Synopsys Inc. (SNPS)
Technology · NASDAQ · US
Price as at 10 Aug 2026, 18:25 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Synopsys Inc. trades at $414.49, which is 57% above the $178.20 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 62 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 101.9 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
SNPS earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 23 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Synopsys Inc.
Synopsys, Inc. provides design IP solutions in the semiconductor and electronics industries. It operates in two segments, Design Automation and Design IP. The company offers Digital and Custom IC Design solution that provides digital design implementation solutions; Verification solution that offers virtual prototyping, static and formal verification, simulation, emulation, field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based prototyping, and debug solutions; FPGA design products that are programmed to perform specific functions; synopsys technology computer-aided design (TCAD), mask synthesis, and manufacturing analytic solutions; and AI-driven EDA solutions. It also provides pre-verified and silicon-proven IP solutions, logic libraries and embedded memories, processor and security solutions, IP Offerings for the automotive market, SOC infrastructure IP, data path and building block IP, and mathematical and floating-point components. Synopsys, Inc. has a strategic collaboration with Arm Holdings plc for development of AGI CPU that provides solutions across its full-stack design portfolio including EDA, interface IP, and hardware-assisted verification (HAV). The company was incorporated in 1986 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
SNPS passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
24 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Capital Research Global, Capital Research Global Investors$1.02B · 0.1% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$672.49M · 0.2% of book
- Parnassus Investments, PARNASSUS INVESTMENTS, LLC$628.47M · 1.7% of book
- Jeremy Grantham, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC$428.99M · 1.0% of book
- Farallon Capital, FARALLON CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.$370.06M · 1.7% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is Synopsys Inc. (SNPS) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $178.20, SNPS at $414.49 is 57% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own SNPS?
24 of the institutions we track reported a position in SNPS in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is SNPS's P/E ratio?
SNPS trades at 101.9 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its SNPS data?
Fundamentals for SNPS come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NASDAQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 10 Aug 2026, 18:25 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.