Compare Stocks: IDCC, CDNS, CLFD, and META

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	$324.38 -1.5%	$319.25	$262.75 ▼ $416.69	$90.73B	1.13	2.40 million shs	2.58 million shs
CLFD Clearfield	$29.99 -0.5%	$30.02	$23.76 ▼ $52.73	$409.29M	2.14	137,996 shs	92,446 shs
IDCC InterDigital	$328.06 +0.7%	$335.65	$249.14 ▼ $412.60	$8.41B	1.43	194,597 shs	157,203 shs
META Meta Platforms	$736.72 -0.1%	$653.44	$520.26 ▼ $779.82	$1.88T	1.19	22.08 million shs	16.87 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	-1.42%	-7.49%	+18.06%	-9.65%	+1.14%
CLFD Clearfield	-7.43%	-8.42%	+4.87%	-2.55%	-16.51%
IDCC InterDigital	-2.11%	-1.49%	-4.27%	+22.69%	-9.04%
META Meta Platforms	-3.27%	+2.25%	+10.81%	+10.99%	+4.08%

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	$324.38 -1.5%	$319.25	$262.75 ▼ $416.69	$90.73B	1.13	2.40 million shs	2.58 million shs
CLFD Clearfield	$29.99 -0.5%	$30.02	$23.76 ▼ $52.73	$409.29M	2.14	137,996 shs	92,446 shs
IDCC InterDigital	$328.06 +0.7%	$335.65	$249.14 ▼ $412.60	$8.41B	1.43	194,597 shs	157,203 shs
META Meta Platforms	$736.72 -0.1%	$653.44	$520.26 ▼ $779.82	$1.88T	1.19	22.08 million shs	16.87 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	-1.42%	-7.49%	+18.06%	-9.65%	+1.14%
CLFD Clearfield	-7.43%	-8.42%	+4.87%	-2.55%	-16.51%
IDCC InterDigital	-2.11%	-1.49%	-4.27%	+22.69%	-9.04%
META Meta Platforms	-3.27%	+2.25%	+10.81%	+10.99%	+4.08%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	2.91	Moderate Buy	$404.14	24.59% Upside
CLFD Clearfield	2.43	Hold	$41.75	39.21% Upside
IDCC InterDigital	3.25	Buy	$450.00	37.17% Upside
META Meta Platforms	2.89	Moderate Buy	$803.39	9.05% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest IDCC, CDNS, CLFD, and META Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/15/2026	META Meta Platforms	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Buy	$800.00 ➝ $895.00
10/14/2026	META Meta Platforms	Guggenheim Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Buy	$700.00 ➝ $850.00
10/14/2026	META Meta Platforms	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Buy	$715.00 ➝ $884.00
10/14/2026	META Meta Platforms	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Buy	$860.00 ➝ $762.00
10/13/2026	META Meta Platforms	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Buy	$763.00 ➝ $1,000.00
10/13/2026	META Meta Platforms	Pivotal Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Buy	$790.00 ➝ $930.00
10/13/2026	META Meta Platforms	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Overweight	$900.00
10/13/2026	META Meta Platforms	Rosenblatt Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$886.00
10/12/2026	META Meta Platforms	Cantor Fitzgerald Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$860.00 ➝ $840.00
10/8/2026	CLFD Clearfield	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Sell (D) ➝ Sell (D+)
10/8/2026	IDCC InterDigital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)

(Data available from 10/15/2023 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	$5.30B	16.87	$6.24 per share	52.01	$20.11 per share	16.13
CLFD Clearfield	$150.13M	2.71	$0.77 per share	39.04	$18.55 per share	1.62
IDCC InterDigital	$788.50M	10.74	$20.08 per share	16.34	$42.77 per share	7.67
META Meta Platforms	$200.97B	9.34	$37.51 per share	19.64	$85.88 per share	8.58

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	$1.11B	$5.03	53.48	42.91	3.52	23.60%	27.98%	15.35%	10/26/2026 (Estimated)
CLFD Clearfield	-$8.05M	-$0.51	103.90	39.99	N/A	-4.71%	1.61%	1.45%	11/24/2026 (Estimated)
IDCC InterDigital	$406.64M	$8.67	37.84	36.05	N/A	38.32%	28.17%	15.00%	10/29/2026 (Estimated)
META Meta Platforms	$60.46B	$26.55	27.75	21.46	1.29	29.83%	33.18%	20.07%	10/21/2026 (Estimated)

Latest IDCC, CDNS, CLFD, and META Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
10/29/2026	Q3 2026	IDCC InterDigital	$1.34	N/A	N/A	N/A	$156.63 million	N/A
10/26/2026	Q3 2026	CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$2.04	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.61 billion	N/A
10/21/2026	Q3 2026	META Meta Platforms	$6.76	N/A	N/A	N/A	$63.30 billion	N/A
8/5/2026	Q3 2026	CLFD Clearfield	$0.1925	$0.22	+$0.0275	$0.22	$43.93 million	$43.86 million
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	IDCC InterDigital	$0.9030	$4.62	+$3.7170	$3.40	$143.10 million	$260.17 million
7/29/2026	Q2 2026	META Meta Platforms	$7.19	$6.18	-$1.01	$6.18	$60.22 billion	$60.80 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
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
CLFD Clearfield	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
IDCC InterDigital	$3.00	0.91%	+10.91%	34.60%	3 Years
META Meta Platforms	$2.10	0.29%	N/A	7.91%	1 Years

Latest IDCC, CDNS, CLFD, and META Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
9/9/2026	IDCC InterDigital	quarterly	$0.75	0.92%	10/14/2026	10/14/2026	10/28/2026
9/10/2026	META Meta Platforms	quarterly	$0.5250	0.28%	9/21/2026	9/21/2026	9/28/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.36	1.74	1.53
CLFD Clearfield	N/A	12.53	10.08
IDCC InterDigital	0.01	1.74	1.74
META Meta Platforms	0.32	2.23	2.23

