AnsysANSS
ANSS
About: Ansys is an engineering software company that provides simulation capabilities for structural, fluids, semiconductor power, embedded software, optical, and electromagnetic properties. Ansys employs over 4,000 people and serves over 50,000 customers globally, including those in aerospace defense and automotive.
Employees: 6,200
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Funds holding %
of 7,390 funds
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Analysts bullish %
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
65% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 107 | Existing positions closed: 65
17% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 23 [Q3] → 27 (+4) [Q4]
15% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $24.4B [Q3] → $28B (+$3.6B) [Q4]
3% more funds holding
Funds holding: 817 [Q3] → 844 (+27) [Q4]
2.42% more ownership
Funds ownership: 87.67% [Q3] → 90.09% (+2.42%) [Q4]
1% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 296 | Existing positions reduced: 300
89% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $42.9M | Put options by funds: $382M
Research analyst outlook
1 Wall Street Analyst provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
Low target
$340
7%
upside
Avg. target
$340
7%
upside
High target
$340
7%
upside
1 analyst rating
0 positive
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1 neutral
100%
0 negative
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Rosenblatt Blair Abernethy 25% 1-year accuracy 17 / 67 met price target | 7%upside $340 | Neutral Maintained | 21 Feb 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 8 articles about ANSS published over the past 30 days
Neutral
PRNewsWire
3 days ago
GlobalFoundries Certifies Ansys Lumerical Photonic Design Tools for GF Fotonix™ Platform
Ansys' photonic solvers are certified for use with the GF Fotonix™ platform, enabling users to design passive and active photonic components, reduce costs, and improve photonics chips performance / Key Highlights GlobalFoundries certified four Ansys photonic solvers, including Ansys Lumerical FDTD™ advanced 3D nano-photonic simulation software and Ansys Lumerical MODE™ optical waveguide design tool Additional certifications include Ansys Lumerical CHARGE™ physics-based transport solver and Ansys Lumerical HEAT™ physics-based transport solver The certifications help customers design high-performing photonic components for the next generation of photonic integrated circuits (PICs), enabling faster and more efficient data communication technologies ideal for hyperscale data centers and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications PITTSBURGH , March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) and GlobalFoundries collaborated to certify four Ansys photonic solvers, empowering engineers to simulate passive and active photonic components with high-fidelity in the GF Fotonix platform. Together, Ansys and GlobalFoundries enable access to reliable, multiphysics simulation solutions that address design challenges for a range of high-capacity chips — including those used in generative AI, autonomous vehicles, hyperscale data center communications, and IoT.
Neutral
Zacks Investment Research
1 week ago
ANSYS Integrates NVIDIA Omniverse for Advanced Simulation & Insights
ANSS integrates NVIDIA Omniverse for advanced simulation, automating data preparation & enabling high-fidelity models for deeper insights.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Ansys to Integrate NVIDIA Omniverse
Select NVIDIA Omniverse-powered features will be available for Ansys high-fidelity CFD and autonomous vehicle solutions in Q3 2025, with additional applications to follow Key Highlights Integrating NVIDIA Omniverse into Ansys software will enable users to visualize simulation data in photorealistic digital environments, providing more intuitive engineering insights for applications in automotive, aerospace, electronics, healthcare, energy, and more The first Ansys solutions to newly incorporate NVIDIA Omniverse APIs and Omniverse Kit App Streaming will be Ansys Fluent® fluid simulation software and Ansys AVxcelerate Sensors™ autonomous vehicle sensors PITTSBURGH , March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced it will offer advanced data processing and visualization capabilities, powered by integrations with NVIDIA Omniverse within select products, starting with Fluent and AVxcelerate Sensors. These integrations will streamline simulation processes by automating manual data preparation and enabling high-fidelity models for deeper insights.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Volvo Cars Leverages Ansys and NVIDIA GPUs to Accelerate CFD Simulations by 2.5x for the EX90 Electric Vehicle
Ansys solutions on NVIDIA hardware enable more optimization studies, critical to increasing EV range / Key Highlights Ansys Fluent® fluid simulation software delivers high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models that are critical for designing next-generation, energy-efficient vehicles Leveraging just eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Ansys accelerated solver speed by 2.5X when compared to the same simulation run on 2,016 CPU cores and cost-equivalent hardware Using Ansys simulation to reduce aerodynamic drag, customers can design battery electric vehicles (BEVs) that are more performant and travel farther on a single charge PITTSBURGH , March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced a significant breakthrough in aerodynamics simulations in collaboration with Volvo Cars and NVIDIA. Using the combination of eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for the solver and CPU cores for meshing, the companies reduced total simulation run time from 24 hours to 6.5 — enabling multiple design iterations per day, facilitating more optimization studies for BEVs, and accelerating time-to-market.
Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Ansys and NVIDIA to Demonstrate New Era of In-Silico Cardiovascular Research at GTC
Ansys and NVIDIA unveil vision for the future of cardiovascular research by democratizing simulation / Key Highlights Ansys and NVIDIA's open-source technology narrows the gap between simulation and reality by enabling customized workflows, fostering collaboration, and making simulation more accessible to non-experts A Python library, known as "PyAnsys-Heart" will enable partial and whole anatomical heart models in Ansys LS-Dyna® nonlinear dynamics multiphysics simulation software Using NVIDIA NIM™ microservices to build an AI-based speech-to-text code generator, Ansys empowers experts and non-experts to easily render photorealistic simulation results within OpenUSD-based applications with NVIDIA Omniverse Ansys is announcing plans to support NVIDIA's Isaac for Healthcare AI robotics platform by leveraging its high-fidelity, multi-modality, and multi-scale physics and physiology simulation tools and software to deliver applications and solutions PITTSBURGH , March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) and NVIDIA today unveiled a new technology framework enabling customers to design tailored solutions using the power of AI, advanced simulation, and physically-based visualization. Converging Ansys and NVIDIA open-source technologies narrows the gap between simulation and reality by enabling customized workflows, fostering collaboration, and making simulation more accessible to non-experts.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
2 weeks ago
Ansys Set Up For A Win-Win-Win Outcome
Ansys and Synopsys continue to await final clearances for their merger, with China's approval likely being the most challenging sticking point. Ansys continues to deliver strong standalone performance with 11% revenue growth and 15% annual contract value growth in Q4, with robust (and growing) long-term opportunities in the CAE/simulation market. The Synopsys deal offers strategic benefits, including enhanced semiconductor design capabilities and potential revenue synergies, though cost synergies may be modestly overstated.
Positive
Seeking Alpha
2 weeks ago
ANSYS: The Leader In Engineering Simulation That Keeps Growing
Ansys shares have an 8% upside, with a profitable merger opportunity with Synopsys, offering $197 per share and 0.345 Synopsys shares. The Synopsys-ANSYS merger will create a $28 billion market leader, offering ANSYS shareholders a premium and future growth participation. Ansys shows strong financials with 2024 revenue of $2.7 billion, low debt, and high EBITDA margins, indicating stability and growth potential.
Positive
Reuters
3 weeks ago
UK competition regulator clears $35 billion Synopsys-Ansys deal
Britain's competition regulator said on Wednesday it would not refer chip design software maker Synopsys' SNPS.O $35 billion acquisition of Ansys ANSS.O to an in-depth phase-2 probe after accepting remedies from the firms.
Positive
Zacks Investment Research
1 month ago
ANSYS Q4 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates, Increase Y/Y, Stock Up
ANSS reports better-than-expected Q4 results, with year-over-year revenue growth driven by increased maintenance and subscription lease revenues.
Positive
Zacks Investment Research
1 month ago
Ansys (ANSS) Beats Q4 Earnings and Revenue Estimates
Ansys (ANSS) came out with quarterly earnings of $4.44 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4 per share. This compares to earnings of $3.94 per share a year ago.
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