Compare · CDNS vs VRNS
CDNS vs VRNS
Side-by-side comparison of Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS) and Varonis Systems Inc. (VRNS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both CDNS and VRNS operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- CDNS is the larger of the two at $103.76B, about 27.6x VRNS ($3.75B).
- Over the past year, CDNS is up 24.8% and VRNS is down 35.5% - CDNS leads by 60.2 points.
- CDNS has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 6 for VRNS).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Cadence Design Systems Inc.
- Varonis Systems Inc.
- Price
- $376.25-8.64%
- $32.67-1.77%
- Market cap
- $103.76B
- $3.75B
- 1M return
- +6.03%
- +18.28%
- 1Y return
- +24.75%
- -35.49%
- Industry
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2014
- News (4w)
- 12
- 6
- 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.
Varonis Systems Inc.
Varonis Systems, Inc. provides software products and services that allow enterprises to manage, analyze, and secure enterprise data in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. Its software enables enterprises to protect data stored on premises and in the cloud, including sensitive files and emails; confidential personal data belonging to customers, and patients and employees' data; financial records; strategic and product plans; and other intellectual property. The company offers DatAdvantage that captures, aggregates, normalizes, and analyzes every data access event for users on Windows and UNIX/Linux servers, storage devices, email systems, and Intranet servers; and DatAlert that profiles users and their behaviors related to systems and data, detects and alerts on deviations that indicate compromise, and provides a Web-based dashboard and investigative interface. It also provides Data Classification Engine that identifies and tags data based on criteria set in various metadata dimensions, and provides business and information technology (IT) personnel with actionable intelligence about data; and DataPrivilege, which provides a self-service Web portal that allows users to request access to data necessary for their business functions, and owners to grant access without IT intervention. In addition, the company offers Data Transport Engine, which provides an execution engine that unifies the manipulation of data and metadata, translating business decisions, and instructions into technical commands, such as data migration or archiving; and DatAnswers that offers search functionality for enterprise data. It sells its products and services through a network of distributors and resellers. The company serves IT, security, and business personnel. Varonis Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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 VRNS
- EVP and General Counsel Gottlieb Dov covered exercise/tax liability with 9,264 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 265,774 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- Varonis Systems Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
- Varonis at Infosecurity Europe 2026: Securing AI and the Data that Powers It
- KeyBanc Capital Markets initiated coverage on Varonis Systems
- CFO and COO Melamed Guy covered exercise/tax liability with 104,440 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 17% to 504,662 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding obligation
- Varonis Announces Integration with the Claude Compliance API
- Varonis to Present at Upcoming Investor Conferences
- Varonis Announces Global Partners in Excellence Award Winners
- Varonis Attains High (Alta) Certification Under Spain's National Security Framework Standards
- Director Aued Carlos was granted 7,224 shares, increasing direct ownership by 31% to 30,247 units (SEC Form 4)