How to buy Cadence Design Systems stock (CDNS)

Cadence Design Systems is a software - application business based in the US. Cadence Design Systems shares (CDNS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $262.42 – an increase of 6.06% over the previous week. Cadence Design Systems employs 12,700 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $4.6 billion.

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Cadence Design Systems stock price (NASDAQ: CDNS)

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Cadence Design Systems shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2025-03-21.

Latest market close	$262.42
52-week range	$230.09 - $328.99
50-day moving average more info button	$278.80
200-day moving average more info button	$284.84
Wall St. target price	$317.85
PE ratio more info button	67.1151
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$3.91

Is it a good time to buy Cadence Design Systems stock?

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Cadence Design Systems price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $262.42 from 2025-03-21

1 week (2025-03-14)	6.06%
1 month (2025-02-21)	1.58%
3 months (2024-12-23)	-13.79%
6 months (2024-09-23)	-4.25%

1 year (2024-03-22)	-18.69%
2 years (2023-03-22)	28.64%
3 years (2022-03-22)	63.81%
5 years (2020-03-20)	376.43%

Is Cadence Design Systems stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Cadence Design Systems stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Cadence Design Systems's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Cadence Design Systems's P/E ratio

Cadence Design Systems's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 67x. In other words, Cadence Design Systems shares trade at around 67x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Cadence Design Systems's PEG ratio

Cadence Design Systems's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.7206. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Cadence Design Systems's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Cadence Design Systems's EBITDA

Cadence Design Systems's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.6 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Cadence Design Systems's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Cadence Design Systems financials

Revenue TTM	$4.6 billion
Operating margin TTM	33.71%
Gross profit TTM	$4 billion
Return on assets TTM	11.86%
Return on equity TTM	26.13%
Profit margin	22.74%
Book value	$17.07
Market Capitalization more info button	$71.9 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Cadence Design Systems's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Cadence Design Systems.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Cadence Design Systems's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 15.04

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Cadence Design Systems's overall score of 15.04 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 9th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Cadence Design Systems is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Cadence Design Systems's environmental score

Environmental score: 1.84/100

Cadence Design Systems's social score

Social score: 6.48/100

Cadence Design Systems's governance score

Governance score: 3.4/100

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Cadence Design Systems Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.

Total ESG score	15.04
Total ESG percentile	9.44
Environmental score	1.84
Social score	6.48
Governance score	3.4

Cadence Design Systems share dividends

We're not expecting Cadence Design Systems to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Cadence Design Systems's shares ever split?

Cadence Design Systems's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 16 November 1997 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Cadence Design Systems shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Cadence Design Systems shares which in turn could have impacted Cadence Design Systems's share price.

Cadence Design Systems share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Cadence Design Systems's shares have ranged in value from as little as $230.09 up to $328.99. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Cadence Design Systems's is 1.053. This would suggest that Cadence Design Systems's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Cadence Design Systems overview

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, and other services worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, such as Jasper, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. It also provides digital IC design and sign off products, including Genus synthesis and Joules RTL power solutions, as well as Modus DFT software solution to reduce systems-on-chip design-for-test time; physical implementation tools, such as place and route, optimization, and performing sign-off checks for manufacturing; and Innovus implementation system, a digital IC design and signoff solution. In addition, the company offers custom IC design and simulation, such as Virtuoso Studio, a solution platform for custom, analog, mixed-signal, photonics, and RF semiconductors; and system design and analysis products, a Multiphysics platform that helps in design and simulate electronics and entire systems in electromagnetic, thermal, structure, computational fluid dynamics, molecular, PCB and packaging, mechanical, and structural analysis. Further, it provides semiconductor IP product for design architectures; Functional Verification; digital ic design and signoff; EDA product that addresses the design and verification for semiconductor chips and manufacturing process technologies; and verification IP with memory models to emulate and model the expected behavior and interaction of standard industry system interface protocols. Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services.

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Cadence Design Systems is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.799% of Cadence Design Systems shares are held by insiders and 92.088% by institutions. How many people work for Cadence Design Systems?
Latest data suggests 12,700 work at Cadence Design Systems. When does the fiscal year end for Cadence Design Systems?
Cadence Design Systems's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Cadence Design Systems based?
Cadence Design Systems's address is: Building 5, San Jose, CA, United States, 95134 What is Cadence Design Systems's ISIN number?
Cadence Design Systems's international securities identification number is: US1273871087 What is Cadence Design Systems's CUSIP number?
Cadence Design Systems's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 127387108