Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS) Receives Average Recommendation of "Hold" from Analysts

Key Points

• Analysts give Synopsys an average recommendation of Hold from 17 firms (1 sell, 8 hold, 8 buy) with an average 1‑year price target of $531.00.
• Synopsys beat expectations in the latest quarter with EPS $3.77 vs. $3.56 consensus and revenue $2.41B vs. $2.39B (revenue up 65.6% YoY), and issued FY2026 guidance of $14.380–14.460 EPS and Q2 guidance of $3.110–3.170 EPS.
• Institutional investors own 85.47% of the stock; shares opened at $498.54, trade in a 52‑week range of $376.18–$651.73, and the company has a market cap of about $95.5B with a P/E of 77.41.

Shares of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS - Get Free Report) have earned an average rating of "Hold" from the seventeen ratings firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have given a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $531.00.

Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. HSBC lowered Synopsys from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and set a $455.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Friday, February 20th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a "hold (c)" rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, January 22nd. Rosenblatt Securities decreased their price target on Synopsys from $560.00 to $530.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Thursday, February 26th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reiterated an "equal weight" rating and issued a $480.00 price target (down from $550.00) on shares of Synopsys in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Synopsys

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. grew its position in Synopsys by 542.9% during the 3rd quarter. Stanley Laman Group Ltd. now owns 12,877 shares of the semiconductor company's stock worth $6,353,000 after acquiring an additional 10,874 shares during the last quarter. Empirical Asset Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Synopsys in the 3rd quarter valued at about $773,000. Strategic Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Synopsys by 76.3% in the 3rd quarter. Strategic Advisors LLC now owns 7,578 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $3,739,000 after buying an additional 3,279 shares during the last quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. grew its position in shares of Synopsys by 31.8% in the 4th quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 14,810 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $6,957,000 after buying an additional 3,575 shares during the last quarter. Finally, OVERSEA CHINESE BANKING Corp Ltd grew its position in shares of Synopsys by 24.8% in the 3rd quarter. OVERSEA CHINESE BANKING Corp Ltd now owns 23,970 shares of the semiconductor company's stock valued at $11,827,000 after buying an additional 4,759 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 85.47% of the company's stock.

Synopsys Trading Down 0.5%

Shares of SNPS opened at $498.54 on Tuesday. Synopsys has a 52-week low of $376.18 and a 52-week high of $651.73. The business's fifty day moving average is $427.25 and its 200-day moving average is $444.89. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.33, a quick ratio of 1.26 and a current ratio of 1.36. The firm has a market cap of $95.50 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 77.41, a PEG ratio of 4.09 and a beta of 1.15.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 25th. The semiconductor company reported $3.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.56 by $0.21. Synopsys had a return on equity of 6.83% and a net margin of 13.76%.The company had revenue of $2.41 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.39 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $3.03 EPS. The company's revenue for the quarter 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. Equities analysts anticipate that Synopsys will post 10.3 EPS 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.

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