Q1 revenue at high end, EPS above guidance
Guidance · revenue to $9.61B
Synopsys reported a strong Q1 with revenue at the high end and EPS above guidance, driven by strong Ansys performance. Management reiterated FY26 revenue and margin guidance while raising EPS on lower interest expense, and noted a tale of two markets with robust AI/HPC demand offset by weak automotive/industrial and China headwinds. Q1 revenue was $2.41B at the high end of guidance, with Ansys contributing $886M.
Synopsys reported a strong Q1 with revenue at the high end and EPS above guidance, driven by strong Ansys performance. Management reiterated FY26 revenue and margin guidance while raising EPS on lower interest expense, and noted a tale of two markets with robust AI/HPC demand offset by weak automotive/industrial and China headwinds. Q1 revenue was $2.41B at the high end of guidance, with Ansys contributing $886M.
Guidance · revenue to $9.61B
Management frames AI as a demand tailwind for its hardware, EDA, and Ansys portfolios, not a disruption, and emphasizes its own AI-driven design products (e.g. Synopsys.ai) delivering productivity gains and advancing agent engineers, with early customer engagements and a…
Backlog of $11.3B provides revenue visibility.
FY26 EPS guidance raised by $0.06 to $14.38-$14.46 due to lower interest expense.
Management frames AI as a demand tailwind for its hardware, EDA, and Ansys portfolios, not a disruption, and emphasizes its own AI-driven design products (e.g. Synopsys.ai) delivering productivity gains and advancing agent engineers, with early customer engagements and a value-based monetization opportunity.
Guidance is raised on EPS due to lower interest expense; reiteration of the rest signals confidence in the full-year despite muted IP; margins and revenue outlook are stable to improving.
Capex guidance is held at approximately $300 million for the full year, with a focus on investing in the business alongside debt paydown and opportunistic share repurchases.
Management consistently highlights record/marquee wins, strong backlog, and an accelerating technology roadmap, while reiterating or raising guidance.
“So your question about front-end and the back-end, we're working absolutely on both, where the early opportunity that we're seeing, and we're tackling it because of the bottleneck that our customers, they do see, in terms of time and number”
“our confidence in the second half waiting is coming through the roadmap alignment and by when do we deliver on these titles”
“if customers cannot use our technology, they're looking for alternatives. And the customers who can use the technology, they absolutely still prefer to use our technology versus domestic”
“the workflow will change and there will be a monetization adjustment. And the customers, by the way, they're very receptive”
“We feel great. We are sitting at $11.3 billion of backlog, so we've got a strong... understanding of what our customer demands”
| 지표 | 기간 | 범위 | 중간값 | 상태 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS | FY2026 | $14.38–$14.46 | $14.42 | RAISED |
| EPS | FY2026 Q2 | $3.11–$3.17 | $3.14 | GUIDED |
| Free cash flow | FY2026 | $1.9B | $1.9B | MAINTAINED |
| Op margin | FY2026 | 40.5% | 40.5% | MAINTAINED |
| Revenue | FY2026 | $9.56B–$9.66B | $9.61B | MAINTAINED |
| Revenue | FY2026 Q2 | $2.225B–$2.275B | $2.25B | GUIDED |
| 제시 시점 | 지표 | 목표 기간 | 가이던스 | 실제 | 결과 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 Q2 | Op margin | FY2026 Q3 | 40%–41% | 41.6% | Met / beat |
| FY2026 Q2 | Revenue | FY2026 Q3 | $2.41B–$2.46B | $2.477B | Met / beat |
Highlights adoption of Ansys simulation in automotive; Audi is using Synopsys tools to cut physical testing and speed development.
“AI-driven simulation is helping customers like Audi reduce physical prototyping and shorten development cycles”
… on critical tape-outs at 2 nanometer and below. Moving to ANSYS, which delivered a strong Q1 performance driven by robust demand for system-level digital engineering, multi-physics simulation, and AI-enabled design flows. We won large multi-year agreements across aerospace, hyperscale, industrial, and automotive. With ENSYS as part of Synopsys, we now support more than 90% of the top 100 automotive suppliers. And at CES in January, we showcased how AI-driven simulation is helping customers like Audi reduce physical prototyping and shorten development cycles. Our confidence in this business is only increasing as global demand for electrification, autonomy, digital twins, advanced semiconductor design, and mission engineering remains resilient and expanding. Turning to design IP, which performed in line with expectations. As we've said, 2026 is a transitional year for the IP business, and we're focused on aligning the fastest growing segments of the silicon market. We're making progress on this front. The planned sale of our processor IP solutions business to global foundries sharpens our focus on extending our leadership positions in interconnect and foundation IP. As …
Deep collaboration on AI-accelerated chip design is recognized; signals strong relationship and co-development with AMD in leading-edge design.
