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APPF vs CDNS

Side-by-side comparison of AppFolio Inc. (APPF) and Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both APPF and CDNS operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CDNS is the larger of the two at $103.76B, about 17.6x APPF ($5.90B).
  • Over the past year, APPF is down 23.4% and CDNS is up 24.8% - CDNS leads by 48.1 points.
  • CDNS has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for APPF).
  • CDNS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 18 for APPF).
PerformanceAPPF-23.38%CDNS+24.75%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricAPPFCDNS
Company
AppFolio Inc.
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Price
$166.91+2.09%
$376.25-8.64%
Market cap
$5.90B
$103.76B
1M return
-0.25%
+6.03%
1Y return
-23.38%
+24.75%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2015
News (4w)
1
12
Recent ratings
18
25
APPF

AppFolio Inc.

AppFolio, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides industry-specific cloud-based business software solutions, services, and data analytics for the real estate industry. The company offers AppFolio Property Manager, a property management solution designed to address the operational and business requirements of property management companies and their business ecosystems; and AppFolio Investment Management, a cloud-based software solution for real estate investment managers of various sizes that provide tools and services designed to streamline their real estate investment management businesses. It also provides Value+ services that are designed to enhance, automate, and streamline processes and workflows for property management businesses, such as artificial intelligence leasing assistant, tenant screening, electronic payment, utility management, maintenance contact center, tenant debt collection, and mailing services. AppFolio, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

CDNS

Cadence Design Systems Inc.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, services, and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, including emulation and prototyping hardware. Its functional verification offering consists of JasperGold, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. The company also provides digital IC design products, including Genus logic synthesis and RTL power solutions, as well as Modus software solution to reduce systems-on-chip design-for-test time; physical implementation tools, including place and route, optimization, and multiple patterning preparation; and signoff products to signoff the design as ready for manufacture by a silicon foundry. In addition, it offers custom IC design and simulation products to create schematic and physical representations of circuits down to the transistor level for analog, mixed-signal, custom digital, memory, and radio frequency designs; and system design and analysis products to develop printed circuit boards and IC packages, as well as to analyze electromagnetic, electro-thermal, and other multi-physics effects. Further, the company provides intellectual property (IP) products consisting of pre-verified and customizable functional blocks to integrate into customer's ICs; and verification IP and memory models to verify the correct interaction with dozens of design IP interface protocols. Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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