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CDNS vs KC

Side-by-side comparison of Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS) and Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited (KC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CDNS and KC operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CDNS is the larger of the two at $103.76B, about 29.6x KC ($3.50B).
  • Over the past year, CDNS is up 30.6% and KC is down 12.6% - CDNS leads by 43.2 points.
  • CDNS has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for KC).
  • CDNS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 19 for KC).
PerformanceCDNS+30.55%KC-12.62%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricCDNSKC
Company
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited
Price
$393.65+4.62%
$11.47-1.84%
Market cap
$103.76B
$3.50B
1M return
+10.35%
-28.34%
1Y return
+30.55%
-12.62%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2020
News (4w)
12
5
Recent ratings
25
19
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.

KC

Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited

Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited provides cloud services to businesses and organizations in China. The company offers public cloud services to customers in various verticals, including game, video, AI, e-commerce, education, and mobile internet; enterprise cloud services to customers in financial service, public service, and healthcare business, and others. It also provides IoT–smart living solutions. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

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