Nisa Investment Advisors LLC Reduces Stock Position in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Nisa Investment Advisors LLC trimmed its stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 4.5% in the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 43,064 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 2,020 shares during the period. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $21,247,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Peregrine Capital Management LLC boosted its position in Synopsys by 20.4% during the third quarter. Peregrine Capital Management LLC now owns 50,456 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $24,894,000 after purchasing an additional 8,535 shares in the last quarter. Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 8.6% in the 3rd quarter. Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Inc. now owns 506 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $250,000 after buying an additional 40 shares in the last quarter. WD Rutherford LLC boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 4.1% in the 3rd quarter. WD Rutherford LLC now owns 1,760 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $868,000 after buying an additional 70 shares in the last quarter. Kingswood Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Synopsys in the 3rd quarter valued at about $383,000. Finally, Benjamin Edwards Inc. increased its holdings in Synopsys by 37.7% during the 3rd quarter. Benjamin Edwards Inc. now owns 2,420 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,194,000 after acquiring an additional 662 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts have issued reports on SNPS shares. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of Synopsys from $445.00 to $500.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. BNP Paribas started coverage on Synopsys in a report on Thursday, October 2nd. They set an “underperform” rating and a $425.00 target price on the stock. Wall Street Zen raised Synopsys from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, December 13th. Finally, Piper Sandler reduced their price objective on Synopsys from $630.00 to $602.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Eleven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $562.13.

Synopsys Trading Up 2.1%

Shares of SNPS opened at $525.18 on Friday. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $365.74 and a fifty-two week high of $651.73. The company has a market capitalization of $100.48 billion, a PE ratio of 65.73, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.28 and a beta of 1.12. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $445.06 and a two-hundred day moving average of $504.39. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a quick ratio of 1.52 and a current ratio of 1.62.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.79 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $2.25 billion during 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%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 37.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $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. As a group, analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity

In related news, insider Janet Lee sold 250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 7th. The shares were sold at an average price of $510.00, for a total value of $127,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 12,209 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,226,590. The trade was a 2.01% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the company’s 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 transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 17,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,221,058.34. This trade represents a 17.01% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. 0.62% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.