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 1.4× larger than Teradyne by market cap; Teradyne trades at the lower P/E (55.7 vs 64.7); year to date, Teradyne leads (+88.5% vs +1.1%).
Side by side
| CDNS | TER | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $89.2B | $64.1B |
| Price | $331.90 | $366.43 |
| Today | +5.1% | +0.4% |
| Return YTD | +1.1% | +88.5% |
| Return 1Y | −9.6% | +216.5% |
| P/E | 64.7 | 55.7 |
| P/S | 15.3 | 14.3 |
| P/B | 13.0 | 18.6 |
Data as of 2026-08-26 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
Cadence Design SystemsCDNS
Ranks second in EDA behind Synopsys: design and verification software, licensable IP blocks, plus simulation that reaches past the chip to the whole system.
Full CDNS profile →TeradyneTER
Two businesses: automated chip test systems, and the Universal Robots cobot line.
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