Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Free Cash Flow (2009 - 2026)

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) has 18 years of Free Cash Flow data on file, last reported at $307.0 million in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Free Cash Flow fell 33.84% year-over-year to $307.0 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $1.4 billion (up 3.74% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $1.6 billion, up 41.94% from the prior year.
• Free Cash Flow for Q1 2026 stood at $307.0 million, down from $512.5 million in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Free Cash Flow topped out at $512.5 million in Q4 2025 and bottomed at $126.8 million in Q2 2024.
• The 5-year median for Free Cash Flow is $312.7 million (2022), against an average of $317.1 million.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2024, when Free Cash Flow tumbled 67.81%; it then jumped 163.1% in 2025.
• A 5-year view of Free Cash Flow shows it stood at $226.7 million in 2022, then grew by 5.15% to $238.4 million in 2023, then jumped by 69.54% to $404.2 million in 2024, then climbed by 26.8% to $512.5 million in 2025, then sank by 40.1% to $307.0 million in 2026.
• The last three Free Cash Flow figures came in at $307.0 million (Q1 2026), $512.5 million (Q4 2025), and $277.0 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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