Wilson Asset Management International PTY Ltd. Sells 2,438 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Wilson Asset Management International PTY Ltd. lowered its stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 7.4% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 30,489 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 2,438 shares during the quarter. Synopsys accounts for 3.7% of Wilson Asset Management International PTY Ltd.’s holdings, making the stock its 11th largest position. Wilson Asset Management International PTY Ltd.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $14,321,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of SNPS. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 20.7% during the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,181,185 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $8,970,415,000 after buying an additional 3,120,401 shares during the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 238.8% during the third quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,393,506,000 after buying an additional 1,990,608 shares during the last quarter. Coatue Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Synopsys during the third quarter valued at approximately $892,605,000. Capital Research Global Investors raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 226.6% during the third quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,245,533,000 after buying an additional 1,751,432 shares during the last quarter. Finally, State Street Corp raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 20.6% during the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,760,358 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $4,322,273,000 after buying an additional 1,493,912 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Synopsys Stock Up 1.0%

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $502.51 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.36, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The stock has a market capitalization of $96.26 billion, a PE ratio of 78.03, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.06 and a beta of 1.25. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $431.32 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $446.18. Synopsys, Inc. has a 12-month low of $376.18 and a 12-month high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.56 by $0.21. The business had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.39 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 13.76% and a return on equity of 6.83%. The company’s revenue was up 65.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $3.03 EPS. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.380-14.460 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.110-3.170 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.3 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Piper Sandler decreased their price target on shares of Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Wells Fargo & Company cut their target price on Synopsys from $500.00 to $450.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price target on shares of Synopsys and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. HSBC cut Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price objective on the stock. in a research note on Friday, February 20th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, January 22nd. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $531.00.

Synopsys Company Profile

Synopsys, Inc is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) used to design, verify and manufacture integrated circuits and complex systems-on-chip (SoCs). Its product portfolio spans tools and technologies for front‑end design and synthesis, simulation and verification, physical implementation and signoff, and design-for-manufacturability, enabling chip designers to move from architecture through tape‑out.

In addition to core EDA offerings, Synopsys supplies a broad set of semiconductor IP building blocks — such as interface, memory and analog/mixed-signal cores — that customers integrate into SoCs to accelerate development.