AustralianSuper Pty Ltd Lowers Holdings in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

AustralianSuper Pty Ltd trimmed its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 98.0% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 2,012 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 99,746 shares during the period. AustralianSuper Pty Ltd’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $945,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Several other large investors have also made changes to their positions in SNPS. Millstone Evans Group LLC purchased a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter valued at about $27,000. Thurston Springer Miller Herd & Titak Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Synopsys in the fourth quarter valued at about $28,000. Oakworth Capital Inc. lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 3,700.0% in the fourth quarter. Oakworth Capital Inc. now owns 76 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $36,000 after acquiring an additional 74 shares in the last quarter. KERR FINANCIAL PLANNING Corp purchased a new position in shares of Synopsys in the third quarter valued at about $38,000. Finally, N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 128.6% in the fourth quarter. N.E.W. Advisory Services LLC now owns 80 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $38,000 after acquiring an additional 45 shares in the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have recently commented on SNPS shares. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price objective on Synopsys and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 25th. Piper Sandler decreased their target price on Synopsys from $520.00 to $430.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, January 22nd. Rosenblatt Securities decreased their target price on Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reiterated an “equal weight” rating and issued a $480.00 target price (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, February 25th. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $536.00.

Synopsys Trading Down 1.5%

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $502.42 on Friday. The business’s 50 day moving average is $444.25 and its two-hundred day moving average is $449.37. 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. The stock has a market capitalization of $96.24 billion, a P/E ratio of 78.02, a PEG ratio of 4.17 and a beta of 1.25.

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 the consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.83% and a net margin of 13.76%.The company had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.39 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $3.03 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 65.6% on a year-over-year basis. 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, research analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.3 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.