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Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

AI Compute & Semiconductors · Software - Application

$294.90+4.24%
52/100
Overall
MARKET CAP83.43B
FORWARD P/E31.74
PEG RATION/A
REVENUE GROWTH24.2%
OPERATING MARGIN28.6%
52W RANGE$265.66$416.39
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RELATIVE PERFORMANCE

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Indexed to 100
LIVE MODEL SCORE

Cross-sectional ranking

Momentum24
Technicals27
Fundamentals77
Thematic Fit78

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YOUNG BULL THESIS

AI Compute & Semiconductors

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MODEL READ

Overall score: 51.6. Last ranked 2026-09-22.

QUARTERLY FUNDAMENTALS

Revenue and earnings power

TRAILING P/E60.11
PRICE / SALES14.31
EV / EBITDA39.22
BOOK VALUEN/A
GROSS MARGIN85.9%
PROFIT MARGIN23.6%
RETURN ON EQUITY23.2%
FREE CASH FLOW1.61B
COMPANY SNAPSHOT

What it does

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.

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