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BRZE vs CDNS

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

Summary

  • Both BRZE and CDNS operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CDNS is the larger of the two at $107.82B, about 39.6x BRZE ($2.72B).
  • Over the past year, BRZE is down 23.7% and CDNS is up 28.0% - CDNS leads by 51.7 points.
  • BRZE has been more active in the news (15 items in the past 4 weeks vs 13 for CDNS).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceBRZE-23.70%CDNS+27.97%
2025-06-10+0.00%2026-06-09
MetricBRZECDNS
Company
Braze Inc.
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Price
$22.21-3.85%
$391.04-0.82%
Market cap
$2.72B
$107.82B
1M return
+2.21%
+7.87%
1Y return
-23.70%
+27.97%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2021
News (4w)
15
13
Recent ratings
25
25
BRZE

Braze Inc.

Braze, Inc. operates a customer engagement platform that provides interactions between consumers and brands worldwide. It provides data ingestion products, such as Braze software development kits that automatically manage data ingestion and the delivery of mobile and web notifications, in-application/in-browser interstitial messages, and content cards, as well as can be integrated into a range of digital interfaces and application development frameworks; REST API that can be used to import or export data or to trigger workflows between Braze and brands' existing technology stacks; and partner cohort syncing, which allow brands to sync user cohorts from partners. The company also offers classification products, including segmentation that can define reusable segments of consumers based upon attributes, events, or predictive propensity scores; segment insights, which allows customers to analyze how segments are performing relative to each other across a set of pre-selected key performance indicators, as well as helps to understand the factors that determine which consumers belong to a particular segment; and predictive suite that allows customers to identify groups of consumers that are of critical business value. In addition, it provides orchestration products, which include Canvas, an orchestration tool that allows customers to create journeys, map out multi-steps, and cross-channel messaging experiences comprise onboarding flows, nurture campaigns, win-back strategies, and others; campaigns, which allow customers to send one set of single-channel or multi-channel messages to be delivered to customers in a particular user segment; and event and API triggering, frequency capping and rate limiting, intelligent selection, reporting and analytics, personalization, and action products. The company was formerly known as Appboy, Inc. and changed its name to Braze, Inc. in November 2017. Braze, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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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