Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd Sells 4,873 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd reduced its stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 43.0% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 6,460 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 4,873 shares during the period. Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $3,034,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,464,862 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $8,673,315,000 after purchasing an additional 283,677 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 20.6% in the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,760,358 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $4,322,273,000 after purchasing an additional 1,493,912 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 1.3% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,310,846 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $2,017,256,000 after purchasing an additional 54,329 shares during the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 238.8% in the 3rd quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,393,506,000 after purchasing an additional 1,990,608 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 226.6% in the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,245,533,000 after purchasing an additional 1,751,432 shares during the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have recently issued reports on SNPS. Piper Sandler raised their price target on Synopsys from $430.00 to $450.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Wells Fargo & Company raised their price target on Synopsys from $505.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Robert W. Baird set a $558.00 target price on Synopsys in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a report on Monday. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Stock Performance

SNPS stock opened at $453.89 on Friday. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $473.57 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $460.43. The company has a current ratio of 1.43, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The firm has a market cap of $86.91 billion, a PE ratio of 105.07, a P/E/G ratio of 2.68 and a beta of 1.22. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1-year low of $376.18 and a 1-year high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 return on equity of 5.83% and a net margin of 8.91%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $3.67 earnings per share. 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, research analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.65 earnings per share for the current year.

Synopsys 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.