Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. Has $94.48 Million Stake in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. boosted its stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 282.2% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 201,131 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after buying an additional 148,507 shares during the period. Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $94,475,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. TFC Financial Management Inc. grew 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 acquiring an additional 50 shares during the period. Millstone Evans Group LLC acquired a new stake in Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth about $27,000. McIlrath & Eck LLC acquired a new stake in Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth about $29,000. Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. acquired a new stake in Synopsys during the 4th quarter worth about $28,000. Finally, North Star Investment Management Corp. acquired a new stake in Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth about $34,000. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts have weighed in on the company. Piper Sandler decreased their price target on Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Synopsys in a report on Thursday, February 26th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price target on Synopsys and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Rosenblatt Securities decreased 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. Finally, Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a report on Thursday, January 22nd. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $531.00.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $502.51 on Wednesday. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $376.18 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73. The stock has a market cap of $96.26 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 78.03, a PEG ratio of 4.06 and a beta of 1.25. 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 firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $431.32 and its 200 day simple moving average is $446.18.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a net margin of 13.76% and a return on equity of 6.83%. The business had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.39 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $3.03 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 65.6% compared to the same quarter last year. 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 anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.3 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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.