Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) Given Consensus Rating of “Hold” by Analysts

Shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) have earned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the seventeen ratings firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have given a hold rating and eight have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year price objective among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $531.00.

SNPS has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Rosenblatt Securities decreased their price target on shares of Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Synopsys from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, December 13th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on Synopsys from $600.00 to $650.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Zacks Research raised Synopsys from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, November 10th. Finally, Citigroup initiated coverage on Synopsys in a research note on Monday, November 24th. They set a “buy” rating and a $580.00 price target on the stock.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of SNPS stock opened at $437.41 on Monday. Synopsys has a fifty-two week low of $365.74 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73. The firm has a market capitalization of $83.79 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 67.92, a PEG ratio of 3.56 and a beta of 1.15. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a current ratio of 1.36. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $466.71 and its 200-day simple moving average is $468.77.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.21. The firm had revenue of $2.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 13.76% and a return on equity of 6.83%. Synopsys’s revenue was up 65.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $3.03 EPS. 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 forecast that Synopsys will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Synopsys

In other Synopsys news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred 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 transaction, the insider directly owned 11,959 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,338,270. This trade represents a 2.05% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction that occurred 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 sale, the chief financial officer owned 17,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,221,058.34. The trade was a 17.01% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold 4,157 shares of company stock valued at $1,945,036 in the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Synopsys

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Synopsys by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,464,862 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $8,673,315,000 after purchasing an additional 283,677 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp raised its stake in shares of Synopsys by 0.3% during the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,788,890 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $4,128,317,000 after buying an additional 28,532 shares during the last quarter. Morgan Stanley lifted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 2.5% in the 4th quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 4,573,980 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $2,148,491,000 after buying an additional 109,917 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 1.3% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,310,846 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $2,017,256,000 after buying an additional 54,329 shares during the period. Finally, Victory Capital Management Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Synopsys by 238.8% in the third quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,393,506,000 after buying an additional 1,990,608 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

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.