Shares of revenue are estimates for quarter ended March 31, 2026, not figures from a filing.
Virtuoso
Software engineers use to design and test analog, radio-frequency, mixed-signal, memory, and photonics chips.
Innovus
Software used to lay out and check digital chips, including their speed, power use, and physical design.
Palladium and Protium
Hardware systems that let engineers test chip designs and the software that will run on them before the chips are manufactured.
Semiconductor IP
Reusable chip designs, including connections between chips and memory, that customers license and include in their own chips.
Allegro and OrCAD
Software for laying out and checking printed circuit boards and the connections between their electronic parts.
Clarity, Celsius, and Fidelity
Software that simulates electromagnetic effects, heat, airflow, and other physical conditions in electronic and mechanical designs.
Cadence makes electronic design automation (EDA) software that engineers use to design and test computer chips, printed circuit boards, and larger electronic systems. It also sells hardware that speeds up chip testing, licenses reusable chip designs called intellectual property (IP), and provides engineering and cloud services. Its tools simulate how designs will work before customers manufacture them.
Built from Cadence Design Systems Inc.’s own filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Figures are as reported, with per-share history restated onto today’s share basis. This describes a business — it is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
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$329.01-0.8%Nov 11 close
Figures through September 30, 2026, from the 10-Q filed October 28, 2026
Cadence sells chip-design software and testing hardware to semiconductor makers and technology companies that design their own chips.
Company outlook: revenue of $6.4B to $6.4B for Fiscal year 2026 — up 20.9% on a year earlier
Just reported
From Cadence Design Systems's results release of October 26, 2026; its quarterly report has since been filed.
Actual
$1.63B
+22% y/y
+3.1% q/q
Guided
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No guide given
Actual
$1.05
0.0% y/y
-21% q/q
Guided
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No guide given
Actual
$428.7M
+0.8% y/y
-4.8% q/q
Guided
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No guide given
Full year 2026
Set against the company's own guidance and the same quarter a year earlier, not analysts' estimates, which we do not hold. Adjusted figures are the company's own non-GAAP measures, as stated in the release.
The themes Cadence Design Systems is part of, the highest-graded companies in its industry, and the companies in its sector whose grade rose recently.
Graded A or B and worth $2B or more: A first, then the largest.
Rose to A or B on a filing in the last 90 days, worth $2B or more: largest first.
Grade A+
The band under the price shows the grade on each date, built only from filings that were public by then.
Showing 2 of 40 quarters of Cadence Design Systems Inc.’s grade history. The other 38 go back to October 2016.
