Long Position on CDNS @ $50.00 on 2/8/2019 (Momentum)

bullish cup and handle on $CDNSCadence Design Systems (CDNS) provides electronic design automation software, emulation and prototyping hardware, system interconnect, and analysis 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 simulation platform; Palladium Z1, a verification computing platform; and Protium S1 field-programmable gate array prototyping platform.

The company also provides digital integrated circuit (IC) design products, such as logic design products for chip planning, design, verification, and test technologies and services; physical implementation tools, including place and route, signal integrity, optimization, and multiple patterning preparation; and signoff products to signoff the design as ready for manufacture by a silicon foundry, as well as design for manufacturing products for use in the product development process.

In addition, it offers custom IC design and verification 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 interconnect design products to develop printed circuit boards and IC packages. Further, the company provides design intellectual property (IP) products consisting of pre-verified and customizable functional blocks to integrate into customer's ICs; and verification IP and memory models for use in system-level verification to model correct behavior of full systems interacting with their environments.

Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services. 

Shares have formed a bullish "cup and handle" ahead of its quarterly report on February 19th. Estimates call for EPS of 47 cents on revenue of $550.82 million. Higher share prices are expected for this stock.

Entry Point: $50.00

Stop Loss: $47.50

Trading Range: $35.49 - $51.01

Target Price: $55.00

Updates

2/20/2019 12:47:59 PM

CDNS closed at $55.30

Position closed on 2/20/2019 at price of $55.40 with a 10.80% gain in 12 days.

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