Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC Has $12.64 Million Stake in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 8.9% in the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 25,620 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 2,089 shares during the quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $12,643,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Lionshead Wealth Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 1.9% in the 2nd quarter. Lionshead Wealth Management LLC now owns 914 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $469,000 after acquiring an additional 17 shares during the last quarter. YANKCOM Partnership increased its holdings in Synopsys by 3.3% during the 2nd quarter. YANKCOM Partnership now owns 537 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $275,000 after purchasing an additional 17 shares in the last quarter. Manchester Capital Management LLC raised its stake in shares of Synopsys by 5.3% in the second quarter. Manchester Capital Management LLC now owns 340 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $174,000 after purchasing an additional 17 shares during the last quarter. Hemington Wealth Management lifted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 10.1% in the second quarter. Hemington Wealth Management now owns 197 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $100,000 after purchasing an additional 18 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Concord Asset Management LLC VA boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 0.8% during the second quarter. Concord Asset Management LLC VA now owns 2,379 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,220,000 after buying an additional 18 shares during the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have weighed in on SNPS shares. Piper Sandler cut Synopsys from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and dropped their price objective for the company from $602.00 to $520.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 13th. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on Synopsys from $510.00 to $550.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, December 12th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Synopsys from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, December 13th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on Synopsys from $600.00 to $650.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities raised shares of Synopsys from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and cut their price target for the stock from $605.00 to $560.00 in a report on Tuesday, December 9th. Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $553.57.

Synopsys Stock Performance

NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $503.01 on Tuesday. Synopsys, Inc. has a twelve month low of $365.74 and a twelve month high of $651.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.52, a current ratio of 1.62 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48. The stock has a market cap of $96.24 billion, a P/E ratio of 62.95, a PEG ratio of 4.17 and a beta of 1.12. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $469.23 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $503.17.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.79 by $0.11. Synopsys had a net margin of 18.89% and a return on equity of 7.89%. The business had revenue of $2.25 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.25 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $3.40 earnings per share. Synopsys’s quarterly revenue was up 37.8% on a year-over-year basis. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.320-14.400 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 3.520-3.580 EPS. As a group, equities analysts predict that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Synopsys

In related news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total transaction of $132,500.00. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 11,959 shares of the company’s stock, 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 is accessible through this link. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total value of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 17,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,221,058.34. This represents a 17.01% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold 4,157 shares of company stock valued at $1,945,036 over the last quarter. 0.62% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

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.