Cadence Design Systems Inc vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Cadence Design Systems Inc trades at $326.36 (market cap $90.20B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $381.92. The key difference: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Cadence Design Systems Inc nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CDNS | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $90.20B | — |
Sector | Technology | — |
52-Week High | $416.39 | $381.78 |
52-Week Low | $265.66 | $311.68 |
Enterprise Value | $91.41B | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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