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Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

CDNS Technology Software Application

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $5.3 billion, up 14.1% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+22.0%
EPS
−0.15%
Free cash flow
+30.7%
Total debt
+6.22%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

313.85 2.42 +0.78%
Market cap
$85.5B
P/E
61.7×
Fwd P/E
67.7×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
13.22
Beneish M
−2.43
Dividend safety
n/a
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (CDNS) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $313.85 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 22.7% a year for ten years.

Free cash flow after share-based pay grew 15.1% a year over the last ten years, 6.6% over the last five. The price asks for about twice its ten-year rate. The industry’s median company is priced for 15.8%.

In December 2017 the price assumed 11.9% a year; Cadence Design Systems, Inc. went on to grow free cash flow after share-based pay 18.9% a year to FY2025.

Price implies
22.7%
Last 5 years, reported
6.6%
Last 10 years, reported
15.1%
Industry median implies
15.8%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ free cash flow after share-based pay at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
22.7% a year for ten years
$313.85
today’s price
Its base case
15.1% a year for five years, then 9.1%
$142.65
54.5% below today’s price

Both are growth in free cash flow after share-based pay, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record Cadence Design Systems, Inc.’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Cash flow to equity
the four quarters to September 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings, before share-based pay

Yearly growth in cash flow. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 22.7% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

Diluted shares outstanding. Net debt, under Advanced inputs, is taken off before dividing.

Advanced inputs
Free cash flow Revenue and margin
negative is net cash
new shares the cash flow does not pay for

Against Cadence Design Systems, Inc.’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 1.10 × equity premium 4.5% = 9.2% cost of equity; weighted, 9.2%.

Use 9.2%
Equity value $39.17b ▼ below market cap $86.19b
Base case value per share $142.65 equity value ÷ 274.62m shares
Current price $313.85 market price per share
Below today’s price 54.5% downside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$15.15b 10 years of cash to equity+$25.21b terminal value−$1.18b net debt=$39.17b equity value÷274.62m shares=$142.65 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Software Application).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 61.70× 66.90× 58.08× 6% above 25.90× 138% above
P/FCF 48.64× 54.11× 44.44× 9% above 17.17× 183% above
P/B 12.43× 16.39× 14.53× 14% below 2.60× 378% above
EV/EBITDA 40.13× 45.67× 40.88× 2% below 15.48× 159% above
EV/Sales 14.13× 15.41× 12.71× 11% above 2.89× 388% above
P/E P/FCF P/B EV/EBITDA EV/Sales
27.20×41.30×55.40×69.49×10Y avg 44.44×2017201820192020202120222023202420252026

CDNS trades at 48.64× P/FCF, against a 10-year average of 44.44× (range 21.91×–72.90×). That is dearer than 56% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $286.74 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.