Capital Research Global Investors Raises Holdings in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Capital Research Global Investors boosted its position in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 226.6% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,751,432 shares during the period. Capital Research Global Investors owned about 1.36% of Synopsys worth $1,245,533,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in SNPS. Alpine Bank Wealth Management boosted its stake in Synopsys by 89.3% in the third quarter. Alpine Bank Wealth Management now owns 53 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. raised its stake in shares of Synopsys by 1,250.0% during the 3rd quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. now owns 54 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Millstone Evans Group LLC purchased a new position in shares of Synopsys in the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. acquired a new position in Synopsys during the third quarter worth $28,000. Finally, McIlrath & Eck LLC acquired a new position in Synopsys during the third quarter worth about $29,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several brokerages recently weighed in on SNPS. Bank of America raised shares of Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their target price for the company from $525.00 to $500.00 in a research note on Monday, December 8th. Piper Sandler reduced their price objective on Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. HSBC downgraded Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 target price for the company. in a research report on Friday, February 20th. Citigroup initiated coverage on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Monday, November 24th. They set a “buy” rating and a $580.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Zacks Research raised shares of Synopsys from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, November 10th. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Synopsys currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $531.00.

Synopsys Trading Down 0.0%

NASDAQ SNPS opened at $437.22 on Tuesday. 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 company has a market capitalization of $83.75 billion, a PE ratio of 67.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.56 and a beta of 1.15. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $465.87 and its 200-day simple moving average is $467.64. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1-year low of $365.74 and a 1-year high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a net margin of 13.76% and a return on equity of 6.83%. The business had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $3.03 EPS. Synopsys’s revenue was up 65.6% compared to the same quarter last year. 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, sell-side analysts anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Synopsys

In related news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total transaction of $132,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 11,959 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,338,270. The trade was a 2.05% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total transaction of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 17,842 shares in the company, valued at $8,221,058.34. This represents a 17.01% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 4,157 shares of company stock valued at $1,945,036 over the last three months. Insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

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.