ANSYS (ANSS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ANSYS in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "reduce" ANSS shares.
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9 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for ANSYS's shares. Their ANSS share price targets range from $290.00 to $347.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $322.75 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%.
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ANSYS's stock was trading at $362.88 at the start of the year. Since then, ANSS shares have decreased by 10.3% and is now trading at $325.62.
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ANSYS saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,490,000 shares, an increase of 19.2% from the March 15th total of 1,250,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 738,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Approximately 1.7% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 21st. The software maker reported $3.94 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.71 by $0.23. The software maker earned $805.10 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $797.49 million. ANSYS had a net margin of 22.05% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.83%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.61 EPS.

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250 employees have rated ANSYS Chief Executive Officer Ajei Gopal on Glassdoor.com. Ajei Gopal has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Ajei Gopal in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 88.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at ANSYS to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other ANSYS investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Adobe (ADBE), Salesforce (CRM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Mastercard (MA), Micron Technology (MU), Costco Wholesale (COST), Cisco Systems (CSCO), QUALCOMM (QCOM) and Intel (INTC).

ANSYS's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Westwind Capital (0.06%), Perpetual Ltd (0.06%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.05%), Fort Pitt Capital Group LLC (0.03%), Czech National Bank (0.02%) and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Ajei Gopal, Alec D Gallimore, Barbara Vaughn Scherer, Glenda Dorchak, Janet Lee, Maria T Shields, Richard S Mahoney and Shane Emswiler.
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Shares of ANSS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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