NASDAQ
342.75USD
+0.29 (+0.08%)
We have scored 59 news catalysts on Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (CDNS) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came Jun 1, 2026, when CDNS closed +10.5%: “NVIDIA Says “Useful AI Has Arrived” as Vera Rubin Enters Full Production”. Coverage across the window leans positive (average ticker sentiment +0.43). Most of the impact sits in sector technology and price momentum.
Dots are scored news catalysts — size = impact, color = sentiment. Tap one to read it.
Market cap
94.4B
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
1.13
52W range
262.75-416.69
Day range
338.76–346.60
Open
340.36
Prev close
342.46
Volume
2.6M
Avg volume
2.4M
Dividend
0.00
IPO
1987-06-10
Analysts publish price targets on CDNS, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
8 analyst price targets from $300 to $450
as of 2026-09-10
The market is 33% below the median target — more cautious than the analysts.
The reconstruction
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors, derived from what the news actually says about Cadence Design Systems, Inc. — not a sector bucket. Click an edge to see the articles that established the link.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., taken from what the news actually said about them rather than from a sector bucket. The count is how many articles established each link.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. operates globally, delivering a comprehensive suite of solutions that includes software, specialized hardware, professional services, and pre-designed integrated circuit (IC) building blocks. The company's robust functional verification offerings feature dedicated emulation and prototyping hardware. This portfolio encompasses JasperGold for formal verification, Xcelium for parallel logic simulation, Palladium as an enterprise-grade emulation platform, and Protium, a prototyping platform designed for thorough chip verification. Cadence additionally provides extensive products for digital IC design and final sign-off. These include the Genus logic synthesis solution, Joules for RTL power analysis, and the Modus software solution, which streamlines design-for-test (DFT) processes for systems-on-chip. Their tools further extend to physical implementation, covering place and route, optimization, and multiple patterning preparation, alongside essential sign-off products for validating designs prior to silicon manufacturing. Moreover, the company furnishes custom IC design and simulation tools capable of generating both schematic and physical representations of circuits down to the transistor level. These tools support a wide array of applications, such as analog, mixed-signal, custom digital, memory, and radio frequency (RF) designs. Cadence also offers system design and analysis products crucial for developing printed circuit boards (PCBs) and integrated circuit packages, along with capabilities to analyze complex multi-physics effects like electromagnetic and electro-thermal interactions. Furthermore, Cadence supplies intellectual property (IP) products, consisting of pre-verified, customizable functional blocks ready for integration into customer ICs. This includes verification IP and memory models used to simulate and characterize the behavior and interactions of standard industry system interface protocols. Complementing its product portfolio, Cadence provides a range of services, including methodology consulting, educational programs, hosted design solutions, and ongoing technical support and maintenance. Its diverse clientele spans sectors such as 5G communications, aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial and healthcare, mobile technology, consumer electronics, and hyperscale computing. Established in 1987, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, California.
The price sits at the very bottom of the published analyst targets, endorsing only the $300 Oppenheimer view and completely rejecting the 23-58% upside offered by seven other bull cases.
What the disagreement turns on
Can Cadence convert its new AI super agent platform into a sustained acceleration of revenue growth above 18%, and the wired data cannot measure this because it cannot track software contract volumes or pricing.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
Claim by claim
Computed at $285 on 2026-09-10 — the quote has since moved +20%, so read this as a record of what was priced in then, not now.
