Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) Receives $146.50 Average PT from Brokerages

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) have been given an average recommendation of “Hold” by the twenty-five ratings firms that are presently covering the company, MarketBeat reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, sixteen have issued a hold recommendation and eight have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $146.50.

A number of research analysts have recently commented on the stock. TD Cowen set a $180.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. Stephens reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $145.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Thursday, April 30th. Royal Bank Of Canada dropped their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $157.00 to $135.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, May 1st. Evercore set a $185.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, Barclays dropped their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $165.00 to $133.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, May 1st.

Institutional Trading of Check Point Software Technologies

A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in CHKP. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies during the 4th quarter worth $731,276,000. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% during the 4th quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 7,937,229 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,472,832,000 after acquiring an additional 1,766,774 shares during the last quarter. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 26,561.6% during the 4th quarter. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC now owns 1,233,899 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $228,962,000 after acquiring an additional 1,229,271 shares during the last quarter. DNB Asset Management AS lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 105.0% during the 4th quarter. DNB Asset Management AS now owns 1,820,339 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $337,782,000 after acquiring an additional 932,485 shares during the last quarter. Finally, First Trust Advisors LP lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 31.4% during the 3rd quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,497,275 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $516,711,000 after acquiring an additional 597,413 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Up 2.8%

CHKP opened at $135.05 on Friday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $134.74 and a 200-day moving average price of $163.84. The firm has a market capitalization of $14.26 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.87, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.98 and a beta of 0.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.85 and a quick ratio of 1.85. Check Point Software Technologies has a one year low of $112.23 and a one year high of $233.78.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.42 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $668.40 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $672.55 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $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. Equities research analysts expect that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About Check Point Software Technologies

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).