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CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEM INC CDNS

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. develops computational, AI‑driven software, hardware, and silicon intellectual property products and solutions. The company offers functional verification services, such as Jasper, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Verisium, a generative AI solution; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification, as well as digital IC design and sign off products, including In novus platform; and custom IC design and simulation product include Virtuoso, a platform to design and verify analog.

Computer Software: Prepackaged Software

Company profile

Business mix

  • The company offers functional verification services, such as Jasper, a formal verification platform.
  • It also provides Xcelium logic simulator and other front-end verification and virtual prototyping technologies.
  • In addition, the company’s design IP portfolio includes serializer/deserializer, peripheral component interconnect, USB, and other standard protocols; and Secure‑IC, a solution for embedded security IP.
  • Additionally, it provides System Design and Analysis (SD&A) platform, a solution that enables end‑to‑end system‑level design and verification across chips, packages, PCBs, and electronic systems.

Current key questions

  • Can demand for the company's products and platforms keep growing within software - application?
  • How durable are margins as product cycles, R&D spending, cloud or AI investment, and competition change?
  • Does customer concentration, switching cost, or ecosystem control support long-term pricing power?
Holders 2 Current sample portfolio
Public mentions 0 Videos / interviews / letters
Valuation snapshot
PE 87.68 FCF 1.38% Buyback 0.19%
2026-06-07

Current firm holders

Firm Weight Value Filing period
Alkeon Capital Management 0.8% $450.9M 2026-03-31
Gotham Asset Management Joel Greenblatt 0.1% $34.3M 2026-03-31

Recent trading changes over the last 3 quarters

Net buyers 1 Last 3 13F filing periods
Net reducers 2 Last 3 13F filing periods
Unchanged holders 2 Share count unchanged
Increase amount $180,893 Estimated from net added shares
Reduction amount $363.5M Estimated from net reduced shares
Net share change / base shares -42.3% -1,278,317 / 3,024,576
Gotham Asset Management Joel Greenblatt 3 filing periods
13F 2025-09-30 Filed 2025-11-14
Minor reduction Shares -8.8% 13F value change +$1.5M
13F 2025-12-31 Filed 2026-02-17
Minor increase Shares 6.6% 13F value change -$2.0M
13F 2026-03-31 Filed 2026-05-15
Minor increase Shares 3.4% 13F value change -$3.0M
Settlement As of 13F 2026-03-31 · Filed 2026-05-15
Base shares 122,734 Last 3 periods +651 (+0.5%) Total shares 123,385 Value $34.3M
Alkeon Capital Management 3 filing periods
13F 2025-09-30 Filed 2025-11-14
Unchanged Shares 0.0% 13F value change $0
13F 2025-12-31 Filed 2026-02-17
Unchanged Shares 0.0% 13F value change $0
13F 2026-03-31 Filed 2026-05-15
Unchanged Shares 0.0% 13F value change $0
Settlement As of 13F 2026-03-31 · Filed 2026-05-15
Base shares 1,622,874 Last 3 periods +0 (0.0%) Total shares 1,622,874 Value $450.9M
Sands Capital Management Frank Sands 3 filing periods
13F 2025-09-30 Filed 2025-11-13
Minor increase Shares 7.7% 13F value change +$21.6M
13F 2025-12-31 Filed 2026-02-13
Major reduction Shares -24.1% 13F value change -$37.8M
13F 2026-03-31 Filed 2026-05-08
Sold out Shares -100.0% 13F value change -$78.8M
Settlement As of 13F 2026-03-31 · Filed 2026-05-08
Base shares 308,191 Last 3 periods -308,191 (-100.0%) Total shares 0 Value $0
Coatue Management Philippe Laffont 3 filing periods
13F 2025-06-30 Filed 2025-08-14
Major reduction Shares -27.1% 13F value change -$28.7M
13F 2025-09-30 Filed 2025-11-14
Major reduction Shares -33.3% 13F value change -$52.3M
13F 2025-12-31 Filed 2026-02-17
Sold out Shares -100.0% 13F value change -$165.9M
Settlement As of 13F 2025-12-31 · Filed 2026-02-17
Base shares 970,777 Last 3 periods -970,777 (-100.0%) Total shares 0 Value $0
Lone Pine Capital Stephen Mandel 2 filing periods
13F 2025-03-31 Filed 2025-05-15
New Shares - 13F value change +$309.9M
13F 2025-06-30 Filed 2025-08-14
Sold out Shares -100.0% 13F value change -$309.9M
Settlement As of 13F 2025-06-30 · Filed 2025-08-14
Base shares 0 Last 3 periods +0 (New) Total shares 0 Value $0

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