Growth Metrics

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) EPS (Basic) (2009 - 2026)

Cadence Design Systems posted quarterly EPS (Basic) of $1.23 for Q1 2026, up 21.78% year-on-year from $1.01 in Q1 2025, and down 14.58% on a QoQ basis from $1.44 in Q4 2025.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) has 18 years of EPS (Basic) data on file, last reported at $1.23 in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, EPS (Basic) rose 21.78% year-over-year to $1.23; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $4.32 (up 8.54% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $4.09, up 5.14% from the prior year.
  • EPS (Basic) for Q1 2026 stood at $1.23, down from $1.44 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EPS (Basic) topped out at $1.44 in Q4 2025 and bottomed at $0.59 in Q2 2025.
  • The 5-year median for EPS (Basic) is $0.91 (2023), against an average of $0.96.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when EPS (Basic) soared 36.23%; it then plunged 30.59% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of EPS (Basic) shows it stood at $0.89 in 2022, then jumped by 34.83% to $1.2 in 2023, then climbed by 4.17% to $1.25 in 2024, then gained by 15.2% to $1.44 in 2025, then dropped by 14.58% to $1.23 in 2026.
  • The last three EPS (Basic) figures came in at $1.23 (Q1 2026), $1.44 (Q4 2025), and $1.06 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) EPS (Basic) (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn 1.57
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 2.08
3 Uber Technologies 151.10 Bn 150.06 Bn 11.88 Bn 0.13
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn -0.45
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 0.45
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 1.23
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 4.60
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 3.39
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 11.10
10 Datadog 78.54 Bn 73.78 Bn 797.20 Mn 0.15

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 1.23
Dec 31, 2025 1.44
Sep 30, 2025 1.06
Jun 30, 2025 0.59
Mar 31, 2025 1.01
Dec 31, 2024 1.25
Sep 30, 2024 0.87
Jun 30, 2024 0.85
Mar 31, 2024 0.92
Dec 31, 2023 1.20
Sep 30, 2023 0.94
Jun 30, 2023 0.82
Mar 31, 2023 0.90
Dec 31, 2022 0.89
Oct 1, 2022 0.69
Jul 2, 2022 0.69
Apr 2, 2022 0.86
Jan 1, 2022 1.02
Oct 2, 2021 0.65
Jul 3, 2021 0.57
Apr 3, 2021 0.68
Sep 26, 2020 0.59
Jun 27, 2020 0.48
Mar 28, 2020 0.45
Dec 28, 2019 2.41
Sep 28, 2019 0.37
Jun 29, 2019 0.39
Mar 30, 2019 0.44
Dec 29, 2018 0.36
Sep 29, 2018 0.36
Jun 30, 2018 0.27
Mar 31, 2018 0.27
Dec 30, 2017 -0.05
Sep 30, 2017 0.30
Jul 1, 2017 0.25
Apr 1, 2017 0.25
Dec 31, 2016 0.14
Oct 1, 2016 0.23
Jul 2, 2016 0.17
Apr 2, 2016 0.17
Jan 2, 2016 0.55
Oct 3, 2015 0.27
Jul 4, 2015 0.20
Apr 4, 2015 0.13
Sep 27, 2014 0.13
Jun 28, 2014 0.08
Mar 29, 2014 0.12
Dec 28, 2013 0.13
Sep 28, 2013 0.14
Jun 29, 2013 0.03
Mar 30, 2013 0.29
Dec 29, 2012 1.16
Sep 29, 2012 0.22
Jun 30, 2012 0.13
Mar 31, 2012 0.12
Dec 31, 2011 0.04
Oct 1, 2011 0.11
Jul 2, 2011 0.10
Apr 2, 2011 0.02
Jan 1, 2011 1.08
Oct 2, 2010 0.49
Jul 3, 2010 0.19
Apr 3, 2010 -0.04
Oct 3, 2009 -0.05
Jul 4, 2009 -0.29