Cadence Design Systems, Inc. CDNS

326.13 4.13 1.28% as of 25 Sep
Market cap
$88.7B
P/E
64.5×
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (CDNS) Operating margin

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 30.3%, up 2.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (28.2%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 13.5% (fiscal 2016) to 30.6% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Software Application industry median of 0.00% and above the Technology sector median of 0.08%.

Operating margin, annual

Annual

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 28.2% (0.93)
FY2024 29.1% (1.49)
FY2023 30.6% 0.44
FY2022 30.2% 4.08
FY2021 26.1% 2.01
FY2020 24.1% 3.01
FY2019 21.1% 2.52
FY2018 18.5% 1.86
FY2017 16.7% 3.18
FY2016 13.5% (3.28)

Quarterly

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 28.4% (0.84)
Mar 2026 29.3% (2.91)
Dec 2025 32.2% 0.40
Sep 2025 31.8% 12.81
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 13.5% High 30.6%
Ten-year median 24.1%
Current reading's percentile 73

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
ADBE Adobe Inc. compare 35.7%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 30.3%
INTU Intuit Inc. compare 27.4%
ADP Automatic Data Processing, Inc. compare 26.3%
UBER Uber Technologies, Inc. compare 12.1%
NOW ServiceNow, Inc. compare 11.4%
DDOG Datadog, Inc. compare 0.41%
SNOW Snowflake Inc. compare −22.8%
MSTR Strategy Inc compare −7,295.4%
Software Application industry median 0.00%
Technology sector median 0.08%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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