shares of cadence design systems inc cdns inched 050 higher to 18234 monday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 000 to 468280 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 004 to 3608745 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains cadence design systems inc closed 024 below its 52week high 18258 which the company reached on november 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as autodesk inc adsk fell 089 to 32639 synopsys inc snps fell 036 to 34575 and ansys inc anss rose 067 to 39443 trading volume 768286 remained 310158 below its 50day average volume of 11 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use