National Pension Service trimmed its position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP – Free Report) by 85.3% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 59,479 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 344,456 shares during the period. National Pension Service’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $11,037,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. Ltd. purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies during the 4th quarter valued at about $398,000. United Super Pty Ltd in its capacity as Trustee for the Construction & Building Unions Superannuation Fund purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies during the 4th quarter valued at about $7,413,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 4.6% during the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 29,370 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $5,450,000 after buying an additional 1,279 shares in the last quarter. IFG Advisory LLC lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 1.4% during the 4th quarter. IFG Advisory LLC now owns 32,424 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $6,017,000 after buying an additional 454 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Kingsview Wealth Management LLC lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 9.0% during the 4th quarter. Kingsview Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,282 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $423,000 after buying an additional 188 shares in the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
CHKP has been the topic of a number of analyst reports. Compass Point set a $120.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Monday, May 4th. Piper Sandler cut Check Point Software Technologies from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $120.00 price objective on the stock. in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. Robert W. Baird set a $220.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Royal Bank Of Canada lowered their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $157.00 to $135.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Finally, Scotiabank lowered their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $180.00 to $125.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $146.50.
Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance
NASDAQ CHKP opened at $135.05 on Monday. The company has a market cap of $14.26 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.87, a P/E/G ratio of 3.98 and a beta of 0.49. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a current ratio of 1.85. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $134.74 and its 200-day moving average price is $163.57. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $112.23 and a fifty-two week high of $233.78.
Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.42 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $672.55 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.79% and a net margin of 38.37%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $2.21 EPS. Check Point Software Technologies has set its FY 2026 guidance at 10.050-10.850 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 2.400-2.500 EPS. Sell-side analysts predict that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.47 earnings per share for the current year.
Check Point Software Technologies Company Profile
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli-founded cybersecurity company that develops, markets and supports a broad portfolio of network, cloud and endpoint security products. Founded in 1993, the company was an early pioneer of stateful inspection firewall technology and later developed a modular “software blade” approach that allowed customers to combine protection capabilities. Check Point’s product set spans physical and virtual security appliances, software and cloud-native services designed to prevent cyberattacks, protect data and simplify security management for enterprises and service providers.
Key product families include Quantum Security Gateways (on-premises and hybrid appliances), CloudGuard (cloud security posture and workload protection), Harmony (endpoint, remote access and unified endpoint security), and SandBlast (advanced threat prevention and sandboxing).
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