PBU The Pension Fund of Early Childhood & Youth Educators Makes New $17.91 Million Investment in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

PBU The Pension Fund of Early Childhood & Youth Educators purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund purchased 38,125 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $17,908,000.

A number of other hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its stake in shares of Synopsys by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,464,862 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $8,673,315,000 after purchasing an additional 283,677 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp grew its stake in Synopsys by 20.6% in the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,760,358 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $4,322,273,000 after acquiring an additional 1,493,912 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its stake in Synopsys by 1.3% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,310,846 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $2,017,256,000 after purchasing an additional 54,329 shares during the period. Victory Capital Management Inc. raised its stake in Synopsys by 238.8% during the third quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,393,506,000 after purchasing an additional 1,990,608 shares during the period. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors raised its stake in Synopsys by 226.6% during the third quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,245,533,000 after purchasing an additional 1,751,432 shares during the period. 85.47% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analyst Ratings Changes

SNPS has been the subject of several recent research reports. Berenberg Bank set a $633.00 price objective on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. BNP Paribas Exane upped their price target on shares of Synopsys from $425.00 to $450.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price objective on shares of Synopsys and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Bank of America upped their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Synopsys currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $563.81.

Synopsys Stock Down 6.0%

Shares of NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $464.85 on Friday. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52 week low of $376.18 and a 52 week high of $651.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a current ratio of 1.43. The company’s fifty day moving average is $466.55 and its 200-day moving average is $457.80. The company has a market capitalization of $89.01 billion, a PE ratio of 107.60, a P/E/G ratio of 3.01 and a beta of 1.22.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.15 by $0.20. Synopsys had a net margin of 8.91% and a return on equity of 5.83%. The company had revenue of $2.28 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.25 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $3.67 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 41.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.720-14.800 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.630-3.690 EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.28 earnings per share 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.