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NOW vs PDFS

Side-by-side comparison of ServiceNow Inc. (NOW) and PDF Solutions Inc. (PDFS): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both NOW and PDFS operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • NOW is the larger of the two at $111.65B, about 107.0x PDFS ($1.04B).
  • Over the past year, NOW is down 51.9% and PDFS is up 151.5% - PDFS leads by 203.5 points.
  • NOW has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for PDFS).
  • NOW has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 4 for PDFS).
PerformanceNOW-51.92%PDFS+151.54%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricNOWPDFS
Company
ServiceNow Inc.
PDF Solutions Inc.
Price
$90.15+6.13%
$46.46+6.06%
Market cap
$111.65B
$1.04B
1M return
-12.49%
+33.20%
1Y return
-51.92%
+151.54%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
2012
2001
News (4w)
14
2
Recent ratings
25
4
NOW

ServiceNow Inc.

ServiceNow, Inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions that defines, structures, consolidates, manages, and automates services for enterprises worldwide. It operates the Now platform that offers workflow automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, performance analytics, electronic service catalogs and portals, configuration management systems, data benchmarking, encryption, and collaboration and development tools. The company also provides information technology (IT) service management applications; IT service management product suite for enterprise's employees, customers, and partners; IT business management product suite to manage IT priorities; IT operations management product that connects a customer's physical and cloud-based IT infrastructure; IT Asset Management to automate IT asset lifecycles; and enterprise development operations product for developers' toolchain. In addition, it offers security incident management, threat enrichment intelligence, vulnerability response management, and security incident intelligence sharing security operation products; governance, risk, and compliance product to create policies and controls; human resources, legal, and workplace service delivery products; safe workplace applications; customer service management product; and field service management applications. Further, it provides App Engine product; IntegrationHub enables application to extend workflows; and professional, training, and customer support services. It serves government, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, IT services, technology, oil and gas, education, and consumer products. It sells its products through direct sales team and resale partners. The company was formerly known as Service-now.com and changed its name to ServiceNow, Inc. in May 2012. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

PDFS

PDF Solutions Inc.

PDF Solutions, Inc. provides proprietary software and physical intellectual property products for integrated circuit designs, electrical measurement equipment, proven methodologies, and professional services in the United States, China, Taiwan, and internationally. It offers Exensio software products, such as Manufacturing Analytics that stores collected data in a common environment with a consistent view for enabling product engineers to identify and analyze production yield, performance, reliability, and other issues; Process Control that provides failure detection and classification capabilities for monitoring, alarming, and controlling manufacturing tool sets; Test Operations that offers data collection and analysis capabilities; and Assembly Operations that provides device manufacturers with the capability to link assembly and packaging data, including fabrication and characterization data over the product life cycle. The company also provides design-for-inspection (DFI) Systems, such as DFI on-chip instruments, and eProbe non-contactless E-beam tool; and Characterization Vehicle (CV) infrastructure, which includes CV test chips and pdFasTest electrical testers, as well as Exensio characterization software, designed to analyze the measurements collected from DFI on-chip instruments using the eProbe tool. In addition, it offers Cimetrix software products that enables equipment manufacturers to provide industry standard interfaces on their products; and Software-as-a-Service, software related services, and IYR services. The company sells its technologies and services through direct sales force, service teams, and strategic alliances to integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor companies, foundries, equipment manufacturers, electronics manufacturing suppliers, original device manufacturers, out-sourced semiconductor assembly and test, and system houses. PDF Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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