Contrasting Prologic Mgmt (OTCMKTS:PRLO) & Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS)

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Prologic Mgmt and Cadence Design Systems, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

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

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

Profitability

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

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

Valuation and Earnings

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

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

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

Summary

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

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.

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.