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CDNS vs DOCU

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

Summary

  • Both CDNS and DOCU operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CDNS is the larger of the two at $103.76B, about 11.2x DOCU ($9.26B).
  • Over the past year, CDNS is up 24.8% and DOCU is down 39.9% - CDNS leads by 64.6 points.
  • DOCU has been more active in the news (21 items in the past 4 weeks vs 12 for CDNS).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceCDNS+24.75%DOCU-39.87%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricCDNSDOCU
Company
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
DocuSign Inc.
Price
$376.25-8.64%
$47.23-7.26%
Market cap
$103.76B
$9.26B
1M return
+6.03%
+1.54%
1Y return
+24.75%
-39.87%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
1989
News (4w)
12
21
Recent ratings
25
25
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.

DOCU

DocuSign Inc.

DocuSign, Inc. provides cloud based software in the United States and internationally. The company provides e-signature solution that enables businesses to digitally prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. It also offers CLM, which automates workflows across the entire agreement process; Insights that use artificial intelligence (AI) to search and analyze agreements by legal concepts and clauses; Gen for Salesforce, which allows sales representatives to automatically generate agreements with a few clicks from within Salesforce; Negotiate for Salesforce that supports for approvals, document comparisons, and version control; Analyzer, which helps customers understand what they're signing before they sign it; and CLM+ that provide AI-driven contract lifecycle management. The company provides Guided Forms, which enable complex forms to be filled via an interactive and step-by-step process; Click that supports no-signature-required agreements for standard terms and consents; Identify, a signer-identification option for checking government-issued IDs; Standards-Based Signatures, which support signatures that involve digital certificates; Payments that enables customers to collect signatures and payment; and eNotary, which offers the ability to execute electronic notarial acts. It offers industry-specific cloud offerings, including Rooms for Real Estate that provides a way for brokers and agents to manage the entire real estate transaction digitally; Rooms for Mortgage, which offers digital workspace to create and close mortgages; FedRAMP, an authorized version of DocuSign eSignature for U.S. federal government agencies; and life sciences modules that support compliance with the electronic signature practices. The company sells its products through direct, partner-assisted, and Web-based sales. It serves enterprise, commercial, and small businesses. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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