Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC Buys 1,713 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 19.2% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 10,628 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,713 shares during the quarter. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $5,244,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in SNPS. Brighton Jones LLC grew its holdings in Synopsys by 5.7% during the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 921 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $447,000 after buying an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 11.6% during the 1st quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC now owns 760 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $326,000 after acquiring an additional 79 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 15.1% in the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 3,010 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,291,000 after purchasing an additional 395 shares in the last quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC increased its position in Synopsys by 32.5% in the second quarter. Exchange Traded Concepts LLC now owns 2,204 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,130,000 after purchasing an additional 540 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sowell Financial Services LLC raised its stake in Synopsys by 4.0% during the second quarter. Sowell Financial Services LLC now owns 992 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $509,000 after purchasing an additional 38 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities analysts have commented on SNPS shares. Piper Sandler cut shares of Synopsys from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from $602.00 to $520.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 13th. BNP Paribas started coverage on Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, October 2nd. They issued an “underperform” rating and a $425.00 price target for the company. Needham & Company LLC boosted their price objective on Synopsys from $550.00 to $580.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Bank of America raised Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and lowered their price objective for the company from $525.00 to $500.00 in a research note on Monday, December 8th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $553.57.

Insider Activity

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

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of SNPS stock opened at $516.31 on Tuesday. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $457.66 and a 200 day moving average price of $504.61. 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. The firm has a market capitalization of $98.78 billion, a P/E ratio of 64.62, a P/E/G ratio of 4.30 and a beta of 1.12.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.79 by $0.11. Synopsys had a return on equity of 7.89% and a net margin of 18.89%.The company had revenue of $2.25 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.25 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $3.40 EPS. 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. As a group, sell-side analysts predict 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.