Baillie Gifford & Co. Purchases 4,582 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Baillie Gifford & Co. grew its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 20.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 26,620 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,582 shares during the quarter. Baillie Gifford & Co.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $13,134,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in SNPS. Lionshead Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 1.9% in the second quarter. Lionshead Wealth Management LLC now owns 914 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $469,000 after purchasing an additional 17 shares in the last quarter. YANKCOM Partnership increased its stake in shares of Synopsys by 3.3% during the 2nd quarter. YANKCOM Partnership now owns 537 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $275,000 after purchasing an additional 17 shares during the last quarter. Manchester Capital Management LLC raised its stake in Synopsys by 5.3% in the 2nd quarter. Manchester Capital Management LLC now owns 340 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $174,000 after acquiring an additional 17 shares during the period. Hemington Wealth Management lifted its stake in shares of Synopsys by 10.1% during the 2nd quarter. Hemington Wealth Management now owns 197 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $100,000 after buying an additional 18 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Concord Asset Management LLC VA boosted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 0.8% during the second quarter. Concord Asset Management LLC VA now owns 2,379 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,220,000 after acquiring an additional 18 shares during the period. 85.47% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts recently commented on SNPS shares. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of Synopsys from $445.00 to $500.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Citigroup started coverage on Synopsys in a report on Monday, November 24th. They set a “buy” rating and a $580.00 price target for the company. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday. Bank of America upgraded shares of Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their price target for the stock from $525.00 to $500.00 in a report on Monday, December 8th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $600.00 to $650.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $553.57.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $501.39 on Friday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $466.97 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $503.94. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1-year low of $365.74 and a 1-year high of $651.73. The firm has a market cap of $95.93 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 62.75, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.17 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a current ratio of 1.62, a quick ratio of 1.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings data 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. The business had revenue of $2.25 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.25 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 18.89% and a return on equity of 7.89%. Synopsys’s revenue was up 37.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business 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. Analysts anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total value of $132,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider owned 11,959 shares in the company, valued at $6,338,270. The trade was a 2.05% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the business’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 completion of 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 SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last three months, insiders sold 4,157 shares of company stock worth $1,945,036. 0.62% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.