ANSYS Stock Forecast, Price & News

8 Wall Street equities 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 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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 saw a decline in short interest in the month of April. As of April 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,070,000 shares, a decline of 23.0% from the March 31st total of 1,390,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 501,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days.
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ANSYS is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 4th 2021.
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ANSYS, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANSS) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May, 4th. The software maker reported $1.12 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.84 by $0.28. The software maker had revenue of $372.15 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $352.75 million. ANSYS had a net margin of 24.88% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.09%.
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ANSYS's stock was trading at $217.73 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, ANSS stock has increased by 45.9% and is now trading at $317.67.
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ANSYS updated its second quarter 2021 earnings guidance on Wednesday, May, 12th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.430-1.670 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.570. The company issued revenue guidance of $415 million-$445 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $430.66 million.

8 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for ANSYS's stock. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $392.00. On average, they expect ANSYS's stock price to reach $296.43 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.7%.
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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 variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.55%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (3.20%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.84%), Ownership Capital B.V. (1.75%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.72%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.51%). 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 WCM Investment Management LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., Royal London Asset Management Ltd., AKO Capital LLP, Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Handelsbanken Fonder AB, KBC Group NV, and Cookson Peirce & Co. Inc.. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ninety One UK Ltd, Parnassus Investments CA, BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp, Ownership Capital B.V., Oak Ridge Investments LLC, Robeco Schweiz AG, ARK Investment Management LLC, and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V..
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One share of ANSS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $317.67.

ANSYS has a market capitalization of $27.69 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]