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Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Institutional Ownership & Insider Trading History

Top CDNS institutional shareholders, filing changes, and Form 4 insider activity with filters for buys, sales, option exercises, gifts, and tax withholding.

Section freshness

Prices as of Sep 28, 4:00 PM EDT · Fundamentals checked Sep 29, 8:37 AM EDT · Statements Mar 31, 2026

Ownership read

CDNS insider transaction activity: Mixed, sale-heavy.

Blackrock Inc. is the largest institutional holder. 57 sales and 1 purchases appear in the recent Form 4 filings. Use the filters below to separate open-market activity from option exercises, gifts, awards, and tax withholding.

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Insider flow

CDNS

Purchases54
Sales348.44K

Directional bars ignore awards, gifts, conversions, and tax withholding rows.

Top holder

26.66M

Blackrock Inc.

Insider transaction activity

Mixed, sale-heavy

$122.36M sold / $13.88K bought

Observations shown

130

10 holder / 120 insider

Holder rows
10
Yahoo Finance · Filing dates shown per row
Increased / initiated
8
2 decreased · provider-reported changes
Insider rows
120
Yahoo Finance · Filing dates shown per row

Ownership concentration and transaction activity

Top 10 reported holders
39.23% outstanding
Changes with share-count history
Prior-position data unavailable
New / exited positions
0 / 0 explicitly reported
Largest increase with share-count history
Prior share counts unavailable

Reported-holder cohort only; absence from a limited provider list does not establish an exit. Changes are provider-reported and are only comparable quarter over quarter when the position periods match.

Net shares sold: 348,387

Sale-code S shares minus purchase-code P shares in this sample. Includes disclosed plans and unknown plan status; excludes grants, gifts, exercises and withholding. This is activity, not sentiment.

  • Purchase / sale; plan unknown: 58
  • Conversion / exercise: 19
  • Gift: 10
  • Grant: 33

Top 10 institutional holders

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) institutional ownership

Ranked by reported share count, with position changes and separate position and filing dates where ownership data supplies them.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) institutional ownership
#Institution% heldSharesChange %Position / filing date
1
Blackrock Inc.
9.68%26.66M+4.75%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
2
Vanguard Capital Management LLC
6.54%18.02M+1.14%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
3
State Street Corporation
4.73%13.03M+4.32%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
4
FMR, LLC
3.47%9.55M+4.39%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
5
Invesco Ltd.
3.26%8.98M+1.86%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
6
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO
2.86%7.87M+20.18%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
7
Geode Capital Management, LLC
2.61%7.18M-8.78%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
8
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC
2.53%6.96M-1.00%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
9
Van Eck Associates Corporation
1.78%4.89M+21.78%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
10
Capital International Investors
1.77%4.89M+23.56%Position as of Jun 30, 2026Filing date unknown
Showing 10 of 10 matching institutional rows.

Recent insider transactions

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Form 4 filings

Action codes are translated so open-market buys and sales are separate from awards, gifts, conversions, and tax withholding.

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Form 4 insider transactions
#Insider% companyActionSharesTransaction date
1
CUNNINGHAM PAUL ALEXANDER
Officer
<0.01%SaleOpen-market or direct sale reported on Form 4.
Transaction context
Classification:
Purchase / sale; plan unknown
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

2.00KSep 15, 2026
2
CUNNINGHAM PAUL ALEXANDER
Officer
<0.01%Conversion of Exercise of derivative securityProvider-supplied Form 4 action code. Review the original filing before making a trading judgment.
Transaction context
Classification:
Conversion / exercise
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

1.00KSep 15, 2026
3
BRENNAN ITA M
Director
<0.01%SaleOpen-market or direct sale reported on Form 4.
Transaction context
Classification:
Purchase / sale; plan unknown
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

180Sep 10, 2026
4
SCANNELL PAUL
Officer
<0.01%SaleOpen-market or direct sale reported on Form 4.
Transaction context
Classification:
Purchase / sale; plan unknown
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

280Aug 26, 2026
5
CUNNINGHAM PAUL ALEXANDER
Officer
<0.01%Stock GiftProvider-supplied Form 4 action code. Review the original filing before making a trading judgment.
Transaction context
Classification:
Gift
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

1.00KAug 25, 2026
6
SANGIOVANNI VINCENTELLI ALBERTO
Director
<0.01%SaleOpen-market or direct sale reported on Form 4.
Transaction context
Classification:
Purchase / sale; plan unknown
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

1.25KAug 25, 2026
7
TENG CHIN-CHI
Officer
<0.01%SaleOpen-market or direct sale reported on Form 4.
Transaction context
Classification:
Purchase / sale; plan unknown
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

4.73KAug 21, 2026
8
TENG CHIN-CHI
Officer
<0.01%Conversion of Exercise of derivative securityProvider-supplied Form 4 action code. Review the original filing before making a trading judgment.
Transaction context
Classification:
Conversion / exercise
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

1.00KAug 21, 2026
9
CUNNINGHAM PAUL ALEXANDER
Officer
<0.01%SaleOpen-market or direct sale reported on Form 4.
Transaction context
Classification:
Purchase / sale; plan unknown
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

2.00KAug 17, 2026
10
CUNNINGHAM PAUL ALEXANDER
Officer
<0.01%Conversion of Exercise of derivative securityProvider-supplied Form 4 action code. Review the original filing before making a trading judgment.
Transaction context
Classification:
Conversion / exercise
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

1.00KAug 17, 2026
11
SOHN YOUNG K
Director
<0.01%Stock GiftProvider-supplied Form 4 action code. Review the original filing before making a trading judgment.
Transaction context
Classification:
Gift
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

9Jul 30, 2026
12
TENG CHIN-CHI
Officer
<0.01%SaleOpen-market or direct sale reported on Form 4.
Transaction context
Classification:
Purchase / sale; plan unknown
10b5-1:
Unknown; not supplied by provider
Holdings after:
Not reported
Position sold:
Not calculable
Filed:
Not reported

Position sold = shares sold ÷ (shares sold + holdings after). Separate accounts or security classes may not represent total beneficial ownership.

4.50KJul 22, 2026
Showing 12 of 120 matching Form 4 rows. Percent of company uses current shares outstanding.

Frequently asked

Common questions.

Who are the largest CDNS shareholders?

Blackrock Inc. is the largest reported institutional holder of CDNS, with 26.66 million shares, or about 9.68% of shares outstanding.

What does the institutional filing activity show for CDNS?

Cadence Design Systems has 10 institutional rows on file: 8 increased or initiated positions and 2 reduced them.

What insider transactions are available for CDNS?

TECHi shows 120 dated CDNS insider transactions through Sep 15, 2026, with transaction types kept separate so administrative actions are not presented as open-market trades.

Are CDNS insiders buying or selling?

The displayed CDNS activity reads Mixed, sale-heavy: 57 sales and 1 purchases. Other transaction types remain separate.

Who is the most active reported CDNS insider?

DEVGAN ANIRUDH has the largest absolute share movement in the displayed CDNS filing rows, totaling 467,581 shares. The action labels provide the transaction context.

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