Howland Capital Management LLC Has $17.06 Million Holdings in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Howland Capital Management LLC decreased its position in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 13.7% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 34,570 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 5,472 shares during the period. Howland Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $17,056,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of SNPS. Alpine Bank Wealth Management raised its position in Synopsys by 89.3% in the 3rd quarter. Alpine Bank Wealth Management now owns 53 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $26,000 after purchasing an additional 25 shares during the last quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. increased its stake in shares of Synopsys by 1,250.0% in the third quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. now owns 54 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Independence Bank of Kentucky raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 120.0% in the second quarter. Independence Bank of Kentucky now owns 55 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $28,000 after buying an additional 30 shares during the last quarter. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. bought a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter valued at about $28,000. Finally, McIlrath & Eck LLC acquired a new position in Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth about $29,000. 85.47% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities analysts have weighed in on the stock. Rosenblatt Securities raised shares of Synopsys from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $605.00 to $560.00 in a research note on Tuesday, December 9th. Bank of America upgraded shares of Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from $525.00 to $500.00 in a research report on Monday, December 8th. Needham & Company LLC upped their price objective on Synopsys from $550.00 to $580.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Zacks Research upgraded Synopsys from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, November 10th. Finally, Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $553.57.

Insider Transactions at Synopsys

In other news, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total value of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 17,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,221,058.34. This represents a 17.01% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction that occurred 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 transaction, the insider directly owned 11,959 shares in the company, valued at $6,338,270. The trade was a 2.05% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 4,157 shares of company stock valued at $1,945,036. 0.62% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Synopsys Price Performance

SNPS opened at $516.31 on Friday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $455.35 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $504.95. The firm has a market capitalization of $98.78 billion, a PE ratio of 64.62, a P/E/G ratio of 4.30 and a beta of 1.12. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52 week low of $365.74 and a 52 week high of $651.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 1.52 and a current ratio of 1.62.

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

Synopsys 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.