Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

CDNS · Technology

$352.84
+1.15% today

What a holder would want to know before buying CDNS: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $265.66 · Apr 2026High $416.39 · Jun 2026

Today’s price is 33% above the lowest point of the past year and 15% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 80% of days and more expensive on 20%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 97% of days.

8% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 6 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 32%; the longest took 12 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 15% below the Jun 2026 peak.

Sep 2025
−29%back in 8 months
Jun 2024
−29%back in 12 months
Aug 2022
−26%back in 6 months
Dec 2021
−30%back in 8 months
Feb 2020
−32%back in 2 months
Jan 2018
−22%back in 6 months
What you own

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. · Technology · Software - Application · a large company worth $97.17B

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…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $5.30B in 2025, with $1.11B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 24 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$1.53B
Debt
$2.65B
Free cash flow / yr
$1.61B

Would need about 1.6 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $70 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $37 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays no dividend.

What others are doing

25 analysts: 23 say buy, 2 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $406.24 (range $300.00–$470.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 23 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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