Synopsys CEO & Director Sassine Ghazi Files Form 144 to Sell $5.47M in Common Stock
SYNOPSYS INC
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Filing Summary
📢 Form 144 Notice of Proposed Sale Issuer: SYNOPSYS INC ($SNPS) Insider: Sassine E. Ghazi (Officer & Director) Shares Proposed for Sale: 14,604 Estimated Value: $5,474,683.26 Approx. Sale Date: 2026-09-15 Acquisition: Stock Option Exercise (Cash payment, 09/15/2026) Trading Plan: Rule 10b5-1 Plan adopted on 09/19/2025
Comprehensive Analysis
Executive Summary
On September 15, 2026, Sassine E. Ghazi, Officer and Director of Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS), filed a Form 144 notice of proposed sale for 14,604 shares of common stock with an aggregate market value of approximately $5.47 million.
Transaction Breakdown
- Security: Common Stock
- Shares to be Sold: 14,604
- Estimated Aggregate Market Value: $5,474,683.26 (~$374.88 per share)
- Shares Outstanding: 191,636,646 (representing ~0.008% of total shares outstanding)
- Nature of Acquisition: Acquired via cash exercise of stock options on September 15, 2026.
- Broker: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Executive Financial Services
- Trading Plan: Executed pursuant to a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted on September 19, 2025.
Market & Insider Context
Because the sale is linked to a contemporaneous stock option exercise and scheduled under a pre-established Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted nearly a year prior, it represents routine equity compensation monetization rather than discretionary, market-timed selling.
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