ANSYS (ANSS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

9 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ANSYS in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "reduce" ANSS shares.
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9 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for ANSYS's stock. Their ANSS share price targets range from $290.00 to $347.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $322.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.6%.
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ANSYS's stock was trading at $362.88 at the beginning of the year. Since then, ANSS stock has decreased by 9.6% and is now trading at $328.16.
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ANSYS saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,490,000 shares, an increase of 19.2% from the March 15th total of 1,250,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 738,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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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 earnings results on Wednesday, February, 21st. The software maker reported $3.94 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.71 by $0.23. The software maker earned $805.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $797.49 million. ANSYS had a net margin of 22.05% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.83%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 15.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $2.61 EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of ANSYS (NASDAQ:ANSS) stock in their portfolio include IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (MNA), Pacer BlueStar Engineering the Future ETF (BULD), iShares Future Metaverse Tech and Communications ETF (IVRS), 3D Printing ETF (PRNT), First Trust Merger Arbitrage ETF (MARB), VictoryShares THB Mid Cap ESG ETF (MDCP), Guru Favorite Stocks ETF (GFGF) and AltShares Event-Driven ETF (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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Westwind Capital (0.06%), Perpetual Ltd (0.06%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.05%), Fort Pitt Capital Group LLC (0.03%), Czech National Bank (0.02%) and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.01%). 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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