Cadence Design Systems, Inc.'s shares display attractive technical aspects to anticipate a comeback of the underlying trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 82.07 USD
Weaknesses
● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at USD 174.46.
● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at USD 142.1.
● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 63.46 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is No. 1 worldwide in developing and marketing design software for integrated circuits and electronic systems. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of licenses (93.8%): design software, integrated circuit verification, simulation, and performance control systems, etc. In addition, the group offers maintenance services;
- services (6.2%): consulting, training, system design and development, technical assistance, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (41.4%), Americas (1.6%), China (16.6%), Japan (5.6%), Asia (18.8%) and Europe/Middle East/Africa (16 %).