Compare Stocks: ANSS, DDOG, CDNS, and SNPS

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ANSS ANSYS	$374.30	$362.77	$306.92 ▼ $395.49	$32.91B	1.19	1.13 million shs	N/A
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$352.84 +1.1%	$319.56	$262.75 ▼ $416.69	$96.07B	1.13	2.51 million shs	1.31 million shs
DDOG Datadog	$293.26 +7.1%	$245.78	$98.01 ▼ $294.00	$98.31B	1.51	3.00 million shs	3.70 million shs
SNPS Synopsys	$509.99 +2.5%	$419.94	$362.55 ▼ $539.48	$95.39B	1.21	2.49 million shs	2.09 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ANSS ANSYS	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	+1.15%	+0.42%	+23.98%	-8.16%	+0.81%
DDOG Datadog	+7.11%	+5.79%	+30.18%	+13.87%	+78.69%
SNPS Synopsys	+2.46%	+4.10%	+29.70%	+14.48%	+4.22%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ANSS ANSYS	$374.30	$362.77	$306.92 ▼ $395.49	$32.91B	1.19	1.13 million shs	N/A
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$352.84 +1.1%	$319.56	$262.75 ▼ $416.69	$96.07B	1.13	2.51 million shs	1.31 million shs
DDOG Datadog	$293.26 +7.1%	$245.78	$98.01 ▼ $294.00	$98.31B	1.51	3.00 million shs	3.70 million shs
SNPS Synopsys	$509.99 +2.5%	$419.94	$362.55 ▼ $539.48	$95.39B	1.21	2.49 million shs	2.09 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ANSS ANSYS	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	+1.15%	+0.42%	+23.98%	-8.16%	+0.81%
DDOG Datadog	+7.11%	+5.79%	+30.18%	+13.87%	+78.69%
SNPS Synopsys	+2.46%	+4.10%	+29.70%	+14.48%	+4.22%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ANSS ANSYS	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	2.88	Moderate Buy	$405.06	14.80% Upside
DDOG Datadog	2.93	Moderate Buy	$278.51	-5.03% Downside
SNPS Synopsys	2.82	Moderate Buy	$584.11	14.53% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest ANSS, DDOG, CDNS, and SNPS Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/9/2026	DDOG Datadog	Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$280.00 ➝ $315.00
10/8/2026	DDOG Datadog	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C) ➝ Hold (C+)
10/7/2026	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$420.00
10/2/2026	DDOG Datadog	FBN Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Outperform	$325.00
10/2/2026	DDOG Datadog	FBN Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong-Buy
10/2/2026	SNPS Synopsys	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold ➝ Strong-Buy
10/1/2026	SNPS Synopsys	Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$640.00
10/1/2026	SNPS Synopsys	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$600.00 ➝ $605.00
10/1/2026	SNPS Synopsys	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$475.00 ➝ $540.00
10/1/2026	SNPS Synopsys	Rosenblatt Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy	$575.00 ➝ $620.00
9/25/2026	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Hold (C+) ➝ Hold (C)

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Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ANSS ANSYS	$2.58B	12.74	$10.19 per share	36.74	$69.60 per share	5.38
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$5.84B	16.65	$6.41 per share	55.07	$20.11 per share	17.55
DDOG Datadog	$3.43B	30.73	$0.72 per share	406.98	$10.59 per share	27.69
SNPS Synopsys	$9.42B	10.38	$12.15 per share	41.99	$152.50 per share	3.34

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ANSS ANSYS	$575.69M	$6.74	55.53	N/A	4.08	22.95%	12.38%	9.47%	N/A
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$1.11B	$5.03	70.15	46.67	3.73	23.60%	27.98%	15.35%	10/26/2026 (Estimated)
DDOG Datadog	$107.74M	$0.49	598.50	296.22	26.72	4.48%	5.67%	3.24%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
SNPS Synopsys	$1.33B	$5.66	90.10	37.12	2.03	11.43%	6.24%	3.95%	12/9/2026 (Estimated)

