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

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) have been assigned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the twenty-five research firms that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, sixteen have given a hold recommendation and eight have assigned a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1-year target price among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $146.50.

A number of brokerages recently commented on CHKP. Cantor Fitzgerald lowered their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $190.00 to $175.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, April 21st. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $168.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Barclays lowered their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $165.00 to $133.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Piper Sandler downgraded shares of 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. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $120.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $121.89 on Thursday. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $130.39 and its 200-day simple moving average is $157.96. The company has a market cap of $12.87 billion, a P/E ratio of 12.51, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.59 and a beta of 0.49. 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 fifty-two week low of $112.23 and a fifty-two week high of $232.07.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.42 by $0.08. The business had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $672.55 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $2.21 earnings per share. 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. As a group, equities research analysts predict that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.47 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $140.28, for a total transaction of $3,507,000.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 4,008 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $562,242.24. The trade was a 86.18% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible 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 Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in CHKP. Parallel Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 18.2% in the first quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 2,372 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $339,000 after acquiring an additional 366 shares during the last quarter. First Nebraska Trust Co acquired a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the first quarter valued at approximately $3,280,000. Keel Point LLC lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 1.1% in the first quarter. Keel Point LLC now owns 19,045 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $2,721,000 after acquiring an additional 201 shares during the last quarter. Glenmede Trust Co. NA lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 20.1% in the first quarter. Glenmede Trust Co. NA now owns 2,195 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $314,000 after acquiring an additional 367 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Compass Capital Management Inc. lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 5.6% in the first quarter. Compass Capital Management Inc. now owns 307,781 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $43,967,000 after acquiring an additional 16,441 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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).