XNAS · Software - Application
Last stored close · Sep 18, 2026
Close · Sep 18, 2026
$282.90+0.76%
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TickerWhale Score
40/100
Weak
Score components
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Cadence Design Systems scores 40 out of 100 overall, which we rate weak. Quality & growth is its strongest area and Technical its weakest.
What helps
- Quality & growth
- Sentiment Signal
What to watch
- Technical
- Valuation
- Risk
Quality & growth
30%76Strong
- Revenue growth 14.7%
- EPS growth 36.0%
Valuation
25%17Weak
- P/E 56.7
- EV/Sales 13.6
Cadence Design Systems is a provider of electronic design automation software, intellectual property, and system design and analysis products. EDA software automates and aids in the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy, productivity, and complexity in a full-flow end-to-end solution. Cadence offers a portfolio of design IP, as well as system design and analysis products, which enables system-level analysis and verification solutions.
#166 by market cap in our coverage · ~13,800 employees · Listed 1987-06-10 · www.cadence.com
Price history
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Market intelligence
Peer position
#179 / 207sector rank by TickerWhale Score
TickerWhale Score 40 vs sector average 53.5 (-13.5)
Revenue growth (industry)Top 56%
Gross margin (industry)Top 10%
Return on equity (industry)Top 44%
P/E (industry)Pricier than 74%
Technical analysis
our read · what classic indicators sayTickerWhale technical read
11/100Weak vs universe
Ranks 11th of 100 covered names on our technical composite — the composite itself scores 23/100 · 25% of the TickerWhale Score
Classic chart indicators
Sell
2 buy · 4 sell · 2 neutral of 8 votes
TickerWhale rates CDNS's technical setup weak — 11th percentile of the covered universe. Classic chart indicators lean sell, pointing the same way.
Moving averages
0 / 9constructive
- vs 200-day-13.2%
- vs 50-day-12.9%
Momentum
Mixed
- RSI (14)35 · neutral
- Stochasticbuy
- CCIneutral
- Williams %Rbuy
Trend
Weak
- ADX (14) trend strength30· trending
- MACD (12,26,9)sell(histogram -1.309)
How the classic verdict is reached
Moving averages (9) agree on sell — 0 buy vs 8 sell — and carry one vote between them.
Oscillators (7) vote individually: 2 buy · 3 sell · 2 neutral.
Result — 2 buy vs 4 sell of 8 votes = Sell. Neutral votes never decide the verdict.
Fundamentals & valuation
2026-09-18 · revised_latestValuation multiples
- P/E (TTM)56.7
- P/S (TTM)13.4
- P/B11.4
- EV/EBITDA—
- EV/Sales13.6
- PEG1.58
Profitability & returns
- Gross margin85.9%
- Net margin23.6%
- ROE20.5%
- Debt/Equity0.36
Growth
- Revenue growth (YoY)14.7%
- EPS growth (YoY)35.9%
Green favourable · red stretched — multiples and D/E vs industry peers, margins and growth vs absolute thresholds.
Market capitalisation — $78.1B
Fundamentals history
Reported statement totals across recent periods.
| Metric | Dec '25 | Dec '24 | Dec '23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $5.3B | $4.6B | $4.1B |
| Gross profit | $4.6B | $4.0B | $3.7B |
| Operating income | $1.5B | $1.4B | $1.3B |
| Net income | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.0B |
| EPS (diluted) | $4.06 | $3.85 | $3.82 |
| Free cash flow | $1.6B | $1.1B | $1.2B |
| Cash | $3.0B | $2.6B | $1.0B |
| Total debt | $2.5B | $2.5B | $649M |
| Equity | $5.5B | $4.7B | $3.4B |
| Net debt | -$521M | -$168M | -$359M |
| Debt / equity | 0.45 | 0.53 | 0.19 |
| Liabilities / assets | 0.46 | 0.48 | 0.40 |
Fundamentals are stored revised/latest (ADR-009): each period reflects the most recent vendor refresh, NOT point-in-time as-reported values. Do not use this series to claim what was known on a past date.
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Peers
| Company | Score | Pulse | P/E | P/E fwd | P/B | EV/Sales | Price | Chg | Estimate | Upside | Rev. gr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDNSCurrentCadence Design Systems | 40 | 23 | 56.7 | — | 11.4 | 13.6 | $282.90 | +0.76% | +14.7% | ||
| MSFTMicrosoft | 79 | 67 | 27.5 | — | 8.3 | 11.1 | $493.78 | -0.80% | +17.8% | ||
| MUMicron Technology | 77 | 57 | 23.0 | — | 11.5 | 12.7 | $1,015.80 | +3.92% | +167.0% | ||
| NVDANVIDIA | 77 | 68 | 28.0 | — | 23.6 | 17.9 | $222.27 | +1.34% | +83.4% | ||
| NTNXNutanix Inc - | 76 | 73 | 13.6 | — | 29.1 | 7.4 | $69.80 | -0.24% | +12.4% | ||
| DUOLDuolingo Inc - | 75 | 50 | 17.3 | — | 5.0 | 5.2 | $141.90 | -3.54% | +29.4% |
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