Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Shares Acquired by Amova Asset Management Americas Inc.

Amova Asset Management Americas Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 5.9% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 23,737 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,327 shares during the quarter. Amova Asset Management Americas Inc.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $11,149,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in Synopsys by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,464,862 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $8,673,315,000 after purchasing an additional 283,677 shares during the period. State Street Corp boosted its position in Synopsys by 20.6% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,760,358 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $4,322,273,000 after purchasing an additional 1,493,912 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its position in Synopsys by 1.3% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,310,846 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $2,017,256,000 after acquiring an additional 54,329 shares during the period. Victory Capital Management Inc. boosted its position in Synopsys by 238.8% during the 3rd quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,393,506,000 after acquiring an additional 1,990,608 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors boosted its position in Synopsys by 226.6% during the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $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

A number of research analysts have issued reports on SNPS shares. Berenberg Bank set a $633.00 price target on Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. Wells Fargo & Company boosted their price target on Synopsys from $505.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their price target on Synopsys from $550.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Bank of America boosted their price target on Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, HSBC lowered Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price target for the company. in a research report on Friday, February 20th. 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 MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Trading Down 1.7%

Shares of Synopsys stock opened at $465.27 on Wednesday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.32, a current ratio of 1.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The firm has a market cap of $89.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 107.70, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.78 and a beta of 1.22. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $469.68 and a 200-day simple moving average of $459.47. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $376.18 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73.

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. 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 revenue was up 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $3.67 earnings per share. 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, equities analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.65 EPS 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.