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CDNS vs TWLO

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

Summary

  • Both CDNS and TWLO operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CDNS is the larger of the two at $103.76B, about 3.0x TWLO ($34.30B).
  • Over the past year, CDNS is up 24.8% and TWLO is up 86.1% - TWLO leads by 61.4 points.
  • CDNS has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 7 for TWLO).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceCDNS+24.75%TWLO+86.14%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-05
MetricCDNSTWLO
Company
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Twilio Inc.
Price
$376.25-8.64%
$226.11-4.44%
Market cap
$103.76B
$34.30B
1M return
+6.03%
+18.13%
1Y return
+24.75%
+86.14%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2016
News (4w)
12
7
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.

TWLO

Twilio Inc.

Twilio Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides a cloud communications platform that enables developers to build, scale, and operate customer engagement within software applications in the United States and internationally. Its customer engagement platform provides a set of application programming interfaces that handle the higher-level communication logic needed for nearly every type of customer engagement, as well as enable developers to embed voice, messaging, video, and email capabilities into their applications. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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