“receiving World Economic Forum honors for our work with AMD to advance AI accelerated chip design”
… deliver optimal, deterministic, silicon proven results that probabilistic AI models do not replicate. While AI will transform engineering software, Synopsys is already leading that transformation. We're pioneering AI driven design capabilities in our products, that deliver orders of magnitude productivity gains for our customers and pave the way for agent engineers with increasing levels of autonomy. One highlight among many this quarter was receiving World Economic Forum honors for our work with AMD to advance AI accelerated chip design. AI isn't disrupting our business. it's amplifying our strategic advantage. Another market trend and tailwind for Synopsys is the engineering transformation away from physical testing towards digital twins. To build more connected products at pace and at scale, companies are investing in advanced design automation simulation, and digital twins as a competitive imperative. There is incredible demand for silicon-to-system solutions that can enable holistic software-hardware co-design to accelerate, de-risk, and reduce the cost of building AI-powered products. Our combined Synopsys plus Ansys portfolio is increasingly …
Partnership on GPU acceleration and Omniverse is deep; joint R&D to run Synopsys products on NVIDIA GPUs expected to deliver in 2026, with added monetization uplift.
Co-developing orchestration for agentic AI with Microsoft is part of Synopsys's automation roadmap, broadening its ecosystem approach.
Thank you. Good evening. So seeing the first question for you and perhaps somewhat technical, you began your remarks by noting how AI could be variously constructive to your business rather than disruptive. And I happen to agree with that. But I'd like to ask about three ingredients that you might have to execute upon to make sure that continues to be the case. We hear a lot, for example, about orchestration requirements across agentic AI. I think that's probably going to be pertinent to EDA as well, or engineering software broadly. Secondly, data repository across a broad apps portfolio that you now have. And then finally, traceability, particularly for simulation, but also more broadly.…
Yeah, Jay, thank you for the question. If you recall last year at Converge, we put our roadmap for agent engineers. And in that roadmap, we mapped out L1 through L5, where L1, think of it as a reinforcement learning applied to every aspect of the the technology that we offer. In L2, where we have what we call a task agent. In L3, into orchestration of these agents. In L4, into the planning, et cetera, into a full autonomy of orchestration where the human engineer will be dramatically augmented and the workflow will change on how to design the chip. Now, what stitches all of that together is a visibility and continuum of data, exactly the second point that you're mentioning. And then, of course, the traceability, visibility into the accuracy of the verification. Because at the end of the day, what we do, our agents cannot hallucinate. They have to be 100% accurate as you move to the next phase and the following phase of the workflow. We have number of the tasks agents and we have multiple orchestration layer. And we talked about these through some of our partnerships we have with Nvidia, with Microsoft, et cetera, to leverage some of that orchestration layer and the cognitive layer that they offer. So it's a combination of what we're building and what we're partnering with the ecosystem in order to accelerate our roadmap on the vision of an agent engineer, which we believe strongly that we have pioneered, and we continue on engaging the customers there. But I want to make sure that it's clear as well, in order to deliver to that vision, you need the data and you need the verification ability of every step of the flow.
Planned divestiture of ARC processor IP to GlobalFoundries is strategic; GF will enable interface IP and EDA engagement with joint customers.
… cycles. Our confidence in this business is only increasing as global demand for electrification, autonomy, digital twins, advanced semiconductor design, and mission engineering remains resilient and expanding. Turning to design IP, which performed in line with expectations. As we've said, 2026 is a transitional year for the IP business, and we're focused on aligning the fastest growing segments of the silicon market. We're making progress on this front. The planned sale of our processor IP solutions business to global foundries sharpens our focus on extending our leadership positions in interconnect and foundation IP. As interconnect standards evolve at an unprecedented pace, customers count on Synopsys' one generation ahead approach, and in Q1, we saw continued strong demand for high-speed protocol IP. We achieved more than 40 PCIe design wins in the quarter with HPC and automotive customers, achieved an industry-first demonstration of PCIe 8.0, and established first-to-market position with our 224-gig SERDs on advanced nodes and leading foundries with 10 lifetime wins. We continue to expect muted FY26 growth in IP with sequential improvement given our roadmap and sales …
Management explicitly contrasts its deterministic solvers against probabilistic AI model companies, suggesting it views such AI firms as providing substitutes, not solutions.
… and industrial remain subdued despite signals of modest recovery. AI's rapid progress is also prompting healthy debate about whether it will disrupt established software companies. Let me explain why we're different. Our deep tech solutions power the world's most complex engineering efforts. Synopsis decades of deep domain expertise, proprietary code basis and solvers. and native foundry design technology co-optimizations deliver optimal, deterministic, silicon proven results that probabilistic AI models do not replicate. While AI will transform engineering software, Synopsys is already leading that transformation. We're pioneering AI driven design capabilities in our products, that deliver orders of magnitude productivity gains for our customers and pave the way for agent engineers with increasing levels of autonomy. One highlight among many this quarter was receiving World Economic Forum honors for our work with AMD to advance AI accelerated chip design. AI isn't disrupting our business. it's amplifying our strategic advantage. Another market trend and tailwind for Synopsys is the engineering transformation away from physical testing towards digital twins. To build more …