ARK Investment Management LLC Raises Stake in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

ARK Investment Management LLC increased its stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 90.2% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 51,558 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after buying an additional 24,446 shares during the period. ARK Investment Management LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $25,438,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Alpine Bank Wealth Management increased its position in shares of Synopsys by 89.3% during the third quarter. Alpine Bank Wealth Management now owns 53 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $26,000 after acquiring an additional 25 shares during the period. TFC Financial Management Inc. increased its holdings in Synopsys by 1,250.0% during the 3rd quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. now owns 54 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 50 shares during the period. Millstone Evans Group LLC bought a new stake in Synopsys during the 3rd quarter valued at $27,000. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. bought a new stake in Synopsys during the 3rd quarter valued at $28,000. Finally, McIlrath & Eck LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the 3rd quarter worth $29,000. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at Synopsys

In other news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction dated 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 transaction, the insider owned 11,959 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,338,270. This trade represents a 2.05% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of Synopsys 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 approximately $8,221,058.34. This trade represents a 17.01% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 4,157 shares of company stock valued at $1,945,036. Company insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

SNPS has been the topic of several research reports. Morgan Stanley restated an “equal weight” rating and set a $480.00 price target (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 target price on shares of Synopsys and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 25th. KeyCorp boosted their price target on Synopsys from $575.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Zacks Research upgraded shares of Synopsys from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, November 10th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, January 22nd. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Synopsys currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $531.00.

Synopsys Stock Performance

NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $430.98 on Thursday. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $365.74 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73. 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 company has a fifty day moving average of $468.17 and a two-hundred day moving average of $472.21. The stock has a market capitalization of $82.56 billion, a PE ratio of 66.92, a P/E/G ratio of 3.46 and a beta of 1.15.

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

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.