Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for CDNS in the last 90 days.
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Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Nov 4 close
$329.52+5.77 (+1.8%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryNov 4 closeCadence's third-quarter results and raised outlook dominate the week's coverage, with all key metrics exceeding guidance, record backlog of $8.2 billion, and a lift in full-year revenue growth outlook to 21% and EPS outlook by $0.30 to $8.40. The launch of Maestro, a portfolio of domain-specialized AI models, and continued traction of AI super agents with 100+ active customers also feature prominently, alongside commentary on whether this AI-driven demand can offset margin pressure and a rich valuation. Several pieces note the stock dropping below its 200-day moving average intraday before closing higher, and coverage remains split between growth-stock enthusiasm and concerns about underperformance versus competitors.
CDNS closed at $329.52, up 1.8%, sitting between its 50-day average of $320.85 and 200-day average of $327.73. The GekkoIndex reads 59.4, placing the stock in the Neutral zone. Price stands 12.1% above Gekko Fair Value of $293.91, a gap that bears watching. One-month return is -8.4%, three-month -2.6%, and six-month -7.2%, with the stock 22.30% below its 52-week high.
The next earnings date is 16 February 2027, 103 days away, outside a typical 20-day holding window. Over the last 90 days, Congress recorded 1 buy and 0 sells, while the last 30 days show 1 unusual options signal, with call premium of $6,323,000 against put premium of $4,071,185. Seasonality from this point in the calendar has averaged a 6.1% return over the next 20 trading days across 5 years, rising in 4 of them. Analyst consensus from 13 firms is unanimously Buy-rated, with a consensus target of $411.76.
Written by AI from the Nov 4, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Cadence Design Systems price vs fair value
Close $329.52200-day averageGekko Fair Value $293.91
Cadence Design Systems quick facts
- Market cap
- $90.41B
- P/E ratio
- 65.1
- Forward P/E
- 34
- EPS, TTM
- $5.06
- Revenue, TTM
- $6.13B
- Profit margin
- 22.5%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 1.10
- Volume
- 2.07M avg 2.39M
- 1-year return
- −1.8%
- Typical daily move
- ±4.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.1%
- 50-day average
- $320.85
- 200-day average
- $327.73
- Next earnings
- Feb 16 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 274.4M
Cadence Design Systems swing-trade checklist
Cadence Design Systems scores 3 supportive, 2 mixed and 1 headwind across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive2 mixed1 headwind
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $329.52 sits between the 50-day ($320.85) and 200-day ($327.73) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
59.4, Neutral
Reading 59.4 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valueheadwind
12.1% above
Price is 12.1% above Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% above).
See fair value - Smart moneysupportive
Leans bullish
Last 90 days: Congress 1 buy / 0 sales. Last 30 days: 1 unusual options signal.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 103 days
Next report Feb 16, 2027, 103 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+6.1% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +6.1% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
See seasonality
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Cadence Design Systems stock chart and price history
Cadence Design Systems closed at $329.52 on Nov 4, 2026, −1.8% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $262.75 to $416.69.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −8.4%
- 3 months
- −2.6%
- 6 months
- −7.2%
- 1 year
- −1.8%
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About Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems supplies the software, hardware and pre-built circuit components that engineers rely on to design and verify computer chips. It is recognized for its verification tools, which pair simulation software with dedicated emulation and prototyping machines, offered under names such as JasperGold, Xcelium, Palladium and Protium. The company also makes tools for laying out digital chip designs, checking their power use, testing their structure, and preparing finished layouts for manufacture.
Its product line extends to tools for building analog, mixed-signal and radio-frequency circuits at a detailed transistor level, as well as software for designing circuit boards and chip packaging and studying how electrical and thermal effects interact within them. Cadence sells reusable, pre-verified circuit designs and simulation models that help customers test how different chip interfaces behave together, and it backs its products with consulting, training, hosted design tools and ongoing support. Its customers work in fields including 5G networking, aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial and medical equipment, mobile devices, consumer electronics and large-scale computing.
