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CDNS vs CRWD

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

Summary

  • Both CDNS and CRWD operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CRWD is the larger of the two at $170.80B, about 1.6x CDNS ($103.76B).
  • Over the past year, CDNS is up 24.8% and CRWD is up 44.5% - CRWD leads by 19.8 points.
  • CRWD has been more active in the news (40 items in the past 4 weeks vs 12 for CDNS).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceCDNS+24.75%CRWD+44.51%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricCDNSCRWD
Company
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.
Price
-
-
Market cap
$103.76B
$170.80B
1M return
+6.03%
+43.28%
1Y return
+24.75%
+44.51%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2019
News (4w)
12
40
Recent ratings
25
25
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.

CRWD

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. provides cloud-delivered solutions for endpoint and cloud workload protection in the United States, Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Romania, and the United Kingdom. It offers 19 cloud modules on its Falcon platform through a software as a service subscription-based model that covers various security markets, such as corporate workload security, security and vulnerability management, managed security services, IT operations management, threat intelligence services, identity protection, and log management. The company primarily sells its platform and cloud modules through its direct sales team. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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