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Model output · Signal date 2026-11-06

Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) Stock Forecast Nov. 6, 2026

Analysis updated on Nov. 6, 2026 (UTC) · Alpha · vs marketSwitch to Total · Nasdaq

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Rank in coverage of 5150 stocks scored
Rank correlation · 90D 56.0% Spearman, 357 dates
Market Cap $87.78B large-cap · #10 of 60 peers
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Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) stock forecast summary

Our AI scores Cadence Design Systems Inc every trading day against every stock it covers. Create a free account and follow it to see its rating and price target.

Cadence Design Systems Inc is a large-cap company with a market capitalization of $87.78B. It ranks number 10 by market capitalization among the 60 Services-Prepackaged Software issuers in our coverage with a current forecast.

For CDNS, the Spearman rank correlation between our 90-day forecasts and the returns that followed is 56.0%, measured on 357 forecast dates between 2022-08-19 and 2026-08-07 on this stock's own recent history. A rank correlation runs from -100% to +100%: it measures whether higher forecasts were followed by higher returns, and a value near zero or below means the model has shown little skill on this stock. On the 30-day forecasts the same correlation is 22.0%, measured on 400 forecast dates between 2022-08-19 and 2026-10-07. Across our coverage, the out-of-sample test on 4629 stocks from 2025-01-06 to 2026-08-04 produced a positive net return in 92.9% of rebalance periods (factor-neutral book, net of estimated costs). Full backtest report

Expected return relative to the market over the horizon: a positive alpha means the model expects the stock to beat the market, whatever the market does. Ratings: strong buy ≥ +3.1%, buy ≥ +1.5%, sell < -0.5%, strong sell < -1.8% (top 15%, next 20%, middle 30%, next 20%, bottom 15% of the 2026-11-06 signals)

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Cross-section · 2026-11-06

How CDNS ranks among 5150 stocks

90D Alpha forecasts of every company scored, cut into five relative ratings at the 15th, 35th, 65th and 85th percentiles (dashed lines).

Fundamentals · 2026-09-30

Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) fundamentals

Trailing twelve months. The industry median and the rank (1 = highest) are taken over the Services-Prepackaged Software peers listed below that report each metric.

Valuation & Market

MetricCDNSIndustry medianRank
Market Cap $87.78B $15.02B 10/60
P/E Ratio 63.60x 37.48x 14/40
P/B Ratio 12.77x 6.97x 12/51
EPS $5.03 – –
Book Value/Share $25.06 – –
Revenue/Share $22.35 – –
FCF/Share $6.43 – –

Profitability & Margins

MetricCDNSIndustry medianRank
ROE 20.1% 14.1% 18/42
ROA 11.3% 6.4% 15/44
ROIC 18.2% 8.8% 15/53
Operating Margin 28.9% 9.2% 11/58
Net Margin 22.5% 13.8% 9/46
EBT Margin 30.0% 11.4% 11/58
Tax Rate 24.9% – –

Financial Health

MetricCDNSIndustry medianRank
Current Ratio 1.36x 1.53x 32/57
Quick Ratio 1.18x 1.44x 7/8
D/E Ratio 0.78x 0.79x 27/52
Financial Leverage 1.78x 1.80x 27/51
Interest Coverage 14.1x 11.4x 21/47
Working Capital $887M $525M 23/57

Cash Flow

MetricCDNSIndustry medianRank
Operating Cash Flow $1.97B $674M 12/58
Free Cash Flow $1.76B $489M 10/49
Capital Spending -$204M -$26M 42/49
OCF Growth YoY 21.7% 28.2% 35/51
FCF Growth YoY 19.3% 28.6% 27/43
FCF/Sales 28.8% 25.9% 18/49
CapEx/Sales 3.3% 1.0% 7/49

Operational Efficiency

MetricCDNSIndustry medianRank
Asset Turnover 0.50x 0.55x 30/49
Receivables Turnover 11.0x 6.4x 13/49
Fixed Assets Turnover 10.2x 30.0x 40/48
Days Sales Outstanding 33 days 57 days 36/49

Income Statement

MetricCDNSIndustry medianRank
Total Revenue $6.13B $2.63B 15/52
Operating Income $1.77B $237M 10/58
Net Income $1.38B $302M 8/46
R&D Expense $2.04B $496M 9/58
SG&A Expense $2.38B $1.64B 22/57

Dividend & Shareholder Information

MetricCDNSIndustry medianRank
Shares Outstanding 274M – –
Net Income Growth 30.1% 15.5% 11/30
EPS Growth 5.2% 24.8% 28/36

Balance Sheet Highlights (USD millions)

Total Current Assets$3.35B27.4% of assets
Cash & Short-term Investments$1.45B11.9% of assets
Accounts Receivable$557M4.6% of assets
Inventory$449M3.7% of assets
Total Liabilities$5.35B43.8% of assets
Short-term Debt$1.66B13.6% of assets
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Industry Peers · Services-Prepackaged Software

Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) industry peers

Companies classified under the same SEC industry code as Cadence Design Systems Inc (Services-Prepackaged Software): 60 common-stock issuers with a forecast this week, one row per issuer, largest first. This is a classification match, not a curated list of competitors.

