Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Shares Sold by BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A S

BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A S lowered its stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 37.2% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 48,852 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 28,885 shares during the period. BI Asset Management Fondsmaeglerselskab A S’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $22,947,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of SNPS. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its holdings in 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 acquiring an additional 283,677 shares during the period. State Street Corp boosted its holdings in 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 buying 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 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,310,846 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $2,017,256,000 after acquiring an additional 54,329 shares during the period. Victory Capital Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 238.8% during the 3rd quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,393,506,000 after acquiring an additional 1,990,608 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 226.6% during the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,245,533,000 after acquiring an additional 1,751,432 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts have weighed in on SNPS shares. HSBC lowered 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. Morgan Stanley increased their price objective on Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Robert W. Baird set a $558.00 price target on Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and issued a $580.00 price objective on shares of Synopsys in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities raised their target price on Synopsys from $530.00 to $575.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Trading Down 6.0%

Shares of SNPS stock opened at $464.85 on Friday. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1 year low of $376.18 and a 1 year high of $651.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a current ratio of 1.43. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $466.55 and a two-hundred day moving average of $457.80. The firm has a market capitalization of $89.01 billion, a PE ratio of 107.60, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.01 and a beta of 1.22.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.15 by $0.20. Synopsys had a return on equity of 5.83% and a net margin of 8.91%.The company had revenue of $2.28 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.25 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $3.67 EPS. The company’s quarterly 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. As a group, research analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.28 EPS for the current 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.