Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Shares Sold by Swiss Life Asset Management Ltd

Swiss Life Asset Management Ltd lessened its position in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 48.0% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 36,799 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 33,939 shares during the period. Swiss Life Asset Management Ltd’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $17,285,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Empirical Asset Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys in the 3rd quarter valued at $773,000. Strategic Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 76.3% in the 3rd quarter. Strategic Advisors LLC now owns 7,578 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $3,739,000 after buying an additional 3,279 shares in the last quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. boosted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 31.8% in the 4th quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 14,810 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $6,957,000 after buying an additional 3,575 shares in the last quarter. OVERSEA CHINESE BANKING Corp Ltd boosted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 24.8% in the 3rd quarter. OVERSEA CHINESE BANKING Corp Ltd now owns 23,970 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $11,827,000 after buying an additional 4,759 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Principal Financial Group Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 57.7% in the 3rd quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 412,766 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $203,654,000 after buying an additional 150,973 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have recently issued reports on SNPS shares. Rosenblatt Securities lowered their target price on shares of Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, January 22nd. HSBC cut shares of Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price target for the company. in a research note on Friday, February 20th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company decreased their price target on shares of Synopsys from $500.00 to $450.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $531.00.

Synopsys Stock Down 0.1%

Shares of NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $516.19 on Tuesday. The stock has a market cap of $98.88 billion, a P/E ratio of 80.15, a P/E/G ratio of 4.22 and a beta of 1.25. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $437.43 and a 200 day moving average price of $447.89. 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 1-year low of $376.18 and a 1-year high of $651.73.

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