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Cadence Design Systemsvs.Teradyne

CDNS vs TER · both in Semiconductor equipment & IP, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: The machines and chip IP advanced semiconductor manufacturing cannot do without.

Cadence Design Systems is about 1.9× larger than Teradyne by market cap; Teradyne trades at the lower P/E (66.1 vs 90.5); year to date, Teradyne leads (+85.8% vs +22.9%).

Side by side

CDNSTER
Market cap$106B$56.5B
Price$384.17$359.60
Today−0.5%−0.9%
Return YTD+22.9%+85.8%
Return 1Y+19.1%+264.6%
P/E90.566.1
P/S19.214.9
P/B16.118.0

Data as of 2026-07-11 · updates daily after U.S. close

The two companies

Cadence Design SystemsCDNS

NASDAQ · USA

EDA software, chip IP and system design tools; the #2 EDA player alongside Synopsys.

EDA & chip IP
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TeradyneTER

NASDAQ · USA

Automatic test equipment (ATE) for chips plus industrial robots (Universal Robots).

Semiconductor test
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