Company data sheet · Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems: growth far beyond its economy.
- Industry
- Prepackaged Software
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ticker
- CDNS (Nasdaq)
- Sources
- SEC filings (1994–2026), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- It outgrew its own economy many times over. Revenue rose from $1.7 billion in fiscal 2016 to $5.3 billion in 2025: 3.1 times as much. The US economy, counted the same way in money terms, grew about 65%. Whatever drove it, the economy around it does not account for growth of that size.
- Profitable every year. Cadence Design Systems made money in each of its last eleven fiscal years, from $0.2 billion (2016) to $1.1 billion (2025).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $1.7 billion | $0.3 billion | |
| 2016 | $1.8 billion | $0.2 billion | |
| 2017 | $1.9 billion | $0.2 billion | |
| 2018 | $2.1 billion | $0.3 billion | |
| 2019 | $2.3 billion | $1 billion | |
| 2021 | $2.7 billion | $0.6 billion | |
| 2022 | $3 billion | $0.7 billion | |
| 2022 | $3.6 billion | $0.8 billion | |
| 2023 | $4.1 billion | $1 billion | |
| 2024 | $4.6 billion | $1.1 billion | |
| 2025 | $5.3 billion | $1.1 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 40 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (24 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 528 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
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