Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

CDNS stock score: 50/100

$309.65 · -5.04% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
46
Fundamental
53
News
21

The reading

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) scores 50 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 47% of Technology stocks and 42% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 46, fundamentals 53.

Among the fundamentals, Fund Ownership at 100 and Institutional Ownership at 100 score highest, while Fair Value at 12 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 28 and contrarian oscillators 62 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is negative at 21; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 47 to 64, and it is down 11 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward CDNS’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

53

Pulling it up

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Institutional Ownership100

    Institutional ownership measures the percentage held by professional investors.

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)99

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

Holding it back

  • Fair Value12

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • Trailing P/E13

    Trailing P/E ratio uses the last 12 months of actual earnings.

  • Price to Book Ratio14

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

32

Pulling it up

  • Bollinger Bands (20)95

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • TRIX88

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

  • Williams %R (14)88

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

Holding it back

  • Candlestick Patterns0

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • VWAP0

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)0

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
21

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly361
Daily323
Weekly432
Monthly582
Quarterly652

Composite score, last 90 days

05010050Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 61Jul 26, 2026: 59Jul 27, 2026: 61Jul 28, 2026: 61Jul 29, 2026: 61Jul 30, 2026: 61Jul 31, 2026: 64Aug 1, 2026: 56Aug 2, 2026: 56Aug 3, 2026: 56Aug 4, 2026: 58Aug 5, 2026: 57Aug 6, 2026: 57Aug 7, 2026: 54Aug 8, 2026: 54Aug 9, 2026: 54Aug 10, 2026: 52Aug 11, 2026: 52Aug 12, 2026: 51Aug 13, 2026: 52Aug 14, 2026: 51Aug 15, 2026: 51Aug 16, 2026: 51Aug 17, 2026: 52Aug 18, 2026: 50Aug 19, 2026: 50Aug 20, 2026: 49Aug 22, 2026: 51Aug 23, 2026: 51Aug 24, 2026: 51Aug 25, 2026: 54Aug 26, 2026: 55Aug 27, 2026: 57Aug 28, 2026: 56Aug 29, 2026: 55Aug 30, 2026: 55Aug 31, 2026: 55Sep 1, 2026: 52Sep 2, 2026: 51Sep 3, 2026: 50Sep 4, 2026: 49Sep 5, 2026: 49Sep 6, 2026: 49Sep 7, 2026: 49Sep 8, 2026: 48Sep 9, 2026: 48Sep 10, 2026: 48Sep 11, 2026: 50Sep 12, 2026: 49Sep 13, 2026: 49Sep 14, 2026: 48Sep 15, 2026: 47Sep 16, 2026: 48Sep 17, 2026: 49Sep 18, 2026: 49Sep 19, 2026: 50Sep 20, 2026: 49Sep 21, 2026: 51Sep 22, 2026: 52Sep 23, 2026: 53Sep 24, 2026: 54Sep 25, 2026: 56Sep 26, 2026: 56Sep 27, 2026: 56Sep 28, 2026: 55Sep 29, 2026: 54Sep 30, 2026: 56Oct 1, 2026: 59Oct 2, 2026: 59Oct 3, 2026: 58Oct 4, 2026: 58Oct 5, 2026: 59Oct 6, 2026: 59Oct 7, 2026: 58Oct 8, 2026: 58Oct 9, 2026: 58Oct 10, 2026: 59Oct 11, 2026: 58Oct 12, 2026: 58Oct 13, 2026: 55Oct 14, 2026: 54Oct 15, 2026: 52Oct 16, 2026: 52Oct 17, 2026: 50Oct 18, 2026: 50Oct 19, 2026: 53Oct 20, 2026: 52Oct 21, 2026: 55Oct 22, 2026: 50
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Key facts

Market cap
$85.3B
Sector
Technology
Industry
Software - Application
Beta
1.13
Risk grade (1–10)
1
Next earnings
Oct 26, 2026

Software - Application peers

CompanyMarket capScore
ADP Automatic Data Processing$122.0B62
SNOW Snowflake$110.8B46
ADBE Adobe$105.3B58
INTU Intuit$94.8B53
DDOG Datadog$92.6B55
MSTR Strategy$61.7B41

Questions

What is CDNS's stock score today?

CDNS scores 50/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 46, fundamental 53, and news sentiment 21, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is CDNS a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 50 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the CDNS score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Technology ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.