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CDNS vs WK

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

Summary

  • Both CDNS and WK operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CDNS is the larger of the two at $112.53B, about 40.2x WK ($2.80B).
  • Over the past year, CDNS is up 38.6% and WK is down 26.7% - CDNS leads by 65.4 points.
  • CDNS has been more active in the news (23 items in the past 4 weeks vs 12 for WK).
  • CDNS has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 17 for WK).
PerformanceCDNS+38.64%WK-26.71%
2025-06-04+0.00%2026-06-03
MetricCDNSWK
Company
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Workiva Inc.
Price
$408.08-2.02%
$49.80-4.16%
Market cap
$112.53B
$2.80B
1M return
+16.71%
-11.97%
1Y return
+38.64%
-26.71%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2014
News (4w)
23
12
Recent ratings
25
17
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.

WK

Workiva Inc.

Workiva Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud-based compliance and regulatory reporting solutions worldwide. The company offers Workiva platform that offers controlled collaboration, data linking, data integrations, granular permissions, process management, and full audit trail services; and provides tools that enables customers to connect data from enterprise resource planning, governance risk and compliance, human capital management, and customer relationship management systems, as well as from other third-party cloud and on-premise applications. It serves public and private companies, government agencies, and higher-education institutions. Workiva Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Ames, Iowa.

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