Capital World Investors Lowers Stake in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Capital World Investors lowered its stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 11.6% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 6,635,080 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 868,907 shares during the quarter. Capital World Investors owned 3.47% of Synopsys worth $3,116,708,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in SNPS. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 20.7% during the 3rd 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 in the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 238.8% during the 3rd 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 in the last quarter. Coatue Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys during the 3rd quarter valued at $892,605,000. Capital Research Global Investors raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 226.6% during the 3rd 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 in the last quarter. Finally, Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys during the 4th quarter valued at $730,197,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of Synopsys stock opened at $464.85 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $89.01 billion, a PE ratio of 107.60, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.83 and a beta of 1.22. Synopsys, Inc. has a 12-month low of $376.18 and a 12-month high of $651.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.32, a current ratio of 1.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $466.55 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $457.80.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.15 by $0.20. The firm had revenue of $2.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.25 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 8.91% and a return on equity of 5.83%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 41.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $3.67 EPS. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.720-14.800 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.630-3.690 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.74 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

SNPS has been the topic of several recent research reports. Morgan Stanley increased their target price on shares of Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price objective on Synopsys and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Bank of America raised their price objective on Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Citigroup raised their price objective on Synopsys from $600.00 to $610.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, 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. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $563.81.

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.