Union Bancaire Privee UBP SA Has $4.76 Million Stake in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Union Bancaire Privee UBP SA lowered its stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 45.5% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 10,136 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 8,477 shares during the quarter. Union Bancaire Privee UBP SA’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $4,761,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Jacobs & Co. CA lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 11.6% during the 4th quarter. Jacobs & Co. CA now owns 27,411 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $12,875,000 after acquiring an additional 2,844 shares during the period. Davis Selected Advisers bought a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter worth $4,270,000. Mirova bought a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter worth $487,000. AIA Group Ltd raised its stake in Synopsys by 31.3% in the third quarter. AIA Group Ltd now owns 31,410 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $15,497,000 after purchasing an additional 7,493 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Keel Point LLC lifted its position in Synopsys by 69.3% during the third quarter. Keel Point LLC now owns 958 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $473,000 after purchasing an additional 392 shares during the period. 85.47% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

SNPS has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Bank of America raised shares of Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their target price for the company from $525.00 to $500.00 in a report on Monday, December 8th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price target on shares of Synopsys and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 25th. Piper Sandler decreased their price objective 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. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, January 22nd. Finally, KeyCorp raised their target price on Synopsys from $575.00 to $600.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $531.00.

Synopsys Trading Down 1.9%

NASDAQ SNPS opened at $420.32 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 1.36 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. Synopsys, Inc. has a twelve month low of $365.74 and a twelve month high of $651.73. The company has a market cap of $80.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 65.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.49 and a beta of 1.15. The business’s fifty day moving average is $453.33 and its 200 day moving average is $458.42.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.83% and a net margin of 13.76%.The business had revenue of $2.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.39 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $3.03 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter 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 expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Synopsys

In related news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the firm’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 value of $132,500.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 11,959 shares in the company, valued at $6,338,270. This trade represents a 2.05% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. 0.56% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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.