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CDNS vs NOW
Side-by-side comparison of Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS) and ServiceNow Inc. (NOW): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both CDNS and NOW operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- NOW is the larger of the two at $115.94B, about 1.1x CDNS ($103.76B).
- Over the past year, CDNS is up 24.8% and NOW is down 45.2% - CDNS leads by 70.0 points.
- NOW has been more active in the news (22 items in the past 4 weeks vs 12 for CDNS).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Cadence Design Systems Inc.
- ServiceNow Inc.
- Price
- $376.25-8.64%
- $112.44-5.87%
- Market cap
- $103.76B
- $115.94B
- 1M return
- +6.03%
- +26.27%
- 1Y return
- +24.75%
- -45.24%
- Industry
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2012
- News (4w)
- 12
- 22
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
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.
ServiceNow Inc.
ServiceNow, Inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions that defines, structures, consolidates, manages, and automates services for enterprises worldwide. It operates the Now platform that offers workflow automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, performance analytics, electronic service catalogs and portals, configuration management systems, data benchmarking, encryption, and collaboration and development tools. The company also provides information technology (IT) service management applications; IT service management product suite for enterprise's employees, customers, and partners; IT business management product suite to manage IT priorities; IT operations management product that connects a customer's physical and cloud-based IT infrastructure; IT Asset Management to automate IT asset lifecycles; and enterprise development operations product for developers' toolchain. In addition, it offers security incident management, threat enrichment intelligence, vulnerability response management, and security incident intelligence sharing security operation products; governance, risk, and compliance product to create policies and controls; human resources, legal, and workplace service delivery products; safe workplace applications; customer service management product; and field service management applications. Further, it provides App Engine product; IntegrationHub enables application to extend workflows; and professional, training, and customer support services. It serves government, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, IT services, technology, oil and gas, education, and consumer products. It sells its products through direct sales team and resale partners. The company was formerly known as Service-now.com and changed its name to ServiceNow, Inc. in May 2012. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Latest CDNS
- President and CEO Devgan Anirudh exercised 26,821 shares at a strike of $78.76 and sold $30,846,765 worth of shares (76,827 units at $401.51) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 16% to 253,519 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. Vice President Scannell Paul sold $2,789,277 worth of shares (7,081 units at $393.91) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and exercised 7,081 shares at a strike of $285.19 (SEC Form 4)
- Cadence's Richard Gu to Present at Nasdaq Conference
- SEC Form SD filed by Cadence Design Systems Inc.
- Cadence Unveils Industry's First Fully Autonomous Virtual Engineer for Chip Design, powered by NVIDIA
- Cadence and Samsung Foundry Deepen 2nm and 3D‑IC Collaboration to Meet Surging AI Infrastructure and Physical AI Demand
- President and CEO Devgan Anirudh exercised 25,000 shares at a strike of $78.76 and sold $19,198,190 worth of shares (51,887 units at $370.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 303,525 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. Vice President Teng Chin-Chi exercised 1,000 shares at a strike of $202.94 and sold $1,662,087 worth of shares (4,500 units at $369.35) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 148,781 units (SEC Form 4)
- Cadence's Anirudh Devgan to Present at BofA Conference
- Amendment: Sr. Vice President Scannell Paul covered exercise/tax liability with 75 shares and sold $369,559 worth of shares (1,071 units at $345.06) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 32,181 units (SEC Form 4) to cover taxes
Latest NOW
- City Year Receives $2.5M Grant from ServiceNow to Power Student Success and Build Future-Ready Talent Pipelines
- Director Briggs Teresa sold $173,376 worth of shares (1,595 units at $108.70), decreasing direct ownership by 13% to 11,010 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 3 filed by new insider Yuan Eric S.
- Director Luddy Frederic B was granted 3,260 shares, increasing direct ownership by 204% to 4,855 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Chamberlain Paul Edward was granted 3,260 shares, increasing direct ownership by 7% to 48,190 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Briggs Teresa was granted 3,260 shares, increasing direct ownership by 35% to 12,605 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Jackson Lawrence was granted 3,260 shares, increasing direct ownership by 202% to 4,875 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Sands Anita M was granted 3,260 shares, increasing direct ownership by 11% to 33,350 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Bostrom Susan L was granted 3,260 shares, increasing direct ownership by 18% to 21,685 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Quinlan Larry was granted 3,260 shares, increasing direct ownership by 40% to 11,465 units (SEC Form 4)