Compare Stocks: SPLK, DDOG, CDNS, and APP

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
APP AppLovin	$270.87 -2.2%	$316.67	$266.84 ▼ $738.01	$90.65B	2.56	5.62 million shs	3.61 million shs
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$348.42 -1.3%	$319.56	$262.75 ▼ $416.69	$95.95B	1.13	2.44 million shs	1.22 million shs
DDOG Datadog	$287.29 -2.0%	$245.78	$98.01 ▼ $300.68	$103.16B	1.51	5.20 million shs	2.76 million shs
SPLK Splunk	$156.90	$156.84	$82.19 ▼ $156.97	$26.44B	1	2.08 million shs	N/A

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
APP AppLovin	0.00%	+3.29%	-14.48%	-37.44%	-51.39%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.00%	+0.42%	+21.93%	-6.64%	+7.90%
DDOG Datadog	0.00%	+5.79%	+32.57%	+12.69%	+84.74%
SPLK Splunk	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
APP AppLovin	$270.87 -2.2%	$316.67	$266.84 ▼ $738.01	$90.65B	2.56	5.62 million shs	3.61 million shs
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$348.42 -1.3%	$319.56	$262.75 ▼ $416.69	$95.95B	1.13	2.44 million shs	1.22 million shs
DDOG Datadog	$287.29 -2.0%	$245.78	$98.01 ▼ $300.68	$103.16B	1.51	5.20 million shs	2.76 million shs
SPLK Splunk	$156.90	$156.84	$82.19 ▼ $156.97	$26.44B	1	2.08 million shs	N/A

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
APP AppLovin	0.00%	+3.29%	-14.48%	-37.44%	-51.39%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.00%	+0.42%	+21.93%	-6.64%	+7.90%
DDOG Datadog	0.00%	+5.79%	+32.57%	+12.69%	+84.74%
SPLK Splunk	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
APP AppLovin	2.82	Moderate Buy	$517.21	89.61% Upside
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	2.91	Moderate Buy	$404.14	14.57% Upside
DDOG Datadog	2.93	Moderate Buy	$280.29	-2.85% Downside
SPLK Splunk	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest SPLK, APP, DDOG, and CDNS Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/12/2026	APP AppLovin	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform	$490.00
10/12/2026	DDOG Datadog	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform	$280.00 ➝ $320.00
10/11/2026	DDOG Datadog	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold	$300.00
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+)
10/8/2026	APP AppLovin	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$550.00 ➝ $375.00
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	$400.00 ➝ $420.00
10/6/2026	APP AppLovin	Needham & Company LLC Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$475.00
10/5/2026	APP AppLovin	HSBC Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$450.00 ➝ $409.00
10/2/2026	APP AppLovin	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral
10/2/2026	DDOG Datadog	FBN Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Outperform	$325.00

(Data available from 10/12/2023 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
APP AppLovin	$5.48B	16.66	$11.11 per share	24.56	$6.31 per share	43.23
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$5.30B	18.34	$6.33 per share	55.70	$20.11 per share	17.54
DDOG Datadog	$3.97B	26.12	$0.66 per share	435.90	$10.59 per share	27.24
SPLK Splunk	$4.22B	6.27	$0.47 per share	333.90	($0.68) per share	-230.74

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
APP AppLovin	$3.33B	$13.01	21.02	13.54	0.58	64.58%	193.10%	59.63%	11/4/2026 (Estimated)
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	$1.11B	$5.03	70.11	46.66	3.78	23.60%	27.98%	15.35%	10/26/2026 (Estimated)
DDOG Datadog	$107.74M	$0.49	587.50	291.44	28.62	4.48%	5.67%	3.24%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
SPLK Splunk	$263.73M	$1.26	124.52	53.19	4.42	6.26%	32,117.42%	7.18%	N/A

Latest SPLK, APP, DDOG, and CDNS 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
11/4/2026	Q3 2026	APP AppLovin	$4.04	N/A	N/A	N/A	$2.07 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
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	DDOG Datadog	$0.5830	$0.65	+$0.0670	$0.12	$1.08 billion	$1.12 billion
8/5/2026	Q2 2026	APP AppLovin	$3.76	$3.76	N/A	$3.76	$1.94 billion	$1.92 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
APP AppLovin	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
SPLK Splunk	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
APP AppLovin	1.11	4.30	4.30
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.36	1.74	1.53
DDOG Datadog	0.23	3.20	3.20
SPLK Splunk	15.61	1.69	1.69

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Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
APP AppLovin	41.85%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	84.85%
DDOG Datadog	78.29%
SPLK Splunk	87.56%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
APP AppLovin	12.81%
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	0.49%
DDOG Datadog	6.48%
SPLK Splunk	0.17%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
APP AppLovin	898	334.65 million	291.78 million	Not Optionable
CDNS Cadence Design Systems	13,800	275.39 million	274.04 million	Optionable
DDOG Datadog	8,100	359.08 million	335.81 million	Optionable
SPLK Splunk	8,000	168.50 million	168.21 million	No Data

