KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS Acquires 11,156 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS lifted its holdings in Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 18.9% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 70,146 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after purchasing an additional 11,156 shares during the period. KLP Kapitalforvaltning AS’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $34,609,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of SNPS. Alpine Bank Wealth Management raised its holdings in Synopsys by 89.3% during the third quarter. Alpine Bank Wealth Management now owns 53 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $26,000 after buying an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. Independence Bank of Kentucky increased its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 120.0% during the 2nd quarter. Independence Bank of Kentucky now owns 55 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $28,000 after acquiring an additional 30 shares during the last quarter. SOA Wealth Advisors LLC. acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys during the 3rd quarter valued at about $28,000. McIlrath & Eck LLC bought a new position in shares of Synopsys in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Finally, Princeton Global Asset Management LLC lifted its holdings in Synopsys by 481.8% in the 2nd quarter. Princeton Global Asset Management LLC now owns 64 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $33,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. 85.47% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

SNPS has been the topic of several analyst reports. Rosenblatt Securities upgraded Synopsys from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and lowered their price target for the company from $605.00 to $560.00 in a report on Tuesday, December 9th. BNP Paribas assumed coverage on shares of Synopsys in a report on Thursday, October 2nd. They set an “underperform” rating and a $425.00 price objective for the company. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Robert W. Baird reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $535.00 target price (down previously from $670.00) on shares of Synopsys in a report on Wednesday, September 10th. Finally, Wall Street Zen raised shares of Synopsys from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, December 13th. Eleven investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $562.13.

Synopsys Price Performance

NASDAQ:SNPS opened at $519.70 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48, a current ratio of 1.62 and a quick ratio of 1.52. Synopsys, Inc. has a one year low of $365.74 and a one year high of $651.73. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $442.21 and a 200 day moving average price of $503.94. The stock has a market cap of $99.43 billion, a P/E ratio of 65.04, a PEG ratio of 4.23 and a beta of 1.12.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, December 10th. The semiconductor company reported $2.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.79 by $0.11. The company had revenue of $2.25 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.25 billion. Synopsys had a net margin of 18.89% and a return on equity of 7.89%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 37.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business 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. Analysts anticipate that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.64 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Transactions at Synopsys

In related news, CFO Shelagh Glaser sold 3,657 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated 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 in the company, valued at $8,221,058.34. The trade was a 17.01% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. 0.62% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

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.