Cadence Design Systems was founded in 1987 and is based in San Jose, California, with its shares listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker CDNS.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Website
- cadence.com
Cadence Design Systems GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Cadence Design Systems’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 59.4, in the Neutral zone, up 6.1 points over five sessions.
59.4Neutral
Up 6.1 points over five sessions.
Reading for Nov 4, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 48 | +0.7% | +7.6% | ||
| Accumulation | 196 | +1.4% | +1.9% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 417 | −0.2% | −0.3% | ||
| Distribution | 34 | −1.8% | −1.4% | ||
| Selling | 2 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average CDNS share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.0% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is Cadence Design Systems stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Cadence Design Systems trades 12.1% above Gekko Fair Value of $293.91, so the shares are overvalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Cadence Design Systems shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$293.91
Gekko Fair Value, Nov 4, 2026
12.1% Overvalued
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 17.3% above the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Cadence Design Systems insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Cadence Design Systems, and members of Congress disclosed 1 purchase and 0 sales, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
1trade disclosed: 1 purchase and 0 sales.
| Member | Amount | Disclosed |
|---|---|---|
| Ro Khanna House, CA, purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | Oct 9 traded Sep 11 |
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Buybacks
Cadence Design Systems has been buying back its own shares.
- Latest authorization
- $2.50B, Oct 26, 2026
- Bought back, quarter ended Sep 30, 2026
- $400.0M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.44%
- Trailing four quarters
- $1.00B
From company filings.
Unusual options activity last 30 days
1signal, 61% of the flagged premium in calls.
Latest: Bullish flow on Oct 27, $10.39M in unusual premium.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
1of the funds Gekko tracks holds CDNS.
0added0opened1trimmed1sold out
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Cadence Design Systems earnings: next date and track record
Cadence Design Systems reports on Feb 16, 2027, after the close (103 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Feb 16, 2027
Expected after the close, 103 days away
- EPS estimate
- $2.23
- Revenue estimate
- $1.72B
7 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±5.2%average move across the report
5 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Oct 26, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Cadence delivered a strong Q3 with all key metrics exceeding guidance and record backlog of $8.2 billion. The company is raising full-year revenue growth outlook to 21% and EPS outlook by $0.30 to $8.40. Cadence launched Maestro, a portfolio of domain-specialized AI models showing 30% higher quality and 5x greater token efficiency vs. general-purpose models. AI super agents gained 100+ active customer engagements with notable deployments at MediaTek, Honda, Renesas, and Samsung.
- Guidance
- Cadence raised full-year revenue growth outlook to 21% and increased EPS guidance by $0.30 to $8.40, reflecting strong bookings momentum and growing customer demand. Management expressed confidence driven by expanding AI opportunities and technology leadership.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $2.11 est $2.05 | $1.63B est $1.61B | +8.4% |
| Jul 27, 2026 | $1.58 est $1.62 | $1.58B est $1.58B | +5.7% |
| Apr 27, 2026 | $1.96 est $1.80 | $1.47B est $1.46B | −2.3% |
| Feb 17, 2026 | $1.99 est $1.91 | $1.44B est $1.42B | +1.9% |
| Oct 27, 2025 | $1.93 est $1.79 | $1.34B est $1.32B | −1.1% |
| Jul 28, 2025 | $1.65 est $1.56 | $1.28B est $1.25B | +10.3% |
| Apr 28, 2025 | $1.57 est $1.49 | $1.24B est $1.24B | +4.3% |
| Feb 18, 2025 | $1.88 est $1.82 | $1.36B est $1.35B | −7.2% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Cadence Design Systems stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Cadence Design Systems is $411.76, +25.0% from the last close, from 13 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$411.76consensus 12-month target, +25.0% from the last close
Now $329.52Avg $411.76
Low $375High $470
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 13 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | J.P. Morgan | $420 | +27.5% |
| Oct 27 | Morgan Stanley | $400 | +21.4% |
| Oct 27 | KeyBanc | $425 | +29.0% |
| Oct 27 | Robert W. Baird | $440 | +33.5% |
| Oct 27 | J.P. Morgan | $420 | +27.5% |
−0.3%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
+6.1%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±4.4%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Cadence Design Systems seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Nov 4, Cadence Design Systems averaged +6.1% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +4.1% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +3.9% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +4.6% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +6.1% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +4.8% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, CDNS’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 6.1%.
