Prologic Mgmt (OTCMKTS:PRLO) and Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS) Head to Head Review

Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS) and Prologic Mgmt (OTCMKTS:PRLO) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Cadence Design Systems and Prologic Mgmt’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cadence Design Systems	20.35%	30.13%	15.97%
Prologic Mgmt	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

84.8% of Cadence Design Systems shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Cadence Design Systems shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 31.4% of Prologic Mgmt shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Cadence Design Systems and Prologic Mgmt”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cadence Design Systems	$5.21 billion	16.29	$1.06 billion	$3.88	80.39
Prologic Mgmt	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Cadence Design Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Prologic Mgmt.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices for Cadence Design Systems and Prologic Mgmt, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cadence Design Systems	1	3	15	0	2.74
Prologic Mgmt	0	0	0	0	0.00

Cadence Design Systems presently has a consensus target price of $376.47, indicating a potential upside of 20.70%. Given Cadence Design Systems’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Cadence Design Systems is more favorable than Prologic Mgmt.

Summary

Cadence Design Systems beats Prologic Mgmt on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, services, and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks 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 logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. The company also provides digital IC design and sign off products, including Genus synthesis and Joules RTL power solutions, as well as Modus DFT software solution to reduce systems-on-chip design-for-test time; physical implementation tools, such as place and route, optimization, and multiple patterning preparation; and Innovus implementation system, a physical implementation system. In addition, it offers custom IC design and simulation 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 design and analysis products to develop printed circuit boards and IC packages, as well as to analyze electromagnetic, electro-thermal, and other multi-physics effects. Further, the company provides intellectual property (IP) products comprising pre-verified and customizable functional blocks to integrate into customer's ICs; and verification IP with memory models to emulate and model the expected behavior and interaction of standard industry system interface protocols. Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services. The company serves consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, mobile, automotive, aerospace and defense, industrial, and life science industries. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

About Prologic Mgmt

Prologic Management Systems, Inc. does not have significant operations. Prior to February 2004, the company provided systems integration services, technology products, and related services. Prologic Management Systems was co-founded by James M. Heim in 1984. The company is based in Tucson, Arizona.