Growth Metrics

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Research & Development (2009 - 2025)

Cadence Design Systems posted annual Research & Development of $1.8 billion for FY2025, up 14.18% year-over-year from $1.5 billion in FY2024.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) has 15 years of Research & Development data on file, last reported at $1.8 billion in FY2025.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Research & Development rose 15.79% year-over-year to $508.4 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at $1.8 billion (up 14.22% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $1.8 billion, up 14.18% from the prior year.
  • Research & Development for FY2025 stood at $1.8 billion, up from $1.5 billion in the prior year.
  • Across five years, Research & Development topped out at $1.8 billion in FY2025 and bottomed at $1.0 billion in FY2021.
  • The 5-year median for Research & Development is $1.3 billion (2022), against an average of $1.4 billion.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2023, when Research & Development advanced 15.2%; it then rose 7.44% in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Research & Development shows it stood at $1.0 billion in 2021, then grew by 21.07% to $1.3 billion in 2022, then gained by 15.2% to $1.4 billion in 2023, then climbed by 7.44% to $1.5 billion in 2024, then increased by 14.18% to $1.8 billion in 2025.
  • The last three Research & Development figures came in at $1.8 billion (FY2025), $1.5 billion (FY2024), and $1.4 billion (FY2023), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) R&D (Yr)
1 Sap Se 261.57 Bn 243.60 Bn 8.16 Bn -
2 Salesforce 181.55 Bn 171.98 Bn 8.69 Bn 5.99 Bn
3 Shopify 154.72 Bn 148.98 Bn 1.55 Bn -
4 Uber Technologies 144.47 Bn 143.43 Bn 11.88 Bn -
5 ServiceNow 128.74 Bn 123.56 Bn 2.83 Bn -
6 Adobe 106.28 Bn 99.39 Bn 5.73 Bn -
7 Cadence Design Systems 102.00 Bn 100.60 Bn 1.26 Bn -
8 Intuit 91.50 Bn 84.72 Bn 6.77 Bn -
9 Automatic Data Processing 89.51 Bn 86.28 Bn 2.87 Bn -
10 Datadog 87.38 Bn 82.62 Bn 797.20 Mn -

Historic Data

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Dec 31, 2025 1.77 Bn
Dec 31, 2024 1.55 Bn
Dec 31, 2023 1.44 Bn
Dec 31, 2022 1.25 Bn
Jan 1, 2022 1.13 Bn
Jan 2, 2021 1.03 Bn
Dec 28, 2019 935.94 Mn
Dec 29, 2018 884.82 Mn
Dec 30, 2017 804.22 Mn
Dec 31, 2016 735.34 Mn
Jan 2, 2016 82.79 Mn
Jan 3, 2015 603.01 Mn
Dec 28, 2013 534.02 Mn
Dec 29, 2012 72.61 Mn
Dec 31, 2011 400.75 Mn
Jan 1, 2011 82.97 Mn
Jan 2, 2010 90.54 Mn
Jan 3, 2009 103.34 Mn