How is Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) doing?

Cadence Design Systems is a company in the software, application industry, based in San Jose, CA, worth $97.2B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Cadence Design Systems shares are up 1% over the past year, 13 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Falling Knife. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 43rd percentile on market beat, the 47th on staying power and the 43rd on business growth. It appears on 8 of our dashboards.

$352.84+1% in a yearWorth $97.2B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

CDNS against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Cadence Design Systems +1%, the S&P 500 +16%.

CDNSS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Falling Knife

LaggingErraticSlowingBought

Lagging erratically on a soft business, with buyers trying to catch it.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Falling Knife this month; Turning Up before that.

Also Falling Knife (55 in all): DLB · ITW · MDT · IR · VLTO · WFC

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Semis & hardware, 54 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Chipmakers and the gear that builds them — the AI-cycle epicentre.

CDNS, past year+1%47 of 54 in the group

Rest of the group+88%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Cadence Design Systems is +1% over the past year, against +88% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 47th of 54 in Semis & hardware.

CDNSRest of the group

Best in the groupLITE Lumentum+577%MU Micron Technology+424%DELL Dell Technologies+256%

Worst in the groupOLED Universal Display−48%SMCI Supermicro−29%DLB Dolby Laboratories−17%

Its closest rivalsSNPS Synopsys+4%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Cadence Design Systems typically moves 3.2% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 64% of large US stocks.

Typical day3.2%about $11.15 a share

Its usual3.5%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5003.2×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±6.3%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−34%now 15% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks180%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 1.5

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 3.53%

CDNS on our dashboards

Every question where Cadence Design Systems appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CDNS highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which stocks keep losing? Leading stocks	9533 of 52 wks	25 of 60	vs S&P, 1Y −15 pts
Which companies grow earnings every year? Business quality	91Long run	46 of 60	Years of growth 5 years · Growth, 5Y +14% a yr · Latest EPS 4.06
Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality	91Excellent	38 of 60	Return on capital 15% · Gross margin 88% · Cash margin 29%
Which companies invest the most in research? Business quality	95Heavy	10 of 60	R&D / revenue 33.0% · R&D a year $1.9B · R&D, 1Y +15%
Which stocks are priced for perfection? Value	94Priced for perfection	18 of 60	Forward P/E 34× · EV / sales 15.5× · Expected EPS growth +17%
Which companies pay the most in stock? Dividends and buybacks	95Heavy	20 of 60	% of revenue 8.8% · A year $514.3M · % of cash flow 31%
What are insiders buying? Who’s buying and selling	70Selling	37 of 60	Sold $438K · Who Director
What is Congress trading? Who’s buying and selling	2Sold	58 of 60	Buying 0 · Selling 2

Go deeper on Stox

CDNS’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

Open CDNS on Stox ›All 16 types on Atlas ›Its group on Stox ›

How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see CDNS’s full profile on Stox.

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