SNPS Synopsys Inc

$SNPS don't forget : Morgan Stanley raised its price target for SNPS from $500 to $574, citing immense financial visibility following the company's aggressive software expansion.

$SNPS $CDNS Hoping it holds above this resistance for the week, setting up a retest of the short-term resistance at 535. That move would push my ROI over 40% since first alerting multiple times at the 377 S/R pivot. Long SNPS and CDNS.

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$SNPS Synopsys entered a 1 billion dollar accelerated buyback with JPMorgan today (company release, Oct 5). The structure is the story. An ASR is not an open-market drip: the bank delivers roughly 1,735,000 shares up front, retiring about 0.9 percent of the share base within days. The rest settles against a volume-weighted average price, minus a discount, by January 5. That makes it the largest such program Synopsys has used, per a review of past filings: prior JPMorgan ASRs were in the 100 to 200 million range. The timing is the read. The stock is up about 31 percent over 20 days since the Investor Day re-rating (OpenAI partnership, Amazon custom-chip deal). Management is buying into strength, not at a trough. The counterweight: the final share count floats with VWAP. This is a one-day headline bid on the initial delivery, not a floor under the price through January.

$SNPS is gaining nicely and the momentum looks sustainable for upside, while $GRML also advances and strengthens its position.

$SNPS — President & CEO Ghazi Sassine sold $6.8M of stock on Oct 15. • 14,604 shares at $462.84. • Sold 14% below the 52-week high. • Stake down 16%.

$SNPS Synopsys enters $1B accelerated share repurchase agreement Synopsys announced that it has entered into an accelerated share repurchase agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association to repurchase an aggregate of $1B of Synopsys stock. Under the terms of the ASR, Synopsys will receive an aggregate initial share delivery of approximately 1,735,000 shares, with the remainder, if any, to be settled on or before January 5, 2027, upon completion of the repurchases. The specific number of shares that Synopsys ultimately repurchases under the ASR will be based on the average of Synopsys' daily volume-weighted average share prices during the repurchase period, less a discount.