Company: SNPS
Filing Date: 2025-12-22
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000883241-25-000028
Chunk: 42

Company: SYNOPSYS INC
Filing Date: 2025-12-22
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 42
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things, investigations, fines, enforcement actions, disgorgement of profits, damages, civil or criminal penalties or injunctions, and result in our inability to conduct business in one or more countries. Furthermore, any violation individually or in the aggregate could have a material adverse effect on our operations and financial condition.

Our Ansys business distributes its products through a global network of independent channel partners. Difficulties in ongoing relationships with channel partners, such as failure to meet performance criteria, differences in handling customer relationships or the loss of a major channel partner, could adversely affect the performance of our Ansys business. Channel partners may also result in additional compliance burdens for us and any failure by them to comply with various U.S. and foreign laws could subject us to, among other things, investigations, fines, enforcement actions, civil or criminal penalties or injunctions.

Our financial results are also affected by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. A weakening U.S. dollar relative to other currencies increases expenses of our foreign subsidiaries when they are translated into U.S. dollars in our consolidated statements of income. Likewise, a strengthening U.S. dollar relative to other currencies, including the renminbi or Yen, reduces revenue of our foreign subsidiaries upon translation and consolidation. Exchange rates are subject to significant and rapid fluctuations due to a number of factors, including interest rate changes and political and economic uncertainty. Therefore, we cannot predict the prospective impact of exchange rate fluctuations. We may be unable to hedge all of our foreign currency risk, which could have a negative impact on our operating results. 

Our operating results may fluctuate in the future, which may adversely affect our stock price.

Our operating results are subject to quarterly and annual fluctuations, which may adversely affect our stock price. Our historical results should not be viewed as indicative of our future performance due to these periodic fluctuations.

Many factors have in the past and may in the future cause our backlog, revenue or earnings to fluctuate, including, among other things:

•Changes in demand for our products and services—especially products, such as hardware and IP, generating upfront revenue—due to fluctuations in demand for our customers’ products and due to constraints in our customers’ budgets for research and development as well as EDA, IP and S&A products and services;

•Product competition in the EDA, IP, semiconductor or S&A-targeted industries;

•Our ability to innovate and introduce new products and services or effectively reallocate resources across our businesses to target the highest growth opportunities and meet customer demand