Louisiana State Employees Retirement System Buys 3,638 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Louisiana State Employees Retirement System lifted its position in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 18.7% in the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 23,138 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 3,638 shares during the quarter. Louisiana State Employees Retirement System’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $11,416,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. McIlrath & Eck LLC purchased a new position in Synopsys during the third quarter worth about $29,000. SeaBridge Investment Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $741,000. Tribridge Partners Financial LLC bought a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter valued at approximately $208,000. CoreCap Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 519.3% in the third quarter. CoreCap Advisors LLC now owns 737 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $364,000 after acquiring an additional 618 shares in the last quarter. Finally, North Star Investment Management Corp. purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys during the third quarter valued at approximately $34,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

SNPS has been the topic of several research analyst reports. Citigroup initiated coverage on Synopsys in a research report on Monday, November 24th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $580.00 price objective on the stock. The Goldman Sachs Group reduced their price target on shares of Synopsys from $700.00 to $600.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, September 10th. Mizuho decreased their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $700.00 to $600.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, September 11th. Stifel Nicolaus dropped their target price on shares of Synopsys from $650.00 to $550.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, September 10th. Finally, Bank of America raised shares of Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and reduced their target price for the company from $525.00 to $500.00 in a research report on Monday, December 8th. Eleven analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $562.13.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Synopsys news, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total transaction of $1,685,035.89. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 17,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,221,058.34. The trade was a 17.01% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Corporate insiders own 0.62% of the company’s stock.

Synopsys Trading Up 3.0%

Shares of Synopsys stock opened at $508.77 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $97.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 63.68, a P/E/G ratio of 4.11 and a beta of 1.12. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52-week low of $365.74 and a 52-week high of $651.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 1.52 and a current ratio of 1.62. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $440.92 and its 200 day simple moving average is $503.83.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 earnings per share for the quarter, topping 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 firm had revenue of $2.25 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.25 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $3.40 earnings per share. The company’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, research analysts anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 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.