Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Insider Geus Aart De Sells 25,000 Shares of Stock

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) insider Geus Aart De sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $445.55, for a total value of $11,138,750.00. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 120,421 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $53,653,576.55. This trade represents a 17.19% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Synopsys Stock Down 0.7%

SNPS opened at $439.59 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a current ratio of 1.34 and a quick ratio of 1.24. Synopsys, Inc. has a 12 month low of $366.00 and a 12 month high of $615.79. The stock has a market capitalization of $84.24 billion, a P/E ratio of 77.67, a P/E/G ratio of 2.42 and a beta of 1.23. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $416.14 and a 200-day simple moving average of $440.15.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 26th. The semiconductor company reported $3.91 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.67 by $0.24. The firm had revenue of $2.48 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.44 billion. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.24% and a net margin of 11.43%.Synopsys’s quarterly revenue was up 42.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $3.39 earnings per share. Synopsys has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.100-4.160 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 15.040-15.100 EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 11.03 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in SNPS. Sankala Group LLC purchased a new position in Synopsys during the 4th quarter valued at about $25,000. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 96.4% in the second quarter. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC now owns 55 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 27 shares in the last quarter. Osbon Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the second quarter valued at about $25,000. IMG Wealth Management Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the second quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Finally, Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Berenberg Bank set a $633.00 price target on shares of Synopsys in a report on Wednesday, May 27th. Citigroup boosted their price objective on shares of Synopsys from $600.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Stifel Nicolaus upped their target price on shares of Synopsys from $550.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 28th. Bank of America increased their target price on shares of Synopsys from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Robert W. Baird upgraded shares of Synopsys from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and lifted their price target for the company from $558.00 to $560.00 in a research report on Thursday. Twelve equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, Synopsys presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $561.28.

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.