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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
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$332.19 +2.3%	$309.39	$221.56 ▼ $335.16	$88.64B	0.99	1.47 million shs	2.72 million shs
KLAC KLA	$902.09 -0.2%	$862.09	$551.33 ▼ $945.87	$119.57B	1.42	836,322 shs	807,981 shs
LRCX Lam Research	$96.96 -0.8%	$92.49	$56.32 ▼ $102.59	$125.07B	1.68	8.97 million shs	8.91 million shs
META Meta Platforms	$712.68 -0.3%	$692.48	$450.80 ▼ $747.90	$1.80T	1.28	10.56 million shs	8.25 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
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	+2.33%	+5.27%	+11.65%	+14.69%	+24.72%
KLAC KLA	-0.23%	-3.12%	+0.97%	+29.87%	+19.36%
LRCX Lam Research	-0.84%	-3.68%	+0.98%	+35.76%	+6.56%
META Meta Platforms	-0.30%	+1.19%	+0.56%	+30.22%	+54.50%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	4.548 of 5 stars	2.4	5.0	0.0	3.0	3.9	2.5	1.9
KLAC KLA	4.6504 of 5 stars	2.2	4.0	3.3	3.1	4.1	2.5	1.3
LRCX Lam Research	4.3942 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	3.3	2.5	4.0	1.7	1.3
META Meta Platforms	3.6638 of 5 stars	2.5	3.0	1.7	0.0	3.5	3.3	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	2.79	Moderate Buy	$332.57	0.11% Upside
KLAC KLA	2.41	Hold	$848.19	-5.98% Downside
LRCX Lam Research	2.79	Moderate Buy	$100.57	3.72% Upside
META Meta Platforms	2.93	Moderate Buy	$752.33	5.56% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest CDNS, KLAC, LRCX, and META Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
7/25/2025	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	Rosenblatt Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$300.00
7/23/2025	META Meta Platforms	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$640.00 ➝ $800.00
7/22/2025	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$325.00 ➝ $360.00
7/22/2025	META Meta Platforms	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Sector Perform ➝ Sector Perform	$525.00 ➝ $675.00
7/22/2025	META Meta Platforms	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$655.00 ➝ $845.00
7/22/2025	META Meta Platforms	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$700.00 ➝ $775.00
7/21/2025	KLAC KLA	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$775.00 ➝ $960.00
7/21/2025	LRCX Lam Research	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$95.00 ➝ $120.00
7/21/2025	META Meta Platforms	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$650.00 ➝ $750.00
7/17/2025	META Meta Platforms	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$655.00 ➝ $800.00
7/16/2025	META Meta Platforms	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$807.00 ➝ $828.00

(Data available from 7/26/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$4.64B	19.54	$5.35 per share	62.11	$17.04 per share	19.49
KLAC KLA	$9.81B	12.16	$29.08 per share	31.02	$25.02 per share	36.05
LRCX Lam Research	$14.91B	8.32	$3.30 per share	29.34	$6.53 per share	14.85
META Meta Platforms	$164.50B	10.89	$30.64 per share	23.26	$72.08 per share	9.89

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
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$1.06B	$3.95	84.10	51.26	4.51	22.18%	29.36%	15.60%	7/28/2025 (Estimated)
KLAC KLA	$2.76B	$27.51	32.79	28.11	1.68	31.99%	112.97%	26.75%	7/31/2025 (Estimated)
LRCX Lam Research	$3.83B	$3.59	27.02	25.79	1.38	27.18%	53.21%	24.07%	7/30/2025 (Estimated)
META Meta Platforms	$62.36B	$25.64	27.80	23.59	1.71	39.11%	38.69%	25.56%	7/30/2025 (Estimated)

Latest CDNS, KLAC, LRCX, and META Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/31/2025	Q4 2025	KLAC KLA	$8.53	N/A	N/A	N/A	$3.08 billion	N/A
7/30/2025	Q4 2025	LRCX Lam Research	$1.20	N/A	N/A	N/A	$4.99 billion	N/A
7/30/2025	Q2 2025	META Meta Platforms	$5.75	N/A	N/A	N/A	$44.55 billion	N/A
7/28/2025	Q2 2025	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$1.57	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.25 billion	N/A
4/30/2025	Q3 2025	KLAC KLA	$8.08	$8.41	+$0.33	$8.16	$3.01 billion	$3.06 billion
4/30/2025	Q1 2025	META Meta Platforms	$5.33	$6.43	+$1.10	$6.43	$41.45 billion	$42.31 billion
4/28/2025	Q1 2025	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$1.50	$1.57	+$0.07	$1.00	$1.24 billion	$1.24 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KLAC KLA	$7.60	0.84%	N/A	27.63%	16 Years
LRCX Lam Research	$0.92	0.95%	N/A	25.63%	10 Years
META Meta Platforms	$2.10	0.29%	N/A	8.19%	1 Years

