Amova Asset Management Americas Inc. Purchases 6,590 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Amova Asset Management Americas Inc. increased its position in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 41.7% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 22,410 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 6,590 shares during the quarter. Amova Asset Management Americas Inc.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $11,058,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the business. Trust Asset Management LLC raised its stake in Synopsys by 19.1% in the third quarter. Trust Asset Management LLC now owns 2,104 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,038,000 after buying an additional 338 shares during the period. GW&K Investment Management LLC increased its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 26.6% during the 3rd quarter. GW&K Investment Management LLC now owns 176 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $87,000 after acquiring an additional 37 shares during the last quarter. Cambria Investment Management L.P. bought a new stake in Synopsys in the 3rd quarter valued at $323,000. ARK Investment Management LLC lifted its holdings in Synopsys by 90.2% during the 3rd quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC now owns 51,558 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $25,438,000 after purchasing an additional 24,446 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP boosted its position in Synopsys by 13.1% during the third quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 367,970 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $181,487,000 after purchasing an additional 42,585 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on SNPS shares. Wells Fargo & Company dropped their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $500.00 to $450.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. HSBC lowered shares of Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Friday, February 20th. Piper Sandler cut their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Bank of America raised Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their target price for the company from $525.00 to $500.00 in a research report on Monday, December 8th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities dropped their price target on Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Eight investment 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 currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $531.00.

Synopsys Price Performance

Synopsys stock opened at $430.98 on Thursday. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $468.17 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $472.21. The firm has a market cap of $82.56 billion, a PE ratio of 66.92, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 1.15. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 1.36 and a quick ratio of 1.26. Synopsys, Inc. has a one year low of $365.74 and a one year high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued 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. The company had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.39 billion. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.83% and a net margin of 13.76%.Synopsys’s revenue was up 65.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $3.03 earnings per share. 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, research analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Synopsys

In other news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on 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 transaction, the insider owned 11,959 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,338,270. The trade was a 2.05% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction dated 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 owned 17,842 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,221,058.34. This represents a 17.01% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold a total of 4,157 shares of company stock worth $1,945,036 in the last quarter. 0.56% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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.