Howland Capital Management LLC Lowers Stock Position in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Howland Capital Management LLC lowered its position in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 57.0% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 14,874 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 19,696 shares during the quarter. Howland Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $6,987,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. purchased a new position in Synopsys during the fourth quarter valued at $28,000. Oakworth Capital Inc. lifted its position in Synopsys by 3,700.0% during the fourth quarter. Oakworth Capital Inc. now owns 76 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $36,000 after buying an additional 74 shares during the period. KERR FINANCIAL PLANNING Corp purchased a new position in Synopsys during the third quarter valued at $38,000. WealthCollab LLC lifted its position in Synopsys by 110.8% during the third quarter. WealthCollab LLC now owns 78 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $38,000 after buying an additional 41 shares during the period. Finally, N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC lifted its position in Synopsys by 128.6% during the fourth quarter. N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC now owns 80 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $38,000 after buying an additional 45 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on SNPS shares. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $580.00 price target on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Berenberg Bank set a $633.00 price target on Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Rosenblatt Securities lifted their price target on Synopsys from $530.00 to $575.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, May 26th. Finally, Citigroup lifted their price target on Synopsys from $600.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $453.89 on Friday. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $376.18 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $473.57 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $460.43. 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 firm has a market cap of $86.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 105.07, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.68 and a beta of 1.22.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 earnings per share 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%.Synopsys’s revenue was up 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm 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. On average, analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.65 earnings per share 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.