Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Acquisitions (2009 - 2026)

Cadence Design Systems posted quarterly Acquisitions of $2.1 billion for Q1 2026, up 1059.97% on a QoQ basis from $178.8 million in Q4 2025.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) has 13 years of Acquisitions data on file, last reported at $2.1 billion in Q1 2026.

For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Acquisitions changed N/A year-over-year to $2.1 billion; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $2.5 billion (up 275.92% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $429.5 million, down 41.76% from the prior year.
Acquisitions for Q1 2026 stood at $2.1 billion, up from $178.8 million in the prior quarter.
Across five years, Acquisitions topped out at $2.1 billion in Q1 2026 and bottomed at -$164.3 million in Q3 2022.
The 5-year median for Acquisitions is $71.4 million (2024), against an average of $259.5 million.
The widest annual swing landed in 2024, when Acquisitions slumped 93.47%; it then surged 7859.19% in 2025.
A 5-year view of Acquisitions shows it stood at $27.6 million in 2022, then rose by 24.49% to $34.4 million in 2023, then plunged by 93.47% to $2.2 million in 2024, then soared by 7859.19% to $178.8 million in 2025, then soared by 1059.97% to $2.1 billion in 2026.
The last three Acquisitions figures came in at $2.1 billion (Q1 2026), $178.8 million (Q4 2025), and $128.5 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

#	Company	Market Cap	Enterprise Value	Gross Profit (Qtr)	Acquisitions (Qtr)
1	Sap Se	253.17 Bn	235.20 Bn	8.16 Bn	-
2	Salesforce	171.07 Bn	161.50 Bn	8.69 Bn	8.24 Bn
3	Uber Technologies	151.10 Bn	150.06 Bn	11.88 Bn	6.00 Mn
4	Shopify	134.25 Bn	128.50 Bn	1.55 Bn	-
5	ServiceNow	105.72 Bn	100.54 Bn	2.83 Bn	1.33 Bn
6	Cadence Design Systems	101.64 Bn	100.23 Bn	1.26 Bn	2.07 Bn
7	Adobe	100.35 Bn	93.46 Bn	5.73 Bn	-
8	Automatic Data Processing	90.91 Bn	87.68 Bn	2.87 Bn	-
9	Intuit	88.30 Bn	81.52 Bn	6.77 Bn	-
10	Datadog	78.54 Bn	73.78 Bn	797.20 Mn	10.66 Mn

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