Karna Nisewaner - Feb 18, 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS INC (CDNS)

Signature
/s/ Ahalya Hildreth, Attorney-in- Fact for Karna Nisewaner
Stock symbol
CDNS
Transactions as of
Feb 18, 2025
Transactions value $
-$230,060
Form type
4
Date filed
2/20/2025, 08:03 PM
Previous filing
Sep 18, 2024
Next filing
Mar 19, 2025

Transactions Table

Type Sym Class Transaction Value $ Shares Change % * Price $ Shares After Date Ownership Footnotes
transaction CDNS Common Stock Tax liability -$61K -203 -1.26% $300.43 15.9K Feb 18, 2025 Direct F1, F2
transaction CDNS Common Stock Sale -$169K -571 -3.58% $296.10 15.4K Feb 18, 2025 Direct F3
* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id Content
F1 Shares withheld to satisfy tax obligations arising out of vesting of Restricted Stock Award.
F2 Amount of securities beneficially owned includes includes 109 shares acquired by the Reporting Person through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan on January 31, 2025.
F3 The transaction reported in this Form 4 was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted on 9/12/2024 by the Reporting Person.