ANSYS (ANSS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ANSYS in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "reduce" ANSS shares.
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8 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for ANSYS's stock. Their ANSS share price targets range from $290.00 to $345.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $320.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.2%.
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ANSYS's stock was trading at $362.88 at the start of the year. Since then, ANSS stock has decreased by 9.9% and is now trading at $327.04.
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ANSYS saw a drop in short interest in April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,240,000 shares, a drop of 16.8% from the March 31st total of 1,490,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 534,900 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.4% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 21st. The software maker reported $3.94 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.71 by $0.23. The software maker had revenue of $805.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $797.49 million. ANSYS had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.83% and a net margin of 22.05%. The firm's revenue was up 15.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $2.61 earnings per share.

ETFs with the largest weight of ANSYS (NASDAQ:ANSS) stock in their portfolio include IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA), iShares Future Metaverse Tech And Communications ETF (IVRS), Pacer BlueStar Engineering the Future ETF (BULD), 3D Printing ETF (PRNT), First Trust Merger Arbitrage ETF (MARB), AltShares Merger Arbitrage ETF (ARB), VictoryShares THB Mid Cap ESG ETF (MDCP) and AltShares Event-Driven ET (EVNT).

250 employees have rated ANSYS Chief Executive Officer Ajei Gopal on Glassdoor.com. Ajei Gopal has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Ajei Gopal in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 88.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at ANSYS to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other ANSYS investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Adobe (ADBE), Salesforce (CRM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Mastercard (MA), Micron Technology (MU), Costco Wholesale (COST), Cisco Systems (CSCO), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Intel (INTC).

ANSYS's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.96%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.59%), Robeco Schweiz AG (0.12%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.09%), Raymond James & Associates (0.09%) and North Point Portfolio Managers Corp OH (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Ajei Gopal, Alec D Gallimore, Barbara Vaughn Scherer, Glenda Dorchak, Janet Lee, Maria T Shields, Richard S Mahoney and Shane Emswiler.
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Shares of ANSS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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