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CDNS vs YOU

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

Summary

  • Both CDNS and YOU operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CDNS is the larger of the two at $103.76B, about 14.2x YOU ($7.29B).
  • Over the past year, CDNS is up 24.8% and YOU is up 107.1% - YOU leads by 82.3 points.
  • Both names hit the wire about 12 times in the past 4 weeks.
  • CDNS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 23 for YOU).
PerformanceCDNS+24.75%YOU+107.07%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricCDNSYOU
Company
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Clear Secure Inc.
Price
$376.25-8.64%
$54.34-0.25%
Market cap
$103.76B
$7.29B
1M return
+6.03%
-10.87%
1Y return
+24.75%
+107.07%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2021
News (4w)
12
12
Recent ratings
25
23
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.

YOU

Clear Secure Inc.

Clear Secure, Inc. focuses on operating as a holding company for Alclear Holdings LLC that provides a member-centric secure identity platform using biometric data in the United States. The company's secure identity platform uses biometrics to automate the identity verification process through CLEAR lanes in airports. Its secure identity platform is a multi-layered infrastructure consisting of front-end, including enrollment, verification, and linking; and robust, secure, and scalable back-end. The company also offers CLEAR Plus, a consumer aviation subscription service, which enables access to predictable and fast experiences through entry lanes in airport security checkpoints across the nation, as well as a broader network; CLEAR app, a consumer-facing digital product that facilitates new user enrollment and member engagement from their mobile device; and CLEAR Pass for CBP Mobile Passport Control, a mobile app that enables digital submission of U.S. Customs and Border Protection forms and U.S. entry through the mobile passport control lane. Clear Secure, Inc. was incorporated in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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