ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V. Has $11.16 Million Stock Holdings in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V. increased its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 12.0% in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 22,621 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 2,419 shares during the period. ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $11,161,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in SNPS. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its position in Synopsys by 5.7% in the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 921 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $447,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the period. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC raised its stake in shares of Synopsys by 11.6% in the first quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC now owns 760 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $326,000 after acquiring an additional 79 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Synopsys by 15.1% in the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 3,010 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,291,000 after buying an additional 395 shares during the period. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC boosted its stake in Synopsys by 32.5% in the second quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC now owns 2,204 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,130,000 after acquiring an additional 540 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Trust Point Inc. raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 4.4% in the 2nd quarter. Trust Point Inc. now owns 494 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $253,000 after acquiring an additional 21 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities analysts recently issued reports on the company. Needham & Company LLC boosted their price objective on Synopsys from $550.00 to $580.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Rosenblatt Securities upgraded shares of Synopsys from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and reduced their price target for the company from $605.00 to $560.00 in a report on Tuesday, December 9th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Synopsys from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, December 13th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $600.00 to $650.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Finally, Citigroup began coverage on Synopsys in a report on Monday, November 24th. They set a “buy” rating and a $580.00 target price for the company. Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $553.57.

Synopsys Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $516.31 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a current ratio of 1.62 and a quick ratio of 1.52. The firm has a market cap of $98.78 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 64.62, a P/E/G ratio of 4.30 and a beta of 1.12. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $455.35 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $504.95. Synopsys, Inc. has a one year low of $365.74 and a one year high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.79 by $0.11. Synopsys had a net margin of 18.89% and a return on equity of 7.89%. The company had revenue of $2.25 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.25 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $3.40 earnings per share. Synopsys’s quarterly revenue was up 37.8% on a year-over-year basis. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.320-14.400 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 3.520-3.580 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity at Synopsys

In other news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, January 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total transaction of $132,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 11,959 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,338,270. This represents a 2.05% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total value of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 17,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,221,058.34. This trade represents a 17.01% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 4,157 shares of company stock valued at $1,945,036. 0.62% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

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.