CDNSCadence Design Systems
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: priced for +23% a year vs +15% a year delivered, at the top of its own P/E range, and rich vs its sector.
Priced for ~23% a year FCF growth. The price demands more than its three-year revenue growth of 15% a year, priced for acceleration.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 82.3 vs a 56.6 median over 40 quarters (+45% vs median).
Sector median 30.5× across 203 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Mar 31, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CDNS's price assumes
Cadence Design Systems trades at 82.3× earnings against 33.9× for the median Software - Application name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Software - Application median 33.9 · 2.43× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 19.3
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.3%
Free cash flow yield · Software - Application median 6.9%
- Growth the price implies
- +23%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +23% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +11% a year over the last three.
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 16.3
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 67.8
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Mar 31, 2026
- 19.1
- Technology median P/E459 names
- 37.7
- Software - Application median P/E126 names
- 33.9
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.43B
- Market capitalisation
- $106.8B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +15%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +11%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $179.18 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $242.98 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $292.26 |
| 52-week range | $265.66 – $416.39 |
| Today | $352.86 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Software, Application
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