ANSYS Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ANSYS in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" ANSYS stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in ANSS, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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ANSYS is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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ANSYS will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 5th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 23rd. The software maker reported $2.96 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.54 by $0.42. The software maker earned $627.77 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $564.55 million. ANSYS had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.09% and a net margin of 24.88%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.24 EPS.
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ANSYS's stock was trading at $217.73 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, ANSS stock has increased by 68.4% and is now trading at $366.66.
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ANSYS issued an update on its FY21 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 24th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $6.44 - $6.92 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $7.08. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.790-1.87 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.83 billion.

9 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for ANSYS's stock. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $392.00. On average, they anticipate ANSYS's share price to reach $300.38 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 18.1%.
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105 employees have rated ANSYS CEO Ajei Gopal on Glassdoor.com. Ajei Gopal has an approval rating of 95% among ANSYS's employees. This puts Ajei Gopal in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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ANSYS trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ANSS."

ANSYS's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Riverbridge Partners LLC (0.58%), Royal London Asset Management Ltd. (0.57%), Welch & Forbes LLC (0.51%), Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt (0.26%), Harvey Investment Co. LLC (0.12%) and New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.12%). Company insiders that own ANSYS stock include Ajei Gopal, Alec D Gallimore, Janet Lee, Maria T Shields, Matthew C Zack, Nicole Anasenes, Richard S Mahoney, Shane Emswiler and William R Mcdermott.
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ANSS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Royal London Asset Management Ltd., Fort Pitt Capital Group LLC, First Citizens Bank & Trust Co., Private Advisor Group LLC, Sentry Investment Management LLC, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc., and Harvey Investment Co. LLC. Company insiders that have sold ANSYS company stock in the last year include Ajei Gopal, Alec D Gallimore, Janet Lee, Maria T Shields, Matthew C Zack, Nicole Anasenes, Richard S Mahoney, and Shane Emswiler.
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ANSS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Alecta Pensionsforsakring Omsesidigt, Riverbridge Partners LLC, Fortis Capital Management LLC, Everence Capital Management Inc., Boston Trust Walden Corp, Schaper Benz & Wise Investment Counsel Inc. WI, DnB Asset Management AS, and FDx Advisors Inc..
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One share of ANSS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $366.66.

ANSYS has a market capitalization of $31.95 billion and generates $1.52 billion in revenue each year. The software maker earns $451.30 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.51 on an earnings per share basis.

ANSYS employs 4,800 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of ANSYS: 2011767 Ontario Inc., 3DSIM, 3DSIM LLC, ANSYS Belgium S.A., ANSYS Canada Limited, ANSYS France SAS, ANSYS Germany GmbH, ANSYS Hong Kong Ltd., ANSYS Iberia S.L., ANSYS Italia, ANSYS Japan K.K., ANSYS Korea LLC, ANSYS Luxembourg Holding Company S.à.r.l., ANSYS Luxembourg S.à.r.l., ANSYS OOO, ANSYS Singapore Pte. Ltd., ANSYS Software Ltd., ANSYS Software Private Limited, ANSYS Sweden AB, ANSYS Switzerland GmbH, ANSYS UK Limited, ANSYS medini Technologies AG, ANSYS-Fluent (Shanghai) Engineering Software Trading Co., Analytical Graphics, Apache Design Solutions, Apache Science and Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., CEI GmbH, CEI Software Co., Computational Engineering, Computational Engineering International Inc, Delcross Technologies, DfR Solutions, Esterel Technologies SAS, Fluent China Holdings Limited, Fluent Software (Shanghai) Co., Genesis SAS, Granta Design, Helic, KPIT medini Technologies AG, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, OPTIS CN Limited, OPTIS Europe SAS, OPTIS GmbH, OPTIS Hong Kong Limited, OPTIS Japan K.K., OPTIS Korea Co., OPTIS North America Inc., OPTIS Northern Europe Limited, OPTIS Pristine Limited, OPTIS SAS, OPTIS World SA, Optis World, Profitek, and Taiwan ANSYS Technologies Co..

ANSYS was founded in 1970.

The official website for ANSYS is www.ansys.com.

ANSYS is headquartered at 2600 ANSYS DRIVE SOUTHPOINTE, CANONSBURG PA, 15317.

ANSYS's mailing address is 2600 ANSYS DRIVE SOUTHPOINTE, CANONSBURG PA, 15317. The software maker can be reached via phone at 844-462-6797 or via email at [email protected]