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sellWeak cluster of 210b5-1 plan

Aart De Geus sold $7.0M of SNPS

EXECUTIVE CHAIR at SYNOPSYS INC. 15,705 shares at an average of $444.42, traded Mar 6, 2025, filed Mar 10, 2025.

Warning score
23
Value
$7.0M
15,705 shares
Holdings after
116,671
-12% from before
From 52-week low
-
no price yet
From 52-week high
-
no price yet

Score components

  • Role
    Chair
    +20
  • Trade size
    $7.0M at market
    +25
  • Share of holdings sold
    Sold 12% of holdings
    +5
  • Cluster
    2 insiders selling within 14 days
    +8
  • Exercise and sell
    Shares came from an option exercise in the same filing
    -15
  • 10b5-1 plan
    Pre-scheduled under a 10b5-1 plan
    -20

What happened after comparable sells

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

SNPSOct 9, 2026 · close 509.99
Since filing Mar 10, 2025: +18.6%SPY +41.6% · excess -23.0%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0001517737-25-000020, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
Mar 6, 2025MOption exercise
Common Stock10b5-1
+15,705$89.76$1.4M132,376Mar 10, 2025
Mar 6, 2025SOpen-market sale
Common Stock10b5-1
-15,705$444.42$7.0M116,671Mar 10, 2025
Mar 6, 2025MOption exercise
Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)derivative10b5-1
-15,705$0.00$00Mar 10, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at SYNOPSYS INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
42Moderate
SNPSsell 2
SYNOPSYS INC
Janet Lee
GC & Corporate Secretary
$575k
1,144 shares
-6%
50Moderate
SNPSsell 2
SYNOPSYS INC
Sudhindra Kankanwadi
Deputy CFO & CAO
$6.0M
12,170 shares
-47%
20Weak
SNPSsell10b5-1
SYNOPSYS INC
Sassine Ghazi
PRESIDENT AND CEO
$5.5M
14,604 shares
-16%
20Weak
SNPSsell10b5-1
SYNOPSYS INC
Aart De Geus
EXECUTIVE CHAIR
$21M
49,641 shares
-34%
28Weak
SNPSsell 210b5-1
SYNOPSYS INC
Sassine Ghazi
PRESIDENT AND CEO
$5.3M
11,366 shares
-14%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.

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