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The desk on SNPS

What this diary said about Synopsys Inc, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

What we hold

BookPositionSinceResult
AI Cycle 2030 (wikifolio) ↗ 7 shares · average entry €381.86 — —

Model books as of the latest close; wikifolio positions from the official wikifolio data, entries in euros. Results are unrealised, before any exit. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

What would change our view

12 months from now
Higher, in our view — the reversion case: a year of underperformance against the layer it designs for, organic EDA guided to double-digit growth, and a supply-constrained chip cycle that is, one layer up, a design-demand cycle. Conditional on the 200-day reclaim holding and the Directional Flow print turning.
5 years from now
The duopoly position compounds, in our view — every custom-silicon program at every hyperscaler is a new seat at the toll booth, AI-assisted design increases the compute spent inside these tools rather than replacing them, and Ansys extends the platform from chip design into full-system simulation. Meaningfully higher, if the design layer's moat survives AI-native entrants — the risk we would re-examine annually.

From the Chart Pick of 28 Aug 2026, scored publicly.

Our record on SNPS

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on Synopsys Inc, with the outcome where it is known.

Company snapshot — Synopsys Inc

SNPS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Synopsys builds electronic-design-automation software and licensable chip intellectual property that chip designers use to plan, verify and simulate semiconductors before manufacture. Its tools span digital and custom design, verification, FPGA programming and manufacturing analytics, while its IP catalogue supplies pre-verified logic blocks, processors and interface cores. It has also added physics-based system simulation through an acquisition of Ansys, pairing chip design software with modelling of the systems those chips operate inside. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and lists on Nasdaq.
Where it sits in the stack
In Rubin, our index of the AI build-out supply chain, Synopsys sits in Layer 1, Design, within the EDA and chip IP sleeve, the software layer that lets every other Rubin constituent build silicon. It supplies the tools and licensed blocks that architects and foundries depend on before a design can be taped out, so its business tracks how much new chip design work the build-out generates rather than unit shipments.
Who it is priced against
The diary's curated peer group prices it against Arm, Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD and Cadence Design Systems, the chip IP and architecture set. Cadence is the name the market most often compares it with head-to-head as the other major EDA house.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Synopsys is a Rubin constituent and a Nasdaq-100 name; it carries a Closelooknet score with quality registering as its strongest module and momentum as its weakest. The diary has quoted it in dossiers on physical-AI simulation and in a chart pick noting its Directional Flow reading, which the nightly engine generates automatically for index constituents.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the Ansys integration converts into system-level simulation demand that broadens Synopsys' role beyond core EDA licensing.

Synopsys Inc (SNPS) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology, and sits in Layer 1 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 37/100 composite (momentum 31, quality 47, valuation 29) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for SNPS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 3 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by BNP Paribas, 2026-09-24 · last print 2026-08-26

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for SNPS from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target BNP Paribas — target 420 Target set to $420 (+1.7% to spot) 2026-09-24
  • Upgrade Exane BNP Paribas — Underperform → Neutral Upgraded to Neutral from Underperform 2026-09-24
  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 500 from 525 Target cut to $500 from $525 (+23.3% to spot) 2026-08-19
  • Latest print EPS 3.91 against 3.67 expected — a +6.5% beat 2026-08-26

3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 upgrade, 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against Chip IP and architecture · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Chip IP and architecture

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against SNPS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-09-24

DayWeekMonth3 months
SNPS+2.9%+11.5%+3.9%−6.6%
EDA & Chip IP−0.5%+13.8%+7.8%—
Rubin Build-Out 100−0.5%+6.3%+3.8%—

Against the index: 5.2 pts ahead on the week, 0.1 pts ahead on the month; against its EDA & Chip IP sleeve 3.9 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months

Dividends and capital return

What SNPS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Distributions No cash distribution recorded in the price series over the last three years
  • Buybacks, FY2025 none reported
  • Share count +3.7% in FY2025 893 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.07 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How SNPS has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.07 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Synopsys Inc moved 0.07% on average · correlation 0.01 · higher than 13% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.28 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.25% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +2.87% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 60/100 · S&P 500 fund at 66, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-24
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.1% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-24
  • Sector × region Technology in US: +3.7% week · +7.3% month · +5.6% quarter · +39.8% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-24
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.75 · up 0.21 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-24

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-25

Quick answers

What is Synopsys Inc (SNPS)?

