CDNS Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Technology
Price
$359.55
Intrinsic value
$61.65
Buy price
$49.32
Discount
-483.2%
Live signals
Daily bars as of Oct 8, 2026Nothing firing right now - no PAM pattern in the last 5 daily bars, and no DR1 support reclaim in the last 5 weekly bars. Technical confluence is WEAK (1/3) - see the chart below.
DCF walkthrough
Near-term growth (g1)11.65%
Terminal growth (g2)3.50%
Years of g1 growth4
Discount rate9.00%
Margin of safety20.00%
- Operating CF
- $1,854,868,000.00
- Total debt
- $2,651,358,976.00
- Cash & STI
- $1,531,835,008.00
- Shares out.
- 276,163,000
Overvalued
Intrinsic value$61.64
Buy price (with MOS)$49.31
Current price$359.55
Discount to intrinsic value-483.3%
7-step quality scorecard
ROE quality
HIGH_CONSISTENT- Average ROE
- 26.1%
- Current ROE
- 20.3%
- Minimum ROE
- 20.3%
Debt quality
CONSERVATIVE- Debt / Equity
- 0.48x
Moat proxy
STRONG_PROXYCash-flow reliability
OK- Operating CF / Net income
- 1.35x
Technical chart
Confluence: WEAK (1/3)Weekly candles, ~3 years. Yellow line: 10-week EMA. Dashed lines: Fibonacci retracement of the last 52-week swing. Green arrow: an active DR1 support reclaim (see Live signals above for when it fired).
Assumptions & data quality
- Data source
- yfinance
- Growth (g1) source
- min(cfCAGR,revenueCAGR)
- Valuation model
- DCF_OCF
- Debt as % of DCF PV
- 14.6%
- Public economic interest
- 100.0%
These are model outputs built on assumptions (growth rate, discount rate, margin of safety), not facts - trust but verify, especially for LOW cash-flow-reliability or UNKNOWN-quality rows.