Cadence Design Systems CDNS

equity

Price History

1987-06 · DCA start$1.47

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

1987-062026-08 · -13.9%

Worst drawdown: −90%, peaking Apr 1998 and bottoming Dec 2008 — 231 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $47,100
Value today: $1,670,220
Return: +3446.1%
Months invested: 471

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $82,074 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +1935.0%.

Lump sum instead — $47,100 all at once in Jun 1987: $10,337,723 (+21848.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jun 2026): $281.13 on $300 invested (-6.3%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1987-06: +3446.1%

About Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology and computational software company headquartered in San Jose, California. Initially specialized in electronic design automation (EDA) software for the semiconductor industry, currently the company makes software and hardware for designing products such as integrated circuits, systems on chips (SoCs), printed circuit boards, as well as develops large-scale molecular modelling applications and toolkits for pharmaceutical drug developers. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and application software, with a market cap of about $89.0B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 1.8/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (4.0/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-Low Risk(1.8/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)3/528.8
Max drawdown from ATH5/589.9
Beta vs S&P 5004/51.4

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5882.6m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equitynot yet researched
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/512.8

Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility1/53.3

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governanceunrated · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit historynot yet researched

Sector / Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure1/5low

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