Capital International Ltd. CA Has $23.07 Million Holdings in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Capital International Ltd. CA cut its position in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 13.0% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 49,122 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 7,329 shares during the quarter. Capital International Ltd. CA’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $23,074,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 1.6% during the fourth 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 in the last quarter. State Street Corp lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 20.6% during the third 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 in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 1.3% during the fourth 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 in the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 238.8% during the third 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 in the last quarter. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 226.6% during the third 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 in the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Wells Fargo & Company upped their target price on shares of Synopsys from $505.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Bank of America upped their target price on shares of Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Berenberg Bank set a $633.00 target price on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. Piper Sandler upped their target price on shares of Synopsys from $430.00 to $450.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, KeyCorp reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Synopsys has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Trading Down 6.0%

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $464.85 on Friday. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $466.55 and its 200 day simple moving average is $457.80. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $376.18 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73. The firm has a market capitalization of $89.01 billion, a P/E ratio of 107.60, a P/E/G ratio of 2.83 and a beta of 1.22. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 1.43 and a quick ratio of 1.32.

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

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.