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CDNS — Cadence Design Systems Inc.

$326.13

Updated daily at market close

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AI Outlook

Price

+20.0%$271.77 → $326.13
2026-03-272026-09-25

Key Statistics

$322.78Day Range$330.81
$262.7552-Week Range$416.69
Market Cap$89.8B
P/E Ratio65.0
Forward P/E34.1
Dividend Yield—
Beta1.14
Avg Volume2.4M

Financial Highlights

Revenue (TTM)$5.8B
Profit Margin23.6%
Return on Equity23.2%
Free Cash Flow$1.6B
Total Cash$1.5B
Debt/Equity38.7
Revenue Growth+24.2%
Earnings Growth+125.4%

Wall Street Consensus

Buy 23Hold 2Sell 0

Avg Target

$405

24.3% upside

About

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

AI Analysis — CDNS

Friday, Sep 25

EDA leader riding AI wave but due for pause

Key factors:

1.

+15.28% weekly surge on AI design tool demand

2.

RSI 61.28 still in healthy range despite massive move

3.

Fundamental AI chip design tailwinds remain intact

What to watch this week

MACD momentum divergence on any Monday weakness

CDNS Earnings Breakdown — The Real Filed Numbers

Most recent quarter on file with the SEC (ended June 30, 2018). Straight from Cadence Design Systems Inc.'s filing — not estimates.

Revenue

$518M

▲ +8.2% YoY

Net Income

—

Diluted EPS

—

Revenue, last 5 quarters

2017-04
$477M
2017-07
$479M
2017-09
$485M
2018-03
$517M
2018-06
$518M

Source: U.S. SEC EDGAR (company XBRL filings). Reported on a lag — the latest press-release quarter may be newer. Educational research only, not investment advice.

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