Latest ANSS, DDOG, CDNS, and SNPS Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
11/5/2026	Q3 2026	DDOG Datadog	$0.6420	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.14 billion	N/A
10/26/2026	Q3 2026	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$2.04	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.61 billion	N/A
8/26/2026	Q3 2026	SNPS Synopsys	$3.67	$3.91	+$0.24	$2.84	$2.44 billion	$2.48 billion
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	DDOG Datadog	$0.5830	$0.65	+$0.0670	$0.12	$1.08 billion	$1.12 billion
7/27/2026	Q2 2026	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$2.05	$2.11	+$0.06	$1.33	$1.58 billion	$1.58 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ANSS ANSYS	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
DDOG Datadog	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SNPS Synopsys	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ANSS ANSYS	0.12	3.66	3.66
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.36	1.74	1.53
DDOG Datadog	0.23	3.20	3.20
SNPS Synopsys	0.29	1.34	1.24

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ANSS ANSYS	92.39%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	84.85%
DDOG Datadog	78.29%
SNPS Synopsys	85.47%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ANSS ANSYS	0.61%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.49%
DDOG Datadog	6.48%
SNPS Synopsys	0.56%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ANSS ANSYS	3,200	87.92 million	87.38 million	No Data
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	13,800	275.39 million	274.04 million	Optionable
DDOG Datadog	8,100	359.08 million	335.81 million	Optionable
SNPS Synopsys	28,000	191.64 million	190.56 million	Optionable

ANSS, DDOG, CDNS, and SNPS Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Stock Acquired by Douglas Lane & Associates LLC

October 9 at 1:08 PM | marketbeat.com

3,091 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Bought by Stableford Capital II LLC

October 9 at 7:27 AM | marketbeat.com

Synopsys: AI-Driven Growth, Strategic OpenAI Collaboration, and Buyback Support Unchanged $600 Price Target and Buy Rating

October 9 at 5:11 AM | tipranks.com

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Stock: Insider Janet Lee Sells 1,144 Shares

October 9 at 4:54 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Can Synopsys Stock Drop From Here?

October 8 at 5:30 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Synopsys plans to explore working with Chinese AI labs on chip design tech: report

October 8 at 5:30 PM | msn.com

Synopsys: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Play On The AI Chip Design Market

October 8 at 3:51 PM | seekingalpha.com

Synopsys (SNPS): The Next Big AI Stock Breakout?

October 8 at 3:01 PM | zacks.com

Gradient Investments LLC Raises Stake in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

October 8 at 1:35 PM | marketbeat.com

Quintet Private Bank Europe S.A. Increases Stock Holdings in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

October 8 at 1:05 PM | marketbeat.com

Insider Selling: Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Insider Sells $574,882.88 in Stock

October 8 at 6:07 AM | insidertrades.com

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Stock: Insider Sudhindra Kankanwadi Sells 9,170 Shares

October 8 at 5:10 AM | americanbankingnews.com

97 Billion Nvidia Partners Just Got a Strong Buy Endorsement (Hint: It's Not Palantir or Micron)

October 8 at 5:05 AM | fool.com

Head-To-Head Contrast: Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) and Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS)

October 8 at 3:58 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Top Synopsys Insider Cashes In on a Major Stock Sale

October 7 at 10:11 PM | tipranks.com

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Insider Sells $574,882.88 in Stock

October 7 at 7:07 PM | marketbeat.com

Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Shares Sold by North Point Portfolio Managers Corp OH

October 7 at 1:36 PM | marketbeat.com

Synopsys (SNPS) Stock Fair Value Edges Higher After AI Deals And Investor Day

October 7 at 11:26 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Synopsys (SNPS) After Its OpenAI Deal Looks Undervalued Again

October 7 at 11:26 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Even At Today’s Multiples I Keep Adding Synopsys Over And Over

October 7 at 7:30 AM | 247wallst.com

Even At Today's Multiples I Keep Adding Synopsys Over And Over

October 7 at 7:15 AM | 247wallst.com

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ANSS, DDOG, CDNS, and SNPS Company Descriptions

