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7 companies value 246 bn revenue 27 bn margin 9.4% free cash flow 8.1 bn avg. score 4.2
CDNS holds 36.5% of the group's value, 1.0x the runner-up · SNPS leads the industry without being the largest
| Rank | Ticker | Company | Share | Value | Revenue | Margin | FCF | 5 years | FCF/px | Yield | What it does · why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CDNS | Cadence Design Systems United States · score 6.1 | 37% | 90 bn | 5.8 bn | 23.6% | 1.7 bn | 1.9% | — | Chip and electronic systems design software · The other half of the EDA duopoly, indispensable for designing chips | |
| 2 | SNPS | Synopsys United States · score 5.8 | 36% | 87 bn | 9.4 bn | 11.4% | 2.8 bn | 3.2% | — | Chip design and verification software · Leader in chip design software (EDA); bought Ansys in 2025 | |
| 3 | ADSK | Autodesk United States · score 6.9 | 21% | 50 bn | 7.8 bn | 21.1% | 2.8 bn | 5.6% | — | 3D design software for architecture, engineering and media · Global standard in architecture and engineering design (AutoCAD, Revit) | |
| 4 | BSY | BENTLEY SYSTEMS INC United States · score 6.3 | 5% | 11 bn | 1.6 bn | 18.1% | 0.5 bn | 4.5% | 0.8% | Infrastructure engineering software · Pennsylvania — revenue of $1.6bn | |
| 5 | OCTV | Octave Intelligence plc United States · score 4.5 | 2% | 5.5 bn | 1.6 bn | -111.3% | 0.5 bn | 8.1% | — | Software to design, build, operate and protect physical assets and critical infrastructure · Alabama — revenue of $1.6bn | |
| 6 | SDGR | Schrodinger, Inc. United States · score 0.0 | 1% | 1.7 bn | 0.3 bn | -21.0% | -0.1 bn | -7.5% | — | Computational drug and materials discovery software · New York — revenue of $259m | |
| 7 | SVCO | Silvaco Group, Inc. United States · score 0.0 | 0% | 0.2 bn | 0.1 bn | -30.4% | -0.0 bn | -15.9% | — | TCAD and EDA software and semiconductor intellectual property · California — revenue of $72m |
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- Sector overview
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- Memory 4 companies
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- Semiconductor IP 7 companies
- E-commerce platforms 9 companies
- RF and mobile chips 8 companies
- Chip testing and packaging 13 companies
- Measurement and test instruments 30 companies
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- Optics and photonics 14 companies
- Creative and document software 9 companies
- Electronics contract manufacturing 10 companies
- Digital advertising (adtech) 37 companies
- AI servers 5 companies
- Power semiconductors 8 companies
- Government and finance software 18 companies
- GPU cloud (neoclouds) 20 companies
- Communication and collaboration 14 companies
- HR and finance software 12 companies
- Identity and access management 10 companies
- Databases and developer tools 4 companies
- Quantum computing 9 companies
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- Industrial robotics 1 company
What this is. A catalogue, not a guide. Every industry with stocks listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ, the companies contending for its leadership, what each one does according to its own annual report, and the balance sheet it filed with the SEC.
The score runs from 0 to 10 and compares each company with every other one in the almanac on cash generation, profitability, debt, dividends and consistency over the last five years. The higher it is, the better the company fares in that comparison. Curious how much each part weighs? Ask at the bottom of the page.
The score runs from 0 to 10 and compares each company with every other one in the almanac on cash generation, profitability, debt, dividends and consistency over the last five years. The higher it is, the better the company fares in that comparison. Curious how much each part weighs? Ask at the bottom of the page.