Cadence Design Systems market cap and key statistics
Cadence Design Systems’s market cap is $90.41B, with a P/E ratio of 65.1 and revenue of $6.13B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $90.41B
- P/E ratio
- 65.1
- Forward P/E
- 34
- EPS, TTM
- $5.06
- Gekko Fair Value
- $293.91
Trading
- Volume
- 2.07M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 2.39M
- 52-week high
- $416.69
- 52-week low
- $262.75
- Shares outstanding
- 274.4M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $6.13B
- Profit margin
- 22.5%
- Return on equity
- 22.9%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- 0.0%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.10
- Typical daily move
- ±4.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.1%
Cadence Design Systems stock news this week
Coverage of Cadence Design Systems this week reads positive: 14 positive, 2 neutral and 2 negative headlines.
- Cadence (CDNS) is an Incredible Growth Stock: 3 Reasons WhyZacks Investment Research, Nov 4
- 37,200 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. $CDNS Shares Acquired by Factory Mutual Insurance Co.MarketBeat, Nov 4
- Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS) Stock Breaks Below Two Hundred Day Moving Average - What's Next?MarketBeat, Nov 4
- CDNS Stock Price Prediction 2026-2027 | Cadence Design Systems Forecast24/7 Wall St., Nov 3
- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (CDNS) Seasonal returns chart - Yahoo FinanceYahoo Finance Singapore, Nov 3
- Cadence Design Systems Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitorsMarketWatch, Nov 3
Cadence Design Systems peers
Cadence Design Systems’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| MSFTMicrosoft | Neutral | 17.8% above |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | Accumulation | 4.7% below |
| ORCLOracle | Accumulation | 29.7% below |
| PANWPalo Alto Networks | Accumulation | 7.4% above |
| CRWDCrowdStrike | Neutral | 8.1% above |
| CRMSalesforce | Accumulation | 9.3% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Cadence Design Systems stock FAQ
What is Cadence Design Systems’s market cap?
Cadence Design Systems’s market cap is $90.41B at the Nov 4, 2026 close of $329.52, with 274.4M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 65.1.
What is the Cadence Design Systems stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Cadence Design Systems is $411.76, +25.0% from the last close. Of the 13 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 13 rate it a buy, 0 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Cadence Design Systems stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Cadence Design Systems is overvalued: the Nov 4, 2026 close of $329.52 is 12.1% above Gekko Fair Value of $293.91. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Cadence Design Systems report earnings next?
Cadence Design Systems is expected to report on Feb 16, 2027, after the market closes (103 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $2.23 per share on revenue of $1.72B. Cadence Design Systems beat the earnings estimate in 7 of its last 8 reports, moving 5.2% on average across the report.
What is Cadence Design Systems’s 52-week high and low?
Cadence Design Systems’s 52-week high is $416.69 and its 52-week low is $262.75; it closed at $329.52 on Nov 4, 2026, −1.8% over the past year.
Is Cadence Design Systems stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (smart money, earnings risk and seasonality), 2 as mixed (trend and gekkoindex) and 1 as a headwind (fair value). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
Is there unusual options activity in Cadence Design Systems?
Gekko flagged 1 unusual options signal in Cadence Design Systems over the last 30 days, with $6.32M of flagged premium in calls and $4.07M in puts. The latest, bullish flow, was on Oct 27, 2026 with $10.39M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.
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