ANSYS NASDAQ:ANSS

ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and services for engineers, designers, researchers, and students in the United States, Japan, Germany, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It offers structural analysis product suite that provides simulation tools for product design and optimization; the Ansys Mechanical product, an element analysis software; LS-DYNA solver for multiphysics simulation; and power analysis and optimization software suite. The company also offers electronics product suite that provides electromagnetic field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products; Ansys High Frequency Structure Simulator product for radio frequency and microwave design; SCADE product suite, a solution for embedded software simulation, code production, and automated certification; fluids product suite that enables modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena; Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics software package; Ansys RedHawk-SC for electronic design automation; Ansys Optics software; and mission-simulation, modeling, testing, and analysis software. In addition, it offers Ansys Granta MI system for materials information management; Ansys Granta Selector technology for materials selection and graphical analysis; CES EduPack product, a set of teaching resources; Granta Materials Data for Simulation; Ansys Lumerical product, a photonics simulation software solution; safety-certified embedded software solutions; Discovery product family for use in the simulation of product design; academic product suite for research and teaching settings. ANSYS, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Cadence Design Systems NASDAQ:CDNS

$352.84 +4.00 (+1.15%)

Closing price 10/9/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$352.42 -0.41 (-0.12%)

As of 10/9/2026 07:59 PM Eastern

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, services, and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, including emulation and prototyping hardware. Its functional verification offering consists of JasperGold, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. The company also provides digital IC design and sign off products, including Genus synthesis and Joules RTL power solutions, as well as Modus DFT software solution to reduce systems-on-chip design-for-test time; physical implementation tools, such as place and route, optimization, and multiple patterning preparation; and Innovus implementation system, a physical implementation system. In addition, it offers custom IC design and simulation products to create schematic and physical representations of circuits down to the transistor level for analog, mixed-signal, custom digital, memory, and radio frequency designs; and system design and analysis products to develop printed circuit boards and IC packages, as well as to analyze electromagnetic, electro-thermal, and other multi-physics effects. Further, the company provides intellectual property (IP) products comprising pre-verified and customizable functional blocks to integrate into customer's ICs; and verification IP with memory models to emulate and model the expected behavior and interaction of standard industry system interface protocols. Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services. The company serves consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, mobile, automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial, and life science industries. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Datadog NASDAQ:DDOG

$293.26 +19.46 (+7.11%)

Closing price 10/9/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$291.92 -1.34 (-0.46%)

As of 10/9/2026 07:59 PM Eastern

Datadog, Inc. operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data streams and universal service monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility. Datadog, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Synopsys NASDAQ:SNPS

$509.99 +12.24 (+2.46%)

Closing price 10/9/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$509.50 -0.49 (-0.10%)

As of 10/9/2026 07:57 PM Eastern

Synopsys, Inc. provides electronic design automation software products used to design and test integrated circuits. It operates in three segments: Design Automation, Design IP, and Software Integrity. The company offers Digital and Custom IC Design solution that provides digital design implementation solutions; Verification solution that offers virtual prototyping, static and formal verification, simulation, emulation, field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based prototyping, and debug solutions; and FPGA design products that are programmed to perform specific functions. It also provides intellectual property (IP) solutions for USB, PCI Express, DDR, Ethernet, MIPI, HDMI, and Bluetooth low energy applications; logic libraries and embedded memories; processor cores, software, and application-specific instruction-set processor tools for embedded applications; security IP solutions; IP solutions for automotive market; and system-on-chip (SoC) infrastructure IP, datapath and building block IP, and verification IP products, as well as mathematical and floating-point components, and Arm AMBA interconnect fabric and peripherals. In addition, the company offers HAPS FPGA-based prototyping systems; virtual prototyping solutions; and Platform Architect solutions for SoC architecture analysis and optimization, as well as optical products, and mechatronic simulations. Further, it provides security and quality testing products, managed services, programs and professional services, and training that enable its customers to detect and remediate security vulnerabilities, and defects in the software development lifecycle, as well as manufacturing solutions. Additionally, the company provides intelligent orchestration solution, software risk manager, and black duck software composition analysis tools. It serves electronics, financial services, automotive, medicine, energy, and industrial areas. The company was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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