Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd Sells 4,873 Shares of Synopsys, Inc. $SNPS

Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd lessened its stake in shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) by 43.0% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 6,460 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after selling 4,873 shares during the quarter. Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd’s holdings in Synopsys were worth $3,034,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its holdings in Synopsys by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 18,464,862 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $8,673,315,000 after purchasing an additional 283,677 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp increased 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 purchasing an additional 1,493,912 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in Synopsys by 1.3% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 4,310,846 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $2,017,256,000 after purchasing an additional 54,329 shares in the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. increased its holdings in Synopsys by 238.8% during the 3rd quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 2,824,349 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,393,506,000 after purchasing an additional 1,990,608 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Capital Research Global Investors increased its holdings in Synopsys by 226.6% during the 3rd quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 2,524,512 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $1,245,533,000 after purchasing an additional 1,751,432 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

SNPS has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Robert W. Baird set a $558.00 price target on Synopsys in a report on Thursday, May 28th. HSBC cut Synopsys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $455.00 price target for the company. in a report on Friday, February 20th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on Synopsys from $480.00 to $525.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Rosenblatt Securities raised their price target on Synopsys from $530.00 to $575.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Finally, 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. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $563.81.

Synopsys Stock Down 0.5%

NASDAQ SNPS opened at $453.89 on Friday. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $473.57 and a 200-day moving average of $460.43. The stock has a market capitalization of $86.91 billion, a P/E ratio of 105.07, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.68 and a beta of 1.22. Synopsys, Inc. has a 52 week low of $376.18 and a 52 week high of $651.73. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.32 and a current ratio of 1.43.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, May 27th. The semiconductor company reported $3.35 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.15 by $0.20. The company had revenue of $2.28 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $2.25 billion. Synopsys had a return on equity of 5.83% and a net margin of 8.91%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 41.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $3.67 EPS. Synopsys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.720-14.800 EPS and its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.630-3.690 EPS. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Synopsys, Inc. will post 10.65 EPS for the current year.

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.