Geus Aart De Sells 24,641 Shares of Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Stock

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) insider Geus Aart De sold 24,641 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $419.44, for a total value of $10,335,421.04. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider directly owned 120,443 shares in the company, valued at $50,518,611.92. This trade represents a 16.98% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Geus Aart De also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Monday, August 31st, Geus Aart De sold 25,000 shares of Synopsys stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $441.76, for a total value of $11,044,000.00.
• On Friday, August 28th, Geus Aart De sold 25,000 shares of Synopsys stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $445.55, for a total transaction of $11,138,750.00.

Synopsys Stock Performance

Shares of Synopsys stock traded up $1.15 during trading hours on Wednesday, reaching $415.97. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,268,643 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,994,018. The stock has a market cap of $79.72 billion, a P/E ratio of 73.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.41 and a beta of 1.23. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $415.20 and its 200 day simple moving average is $439.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a quick ratio of 1.24 and a current ratio of 1.34. Synopsys, Inc. has a one year low of $366.00 and a one year high of $615.79.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The semiconductor company reported $3.91 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.67 by $0.24. The business had revenue of $2.48 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.44 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 11.43% and a return on equity of 6.24%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 42.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $3.39 earnings per share. Synopsys has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.100-4.160 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 15.040-15.100 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 11 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Synopsys

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. Ltd. bought a new stake in Synopsys in the 2nd quarter valued at $747,400,000. Man Group plc bought a new stake in Synopsys in the second quarter valued at $55,900,000. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys in the 4th quarter worth approximately $730,197,000. SBI Okasan Asset Management Co.Ltd. bought a new stake in shares of Synopsys during the fourth quarter worth $1,699,000. Finally, Czech National Bank increased its position in Synopsys by 4.6% in the 2nd quarter. Czech National Bank now owns 54,526 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $24,322,000 after acquiring an additional 2,421 shares in the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. BNP Paribas Exane lifted their target price on shares of Synopsys from $425.00 to $450.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. KeyCorp reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, August 19th. Rosenblatt Securities reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $575.00 target price on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Tuesday, August 25th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and set a $580.00 price target on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, August 27th. Finally, Robert W. Baird upgraded shares of Synopsys from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and raised their price target for the company from $558.00 to $560.00 in a report on Thursday, August 27th. Twelve research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $561.28.

About Synopsys

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.