Compare · CDNS vs TWLO
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.
- 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
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.
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.
Latest CDNS
- President and CEO Devgan Anirudh exercised 26,821 shares at a strike of $78.76 and sold $30,846,765 worth of shares (76,827 units at $401.51) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 16% to 253,519 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. Vice President Scannell Paul sold $2,789,277 worth of shares (7,081 units at $393.91) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and exercised 7,081 shares at a strike of $285.19 (SEC Form 4)
- Cadence's Richard Gu to Present at Nasdaq Conference
- SEC Form SD filed by Cadence Design Systems Inc.
- Cadence Unveils Industry's First Fully Autonomous Virtual Engineer for Chip Design, powered by NVIDIA
- Cadence and Samsung Foundry Deepen 2nm and 3D‑IC Collaboration to Meet Surging AI Infrastructure and Physical AI Demand
- President and CEO Devgan Anirudh exercised 25,000 shares at a strike of $78.76 and sold $19,198,190 worth of shares (51,887 units at $370.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 8% to 303,525 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. Vice President Teng Chin-Chi exercised 1,000 shares at a strike of $202.94 and sold $1,662,087 worth of shares (4,500 units at $369.35) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 148,781 units (SEC Form 4)
- Cadence's Anirudh Devgan to Present at BofA Conference
- Amendment: Sr. Vice President Scannell Paul covered exercise/tax liability with 75 shares and sold $369,559 worth of shares (1,071 units at $345.06) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 3% to 32,181 units (SEC Form 4) to cover taxes
Latest TWLO
- Director Rottenberg Erika sold $398,015 worth of shares (2,000 units at $199.01) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 144 filed by Twilio Inc.
- Chief Executive Officer Shipchandler Khozema exercised 32,158 shares at a strike of $76.63 and sold $5,971,688 worth of shares (32,158 units at $185.70) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- Director Stafman Andrew sold $184,140,000 worth of shares (1,000,000 units at $184.14) (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Viggiano Aidan sold $365,600 worth of shares (1,828 units at $200.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 127,345 units (SEC Form 4)
- Twilio Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CPaaS for the Fourth Consecutive Year
- Chief Financial Officer Viggiano Aidan sold $271,676 worth of shares (1,376 units at $197.44), decreasing direct ownership by 0.90% to 129,173 units (SEC Form 4) to satisfy withholding tax
- Twilio to Participate in Upcoming Investor Events
- Director Stafman Andrew sold $130,639,500 worth of shares (675,000 units at $193.54) (SEC Form 4)
- Monness Crespi & Hardt reiterated coverage on Twilio with a new price target