Growth Metrics

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) EBT Margin (2009 - 2026)

Cadence Design Systems posted quarterly EBT Margin of 29.04% for Q1 2026, up 41.0% year-on-year from 20.6% in Q1 2025, and down 15.17% on a QoQ basis from 34.23% in Q4 2025.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) has 18 years of EBT Margin data on file, last reported at 29.04% in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, EBT Margin rose 41.0% year-over-year to 29.04%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 28.84% (down 73.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 28.74%, down 134.0% from the prior year.
  • EBT Margin for Q1 2026 stood at 29.04%, down from 34.23% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBT Margin topped out at 34.37% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 22.0% in Q2 2025.
  • The 5-year median for EBT Margin is 29.99% (2022), against an average of 29.79%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when EBT Margin jumped 1049 bps; it then plunged 776 bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of EBT Margin shows it stood at 23.39% in 2022, then soared by 45 bps to 33.88% in 2023, then dropped by 5 bps to 32.2% in 2024, then grew by 6 bps to 34.23% in 2025, then fell by 15 bps to 29.04% in 2026.
  • The last three EBT Margin figures came in at 29.04% (Q1 2026), 34.23% (Q4 2025), and 29.34% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) EBT Margin (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn 28.74%
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 23.39%
3 Uber Technologies 151.10 Bn 150.06 Bn 11.88 Bn 3.76%
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn -20.00%
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 17.85%
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 29.04%
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 37.86%
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 30.00%
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 47.29%
10 Datadog 78.54 Bn 73.78 Bn 797.20 Mn 5.86%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 29.04%
Dec 31, 2025 34.23%
Sep 30, 2025 29.34%
Jun 30, 2025 22.00%
Mar 31, 2025 28.63%
Dec 31, 2024 32.20%
Sep 30, 2024 27.43%
Jun 30, 2024 29.76%
Mar 31, 2024 30.72%
Dec 31, 2023 33.88%
Sep 30, 2023 29.32%
Jun 30, 2023 30.56%
Mar 31, 2023 31.47%
Dec 31, 2022 23.39%
Oct 1, 2022 27.95%
Jul 2, 2022 31.79%
Apr 2, 2022 34.37%
Jan 1, 2022 30.22%
Oct 2, 2021 25.13%
Jul 3, 2021 25.16%
Apr 3, 2021 27.50%
Sep 26, 2020 24.86%
Jun 27, 2020 23.60%
Mar 28, 2020 21.07%
Dec 28, 2019 17.58%
Sep 28, 2019 20.14%
Jun 29, 2019 22.15%
Mar 30, 2019 22.24%
Dec 29, 2018 19.06%
Sep 29, 2018 18.70%
Jun 30, 2018 17.37%
Mar 31, 2018 15.11%
Dec 30, 2017 15.34%
Sep 30, 2017 17.83%
Jul 1, 2017 16.15%
Apr 1, 2017 15.55%
Dec 31, 2016 11.14%
Oct 1, 2016 14.26%
Jul 2, 2016 14.09%
Apr 2, 2016 12.83%
Jan 2, 2016 28.17%
Oct 3, 2015 17.42%
Jul 4, 2015 16.73%
Apr 4, 2015 10.29%
Sep 27, 2014 11.51%
Jun 28, 2014 7.86%
Mar 29, 2014 10.15%
Dec 28, 2013 7.81%
Sep 28, 2013 11.15%
Jun 29, 2013 10.38%
Mar 30, 2013 14.41%
Dec 29, 2012 15.26%
Sep 29, 2012 14.94%
Jun 30, 2012 14.01%
Mar 31, 2012 12.43%
Dec 31, 2011 10.79%
Oct 1, 2011 17.44%
Jul 2, 2011 14.30%
Apr 2, 2011 4.14%
Jan 1, 2011 -42.68%
Oct 2, 2010 -6.92%
Jul 3, 2010 -2.58%
Apr 3, 2010 -12.41%
Oct 3, 2009 -8.06%
Jul 4, 2009 -59.94%