Latest CDNS, KLAC, LRCX, and META Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/20/2025	LRCX Lam Research	quarterly	$0.23	1.11%	6/18/2025	6/18/2025	7/9/2025
5/29/2025	META Meta Platforms	quarterly	$0.5250	0.33%	6/16/2025	6/16/2025	6/26/2025
5/8/2025	KLAC KLA	quarterly	$1.90	1.08%	5/19/2025	5/19/2025	6/3/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.52	3.07	2.90
KLAC KLA	1.47	2.54	1.74
LRCX Lam Research	0.39	2.45	1.64
META Meta Platforms	0.16	2.66	2.66

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	84.85%
KLAC KLA	86.65%
LRCX Lam Research	84.61%
META Meta Platforms	79.91%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	1.99%
KLAC KLA	0.12%
LRCX Lam Research	0.29%
META Meta Platforms	13.61%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	12,700	273.04 million	267.61 million	Optionable
KLAC KLA	15,230	132.24 million	132.08 million	Optionable
LRCX Lam Research	17,450	1.28 billion	1.28 billion	Optionable
META Meta Platforms	74,067	2.51 billion	2.17 billion	Optionable

CDNS, KLAC, LRCX, and META Headlines

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Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules

July 25 at 6:52 PM | orlandosentinel.comO

Meta names ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist of Superintelligence Lab

July 25 at 5:36 PM | reuters.com

Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

July 25 at 4:58 PM | techcrunch.comT

Mark Zuckerberg names ex-OpenAI employee chief scientist of new Meta AI lab

July 25 at 4:44 PM | cnbc.com

PlayAI Purchase by Meta, Signaling M&A Not Slowing

July 25 at 4:10 PM | youtube.comY

Meta to Stop Selling Political Ads in the EU

July 25 at 3:03 PM | youtube.comY

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CDNS, KLAC, LRCX, and META Company Descriptions

Cadence Design Systems NASDAQ:CDNS

$332.19 +7.55 (+2.33%)

Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$332.84 +0.65 (+0.20%)

As of 07/25/2025 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.

KLA NASDAQ:KLAC

$902.09 -2.09 (-0.23%)

Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$903.16 +1.06 (+0.12%)

As of 07/25/2025 07:33 PM Eastern

KLA Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of process control, process-enabling, and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related electronics industries worldwide. It operates through three segments: Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; and PCB and Component Inspection. The company offers inspection and review tools to identify, locate, characterize, review, and analyze defects on various surfaces of patterned and unpatterned wafers; metrology systems that are used to measure pattern dimensions, film thickness, film stress, layer-to-layer alignment, pattern placement, surface topography, and electro-optical properties for wafers; chemical process control equipment; wired and wireless sensor wafers and reticles; wafer defect inspection, review, and metrology systems; reticle inspection and metrology systems; and semiconductor software solutions that provide run-time process control, defect excursion identification, process corrections, and defect classification to accelerate yield learning rates and reduce production risk. It also provides etch, plasma dicing, deposition, and other wafer processing technologies and solutions for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry. In addition, the company offers direct imaging, inspection, optical shaping, inkjet and additive printing, UV laser drilling, and computer-aided manufacturing and engineering solutions for the PCB market; inspection and electrical testing systems to identify and classify defects, as well as systems to repair defects for the display market; and inspection and metrology systems for quality control and yield improvement in advanced and traditional semiconductor packaging markets. The company was formerly known as KLA-Tencor Corporation and changed its name to KLA Corporation in July 2019. KLA Corporation was incorporated in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Lam Research NASDAQ:LRCX

$96.96 -0.82 (-0.84%)

Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$97.06 +0.11 (+0.11%)

As of 07/25/2025 07:59 PM Eastern

Lam Research Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, refurbishes, and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. The company offers ALTUS systems to deposit conformal films for tungsten metallization applications; SABRE electrochemical deposition products for copper interconnect transition that offers copper damascene manufacturing; SOLA ultraviolet thermal processing products for film treatments; and VECTOR plasma-enhanced CVD ALD products. It also provides SPEED gapfill high-density plasma chemical vapor deposition products; and Striker single-wafer atomic layer deposition products for dielectric film solutions. In addition, the company offers Flex for dielectric etch applications; Kiyo for conductor etch applications; Syndion for through-silicon via etch applications; and Versys metal products for metal etch processes. Further, it provides Coronus bevel clean products to enhance die yield; Da Vinci, DV-Prime, EOS, and SP series products to address various wafer cleaning applications; and Metryx mass metrology systems for high precision in-line mass measurement in semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The company sells its products and services to semiconductors industry in the United States, China, Europe, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.

Meta Platforms NASDAQ:META

$712.68 -2.12 (-0.30%)

Closing price 07/25/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$713.76 +1.08 (+0.15%)

As of 07/25/2025 08:00 PM Eastern

Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, and wearables worldwide. It operates in two segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs. The Family of Apps segment offers Facebook, which enables people to share, discuss, discover, and connect with interests; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages, as well as feed, stories, reels, video, live, and shops; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact privately. The Reality Labs segment provides augmented and virtual reality related products comprising consumer hardware, software, and content that help people feel connected, anytime, and anywhere. The company was formerly known as Facebook, Inc. and changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California

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