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CDNS vs SAP
Side-by-side comparison of Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS) and SAP SE (SAP): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both CDNS and SAP operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- SAP is the larger of the two at $226.99B, about 2.2x CDNS ($103.76B).
- Over the past year, CDNS is up 24.8% and SAP is down 39.5% - CDNS leads by 64.2 points.
- CDNS has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for SAP).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Cadence Design Systems Inc.
- SAP SE
- Price
- $376.25-8.64%
- $184.75-1.23%
- Market cap
- $103.76B
- $226.99B
- 1M return
- +6.03%
- +6.74%
- 1Y return
- +24.75%
- -39.49%
- Industry
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 12
- 1
- 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.
SAP SE
SAP SE operates as an enterprise application software company worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Applications, Technology & Support; Concur; Qualtrics; and Services. It offers SAP S/4HANA, an enterprise resource planning suite for intelligent technologies; SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, a cloud-based solution that delivers real-time supply chain planning capabilities; SAP Intelligent Asset Management, a solution that helps to define, plan, and monitor service and maintenance strategy; SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite, a cloud software that helps to develop, manage, and engage people; SAP Ariba, a digital business-to-business marketplace; SAP Concur, a travel and expense management software; and SAP Fieldglass, a cloud application for services procurement and contingent workforce management. The company also provides SAP solutions for enterprise information management that offers capabilities to understand, integrate, cleanse, manage, associate, and archive data; SAP HANA and SAP HANA Cloud, which enables businesses to process and analyze live data; SAP Analytics Cloud, a cloud analytics solution; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, a suite of flexible and scalable self-service BI tools; SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, a cloud data warehouse solution for business and IT users; and SAP BW/4HANA, an on-premise data warehouse solution. In addition, it offers SAP Integration Suite that help customers with holistic integration, and API-based and event-based integrations; SAP Extension Suite that provides ready-to-use services to accelerate and develop application extensions; SAP Internet of Things, a cloud solution that generates business outcomes; and SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, a software robot to mimic human actions and responses. SAP SE was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.
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 SAP
- Answerthink® Receives 2026 North America SAP® Partner Award for SAP Business Data Cloud Success
- SAP Unveils the Autonomous Enterprise
- SAP and Cyberwave Deploy Fully Autonomous AI-Powered Robots in Live SAP Logistics Warehouse
- SEC Form 6-K filed by SAP SE
- SAP Executives to Participate in Upcoming Investor Events
- SAP to Acquire Prior Labs to Establish a Globally Leading Frontier AI Lab in Europe
- SAP to Acquire Dremio to Unify SAP and Non-SAP Data to Power Agentic AI
- SEC Form 6-K filed by SAP SE
- Tangible Growth and SAP Signavio announce strategic partnership to bring corporate strategy to business transformation
- SAP and S3NS Accelerate Trusted Cloud Adoption in France With Thales as First Strategic Customer