SeaBridge Investment Advisors LLC Buys New Shares in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

SeaBridge Investment Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund purchased 1,501 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $741,000.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the stock. Brighton Jones LLC increased its holdings in Synopsys by 5.7% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 921 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $447,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC boosted its position in shares of Synopsys by 11.6% in the first quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC now owns 760 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $326,000 after purchasing an additional 79 shares during the period. NewEdge Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Synopsys by 15.1% in the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 3,010 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,291,000 after purchasing an additional 395 shares in the last quarter. Scientech Research LLC raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 6.9% during the 1st quarter. Scientech Research LLC now owns 1,689 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $724,000 after purchasing an additional 109 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its position in shares of Synopsys by 27.6% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 724,828 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $310,843,000 after purchasing an additional 156,930 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Mizuho dropped their target price on shares of Synopsys from $700.00 to $600.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, September 11th. Baird R W lowered Synopsys from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Wednesday, September 10th. The Goldman Sachs Group cut their target price on Synopsys from $700.00 to $600.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, September 10th. BNP Paribas assumed coverage on Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, October 2nd. They set an “underperform” rating and a $425.00 target price on the stock. Finally, Robert W. Baird restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $535.00 price target (down from $670.00) on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Wednesday, September 10th. Eleven analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $562.13.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Synopsys news, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of Synopsys stock in a transaction on Friday, December 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $460.77, for a total value of $1,685,035.89. Following the completion of 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 sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. 0.62% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Synopsys Price Performance

NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $508.77 on Wednesday. The business’s 50-day moving average is $440.92 and its 200 day moving average is $503.83. Synopsys, Inc. has a 12 month low of $365.74 and a 12 month high of $651.73. The company has a market capitalization of $97.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 63.68, a P/E/G ratio of 4.11 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a current ratio of 1.62, a quick ratio of 1.52 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.79 by $0.11. The business had revenue of $2.25 billion for 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 company’s revenue was up 37.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $3.40 EPS. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.320-14.400 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 3.520-3.580 EPS. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 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.