Growth Metrics

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Cadence Design Systems' Tax Rate history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 21.26% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Tax Rate fell 82.0% year-over-year to 21.26%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 27.14%, up 276.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 27.14%, 276.0% up from the prior year.
  • Tax Rate reached 21.26% in Q4 2025 per CDNS's latest filing, down from 26.9% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 42.96% in Q2 2025 to a low of 14.19% in Q4 2022.
  • Average Tax Rate over 5 years is 19.93%, with a median of 22.59% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: crashed -2749bps in 2022, then soared 2473bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 6.57% in 2021, then plummeted by -316bps to 14.19% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 174bps to 10.54% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 110bps to 22.09% in 2024, then decreased by -4bps to 21.26% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CDNS's Tax Rate are 21.26% (Q4 2025), 26.9% (Q3 2025), and 42.96% (Q2 2025).