AustralianSuper Pty Ltd Takes $50.21 Million Position in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

AustralianSuper Pty Ltd acquired a new stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund acquired 101,758 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $50,206,000. AustralianSuper Pty Ltd owned 0.05% of Synopsys at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of SNPS. Alpine Bank Wealth Management lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 89.3% during the third quarter. Alpine Bank Wealth Management now owns 53 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $26,000 after purchasing an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. increased its stake in Synopsys by 1,250.0% during the 3rd quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. now owns 54 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 50 shares during the period. Millstone Evans Group LLC acquired a new stake in Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $27,000. Independence Bank of Kentucky boosted its position in Synopsys by 120.0% in the 2nd 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 period. Finally, SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter worth $28,000. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Activity at Synopsys

In other news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction on 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 of the company’s stock, valued at $6,338,270. The trade was a 2.05% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total transaction of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer 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. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 4,157 shares of company stock worth $1,945,036. 0.62% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts recently issued reports on SNPS shares. KeyCorp lifted their target price on Synopsys from $575.00 to $600.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Bank of America upgraded Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $525.00 to $500.00 in a research note on Monday, December 8th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, January 22nd. Wells Fargo & Company raised their target price on shares of Synopsys from $445.00 to $500.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price target on shares of Synopsys from $600.00 to $650.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $553.57.

Synopsys Trading Up 1.7%

NASDAQ SNPS opened at $511.35 on Thursday. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $474.11 and its 200 day moving average price is $502.83. Synopsys, Inc. has a 12 month low of $365.74 and a 12 month high of $651.73. 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 company has a market capitalization of $97.83 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 64.00, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.18 and a beta of 1.12.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 earnings per share 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 firm had revenue of $2.25 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.25 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $3.40 earnings per share. Synopsys’s quarterly revenue was up 37.8% compared to the same quarter last year. 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, sell-side analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current fiscal 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.