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.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Stock Price & Market Analysis
CDNS · NASDAQ · Software - Application
$326.70
▲ +$0.5700(+0.17%)4:00 PM ET - vs previous closeQuote as of Sep 28, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT
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- CDNSStock · vs previous close
- ↑ +0.17%
- XLKTechnology ETF
- ↓ -0.89%
- QQQNasdaq-100 ETF
- ↓ -1.07%
CDNS outperformed the sector by 1.06 percentage points.
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Reported fundamentals
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Annual revenue
USD 5.3B
Sales reported for this fiscal year.
Revenue change
+14.1%
Compared with the prior fiscal year.
Net profit margin
20.9%
Reported net income divided by revenue.
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Cadence Design Systems
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- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Software - Application
- Headquarters
- San Jose, CA, United States
- Country
- US
- Founded
- 1988
- Employees
- 15,445
- CEO
- Dr. Anirudh Devgan Ph.D.Leadership source/date unverified
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
Business model & operating evidence
AI business exposure
- Revenue exposure
- AI-specific revenue is not separated in the available company statements.
- Capital-spending dependency
- No reviewed quantitative dependency model is available.
- Compute role
- See the sourced business description; AI labels do not establish compute revenue.
- Platform examples
- An exhaustive, consistently defined product inventory is unavailable.
- Ecosystem links
- Supplier and customer links require reviewed disclosures.
Narrative versus numbers
Demand is expanding
Supporting observation: 18.7%
Quarterly revenue growth year over year; company-wide, not exclusively AI. · TECHi unified data · 2026-03-31
Growth produces accounting profit
Supporting observation: 21.2%
Net margin. A positive figure supports profitability, not necessarily cash generation. · SEC Companyfacts · 2026-09-29T08:30:04.048Z
The business generates cash after investment
Supporting observation: 306.96M
Latest available free cash flow; period-specific, not a forecast. · SEC Companyfacts · 2026-03-31
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Operating measures
- Revenue
- $1.47Bquarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- Operating margin
- 29.3%quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- EPS
- $1.23quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- Capital expenditure
- $48.82Mquarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- Free cash flow
- $306.96Mquarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- Free cash flow margin
- 20.8%quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- Operating cash / net income
- 1.06×quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- Revenue growth year over year
- 18.7%quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
Leadership
CEO: Dr. Anirudh Devgan Ph.D.
Source: Yahoo Finance · 2026-09-29T09:59:29.211Z
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