Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Shares Sold by Securian Asset Management Inc.

Securian Asset Management Inc. reduced its position in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 44.3% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 5,029 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 3,993 shares during the quarter. Securian Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $2,362,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. grew its position in Synopsys by 3.1% in the 4th quarter. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. now owns 29,957 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $14,085,000 after acquiring an additional 888 shares in the last quarter. Income Insurance Ltd acquired a new position in Synopsys in the 4th quarter valued at about $259,000. Nwam LLC grew its position in Synopsys by 30.5% in the 4th quarter. Nwam LLC now owns 865 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $435,000 after acquiring an additional 202 shares in the last quarter. Plato Investment Management Ltd grew its position in shares of Synopsys by 576.3% during the fourth quarter. Plato Investment Management Ltd now owns 629 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $297,000 after buying an additional 536 shares in the last quarter. Finally, LRI Investments LLC grew its position in shares of Synopsys by 16.8% during the fourth quarter. LRI Investments LLC now owns 432 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $203,000 after buying an additional 62 shares in the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities analysts have recently commented on the company. Piper Sandler lowered their price objective on Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price objective on Synopsys and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 25th. Rosenblatt Securities lowered their price objective on Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, January 22nd. Finally, HSBC downgraded Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price objective for the company. in a research report on Friday, February 20th. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $531.00.

Synopsys Price Performance

SNPS stock opened at $516.19 on Tuesday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $437.43 and a 200 day moving average price of $447.89. The stock has a market cap of $98.88 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 80.15, a PEG ratio of 4.22 and a beta of 1.25. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $376.18 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 1.36 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.21. The firm had revenue of $2.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.39 billion. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.83% and a net margin of 13.76%.The firm’s revenue was up 65.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $3.03 earnings per share. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.380-14.460 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.110-3.170 EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.3 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.