Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Shares Sold by OCONNOR A Distinct Business Unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC

OCONNOR A Distinct Business Unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC lowered its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 57.4% during the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 8,000 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 10,801 shares during the period. OCONNOR A Distinct Business Unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $3,758,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. OMERS ADMINISTRATION Corp raised its holdings in Synopsys by 14.8% during the fourth quarter. OMERS ADMINISTRATION Corp now owns 306,203 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $143,830,000 after purchasing an additional 39,556 shares in the last quarter. USS Investment Management Ltd lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 0.6% during the 4th quarter. USS Investment Management Ltd now owns 39,173 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $18,402,000 after buying an additional 252 shares during the last quarter. Panagora Asset Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 88.6% during the 4th quarter. Panagora Asset Management Inc. now owns 3,508 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,648,000 after buying an additional 1,648 shares during the last quarter. Potomac Fund Management Inc. ADV lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 30.1% during the 4th quarter. Potomac Fund Management Inc. ADV now owns 540 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $254,000 after buying an additional 125 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Parker Investment Management LLC acquired a new stake in Synopsys during the 4th quarter worth $892,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Synopsys news, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,394 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction on Friday, June 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $450.02, for a total value of $1,527,367.88. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 14,358 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,461,387.16. The trade was a 19.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Corporate insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities research analysts recently commented on SNPS shares. Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on shares of Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price target on shares of Synopsys and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Rosenblatt Securities lifted their price target on shares of Synopsys from $530.00 to $575.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 26th. KeyCorp reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Monday, June 8th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Trading Up 0.1%

NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $454.38 on Tuesday. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $474.73 and its 200 day moving average price is $461.19. The company has a market capitalization of $87.00 billion, a PE ratio of 105.18, a P/E/G ratio of 2.67 and a beta of 1.22. The company has a quick ratio of 1.32, a current ratio of 1.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52-week low of $376.18 and a 52-week high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.15 by $0.20. The company had revenue of $2.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.25 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 8.91% and a return on equity of 5.83%. Synopsys’s quarterly revenue was up 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business 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, research analysts anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.65 EPS for the current year.

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.