Ninety One UK Ltd Cuts Stock Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Ninety One UK Ltd lessened its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 2.0% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 2,549,763 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 51,829 shares during the quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $473,134,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors have also modified their holdings of the stock. HUB Investment Partners LLC raised its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 1.5% during the third quarter. HUB Investment Partners LLC now owns 3,558 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $736,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the last quarter. Modern Wealth Management LLC raised its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 3.6% in the third quarter. Modern Wealth Management LLC now owns 1,513 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $313,000 after acquiring an additional 53 shares in the last quarter. Trust Point Inc. raised its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 2.3% in the third quarter. Trust Point Inc. now owns 2,420 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $501,000 after acquiring an additional 54 shares in the last quarter. Philip James Wealth Mangement LLC raised its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 1.1% in the third quarter. Philip James Wealth Mangement LLC now owns 4,780 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $989,000 after acquiring an additional 54 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Horizon Investments LLC raised its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 28.9% in the third quarter. Horizon Investments LLC now owns 241 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $50,000 after acquiring an additional 54 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms have issued reports on CHKP. Truist Financial set a $225.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Tuesday, January 20th. Weiss Ratings cut Check Point Software Technologies from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 1st. UBS Group cut their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $185.00 to $170.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 8th. KeyCorp upgraded Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, January 12th. Finally, Argus upgraded Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Seven investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $203.91.

Check Point Software Technologies Trading Down 0.9%

Shares of CHKP stock opened at $136.43 on Friday. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $132.43 and a fifty-two week high of $233.78. The stock has a market cap of $14.41 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.15, a P/E/G ratio of 3.04 and a beta of 0.65. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $153.26 and a 200-day simple moving average of $177.49. The company has a quick ratio of 2.05, a current ratio of 2.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.77 by $0.63. The business had revenue of $744.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $746.40 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.98% and a net margin of 38.78%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.70 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies has set its Q1 2026 guidance at 2.350-2.450 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 10.050-10.850 EPS. On average, analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal 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).