GC Wealth Management RIA LLC Has $6.06 Million Position in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

GC Wealth Management RIA LLC cut its stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 13.6% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 12,909 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 2,030 shares during the quarter. GC Wealth Management RIA LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $6,064,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in SNPS. Alpine Bank Wealth Management raised its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 89.3% during the 3rd quarter. Alpine Bank Wealth Management now owns 53 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $26,000 after buying an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. TFC Financial Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of 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 buying an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Millstone Evans Group LLC acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth $27,000. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys during the 3rd quarter worth $28,000. Finally, Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys during the 4th quarter worth $28,000. 85.47% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms have recently commented on SNPS. Rosenblatt Securities lowered 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. 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. Morgan Stanley reissued an “equal weight” rating and set a $480.00 price target (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. HSBC lowered Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price objective on the stock. in a research report on Friday, February 20th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company reduced their price objective on Synopsys from $500.00 to $450.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Synopsys presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $531.00.

Synopsys Trading Down 2.9%

Shares of SNPS stock opened at $483.89 on Wednesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $92.69 billion, a P/E ratio of 75.14, a P/E/G ratio of 4.07 and a beta of 1.15. Synopsys, Inc. has a twelve month low of $376.18 and a twelve month high of $651.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.26, a current ratio of 1.36 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $428.49 and its 200 day simple moving average is $445.21.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its quarterly earnings data 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 business had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.83% and a net margin of 13.76%.Synopsys’s quarterly revenue was up 65.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $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. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.3 EPS for the current fiscal 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.