Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) Receives Consensus Rating of “Hold” from Brokerages

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) has earned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the twenty-six research firms that are covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have given a hold rating and ten have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year target price among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $150.2593.

CHKP has been the topic of several recent research reports. Mizuho set a $135.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Cantor Fitzgerald lowered their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $190.00 to $175.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, April 21st. Roth Capital set a $160.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, May 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $168.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Finally, Wedbush lowered their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $160.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, May 1st.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

Shares of CHKP opened at $131.70 on Monday. Check Point Software Technologies has a 1-year low of $112.23 and a 1-year high of $225.23. The company has a current ratio of 1.85, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $127.50 and its 200-day moving average price is $150.70. The firm has a market capitalization of $13.91 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.52, a PEG ratio of 3.89 and a beta of 0.49.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.42 by $0.08. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. The business had revenue of $668.40 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $672.55 million. During the same period last year, the business posted $2.21 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies’s quarterly revenue was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. 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 anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.46 EPS for the current year.

Insider Activity

In other news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $140.28, for a total value of $3,507,000.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 4,008 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $562,242.24. The trade was a 86.18% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders own 29.00% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Check Point Software Technologies

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in CHKP. Measured Wealth Private Client Group LLC purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter worth about $27,000. Abound Financial LLC purchased a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies during the 4th quarter valued at about $27,000. MV Capital Management Inc. bought a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies during the 4th quarter valued at about $28,000. Ossiam increased its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 139.1% during the 3rd quarter. Ossiam now owns 165 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $34,000 after purchasing an additional 96 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sunbelt Securities Inc. purchased a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the third quarter worth about $38,000. 98.51% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

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).