Bahl & Gaynor Inc. Acquires Shares of 1,906 Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Bahl & Gaynor Inc. bought a new position in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm bought 1,906 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $940,000.

Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 20.7% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,181,185 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $8,970,415,000 after acquiring an additional 3,120,401 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in Synopsys in the second quarter valued at approximately $647,964,000. Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. Ltd. lifted its position in Synopsys by 321.3% during the third quarter. Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 1,301,228 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $642,013,000 after purchasing an additional 992,386 shares during the last quarter. Artisan Partners Limited Partnership increased its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 186.3% in the 3rd quarter. Artisan Partners Limited Partnership now owns 934,034 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $460,843,000 after buying an additional 607,743 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Ameriprise Financial Inc. raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 29.1% during the 2nd quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 2,598,874 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,333,095,000 after buying an additional 585,494 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

SNPS has been the topic of a number of research analyst reports. HSBC cut Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 target price on the stock. in a research note on Friday, February 20th. Piper Sandler dropped their target price on Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Citigroup began coverage on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Monday, November 24th. They set a “buy” rating and a $580.00 price target on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $600.00 to $650.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and issued a $480.00 price objective (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Synopsys has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $531.00.

Synopsys Stock Down 0.1%

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $424.32 on Wednesday. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $469.06 and its 200 day moving average is $472.50. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52 week low of $365.74 and a 52 week high of $651.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 1.36 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The company has a market cap of $81.28 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 65.89, a PEG ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 1.15.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.56 by $0.21. The business had revenue of $2.41 billion for 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%. The company’s revenue was up 65.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $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. On average, equities research analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Synopsys news, 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 value of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 17,842 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,221,058.34. This represents a 17.01% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total transaction of $132,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 11,959 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,338,270. This represents a 2.05% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 4,157 shares of company stock valued at $1,945,036 in the last ninety days. 0.56% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

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.