Synopsys Inc (SNPS) — the peer cohort

As of 2026-10-16 — scores re-bake nightly. Cohort = shared Closelooknet index membership first, then sector. Diary readings, not advice.

Synopsys Inc ranks 16 of 16 in its cohort on the Closelooknet composite (42/100) — the cohort is led by Micron Technology Inc at 73/100.

Name	Composite	Momentum	Quality	Valuation	Signal	Off 52w high
SNPS Synopsys Inc	42	55	46	27	bear	15.7%
MU Micron Technology Inc	73	71	95	61	info	30%
SNDK Sandisk Corp	70	59	94	50	info	44.8%
TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing	69	65	86	66	info	15.4%
000660.KS SK Hynix Inc	68	33	93	79	watch	57.4%
005930.KS Samsung Electronics Co Ltd	67	41	73	80	bull	42.5%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation	65	68	94	35	info	12%
APH Amphenol Corporation	62	67	72	33	info	11.8%
ASML ASML Holding N.V. New York Registry Shares	62	59	87	26	info	17.9%
AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc	61	77	52	20	bear	19.7%
DELL Dell Technologies Inc	60	83	53	42	bear	20.5%
ALAB Astera Labs, Inc.	59	59	75	6	bear	42.8%
NDSN Nordson Corporation	59	79	68	34	neutral	5%
KSPI Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz	68	71	85	97	info	15.2%
NTAP NetApp Inc	65	86	84	35	bear	15.4%
PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc.	64	84	89	11	bear	12.6%

Scores are relative readings across the Closelooknet coverage universe — methodology in the company-scoring explainer. Signal lights come from the nightly signal board.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-16

Quick answers

Who are Synopsys Inc's peers in the Closelooknet universe?

The cohort is drawn from shared Closelooknet index membership first, then sector: Micron Technology Inc (MU), Sandisk Corp (SNDK), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), SK Hynix Inc (000660.KS), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), Amphenol Corporation (APH), ASML Holding N.V. New York Registry Shares (ASML) and others.

How does SNPS score against its peers?

Synopsys Inc's composite reads 42/100, ranking 16 of 16 in its cohort as of 2026-10-16; the cohort's highest composite is Micron Technology Inc at 73/100. Closelooknet scores are research diary readings, not ratings or advice.

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Long reads

Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030Dossier · $29 · 6 Mar 2026The Landmark Deal: Silicon Meets System Simulation The landmark event is the completion of Synopsys' $35B acquisition of Ansys (July 2025), which merges silicon-level EDA with system-level multiphysics simulation — signaling that the…
Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration LayerDossier · $39 · 24 Feb 2026The "Physical AI Simulation" trade requires domain data owners (Siemens) and physics engines (Synopsys).
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 paymentChart Pick · 28 Aug 2026In-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.
Portfolio Construction — Build a Barbell · Closelooknet Heresy IIIHeresy · 16 May 2026Live cohort as of May 2026: COHR · CRWV · GLW · INTC · IREN · LITE · MRVL · NBIS · NOK · SNPS.
Pattern 03 — NVIDIA Strategic Authority InvestmentReport · 12 May 2026The 16-Event Timeline (2023-07-12 → 2026-05-12) 2024 2025 2026 RXRX 23-07 ARM 23-09 APLD 24-09 NBIS 24-12 MRVL 25-03 CRWV 25-03 INTC 25-09 NOK 25-10 SNPS 25-12 LITE COHR 26-03 IREN 26-05 GLW 26-05 exit RXRX exit APLD exit ARM Tier 1 …
Nvidia’s Equity Stakes — Follow the Wise Men, Pattern 03 PreviewWeekly Signal · 10 May 2026Synopsys at $502.51 is up 21% from NVIDIA's $414.79 entry, with the EDA sector running flat versus the rest of the structure.

Dailies

Jobs day — futures +0.3% before payrolls; Nike −8.7% after hours, Accenture holds +15.8%Morning 10 · 2 Oct 2026The comeback names held their gains — Accenture +15.8%, Synopsys +12.8%, Fair Isaac +11.7%.
AI comeback — Accenture +18%, Synopsys +8%, optics +9% while all three US indices slipMidday 10 · 1 Oct 2026Chip-design software: Synopsys $471.56 (+8.42%) after its investor day, Cadence $340.49 (+3.12%)
The bar moves overnight: three beat-and-raise prints get sold after hours.Morning 10 · 28 Aug 2026IGV closed +7.74%, the biggest software day of the year by this page's own tracking, with CRM +22.58% and CRWD +20.50% both paid again at scale on top of their after-hours gains, and Synopsys — which had only shrugged −1.0% Wednesday…
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.Midday 10 · 27 Aug 2026Synopsys flips its overnight shrug into an 11.7% payment, jobless claims print tight at 203K against a 208K consensus, both bond lines sit unmoved through the risk-on tape, IBIT reclaims 44.5 a day after handing it back by four cents, and…
Pattern 03 cohort — NVIDIA equity deployments as Rubin Build-Out leading indicatorDaily Pulse · 26 May 2026Current cohort: 10 names — COHR, CRWV, GLW, INTC, IREN, LITE, MRVL, NBIS, NOK, SNPS.

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