Natixis Advisors LLC Purchases 74,234 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Natixis Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 30.2% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 320,359 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after buying an additional 74,234 shares during the quarter. Natixis Advisors LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $150,479,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its stake in Synopsys by 1.6% during the 4th 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 last quarter. State Street Corp boosted its stake in Synopsys by 20.6% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,760,358 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $4,322,273,000 after acquiring an additional 1,493,912 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its stake 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 last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. boosted its stake 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 last quarter. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors boosted its stake 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 last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

SNPS has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Citigroup lifted their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $600.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Bank of America raised their target price on shares of Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on shares of Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 target price on shares of Synopsys and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Finally, KeyCorp restated an “overweight” rating on shares of Synopsys in a report on Thursday. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of SNPS opened at $492.29 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $94.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 113.96, a PEG ratio of 3.75 and a beta of 1.22. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1-year low of $376.18 and a 1-year high of $651.73. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $460.81 and its 200 day simple moving average is $455.51. 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 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 for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.25 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 8.91% and a return on equity of 5.83%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $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, research analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.28 earnings per share 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.