NASDAQ:ANSS - ANSYS Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

ANSYS declared that its board has authorized a share buyback plan on Thursday, February 22nd 2018, which permits the company to buyback 5,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The software maker reported $1.42 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.00 by $0.42. The software maker had revenue of $343.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $334.40 million. ANSYS had a return on equity of 16.65% and a net margin of 30.35%. The business's revenue was up 18.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.31 EPS. View ANSYS's Earnings History.

ANSYS is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for ANSYS.

ANSYS issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.87-2.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.06. The company issued revenue guidance of $454.1-479.1 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $466.51 million.

11 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for ANSYS's shares. Their forecasts range from $185.00 to $265.00. On average, they expect ANSYS's share price to reach $227.22 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for ANSYS.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ANSYS in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for ANSYS.

Press coverage about ANSS stock has trended somewhat positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. ANSYS earned a daily sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the software maker a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for ANSYS.

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ANSYS's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Welch & Forbes LLC (0.55%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (0.54%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.29%), Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.20%), Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A. (0.15%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.11%). Company insiders that own ANSYS stock include Ajei Gopal, Alec D Gallimore, Barbara Vaughn Scherer, Bradford C Morley, James E Cashman III, Janet Lee, Maria T Shields, Matthew C Zack, Michael Thurk, Richard S Mahoney, Shane Emswiler and William R Mcdermott. View Institutional Ownership Trends for ANSYS.

ANSS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including KAMES CAPITAL plc, Boston Trust Walden Corp, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Welch & Forbes LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Riverbridge Partners LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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, Michael Thurk, Richard S Mahoney, Shane Emswiler and William R Mcdermott. View Insider Buying and Selling for ANSYS.

ANSS stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Kopion Asset Management LLC, Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., DNB Asset Management AS, Aurora Investment Managers LLC., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, First Hawaiian Bank and Brasada Capital Management LP. View Insider Buying and Selling for ANSYS.

Shares of ANSS can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ANSS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $273.82.

ANSYS has a market capitalization of $23.05 billion and generates $1.29 billion in revenue each year. The software maker earns $419.38 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.21 on an earnings per share basis. ANSYS employs 3,400 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About ANSYS.

The official website for ANSYS is http://www.ansys.com/.

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]