Synopsys Inc
Synopsys Inc (SNPS) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Infrastructure, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, United States and has 28,000 employees. The company is worth $80.96B and trades at 74.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $7.05B in fiscal 2025, up 15.1% from the year before. Net income was $1.33B. The share price is 21.7% below its 52-week high of $539.48. 9 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $672.49M. In that quarter, 6 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $13.37M of its stock on the open market and bought none. $6.76M of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +33.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,364.52▲ +36.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $469.72 | $485.36 | $514.91 | $319.29 | $368.50 | $259.24 | $139.20 | $84.24 | $85.24 | $58.86 | $45.61 | $43.47 | $40.57 | $31.84 | $27.20 | $26.91 | $22.28 | $18.52 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 13.5% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 28.0 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 32.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 13.5% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 14.3x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSIMotorola Solutions, Inc. | $477.81 | 37.6x | 29.6x | 1.01% | 91.57% | $79.07B |
| ASXASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. | $37.74 | 44.9x | 7.0x | 1.11% | 17.01% | $82.98B |
| CDNSCadence Design Systems Inc | $309.65 | 61.6x | 12.4x | 0.00% | 23.23% | $85.28B |
| HPEHewlett Packard Enterprise Co |
| P/E | 32.7x | 58.4x | 33.5x | 65.0x | 50.8x | 76.6x | 60.7x | 40.3x | 29.9x | 96.9x | 34.0x | 31.9x | 26.5x | 25.7x | 26.3x | 18.5x | 17.2x | 19.4x | 14.4x |
| P/S | 3.8x | 12.7x | 12.2x | 14.7x | 10.5x | 13.4x | 10.8x | 6.2x | 4.0x | 4.7x | 3.6x | 3.1x | 3.2x | 3.2x | 2.7x | 2.6x | 2.9x | 2.4x | 2.0x |
| P/B | 3.0x | 3.2x | 8.3x | 12.7x | 8.8x | 10.7x | 8.1x | 5.1x | 3.6x | 3.9x | 2.8x | 2.2x | 2.2x | 2.2x | 1.9x | 1.9x | 1.9x | 1.8x | 1.8x |
| EPS | $8.04 | $14.51 | $7.92 | $6.29 | $4.81 | $4.27 | $3.45 | $2.82 | $0.88 | $1.73 | $1.43 | $1.64 | $1.58 | $1.21 | $1.47 | $1.56 | $1.15 | $1.29 |
| Profit margin | 14.31% | 18.89% | 36.94% | 23.13% | 21.33% | 18.02% | 18.03% | 15.84% | 13.86% | 5.01% | 11.01% | 10.08% | 12.59% | 12.63% | 10.36% | 14.42% | 17.17% | 12.33% | 14.21% |
| ROE | 10.91% | 4.70% | 25.17% | 20.01% | 17.85% | 14.31% | 13.54% | 13.04% | 12.43% | 4.17% | 8.35% | 7.21% | 8.48% | 8.89% | 7.27% | 10.53% | 11.29% | 9.09% | 12.43% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-71.3% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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