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Cadence Design Systems Inc.
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356.12 (-0.95%) 3.39
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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62% Overvalued
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FY+28.89.610.125
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FY+410.211.312.33
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