Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) Receives $563.81 Average PT from Analysts

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) has been assigned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the seventeen ratings firms that are currently covering the stock, Marketbeat reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, seven have issued a hold recommendation and nine have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $563.8125.

Several brokerages recently commented on SNPS. BNP Paribas Exane lifted their price objective on Synopsys from $425.00 to $450.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price objective on Synopsys from $505.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Citigroup lifted their price objective on Synopsys from $600.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Rosenblatt Securities lifted their price objective on Synopsys from $530.00 to $575.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a report on Monday, June 8th.

Insider Buying and Selling at Synopsys

In other Synopsys news, CEO Sassine Ghazi sold 14,603 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $458.96, for a total transaction of $6,702,192.88. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 75,020 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $34,431,179.20. The trade was a 16.29% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,394 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, June 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $450.02, for a total value of $1,527,367.88. Following the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 14,358 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,461,387.16. This represents a 19.12% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Synopsys

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Sankala Group LLC bought a new stake in Synopsys during the fourth quarter valued at about $25,000. Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. bought a new stake in Synopsys during the fourth quarter valued at about $28,000. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd bought a new stake in Synopsys during the fourth quarter valued at about $28,000. Atlas Capital Advisors Inc. bought a new stake in Synopsys during the fourth quarter valued at about $32,000. Finally, Phillip James Consulting Co. purchased a new position in shares of Synopsys in the fourth quarter valued at about $36,000. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Synopsys Price Performance

Synopsys stock opened at $455.51 on Wednesday. The firm has a market cap of $87.22 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 105.44, a PEG ratio of 2.68 and a beta of 1.22. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $479.14 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $462.05. Synopsys has a 12 month low of $376.18 and a 12 month high of $651.73. The company has a current ratio of 1.43, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.15 by $0.20. The business had revenue of $2.28 billion during 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 quarterly revenue was up 41.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $3.67 EPS. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.720-14.800 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.630-3.690 EPS. Equities analysts predict that Synopsys will post 10.65 EPS for the current fiscal 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.