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Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Our record on CDNS

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on Cadence Design Systems Inc, with the outcome where it is known.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for CDNS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-10-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
CDNS+1.7%+10.9%+22.8%−3.9%
EDA & Chip IP+1.7%+11.9%+23.6%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+0.8%+7.0%+11.0%—

Against the index: 3.9 pts ahead on the week, 11.8 pts ahead on the month; against its EDA & Chip IP sleeve 0.8 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 5 pieces · newest: Morning 10, “Jobs day — futures +0.3% before payrolls; Nike −8.7% after hours, Accenture holds +15.8%” (2026-10-02)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where CDNS appears in the diary — 5 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
How it trades on rate days beta 0.32 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How CDNS has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.32 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Cadence Design Systems Inc moved 0.32% on average · correlation 0.07 · higher than 31% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.33 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.30% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +4.18% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Chip IP and architecture · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Chip IP and architecture

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against CDNS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Cadence Design Systems Inc

CDNS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Cadence makes the software that chip engineers use to design, verify and lay out semiconductors, from simulation and emulation tools to physical design and packaging platforms. It also licenses blocks of chip intellectual property such as interface and signal-processing cores that customers build into their own designs. Its tools cover chips, printed circuit boards and now multi-chip packages, serving processor and system designers across the industry. It is based in San Jose and listed on Nasdaq.
Where it sits in the stack
In our index, Cadence sits in Layer 1, Design, within the EDA & Chip IP sleeve — the software layer every other Rubin constituent depends on to turn a design into a working chip. It is a supplier to nearly every chip designer in the stack rather than a constraint on any single one, since its tools are used before a design ever reaches a foundry.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group prices it against chip-IP and architecture names — Arm, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Synopsys and AMD — reflecting design tools and licensed IP rather than shared sector alone.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Cadence holds a seat in our index and in the Nasdaq-100, and it carries a Closelooknet score with quality as its strongest module and valuation its weakest. The diary has quoted it in a dossier on industrial and physical AI, noting its digital-twin and packaging-design work.
What the diary watches
Whether demand for verification and multi-chip packaging tools keeps pace as chip designs move toward chiplets and 3D stacking, since that shift is what would lift or dent the design layer's read.

Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) trades on US exchanges, and sits in Layer 1 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by FBN Securities, 2026-09-11

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for CDNS from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target FBN Securities — target 375 Target set to $375 (+31.6% to spot) 2026-09-11

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS)?

Cadence Design Systems Inc trades as CDNS on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is CDNS in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Cadence Design Systems Inc is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-10-07.

What is Cadence Design Systems Inc's earnings print record?

Across the 10 prints Closelooknet covers, Cadence Design Systems Inc beat EPS estimates 10 times and revenue estimates 10 times; the three-day reactions split 4 up, 3 flat and 3 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-07-27 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does CDNS trade against its moving averages?

Trending: Above its 20-, 50- and 200-day — still in an uptrend. As of 2026-10-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is CDNS doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Cadence Design Systems Inc is +22.8% against +11.0% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 11.8 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-10-06. Its EDA & Chip IP sleeve is +23.6% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Cadence Design Systems Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Chip IP and architecture), Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS) sits 15.2% below its 52-week high, 10.8% above its 50-day average; Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares (ARM) is 33.1% below, NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is 0.5% below, Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) is 30.2% below. Put any of them next to CDNS in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Cadence Design Systems Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Cadence Design Systems Inc had a beta of 0.32 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 31% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.30% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Cadence Design Systems Inc?

Cadence Design Systems Inc appears in 5 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Morning 10: Jobs day — futures +0.3% before payrolls; Nike −8.7% after hours, Accenture holds +15.8% (2026-10-02); Midday 10: AI comeback — Accenture +18%, Synopsys +8%, optics +9% while all three US indices slip (2026-10-01); Daily Pulse: Two Sessions to Decide the DeepSeek Question — Then Alphabet Speaks (2026-07-20). What Closelooknet said most recently: Cadence (CDNS) Reality Digital Twin, Allegro + Omniverse integration. (Dossier, 2026-03-06). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Cadence Design Systems Inc do?

Cadence makes the software that chip engineers use to design, verify and lay out semiconductors, from simulation and emulation tools to physical design and packaging platforms. It also licenses blocks of chip intellectual property such as interface and signal-processing cores that customers build into their own designs. Its tools cover chips, printed circuit boards and now multi-chip packages, serving processor and system designers across the industry. Closelooknet's peer group prices it against chip-IP and architecture names — Arm, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Synopsys and AMD — reflecting design tools and licensed IP rather than shared sector alone.

Where does Cadence Design Systems Inc sit in the AI build-out?

In our index, Cadence sits in Layer 1, Design, within the EDA & Chip IP sleeve — the software layer every other Rubin constituent depends on to turn a design into a working chip. It is a supplier to nearly every chip designer in the stack rather than a constraint on any single one, since its tools are used before a design ever reaches a foundry. Cadence holds a seat in our index and in the Nasdaq-100, and it carries a Closelooknet score with quality as its strongest module and valuation its weakest. The diary has quoted it in a dossier on industrial and physical AI, noting its digital-twin and packaging-design work.

What has Wall Street done on Cadence Design Systems Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Cadence Design Systems Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by FBN Securities on 2026-09-11 (target 375). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CDNS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

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