Cadence Design Systems
Prices as of 2026-08-29 03:16 UTC. Updates live in your browser.
Base 50, components added, then compressed onto a 2-98 scale. The formula is published and identical on every page.
Market sentiment history
Trading sessions only, so each step is one market day against the one before it. Free history covers the last 30 days; scores are recorded after every US close.
What the score is reading for CDNS
At the Friday 28 August close, CDNS scored 57, second of the 34 names here. The two inputs furthest above the board's median that session — not simply the largest, which is what separates CDNS from any other name that had a good day — were trend at +7.3 and relative strength at +9.1. Pulling the other way was momentum at -8.1 — the day's move against the previous close.
Across the 20 sessions recorded since 30 July, CDNS has scored between 31 and 70, and that 57 sits in the upper half of that range. Net across the window it is up 9 points, and the largest single-session move was a fall of 27 points on 3 August.
Figures, not reasons. Every number above is the formula's own output for Cadence Design Systems or a score this site published on a named day; the score describes how the price behaved and has no view on why.
X mentions
Posts on X carrying $CDNS, counted by this site directly against the X API over Thursday 27 August, retweets excluded. Weekdays only - weekend counts are collected but run around half a weekday across the whole board, so they are withheld rather than charted beside trading days. Below 25 posts a day the percentage is suppressed, because a move of a few posts is a few people rather than a change in attention.
This measures how much Cadence Design Systems is being talked about, not whether the talk is positive. Across the whole board, post volume has no relationship with the direction of a day's move - the numbers are here. It sits beside the sentiment score rather than inside it. Full X mentions board →
What Cadence Design Systems does
The other half of the EDA duopoly, with growing hardware emulation and simulation businesses used to verify designs before committing to silicon.
What moves CDNS
- Emulation hardware demand
- AI-assisted design tool adoption
- Recurring revenue mix
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Common questions
What is hardware emulation and why does Cadence sell it?
Large chips are tested on dedicated hardware before manufacture. As designs grow, emulation capacity becomes a bottleneck customers pay heavily to remove.
What is Cadence Design Systems's market sentiment score right now?
CDNS currently scores 57 out of 100, which reads as warm. The score combines six weighted, price-based inputs: momentum, relative strength against the complex, trend against its moving averages, volume, volatility and drawdown from the 52-week high. The full breakdown is shown above.
Where does CDNS sit in the AI supply chain?
Cadence Design Systems is grouped under equipment & eda. The tools and software that make chips possible - lithography, deposition, etch, inspection and the design software behind every layout.