Ratio: 2.90
Gross margin: 86.4%
Operating margin: 31.5%
Net margin: 20.9%
Dividend/share: $0.0
Div. yield: 0.00%

CDNS Valuation & Price Targets

Current Price
$291

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PEvaluation

45% overvalued
Low
$120
Mid
$159
High
$199
Current price
$291
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Economic moat: None/narrow

EPS Estimates

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FY+18.18.28.323
FY+28.69.39.723
FY+39.210.511.08
FY+49.910.611.42
FY+512.612.612.61

Analyst Price Targets

30% undervalued
Low
$275
Mid
$379
High
$410
Current price
$291

Analyst Recommendations

Strong Buy5
Buy17
Hold4
Sell0
Strong Sell0

2-stage DCF

First Stage Duration: 5 Years
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