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Company 90-Day AI Forecast (Alpha) Market Cap P/E Ratio P/B Ratio
CDNS Cadence Design Systems Inc $87.78B 63.6x 12.8x
MSFT Microsoft Corp $3.94T 27.7x 8.4x
PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. $385.38B 180.2x 34.3x
ORCL Oracle Corp $351.06B 18.2x 5.3x
SAP Sap Se $286.79B 13.0x –
CRWD Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. $222.09B 2410.0x –
SHOP Shopify Inc. $191.59B 135.4x 15.0x
CRM Salesforce, Inc. $175.83B 19.5x 5.1x
NET Cloudflare, Inc. $95.00B – 64.9x
ADBE Adobe Inc. $93.14B 13.4x 7.9x
SNPS Synopsys Inc $84.38B 83.4x 2.7x
NTES Netease, Inc. $82.37B – –
DDOG Datadog, Inc. $64.29B 337.8x 13.6x
ADSK Autodesk, Inc. $54.70B 31.1x 16.2x
XYZ Block, Inc. $50.49B 59.6x 2.2x
VEEV Veeva Systems Inc $49.18B 49.7x 6.6x
TTWO Take Two Interactive Software Inc $40.18B – 11.1x
TEAM Atlassian Corp $38.90B 452.0x 42.7x
RBLX Roblox Corp $35.28B – –
TWLO Twilio Inc $31.26B 26.4x 3.4x
OKTA Okta, Inc. $29.49B 106.1x 4.2x
CRWV Coreweave, Inc. $25.59B – 5.1x
MDB Mongodb, Inc. $25.20B – 8.5x
RBRK Rubrik, Inc. $21.92B – –
PTC Ptc Inc. $21.12B 17.8x 6.1x
SSNC Ss&C Technologies Holdings Inc $18.24B 22.9x 2.8x
GEN Gen Digital Inc. $17.67B 16.2x 6.5x
TYL Tyler Technologies Inc $17.11B 54.2x 6.1x
NTNX Nutanix, Inc. $15.79B 11.3x –
CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd $15.22B 11.7x 5.3x
MANH Manhattan Associates Inc $14.82B 70.9x 73.8x
BSY Bentley Systems Inc $13.49B 46.5x 10.5x
GWRE Guidewire Software, Inc. $13.23B 99.0x 11.1x
DT Dynatrace, Inc. $12.55B 74.9x 5.5x
FROG Jfrog Ltd $12.45B – 12.3x
PCOR Procore Technologies, Inc. $11.45B – 10.6x
PAYC Paycom Software, Inc. $11.27B 24.0x 15.9x
SAIL Sailpoint, Inc. $10.97B – 1.6x
FIG Figma, Inc. $10.03B – 6.5x
HUBS Hubspot Inc $10.00B 65.1x 6.2x
PCTY Paylocity Holding Corp $9.19B 33.8x 8.0x
ESTC Elastic N.V. $9.04B 24.6x 7.0x
NTSK Netskope Inc $8.70B – 55.5x
APPF Appfolio Inc $8.18B 41.2x 14.0x
GTLB Gitlab Inc. $8.16B – 8.8x
DSGX Descartes Systems Group Inc $8.09B 26.8x 5.0x
DBX Dropbox, Inc. $7.82B 18.2x –
TTAN Servicetitan, Inc. $7.80B – –
S Sentinelone, Inc. $7.58B – 5.2x
DUOL Duolingo, Inc. $7.51B 55.1x 5.1x
GLBE Global-E Online Ltd. $7.26B – 7.8x
ZETA Zeta Global Holdings Corp. $7.26B – 7.8x
PATH Uipath, Inc. $6.78B 22.0x 3.5x
QLYS Qualys, Inc. $6.59B 32.9x 11.7x
CVLT Commvault Systems Inc $6.48B 81.6x 516.9x
NAVN Navan, Inc. $6.33B – 4.8x
KVYO Klaviyo, Inc. $5.90B – 6.8x
NICE Nice Ltd. $5.80B 15.1x 1.5x
BOX Box Inc $5.76B 67.7x –
OCTV Octave Intelligence Plc $5.63B – 1.1x

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What is the Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) stock forecast?

Our AI scores Cadence Design Systems Inc every trading day against every stock it covers. Create a free account and follow it to see its rating and price target.

How accurate are Cadence Design Systems Inc stock predictions?

For CDNS, the Spearman rank correlation between our 90-day forecasts and the returns that followed is 56.0%, measured on 357 forecast dates between 2022-08-19 and 2026-08-07 on this stock's own recent history. A rank correlation runs from -100% to +100%: it measures whether higher forecasts were followed by higher returns, and a value near zero or below means the model has shown little skill on this stock. On the 30-day forecasts the same correlation is 22.0%, measured on 400 forecast dates between 2022-08-19 and 2026-10-07. Across our coverage, the out-of-sample test on 4629 stocks from 2025-01-06 to 2026-08-04 produced a positive net return in 92.9% of rebalance periods (factor-neutral book, net of estimated costs). Full backtest report

How often are Cadence Design Systems Inc forecasts updated?

Cadence Design Systems Inc forecasts are refreshed on trading days as the daily model run completes. The forecast on this page was produced on Nov. 6, 2026.

Which companies are Cadence Design Systems Inc's industry peers?

60 issuers in our coverage, CDNS included, share the SEC industry code Services-Prepackaged Software. The largest are: Microsoft Corp (MSFT), Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR), Oracle Corp (ORCL), Sap Se (SAP), Crowdstrike Holdings, Inc. (CRWD), Shopify Inc. (SHOP).

This analysis is generated automatically using our proprietary AI systems and should not be considered personalized investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Always conduct your own research and consider consulting a financial advisor before making investment decisions.