How to buy Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) stocks

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 $301.47 – a decrease of 3.83% over the previous week. Cadence Design Systems employs 12,703 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $4.4 billion.

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Cadence Design Systems stock price (NASDAQ: CDNS)

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Cadence Design Systems stocks at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-18.

Latest market close	$301.47
52-week range	$241.29 - $328.99
50-day moving average more info button	$290.91
200-day moving average more info button	$289.12
Wall St. target price	$319.27
PE ratio more info button	79.2737
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$3.80

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 $301.47 from 2024-12-20

1 week (2024-12-16)	-3.83%
1 month (2024-11-22)	-3.33%
3 months (2024-09-23)	9.99%
6 months (2024-06-21)	-5.31%

1 year (2023-12-22)	9.30%
2 years (2022-12-23)	86.73%
3 years (2021-12-23)	60.80%
5 years (2019-12-23)	329.81%

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 79x. In other words, Cadence Design Systems shares trade at around 79x 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 stock 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 3.2936. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the stocks 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 stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Cadence Design Systems's EBITDA

Cadence Design Systems's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.5 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	$4.4 billion
Operating margin TTM	30.9%
Gross profit TTM	$3.2 billion
Return on assets TTM	10.87%
Return on equity TTM	27.07%
Profit margin	23.87%
Book value	$16.64
Market Capitalization more info button	$82.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Cadence Design Systems stock dividends

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

Have Cadence Design Systems's stocks ever split?

Cadence Design Systems's stocks 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 stocks – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower stock price could have impacted the market appetite for Cadence Design Systems stocks, which in turn could have impacted Cadence Design Systems's stock price.

Cadence Design Systems stock price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Cadence Design Systems's stocks have ranged in value from as little as $241.29 up to $328.99. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta."

Beta is a measure of a stocks volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Cadence Design Systems's is 1.02. This would suggest that Cadence Design Systems's stocks 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, services, and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, including emulation and prototyping hardware. Its functional verification offering consists of JasperGold, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. The company 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 multiple patterning preparation; and Innovus implementation system, a physical implementation system. In addition, it offers custom IC design and simulation products to create schematic and physical representations of circuits down to the transistor level for analog, mixed-signal, custom digital, memory, and radio frequency designs; and system design and analysis products to develop printed circuit boards and IC packages, as well as to analyze electromagnetic, electro-thermal, and other multi-physics effects. Further, the company provides intellectual property (IP) products comprising pre-verified and customizable functional blocks to integrate into customer's ICs; and verification IP with memory models to emulate and model the expected behavior and interaction of standard industry system interface protocols.

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Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Cadence Design Systems is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 0.805% of Cadence Design Systems stocks are held by insiders and 91.025% by institutions. How many people work for Cadence Design Systems?
Latest data suggests 12,703 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

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