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 1.5× larger than Teradyne by market cap; Teradyne trades at the lower P/E (54.3 vs 69.7); year to date, Teradyne leads (+106.0% vs +13.9%).
Side by side
| CDNS | TER | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $96.1B | $62.5B |
| Price | $352.84 | $402.68 |
| Today | +1.1% | +1.0% |
| Return YTD | +13.9% | +106.0% |
| Return 1Y | +3.1% | +175.7% |
| Since June 26, 2026 | −6.5% | −7.8% |
| P/E | 69.7 | 54.3 |
| P/S | 16.5 | 14.0 |
| P/B | 14.0 | 18.2 |
Data as of 2026-10-09 · updates daily after U.S. close
Since June 26, 2026: the change in the closing price, from the daily closes Sectivia records itself since that date.
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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