Fisher Asset Management LLC Has $2.09 Million Stock Position in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Fisher Asset Management LLC lowered its position in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 55.8% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 4,238 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 5,355 shares during the quarter. Fisher Asset Management LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $2,091,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other large investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. grew its position in shares of Synopsys by 542.9% during the 3rd quarter. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. now owns 12,877 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $6,353,000 after buying an additional 10,874 shares during the period. Symphony Financial Ltd. Co. lifted its holdings in Synopsys by 4,780.9% in the second quarter. Symphony Financial Ltd. Co. now owns 40,219 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $20,638,000 after buying an additional 39,395 shares during the period. Empirical Asset Management LLC bought a new position in Synopsys in the third quarter valued at approximately $773,000. Strategic Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Synopsys by 76.3% in the third quarter. Strategic Advisors LLC now owns 7,578 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $3,739,000 after acquiring an additional 3,279 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Napean Trading & Investment Co Singapore PTE Ltd grew its holdings in Synopsys by 17.6% during the 2nd quarter. Napean Trading & Investment Co Singapore PTE Ltd now owns 23,683 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $12,142,000 after acquiring an additional 3,544 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several brokerages have commented on SNPS. HSBC cut shares of Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 target price for the company. in a research report on Friday, February 20th. Piper Sandler reduced their price target on Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Wall Street Zen raised Synopsys from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, December 13th. Wells Fargo & Company dropped their price objective on Synopsys from $500.00 to $450.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 target price on Synopsys and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $531.00.

Synopsys Stock Down 1.1%

NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $437.41 on Friday. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1 year low of $365.74 and a 1 year high of $651.73. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $466.71 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $470.69. The stock has a market cap of $83.79 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 67.92, a PEG ratio of 3.60 and a beta of 1.15. The company has a current ratio of 1.36, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.83% and a net margin of 13.76%.The company had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $3.03 earnings per share. Synopsys’s revenue was up 65.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.380-14.460 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.110-3.170 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity at Synopsys

In other news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, January 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total transaction of $132,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider owned 11,959 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,338,270. This represents a 2.05% decrease in their ownership of the stock. 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 stock in a transaction 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 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. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 4,157 shares of company stock worth $1,945,036 over the last 90 days. Corporate insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

About Synopsys

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.