Cadence Design Systems Inc vs Nasdaq Inc — how do they compare? Cadence Design Systems Inc trades at $326.5 (market cap $90.20B), while Nasdaq Inc trades at $94.99 (market cap $53.11B). The key difference: Cadence Design Systems Inc is the larger of the two by market cap, and Nasdaq Inc pays a 1.22% dividend while Cadence Design Systems Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CDNS | NDAQ | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $90.20B | $53.11B |
Sector | Technology | Financials |
52-Week High | $416.39 | $100.98 |
52-Week Low | $265.66 | $76.85 |
Enterprise Value | $91.41B | $59.57B |
Dividend Yield | — | 1.22% |
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Cadence Design Systems is a provider of electronic design automation software, intellectual property, and system design and analysis products. EDA software automates the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy, productivity, and complexity in a full-flow end-to-end solution. Cadence offers a portfolio of design IP, as well as system design and analysis products, which enable system-level analysis and verification solutions. Cadence's comprehensive portfolio is benefiting from a mutual convergence of semiconductor companies moving up-stack toward systems-like companies, and systems companies moving down-stack toward in-house chip design. The resulting expansion in EDA customers, alongside secular digitalization of various end markets, benefits EDA vendors like Cadence.
Read more on CDNS →Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its market-services business (about 35% of sales), the company sells and distributes market data as well as offers Nasdaq-branded indexes to asset managers and investors through its information-services segment (30%). Nasdaq's corporate-services business (20%) offers listing services and related investor relations products to publicly traded companies and through the company's market technology group (15%), Nasdaq facilitates the exchange operations of other exchanges throughout the world and provides financial compliance services.
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