Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Shares Purchased by ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

ABN AMRO Bank N.V. grew its holdings in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 678.5% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 29,069 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 25,335 shares during the period. ABN AMRO Bank N.V.’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $14,201,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the business. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. lifted its stake in shares of Synopsys by 542.9% in the 3rd quarter. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. now owns 12,877 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $6,353,000 after acquiring an additional 10,874 shares during the period. Symphony Financial Ltd. Co. raised its holdings in Synopsys by 4,780.9% during the second quarter. Symphony Financial Ltd. Co. now owns 40,219 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $20,638,000 after purchasing an additional 39,395 shares in the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp raised its holdings in Synopsys by 0.4% during the second quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 1,347,887 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $691,035,000 after purchasing an additional 4,815 shares in the last quarter. Waverton Investment Management Ltd boosted its stake in Synopsys by 15.0% during the 2nd quarter. Waverton Investment Management Ltd now owns 578,299 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $296,630,000 after purchasing an additional 75,374 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Angeles Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in Synopsys during the 2nd quarter valued at $478,000. 85.47% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Transactions at Synopsys

In other Synopsys news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $530.00, for a total value of $132,500.00. Following the transaction, the insider owned 11,959 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,338,270. This represents a 2.05% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total transaction of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 17,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,221,058.34. The trade was a 17.01% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 4,157 shares of company stock worth $1,945,036 in the last quarter. 0.62% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Synopsys Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $418.98 on Thursday. The company’s fifty day moving average is $479.13 and its two-hundred day moving average is $498.48. The company has a market cap of $80.16 billion, a P/E ratio of 52.44, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.49 and a beta of 1.12. Synopsys, Inc. has a 12-month low of $365.74 and a 12-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.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its quarterly 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. The business had revenue of $2.25 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.25 billion. Synopsys had a return on equity of 7.89% and a net margin of 18.89%.Synopsys’s revenue for the quarter was up 37.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $3.40 earnings per share. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.320-14.400 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 3.520-3.580 EPS. Equities analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on SNPS. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on Synopsys from $600.00 to $650.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Rosenblatt Securities raised shares of Synopsys from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and cut their price target for the company from $605.00 to $560.00 in a report on Tuesday, December 9th. Bank of America upgraded Synopsys from an “underperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their price objective for the company from $525.00 to $500.00 in a research report on Monday, December 8th. Wall Street Zen raised Synopsys from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, December 13th. Finally, Zacks Research raised Synopsys from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, November 10th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $553.57.

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.