GraniteShares Advisors LLC Sells 1,495 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

GraniteShares Advisors LLC lowered its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 76.1% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 470 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 1,495 shares during the period. GraniteShares Advisors LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $221,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in SNPS. Alpine Bank Wealth Management lifted its position in Synopsys by 89.3% during the 3rd quarter. Alpine Bank Wealth Management now owns 53 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $26,000 after buying an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. increased its position in Synopsys by 1,250.0% in the 3rd quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. now owns 54 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $27,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Millstone Evans Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter worth about $27,000. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys during the third quarter worth approximately $28,000. Finally, Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys during the fourth quarter worth approximately $28,000. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

SNPS has been the subject of a number of research reports. Rosenblatt Securities lowered their price target on shares of Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, February 26th. KeyCorp increased their price objective on Synopsys from $575.00 to $600.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Piper Sandler lowered their target price on Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Morgan Stanley restated an “equal weight” rating and set a $480.00 target price (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, February 25th. Finally, HSBC lowered Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Friday, February 20th. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Synopsys has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $531.00.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of SNPS stock opened at $395.95 on Friday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $430.80 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $449.84. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a current ratio of 1.36. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52-week low of $365.74 and a 52-week high of $651.73. The stock has a market cap of $75.85 billion, a PE ratio of 61.48, a PEG ratio of 3.23 and a beta of 1.15.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a net margin of 13.76% and a return on equity of 6.83%. The company had revenue of $2.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.39 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $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, analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Synopsys news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total transaction of $132,500.00. Following the transaction, the insider owned 11,959 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,338,270. This trade represents a 2.05% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. 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.