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

Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) insider Geus Aart De sold 25,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $445.55, for a total transaction 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 Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Synopsys Price Performance

SNPS stock traded down $3.02 on Monday, reaching $439.59. The company had a trading volume of 1,680,894 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,998,091. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1 year low of $366.00 and a 1 year high of $615.79. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a quick ratio of 1.24 and a current ratio of 1.34. The company’s fifty day moving average is $416.64 and its 200 day moving average is $440.14. The company has a market cap of $84.24 billion, a P/E ratio of 77.67, a PEG ratio of 2.42 and a beta of 1.23.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 26th. The semiconductor company reported $3.91 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.67 by $0.24. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.24% and a net margin of 11.43%.The company had revenue of $2.48 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.44 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $3.39 earnings per share. Synopsys’s revenue was up 42.4% compared to the same quarter last year. 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, research analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 11.03 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Synopsys

Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Sankala Group LLC purchased a new stake in Synopsys during the 4th quarter worth $25,000. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC raised its position in 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 during the period. Osbon Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Synopsys during the second quarter worth about $25,000. IMG Wealth Management Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the second quarter worth about $28,000. Finally, Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the fourth quarter valued at about $28,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on SNPS. Benchmark restated a “buy” rating and set a $570.00 target price on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Thursday. KeyCorp reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research report on Wednesday, August 19th. Stifel Nicolaus lifted their price target on Synopsys from $550.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $580.00 price objective on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday. Finally, UBS Group set a $570.00 price objective on shares of Synopsys in a report on Thursday. Twelve analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $561.28.

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.