SPLK, DDOG, CDNS, and APP Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Splunk’s approach to AI oversight at scale

September 25, 2026 | msn.com

Cisco's Splunk sees India among key APAC markets, bets on digital scale and data sovereignty

September 25, 2026 | moneycontrol.com

Cisco (CSCO) Leans on Splunk to Broaden Its Share of Enterprise AI Spending. It Faces a Big Test

September 19, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Seismic shift in Splunk pricing spotlights AI data management

September 19, 2026 | techtarget.comT

Splunk stock gains attention as new AI platform and Cisco partnership expand enterprise reach

September 19, 2026 | ad-hoc-news.deA

5 Key Takeaways From Splunk .Conf26

September 17, 2026 | crn.comC

Splunk declares transformational shift as AI agents reshape enterprise IT

September 17, 2026 | itwire.comI

Splunk expands AI security workforce to enable autonomous defence at machine speed

September 16, 2026 | itwire.comI

Trust becomes the product: Five takeaways from the Splunk .conf26 keynotes

September 16, 2026 | siliconangle.comS

Cisco enhances Splunk observability for AI token usage tracking

September 16, 2026 | msspalert.comM

CSCO's Splunk AI Push Gains Momentum: Can It Outpace DDOG & CRWD?

September 16, 2026 | uk.finance.yahoo.com

Splunk puts AI costs, performance and risk under the observability microscope

September 15, 2026 | itwire.comI

Cisco and Splunk Ship On-Prem Agent Infrastructure, Splitting the Enterprise Deployment Consensus

September 15, 2026 | forkast.newsF

Cisco brings Splunk AI on premises, expands agent observability, monitors token costs

September 15, 2026 | networkworld.comN

Splunk rebuilds its platform around agents

September 15, 2026 | siliconangle.comS

Cisco expands Splunk AI to on-premises users via NVIDIA partnership

September 15, 2026 | streetinsider.com

Highlights from Splunk .conf26 and what the news means to network engineers

September 15, 2026 | networkworld.comN

Cisco turns Splunk green with Nvidia compute

September 15, 2026 | sdxcentral.comS

Splunk partners with AWS and Nvidia: going deeper and higher in the stack

September 14, 2026 | techzine.euT

Splunk, Zoom Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

July 16, 2026 | securityweek.comS

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SPLK, DDOG, CDNS, and APP Company Descriptions

AppLovin NASDAQ:APP

$270.87 -6.17 (-2.23%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

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$271.00 +0.13 (+0.05%)

As of 05:10 PM Eastern

AppLovin Corporation engages in building a software-based platform for advertisers to enhance the marketing and monetization of their content in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Software Platform and Apps. The company's software solutions include AppDiscovery, a marketing software solution, which matches advertiser demand with publisher supply through auctions; MAX, an in-app bidding software that optimizes the value of a publisher's advertising inventory by running a real-time competitive auction; Adjust, a measurement and analytics marketing platform that provides marketers with the visibility, insights, and tools needed to grow their apps from early stage to maturity; and Wurl, a connected TV platform, which distributes streaming video for content companies and provides advertising and publishing solutions through its AdPool, ContentDiscovery, and Global FAST Pass products. It also offers SparkLabs, which uses app store optimization to enhance ad visibility; AppLovin Exchange, which connects buyers to mobile and CTV devices through a single and direct RTB exchange; and Array, an end-to-end app management suite for mobile operators and end users. In addition, the company operates various free-to-play mobile games. It serves individuals, small and independent businesses, enterprises, advertisers and advertising networks, mobile app publishers, indie studio developers, and internet platforms. AppLovin Corporation was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Cadence Design Systems NASDAQ:CDNS

$348.42 -4.42 (-1.25%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

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$348.06 -0.36 (-0.10%)

As of 05:02 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

$287.29 -5.97 (-2.04%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$287.45 +0.16 (+0.06%)

As of 05:09 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.

Splunk NASDAQ:SPLK

Splunk Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets cloud services and licensed software solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers unified security and observability platform, including Splunk Security that helps security leaders fortify their organization's digital resilience by mitigating cyber risk and meeting compliance requirements; and Splunk Observability, which provides visibility across the full stack of infrastructure, applications, and the digital customer experience. It also provides application programming interfaces, software development kits, and other interfaces that enables its network of third-party developers, partners, and customers to build content, including pre-built data inputs, workflows, searches, reports, alerts, custom dashboards, flexible user interface components, custom data visualizations, and integration actions and methods that configures and extends its solutions to accommodate specific use cases. In addition, the company offers adoption and implementation, education, and customer support services. It sells its offerings directly through field and inside sales, and indirectly through various routes to market with various partners. Splunk Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of March 18, 2024, Splunk Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.

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