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	84.85%
CLFD Clearfield	88.73%
IDCC InterDigital	99.83%
META Meta Platforms	79.91%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.49%
CLFD Clearfield	17.80%
IDCC InterDigital	3.50%
META Meta Platforms	13.53%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	13,800	275.39 million	274.04 million	Optionable
CLFD Clearfield	243	13.58 million	11.17 million	Optionable
IDCC InterDigital	460	25.81 million	24.90 million	Optionable
META Meta Platforms	78,865	2.55 billion	2.20 billion	Optionable

IDCC, CDNS, CLFD, and META Headlines

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Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers

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Meta and Apple, Longtime Foes, Team Up to Put Open-Weight AI on Macs

October 15 at 1:00 PM | wsj.com

Senators Want to Know Why Meta Claimed $6.6 Billion in Research Tax Credits for AI Data Centers

October 15 at 11:52 AM | 247wallst.com

Discounted Valuation and AI Compute Potential Create Entry Point in Meta Platforms (META)

October 15 at 11:30 AM | insidermonkey.com

Meta's AI Spending Is Massive. The Payoff Could Be Even Bigger

October 15 at 11:00 AM | 247wallst.com

The AI Boom Accelerates

October 15 at 9:06 AM | etftrends.comE

Meta Platforms Insider Sold Shares Worth $1,146,758, According to a Recent SEC Filing

October 15 at 8:59 AM | finance.yahoo.com

Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Stock: Triumph Capital Management Reduces Holdings

October 15 at 4:39 AM | marketbeat.com

Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Shares Sold by Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc.

October 15 at 4:39 AM | marketbeat.com

Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Stock Holdings Increased by LDIC Inc.

October 15 at 4:08 AM | marketbeat.com

Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Stake Lessened by SFM LLC d b a Sweeney Financial Advisors

October 15 at 4:01 AM | marketbeat.com

6,042 Shares in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Acquired by Sanders Morris Harris LLC

October 15 at 4:01 AM | marketbeat.com

Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Stock Bought by N10 Wealth LLC

October 15 at 4:00 AM | marketbeat.com

Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Stock Acquired by N10 Assets LLC

October 15 at 4:00 AM | marketbeat.com

Generate Investment Management Ltd Purchases 14,302 Shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. $META

October 15 at 4:00 AM | marketbeat.com

Q Fund Management Hong Kong Ltd Acquires New Position in Meta Platforms, Inc. $META

October 15 at 3:59 AM | marketbeat.com

Meta Platforms, Inc. $META Stock: First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. Raises Stake

October 15 at 3:20 AM | marketbeat.com

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IDCC, CDNS, CLFD, and META Company Descriptions

Cadence Design Systems NASDAQ:CDNS

$324.38 -5.08 (-1.54%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$322.38 -2.00 (-0.62%)

As of 07:50 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.

Clearfield NASDAQ:CLFD

$29.99 -0.14 (-0.46%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$29.84 -0.15 (-0.48%)

As of 07:30 PM Eastern

Clearfield, Inc. manufactures and sells various fiber connectivity products in the United States and internationally. The company offers FieldSmart, a series of panels, cabinets, wall boxes, and other enclosures; WaveSmart, an optical components integrated for signal coupling, splitting, termination, multiplexing, demultiplexing, and attenuation for integration within its fiber management platform; and active cabinet products. It also provides CraftSmart FiberFirst pedestals, an access terminal that offers a cable management and mounting bracket kit to support the deployment of access terminals; YOURx, an access terminal that provides flexibility with cable mid-span and internal splicing options; and FieldShield, a fiber pathway and protection method for reducing the cost of broadband deployment. In addition, the company offers fiber assemblies; fiber optic and copper cables, microducts, microduct accessories, and tools; and installation and connection accessories for fiber optic networks. It serves community broadband customers, multiple system operators, large regional service providers, and wireline/wireless national telco carriers. The company was formerly known as APA Enterprises, Inc. and changed its name to Clearfield, Inc. in January 2008. Clearfield, Inc. was incorpoarted in 1979 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

InterDigital NASDAQ:IDCC

$328.06 +2.20 (+0.68%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$327.14 -0.92 (-0.28%)

As of 07:41 PM Eastern

InterDigital, Inc. operates as a global research and development company with focus primarily on wireless, visual, artificial intelligence (AI), and related technologies. The company engages in the design and development of technologies that enable connected in a range of communications and entertainment products and services, which are licensed to companies providing such products and services, including makers of wireless communications, consumer electronics, IoT devices, and cars and other motor vehicles, as well as providers of cloud-based services, such as video streaming. It designs and develops a range of innovations for use in digital cellular and wireless products and networks, including 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, and IEEE 802-related products and networks. The company also develops cellular technologies, such as technologies related to CDMA, TDMA, OFDM/OFDMA, and MIMO for use in 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless networks, as well as mobile terminal devices; and 3GPP technology portfolio in 5G, 5G, advanced and 6G, as well as technologies for automobiles, wearables, smart homes, drones, and other connected consumer electronic products. In addition, it provides video coding and transmission technologies; and engages in the research and development of artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions. Further, the company's patented technologies are used in various products that include smartphones, tablets, consumer electronics, and base stations; televisions, laptops, gaming consoles, set-top boxes, streaming devices, and connected automobiles. InterDigital, Inc. was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Meta Platforms NASDAQ:META

$736.72 -0.82 (-0.11%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$732.92 -3.80 (-0.52%)

As of 07:59 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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