$4.74

-0.24 (-4.82%)

10/10/2008 4:00 PM

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (CDNS)

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Licenses electronic design automation software, sells or leases hardware technology and intellectual property and provides design and methodology services throughout the world to help manage and accelerate electronic product development processes.

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28 Underperforms

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Mid Cap (670), Nasdaq 100 (99), Technical & System Software (35), System Software (23)
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price:	$4.74
Last Trade Time:	10/10/2008 4:00 PM
Open:	$4.78
Previous Close:	$4.98
Daily Range:	$4.00 - $5.55
52-Week Range:	$4.89 - $22.32
Volume:	9,972,280
Market Cap:	$1.30B
P/E Ratio:	7.55
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Other News Headlines for CDNS

Hershey, Fannie Mae, First Marblehead big movers
8/18/2008 5:35:00 PM - AP
Business Highlights
8/15/2008 5:58:00 PM - AP
Cadence withdraws proposal to buy Mentor Graphics
8/15/2008 3:55:00 PM - AP
Cadence Design 2Q profit plummets, cuts guidance
7/23/2008 8:13:00 PM - AP

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Avatar gr8iml8 (33.55) Submitted: 11/06/06 11:02 PM

Cadence owns the best IC mask design software. Bottom line improvement over the next 4 quaters contines the resurgence.

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Recs 0 (CDNS) fedja2 (73.06) Submitted: 10/06/08 9:42 AM : Start Price: $6.12 CDNS Score: -5.30 target - 12$ Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (CDNS) SBeren (< 20) Submitted: 8/11/08 2:00 PM : Start Price: $7.20 CDNS Score: -1.67 Dodge & Cox Stock Fund buying lots of shares. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (CDNS) PhillyDan (< 20) Submitted: 6/24/08 4:25 PM : Start Price: $10.65 CDNS Score: 22.68 Cadence is one of those companies that can't get out of it's own way. Their bid for Mentor Graphics was clumsy and ill-timed plus they offered too little to appeal to MG shareholder's. Magma is a much stronger up and coming player in the ASIC arena. Cadence wanted Mentor Graphics for their Electronic Board Level design tools that are far better than what Cadence offers therefore they should have offered at least 3 to 5 dollars more to buy MG. Cadence's stock price will continue to muddle along and will underperform the S&P 500 in the next two years. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (CDNS) sprezzatura (88.57) Submitted: 6/03/08 3:03 PM : Start Price: $11.25 CDNS Score: -21.94 Morningstar is pitching this company (http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=240173&pgid=hparticle) saying that they have a nice moat and that customers are locked in due to the high cost of switching to competitors. They state CDS is the industry standard, that they are undervalued, and that they estimate a 25% return over the next 3 years. Sounds good enough to me. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (CDNS) mochamind543 (< 20) Submitted: 3/09/08 9:32 AM : Start Price: $10.80 CDNS Score: -24.29 citipick Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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	TrackJPMorgan	21.18	10/08/08		NS	$5.34	-11.24%	-9.25%	-1.99
	TrackZacks	80.22	09/05/08		3M	$7.97	-40.53%	-28.87%	+11.66
	TrackCitigroup	< 20	08/18/08		NS	$7.98	-40.60%	-32.15%	-8.45
	TrackHSBC	88.54	04/26/07		NS	$22.34	-78.78%	-40.78%	+38.00
	TrackDeutscheSec	< 20	12/08/06		NS	$17.65	-73.14%	-37.28%	-35.87
	TrackNeedham	< 20	10/26/06		NS	$17.63	-73.11%	-36.20%	-36.92

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