What is CDNS's short interest?

4,347,608 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.

What percentage of the float is short?

We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.

It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.

What does days to cover mean?

It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 1.62. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.

Where does this come from?

FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Ticker

CDNS

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. - Common Stock (CDNS)

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CDNS in the last 90 days

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. - Common Stock (CDNS) (CDNS) had 4 congress transactions by 2 members and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 4,347,608 shares held short, 1.6 days to cover, down 25.2% from the report before.

Congress: 0 purchases and 4 sales reported, amounts in the bands the law requires.
Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: 25 SEPT 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$293$279 → $293 · +5% over six months

CDNS is up 5%. Short sellers have barely moved.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are down 2% over the same stretch.

Politician activityBoughtSoldHover a dot for details

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

Money betting CDNS falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.

Politicians

0 buys · 4 sales

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets down 2%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

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Insiders

Nothing reported

Traded over six months

Quiet Money

Our take on how well CDNS holds up when sellers show up.

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 04 SEPT 2026

Vulnerable

When CDNS gets hit, it tends to drop more easily than usual.

Lately, CDNS has been easier to push down than usual.

That's been true for the last 33 trading days.

The last 6 months

ResilientMixedVulnerable

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17 MAR 2026Now · 04 SEPT 2026

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

2 of 4 sources

+16Tilted in

Leaning outBalancedLeaning in

The disclosed money is leaning into this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on two of the four sources we track.

Short interest: Short interest fell 29.7% — 6,187,380 to 4,347,608 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →; +74
Congress: 2 members of Congress disclosed 0 purchases and 4 sales. See the filings →; -100

This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

4,347,608shares held short

Days to cover

1.62

Avg daily volume

2,687,011

Since last report

-25.17%

As of 15 September 2026, 4,347,608 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. - Common Stock (CDNS) shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 1,462,139 shares fewer than the previous report, a 25.17% decrease. At the average daily volume of 2,687,011 shares, that position represents 1.62 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for CDNS — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has fallen from 7,205,915 shares on 31 March 2026 to 4,347,608 today, a change of 39.7%. The highest reading in that window was 7,205,915 shares on 31 March 2026.

Settlement	Shares short	Days to cover
15 SEPT 2026	4,347,608	1.62
31 AUG 2026	5,809,747	2.83
14 AUG 2026	4,498,632	2.31
31 JUL 2026	6,099,964	2.09
15 JUL 2026	6,187,380	4.08
30 JUN 2026	6,034,189	2.04
15 JUN 2026	4,919,518	1.87
29 MAY 2026	4,872,311	2.33
15 MAY 2026	5,444,390	2.56
30 APR 2026	6,320,973	2.21
15 APR 2026	5,910,408	2.89
31 MAR 2026	7,205,915	3.28

What is CDNS's short interest?: 4,347,608 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
What percentage of the float is short?: We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
How current is this?: It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
What does days to cover mean?: It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 1.62. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
Where does this come from?: FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

Congress transactions12

Latest change25 SEPT 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 12

Congress transactions on file

12 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

Who		Amount as filed	Traded	Filed	Lag
Hon. Kevin Hern	SOLD	$15,001 – $50,000 · partial	02 SEPT 2026	25 SEPT 2026	23 days
Hon. Kevin Hern	SOLD	$15,001 – $50,000 · partial	14 SEPT 2026	25 SEPT 2026	11 days
Hon. Byron Donalds	SOLD	$1,001 – $15,000 · partial	05 JUN 2026	15 JUL 2026	40 days
Hon. Byron Donalds	SOLD	$1,001 – $15,000 · partial	05 JUN 2026	15 JUL 2026	40 days
Hon. Valerie Hoyle	SOLD	$1,001 – $15,000	23 SEPT 2025	10 OCT 2025	17 days
Hon. Valerie Hoyle	BOUGHT	$1,001 – $15,000	29 OCT 2024	12 SEPT 2025	318 days — the law says 45
Hon. Gilbert Cisneros	SOLD	$1,001 – $15,000 · partial	05 AUG 2025	12 SEPT 2025	38 days
Hon. Jefferson Shreve	SOLD	$50,001 – $100,000	12 MAY 2025	22 JUN 2025	41 days
Hon. Rob Bresnahan	BOUGHT	$1,001 – $15,000	17 MAR 2025	09 APR 2025	23 days
Hon. Greg Landsman	SOLD	$1,001 – $15,000	27 MAR 2025	08 APR 2025	12 days
Hon. Gilbert Cisneros	SOLD	$1,001 – $15,000 · partial	26 FEB 2025	06 MAR 2025	8 days
Hon. Rob Bresnahan	SOLD	$1,001 – $15,000	13 JAN 2025	13 FEB 2025	31 days

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