SynopsysSNPS
SNPS
About: Synopsys is a provider of electronic design automation software and intellectual property products. EDA software automates and aids in the chip design process, enhancing design accuracy, productivity, and complexity in a full-flow end-to-end solution. Synopsys' comprehensive portfolio is benefiting from a convergence of semiconductor companies moving up the stack of technologies toward systems-like companies, and systems companies moving down-stack toward in-house chip design. The resulting expansion in EDA customers alongside secular digitalization of various end markets benefits EDA vendors like Synopsys.
Employees: 20,000
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Funds holding %
of 7,372 funds
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Analysts bullish %
of 6 analysts
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
54% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 183 | Existing positions closed: 119
3% more funds holding
Funds holding: 1,220 [Q3] → 1,254 (+34) [Q4]
7% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 472 | Existing positions reduced: 443
0.99% less ownership
Funds ownership: 87.3% [Q3] → 86.31% (-0.99%) [Q4]
5% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $68B [Q3] → $64.4B (-$3.61B) [Q4]
14% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 21 [Q3] → 18 (-3) [Q4]
16% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $766M | Put options by funds: $909M
Research analyst outlook
6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
Low target
$520
16%
upside
Avg. target
$612
36%
upside
High target
$660
47%
upside
6 analyst ratings
5 positive
83%
1 neutral
17%
0 negative
0%
Piper Sandler Clarke Jeffries 23% 1-year accuracy 11 / 47 met price target | 45%upside $653 | Overweight Maintained | 27 Feb 2025 |
Needham Charles Shi 14% 1-year accuracy 11 / 81 met price target | 45%upside $650 | Buy Reiterated | 27 Feb 2025 |
Wells Fargo Joe Quatrochi 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 9 met price target | 16%upside $520 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 27 Feb 2025 |
Rosenblatt Blair Abernethy 19% 1-year accuracy 13 / 68 met price target | 47%upside $660 | Buy Maintained | 25 Feb 2025 |
Morgan Stanley Lee Simpson 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 2 met price target | 31%upside $590 | Overweight Maintained | 24 Feb 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 27 articles about SNPS published over the past 30 days
Positive
Zacks Investment Research
4 hours ago
Synopsys Dips 22% in a Year: Should You Buy, Sell or Hold the Stock?
Despite the near-term challenges, SNPS' strong positioning in AI-driven semiconductor design makes the stock worth holding.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
5 days ago
Synopsys SNUG Silicon Valley 2025 to Feature Arm, OpenAI and Microsoft Executive Talks
Two-Day Conference will Examine Future of AI and Intelligent Systems; Join Keynotes from Synopsys CEO and OpenAI Head of Hardware Via Livestream SUNNYVALE, Calif. , March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) will host its annual flagship user group conference, SNUG Silicon Valley, March 19-20, 2025, at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
Neutral
Seeking Alpha
1 week ago
Synopsys And Cadence: The Semiconductor-Software Kings
Electronic Design Automation software is critical to semiconductor development, and the sector is highly concentrated and dominated by two companies. Synopsys and Cadence, beyond EDA software, provide Intellectual Property and collect licensing and royalty fees. Both companies have extraordinarily wide moats supported by high switching costs, proprietary intellectual property, and a strong network effect. I expect both to have decade-long growth runways.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Vector Informatik and Synopsys Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Software-Defined Vehicle Development
Joint Solution to Drive Adoption of "Shift-Left" Software Development Methodologies with the Integration of Synopsys' Electronics Digital Twin Capabilities and Vector's Software Factory Highlights: New automated cloud-ready solutions to enable customers to dramatically accelerate software development and validation. The companies are teaming up to increase the impact of the open-source library, SIL Kit, an essential part of electronics digital twins.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Synopsys Introduces Virtualizer Native Execution on Arm Hardware to Accelerate Software-defined Product Development
End-to-End Virtual Prototyping Workflows Enable Faster Software Development and Time to Market for Automotive, HPC and IoT Systems Highlights Delivers accelerated Virtualizer performance with native execution of software workloads on Arm servers Complete Virtualizer suite supported on Arm server hardware in the cloud or on-premise for modeling, simulation, debug, and analysis Leverages more than two decades of Synopsys leadership in virtual prototyping, supporting seamless scaling of existing virtual prototypes, full support of Synopsys' leading interface IP, and access to Synopsys' extensive standards-based model ecosystem Full integration with Synopsys' hardware-assisted verification (HAV) solutions to support additional software-centric use-cases including application-level power and performance analysis SUNNYVALE, Calif. , March 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the availability of Synopsys Virtualizer™ Native Execution on Arm®-based hardware, transforming software development for edge devices by substantially1 accelerating virtual prototype execution and deployment.
Neutral
Seeking Alpha
1 week ago
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Positive
Zacks Investment Research
1 week ago
Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS) is Attracting Investor Attention: Here is What You Should Know
Synopsys (SNPS) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Synopsys Responds to U.K. Competition and Markets Authority's Phase 1 Announcement Regarding Ansys Acquisition
SUNNYVALE, Calif. , March 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Synopsys issued the following statement in response to the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) recently published decision regarding Synopsys' proposed acquisition of Ansys: We are pleased that the CMA has formally cleared the transaction in Phase 1 subject to previously announced divestitures.
Positive
Reuters
1 week ago
UK competition regulator clears $35 billion Synopsys-Ansys deal
Britain's competition regulator said on Wednesday it would not refer chip design software maker Synopsys' SNPS.O $35 billion acquisition of Ansys ANSS.O to an in-depth phase-2 probe after accepting remedies from the firms.
Positive
Investors Business Daily
2 weeks ago
AI Chip Design Work Boosting Synopsys Sales, But Stock Lagging
Chip design software firm Synopsys is benefiting from a surge of design activity around semiconductors for AI applications. But SNPS stock so far has not benefited.
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