1,180 Shares in Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS Acquired by Quent Long Short Global Small Cap Fund LP

Quent Long Short Global Small Cap Fund LP acquired a new stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm acquired 1,180 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $554,000.

Several other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Synopsys by 20.7% during the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,181,185 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $8,970,415,000 after purchasing an additional 3,120,401 shares during the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Synopsys by 238.8% in the third quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,393,506,000 after purchasing an additional 1,990,608 shares during the last quarter. Coatue Management LLC purchased a new position in Synopsys in the 3rd quarter worth about $892,605,000. Capital Research Global Investors increased its stake in Synopsys by 226.6% in 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 buying an additional 1,751,432 shares during the period. Finally, State Street Corp lifted its holdings in Synopsys by 20.6% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 8,760,358 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $4,322,273,000 after buying an additional 1,493,912 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Synopsys Stock Up 9.6%

Shares of Synopsys stock opened at $500.82 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a current ratio of 1.36 and a quick ratio of 1.26. The stock has a market cap of $95.94 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 77.77, a PEG ratio of 3.73 and a beta of 1.15. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $426.02 and its two-hundred day moving average is $445.33. Synopsys, Inc. has a 1 year low of $376.18 and a 1 year high of $651.73.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a net margin of 13.76% and a return on equity of 6.83%. The business had revenue of $2.41 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $3.03 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 65.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.380-14.460 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.110-3.170 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.3 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have commented on SNPS. Weiss Ratings restated a “hold (c)” rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, January 22nd. HSBC downgraded shares of Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price target for the company. in a research note on Friday, February 20th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $600.00 price target on Synopsys and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 25th. Morgan Stanley reissued an “equal weight” rating and issued a $480.00 price objective (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities reduced their price objective on Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $531.00.

Synopsys 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.