What does Synopsys do?

SNPS · Plain-English company overview

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In the company's own words, from Item 1 (Business) of its latest annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the SEC on 2025-12-22.

Synopsys, Inc. (Synopsys, we, our or us) is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver trusted and comprehensive solutions spanning silicon design, silicon intellectual property (IP), simulation and analysis (S&A) as well as design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.

We are a global leader in supplying the mission-critical EDA solutions that engineers use to design and test integrated circuits (ICs), also known as chips or silicon, and we are pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) driven chip design across the full-stack EDA suite to improve efficiency and accelerate the design, verification testing and manufacturing of advanced digital and analog chips. We provide software and hardware used to validate the electronic systems that incorporate chips and the software that runs on them, including cloud-based digital and analog design flow to boost chip-design development productivity. We also provide technical services and support to help our customers develop advanced chips and electronic systems.

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How did Synopsys's latest earnings compare?

An earnings release is a company's quarterly report of how much money it made. Analysts predict these numbers ahead of time, and the actual results are compared against those predictions.

In the most recent quarter (2026-06-30), Synopsys reported earnings of $3.35 per share. Analysts expected $3.2167 per share, so the company beat expectations.

SEC Filings

Key filings
Annual report (10-K)
The company's big yearly financial report.
2025-12-22
Quarterly report (10-Q)
A financial update covering the last 3 months.
2026-08-26
Material event (8-K)
A heads-up about something important that just happened.
2026-08-26
Most recent filings
Quarterly report (10-Q)
A financial update covering the last 3 months.
2026-08-26
SEC filing (8-K/A)
An official filing with the SEC.
2026-08-26
Material event (8-K)
A heads-up about something important that just happened.
2026-08-26
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-08-17
Material event (8-K)
A heads-up about something important that just happened.
2026-08-12
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-06-16
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-06-16
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-06-16
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-06-16
Insider trade (4)
An executive or director bought or sold company shares.
2026-06-16
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