Synopsys Inc trades as SNPS on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-25.

Is SNPS in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Synopsys Inc is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-09-25.

What is Synopsys Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

37 out of 100, with momentum 31, quality 47 and valuation 29 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-25. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is Synopsys Inc's earnings print record?

Across the 11 prints Closelooknet covers, Synopsys Inc beat EPS estimates 10 times and revenue estimates 10 times; the three-day reactions split 2 up, 2 flat and 7 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-08-26 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does SNPS trade against its moving averages?

6-day win streak: Up 6 sessions running — its longest run in months. As of 2026-09-23 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is SNPS doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Synopsys Inc is +3.9% against +3.8% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 0.1 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-09-24. Its EDA & Chip IP sleeve is +7.8% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does Synopsys Inc do?

Synopsys builds electronic-design-automation software and licensable chip intellectual property that chip designers use to plan, verify and simulate semiconductors before manufacture. Its tools span digital and custom design, verification, FPGA programming and manufacturing analytics, while its IP catalogue supplies pre-verified logic blocks, processors and interface cores. It has also added physics-based system simulation through an acquisition of Ansys, pairing chip design software with modelling of the systems those chips operate inside. The diary's curated peer group prices it against Arm, Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD and Cadence Design Systems, the chip IP and architecture set. Cadence is the name the market most often compares it with head-to-head as the other major EDA house.

Where does Synopsys Inc sit in the AI build-out?

In Rubin, our index of the AI build-out supply chain, Synopsys sits in Layer 1, Design, within the EDA and chip IP sleeve, the software layer that lets every other Rubin constituent build silicon. It supplies the tools and licensed blocks that architects and foundries depend on before a design can be taped out, so its business tracks how much new chip design work the build-out generates rather than unit shipments. Synopsys is a Rubin constituent and a Nasdaq-100 name; it carries a Closelooknet score with quality registering as its strongest module and momentum as its weakest. The diary has quoted it in dossiers on physical-AI simulation and in a chart pick noting its Directional Flow reading, which the nightly engine generates automatically for index constituents.

Does Synopsys Inc pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in Synopsys Inc’s price series over the last three years. The share count rose 3.7% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does Synopsys Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Synopsys Inc had a beta of 0.07 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 13% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.25% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Synopsys Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Synopsys Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by BNP Paribas on 2026-09-24 (target 420). 3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 upgrade, 2 target changes. Its latest earnings print on the wire, 2026-08-26: EPS 3.91 against 3.67 expected — a +6.5% beat. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelooknet written about Synopsys Inc?

Synopsys Inc appears in 9 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Chart Pick: This company's software designs every AI chip that ships — it sat out the entire AI advance for a year, then flipped an overnight shrug into the week's cleanest double-digit payment (2026-08-28); Morning 10: The bar moves overnight: three beat-and-raise prints get sold after hours. (2026-08-28); Midday 10: Daylight pays the five-print evening at scale — Salesforce +20%, Okta +27%, CrowdStrike +18%, Nvidia +7.6% — while ten of eleven sectors trade red and technology alone carries the index. (2026-08-27). What Closelooknet said most recently: In-universe on this one: Synopsys is a Rubin 100 constituent, so the Directional Flow reading comes straight from the nightly engine rather than a hand calculation. (Chart Pick, 2026-08-28). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for SNPS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 9 pieces · newest: Chart Pick, “This company's software designs every AI chip that ships — it sat out the entire AI advance for a year, then flipped an overnight shrug into the week's cleanest double-digit payment” (2026-08-28)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where SNPS appears in the diary — 9 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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