Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Tax Rate (2009 - 2026)

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) has 18 years of Tax Rate data on file, last reported at 21.59% in Q1 2026.

• For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Tax Rate fell 149.0% year-over-year to 21.59%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 26.56% (up 158.0% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 27.14%, up 276.0% from the prior year.
• Tax Rate for Q1 2026 stood at 21.59%, up from 21.26% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Tax Rate topped out at 42.96% in Q2 2025 and bottomed at 14.19% in Q4 2022.
• The 5-year median for Tax Rate is 23.58% (2022), against an average of 21.73%.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Tax Rate tumbled 2749 bps; it then surged 2473 bps in 2023.
• A 5-year view of Tax Rate shows it stood at 14.19% in 2022, then soared by 174 bps to 10.54% in 2023, then soared by 110 bps to 22.09% in 2024, then dropped by 4 bps to 21.26% in 2025, then grew by 2 bps to 21.59% in 2026.
• The last three Tax Rate figures came in at 21.59% (Q1 2026), 21.26% (Q4 2025), and 26.9% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

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