Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc. Takes Position in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The institutional investor acquired 7,986 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,751,000.

Several other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position 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 valued at $8,673,315,000 after purchasing an additional 283,677 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp grew its position in Synopsys by 20.6% during 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 last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its position in Synopsys by 1.3% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,310,846 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $2,017,256,000 after acquiring an additional 54,329 shares during the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. grew its position in Synopsys by 238.8% during the 3rd quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,393,506,000 after acquiring an additional 1,990,608 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors grew its position in Synopsys by 226.6% during the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,245,533,000 after acquiring an additional 1,751,432 shares during the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Synopsys Trading Down 6.0%

NASDAQ SNPS opened at $464.85 on Friday. Synopsys, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $376.18 and a fifty-two 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 stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $466.55 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $457.80. The stock has a market cap of $89.01 billion, a P/E ratio of 107.60, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.83 and a beta of 1.22.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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 during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.25 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $3.67 EPS. The business’s revenue was up 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.720-14.800 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.630-3.690 EPS. On average, analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.74 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

SNPS has been the topic of several recent research reports. Berenberg Bank set a $633.00 price target on Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, May 27th. Bank of America raised their price target on Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. HSBC lowered Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price target on the stock. in a research report on Friday, February 20th. Piper Sandler raised their price target on Synopsys from $430.00 to $450.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and set a $580.00 price target on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Synopsys currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $563.81.

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.