Cerity Partners LLC Acquires 37,777 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Cerity Partners LLC grew its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 57.4% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 103,629 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after buying an additional 37,777 shares during the quarter. Cerity Partners LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $48,677,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other large investors have also modified their holdings of the business. Sowell Financial Services LLC raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 2.0% in the 4th quarter. Sowell Financial Services LLC now owns 1,056 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $496,000 after purchasing an additional 21 shares in the last quarter. Natural Investments LLC raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 4.6% in the 4th quarter. Natural Investments LLC now owns 482 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $226,000 after purchasing an additional 21 shares in the last quarter. Financial Management Professionals Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 7.0% in the 4th quarter. Financial Management Professionals Inc. now owns 335 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $157,000 after purchasing an additional 22 shares in the last quarter. Foronjy Financial LLC raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 5.2% in the 4th quarter. Foronjy Financial LLC now owns 446 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $210,000 after purchasing an additional 22 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Barden Capital Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 1.2% in the 4th quarter. Barden Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,868 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $877,000 after purchasing an additional 23 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have recently commented on SNPS shares. Morgan Stanley boosted their price target on shares of Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c-)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Monday. Bank of America lifted their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Berenberg Bank set a $633.00 price objective on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. Finally, KeyCorp reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Synopsys presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $563.81.

Synopsys Trading Down 1.0%

Shares of Synopsys stock opened at $460.54 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 1.43, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. Synopsys, Inc. has a 12-month low of $376.18 and a 12-month high of $651.73. The firm has a market capitalization of $88.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 106.61, a PEG ratio of 2.73 and a beta of 1.22. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $471.23 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $459.99.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.15 by $0.20. Synopsys had a net margin of 8.91% and a return on equity of 5.83%. The business had revenue of $2.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.25 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $3.67 EPS. Synopsys’s revenue for the quarter was up 41.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.720-14.800 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.630-3.690 EPS. Analysts predict that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.65 EPS for the current year.

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.