iA Global Asset Management Inc. Increases Position in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

iA Global Asset Management Inc. lifted its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 7.6% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 23,504 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,667 shares during the quarter. iA Global Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $11,040,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the company. Millstone Evans Group LLC bought a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $27,000. Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the 4th quarter worth approximately $28,000. Oakworth Capital Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 3,700.0% in the 4th quarter. Oakworth Capital Inc. now owns 76 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 74 shares during the period. KERR FINANCIAL PLANNING Corp bought a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $38,000. Finally, N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 128.6% in the 4th quarter. N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC now owns 80 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $38,000 after purchasing an additional 45 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Morgan Stanley reissued an “equal weight” rating and set a $480.00 target price (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 target price on shares of Synopsys and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Citigroup boosted their target price on shares of Synopsys from $580.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday. HSBC cut shares of Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 target price on the stock. in a report on Friday, February 20th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities lowered their target price on shares of Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Synopsys currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $536.00.

Synopsys Price Performance

SNPS opened at $502.42 on Monday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $444.25 and a 200-day moving average price of $449.26. The firm has a market capitalization of $96.24 billion, a P/E ratio of 78.02, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.10 and a beta of 1.25. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 1.36 and a quick ratio of 1.26. Synopsys, Inc. has a one year low of $376.18 and a one year high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.56 by $0.21. The firm had revenue of $2.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 13.76% and a return on equity of 6.83%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 65.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $3.03 EPS. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.380-14.460 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.110-3.170 EPS. Equities research analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.3 earnings per share for the current fiscal 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.