Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Position Increased by Temasek Holdings Private Ltd

Temasek Holdings Private Ltd increased its stake in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 22.8% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 55,642 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after acquiring an additional 10,335 shares during the period. Temasek Holdings Private Ltd’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $26,136,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Rakuten Investment Management Inc. raised its stake in Synopsys by 11,016.8% during the 4th quarter. Rakuten Investment Management Inc. now owns 34,462 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $16,506,000 after acquiring an additional 34,152 shares in the last quarter. L2 Asset Management LLC raised its stake in Synopsys by 7.9% during the 4th quarter. L2 Asset Management LLC now owns 932 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $438,000 after acquiring an additional 68 shares in the last quarter. 71 West Capital Partners bought a new stake in Synopsys during the 4th quarter valued at $338,000. Talos Eurisko Asset Management LP bought a new stake in Synopsys during the 4th quarter valued at $11,010,000. Finally, Alkeon Capital Management LLC raised its stake in Synopsys by 50.1% during the 4th quarter. Alkeon Capital Management LLC now owns 1,003,278 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $471,260,000 after acquiring an additional 335,000 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages have weighed in on SNPS. KeyCorp reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Piper Sandler lifted their target price on Synopsys from $430.00 to $450.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Citigroup lifted their target price on Synopsys from $600.00 to $610.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Rosenblatt Securities lifted their target price on Synopsys from $530.00 to $575.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 26th. Finally, Robert W. Baird set a $558.00 target price on Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Nine equities research 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. According to MarketBeat, Synopsys has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $563.81.

Insider Transactions at Synopsys

In related news, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,394 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction on Friday, June 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $450.02, for a total transaction of $1,527,367.88. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 14,358 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,461,387.16. This trade represents a 19.12% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

Synopsys Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ SNPS opened at $454.38 on Tuesday. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52-week low of $376.18 and a 52-week high of $651.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.32, a current ratio of 1.43 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33. The stock has a market capitalization of $87.00 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 105.18, a PEG ratio of 2.67 and a beta of 1.22. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $474.73 and its 200 day simple moving average is $461.19.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.15 by $0.20. Synopsys had a return on equity of 5.83% and a net margin of 8.91%.The business 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 posted $3.67 earnings per share. Synopsys’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. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Synopsys Company 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.