SNPS

Synopsys, Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Technology
412.32 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
51.0%
Brown Bear Score
52.8%
Business Conviction Score
68.0%
Position Health Score
18.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -34.1% · range 372.33–625.80

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 2.8%
OCF / assets 3.1%
FCF / revenue 21.5%
Gross margin 82.6%
ROIC 4.1%
Forward P/E 23.9

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +329.5pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-08-26 · consensus EPS 3.74

Q3 23 revenue: 1.49bnQ3 23 net income: 336.25mQ3 23 EPS: 2.17Q4 23 revenue: 1.60bnQ4 23 net income: 349.19mQ4 23 EPS: 2.25Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 1.65bnQ1 24 net income: 449.11mQ1 24 EPS: 2.89Q2 24 revenue: 1.45bnQ2 24 net income: 292.11mQ2 24 EPS: 1.88Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 1.53bnQ3 24 net income: 408.06mQ3 24 EPS: 2.61Q4 24 revenue: 1.50bnQ4 24 net income: 1.11bnQ4 24 EPS: 7.14Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 1.46bnQ1 25 net income: 295.68mQ1 25 EPS: 1.89Q2 25 revenue: 1.60bnQ2 25 net income: 345.33mQ2 25 EPS: 2.21Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 1.74bnQ3 25 net income: 242.51mQ3 25 EPS: 1.50Q4 25 revenue: 2.25bnQ4 25 net income: 448.70mQ4 25 EPS: 2.71Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 2.41bnQ1 26 net income: 64.96mQ1 26 EPS: 0.34Q2 26 revenue: 2.28bnQ2 26 net income: 17.11mQ2 26 EPS: 0.09Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.09–7.14, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2026-04-30 2.28bn +41.9% 17.11m 0.09 2026-05-27
2026-01-31 2.41bn +65.5% 64.96m 0.34 2026-02-25
2025-10-31 (derived) 2.25bn +50.6% 448.70m 2.71 2025-12-22
2025-07-31 1.74bn +14.0% 242.51m 1.50 2025-09-09

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.1%
On an ordinary two days ±1.8% — filings move it 1.8× as much
Direction 2 up, 10 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +18.0% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-08-19: price -4.1%Q1 23 revenue +7.2% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-02-17: price -2.0%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +9.0% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-05-19: price -2.0%Q3 23 revenue +19.2% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-08-18: price +2.9%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +21.1% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-02-23: price -0.9%Q2 24 revenue +4.3% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-05-24: price +0.3%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +2.6% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-08-23: price -4.0%Q1 25 revenue -11.8% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-02-26: price -0.7%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +10.3% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-05-28: price -11.1%Q3 25 revenue +14.0% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-09-09: price -36.3%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +65.5% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-02-25: price -3.3%Q2 26 revenue +41.9% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-05-27: price -10.1%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-04-30 2026-05-27 +41.9% -10.1% -2.3%
2026-01-31 2026-02-25 +65.5% -3.3% +0.5%
2025-07-31 2025-09-09 +14.0% -36.3% +22.7%
2025-04-30 2025-05-28 +10.3% -11.1% +5.9%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Growing — shares issued
Diluted shares 192.1M as at 2026-04-30
Change over 1 year +23.1%
Change over 3 years +24.2%
Public float $59.30bn as at 2025-04-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyAt Support Zone
Reference band 404.09 — 416.33
Protective stop 379.92 (Atr, 7.4% risk)
Support 408.17 (4 touches, 1.0% away)
Resistance 418.26 (1.4% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.0% above 408.17, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 1.4% below 418.26, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 4 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 7.4% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice INSIDE the cloud | periods 9/25/49 (95% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness72% percentile
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading inside its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 403.20 to 435.06. Inside the band those averages disagree with each other, so the indicator is not saying much either way. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -3.2%
63 days -19.7%
126 days -5.7%
252 days -33.1%
Below 252d high34.1%

Trend context

PositionBelow trend
ExtensionOversold
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway Oversold relative to a stable or improving Kalman trend.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width16.0% of price
Recent tightest16.0% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 48.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 361.23 — 424.24

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 16% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 372.33–445.502026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger EMA50 reclaim +2.7% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 Relative momentum rank back above 0.45 repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Reclaim EMA50 secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 Relative momentum rank above 0.55 +0.50 rank relative momentum leadership is not yet strong enough for the next action tier · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

SNPS: no binary-event flag. Near IV 42%, far IV 67% (ratio 0.62), implied move 5.2%.

Implied volatility 42% near (9d) · 67% far (65d)
Term structure 0.62× near/far
Historical volatility 45%
Implied vs historical 0.93×
Implied move ±5.2% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.59×
Skew Flat (1.07×)
Put wall 200.00 (-51.5% away)
Gamma pin 600.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 5.2% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Stock Leadership Confirmed

Rotation health 100.0/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.

Rotation health 100.0
Rotation strength 79.1
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 116.3 118.9
Stock vs SPY Leading 116.5 112.2
Sector vs SPY Leading 113.6 115.9

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 4/9 (+5.0)
  • Altman Z-score 5.25 (+8.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+3.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 82.6% (+22.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 21.5% (+14.4)
  • Gross margin improving by 2.9 pts (+2.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -1.4 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.004) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (0.07 -> -0.00) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (5.89) (+8.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.03 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 24.6 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 35.8 and rising (+8.0)
  • Track 1: Bullish MACD divergence (+12.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 1.8% (+6.6)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 1.1% (+2.6)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 1.82 (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 71.9, 5-day change +28.1 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 2.6% (+2.8)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 9.0% (+0.7)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.81 (+1.5)
  • Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 79.6/100 (STRONG) (+15.9)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.49x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.05)
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.00)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 2.6%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -2.3%
  • ROIC improving by -10.7 pts (+-5.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.