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CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC CDNS

Services-Prepackaged Software · CIK 0000813672 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$6.13B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Operating income
$1.77B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Free cash flow
$1.76B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$83.97BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$307.97Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income75.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue15.9×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity15.3×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

75.7× earnings today, against a median of 47.1× across 10 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$83.97B75.7×
2024-06-30$84.27B79.8×
2023-06-30$63.74B61.2×
2022-07-02$40.98B48.3×
2021-07-03$38.18B54.9×
2020-06-27$26.16B44.3×
2019-06-29$19.84B20.1×
2018-06-30$12.25B35.4×
2017-07-01$9.38B46.0×
2016-07-02$7.13B35.1×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Services-Prepackaged Software filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Operating margin28.2%94th
Net margin20.9%89th
FCF margin30.0%87th
Current ratio2.86x81th
CapEx / revenue2.7%77th
Effective tax rate27.1%76th
SBC / revenue8.6%39th
Revenue YoY growth14.1%57th

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC (CDNS) reported revenue of $6.13B and net income of $1.38B for the fiscal year ended 2026-09-30. This page shows 1 annual period of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Services-Prepackaged Software.

Income

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Revenue$6.13B
Cost of revenueUnavailable
Gross profitUnavailable
Operating income$1.77B
Net income$1.38B
Research & developmentUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesUnavailable
Pretax income$1.84B
Income tax expense$459.01M
Diluted EPSUnavailable
Selling, general & administrative$1.29B
General & administrative$393.01M
Selling & marketing$901.77M

Balance

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Cash & equivalents$1.45B
Total assets$12.22B
Current assets$3.35B
Total liabilitiesUnavailable
Current liabilities$2.47B
Total equity incl. NCI$6.88B
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailable
Inventory$448.82M
Accounts receivable$1.11B
Goodwill$4.93B
Long-term debt$1.98B
Accounts payableUnavailable

Cash flow

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Operating cash flow$1.97B
Capital expenditures$204.30M
Investing cash flow-$2.33B
Financing cash flow-$920.45M
Net change in cash-$1.30B
Stock-based compensation$543.00M
Common dividends paidUnavailable
Common share repurchases$1.00B
Depreciation & amortization$384.72M

Derived

CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Free cash flow$1.76B
Gross marginUnavailable
Operating margin28.9%
FCF margin28.8%
SBC / revenue8.9%
Current ratio1.36x
Revenue YoY growth17.6%
Net margin22.5%
R&D / revenueUnavailable
CapEx / revenue3.3%
Long-term debt / equity0.29x
Effective tax rate25.0%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open CDNS in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-07-29View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-01View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-19View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-29View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-30View SEC filing

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Every accounting identity this site checks — the balance sheet, the gross profit bridge and the cash flow statement — reconciles in every period shown.