Brokerages Set Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) Price Target at $212.40

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) has been given an average rating of “Hold” by the twenty-three research firms that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Fourteen analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have given a buy rating to the company. The average 12-month price target among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $212.40.

CHKP has been the topic of several analyst reports. Citigroup reduced their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, January 13th. UBS Group set a $200.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Thursday, February 12th. Scotiabank reduced their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $195.00 to $180.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 13th. Stephens decreased their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, Mizuho lowered their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $225.00 to $205.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 13th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter valued at about $731,276,000. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% during the fourth quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 7,937,229 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,472,832,000 after purchasing an additional 1,766,774 shares during the last quarter. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 26,561.6% during the fourth 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 purchasing an additional 1,229,271 shares during the last quarter. DNB Asset Management AS boosted its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 105.0% in the fourth quarter. DNB Asset Management AS now owns 1,820,339 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $337,782,000 after purchasing an additional 932,485 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Schroder Investment Management Group increased its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 2,413.2% in the second quarter. Schroder Investment Management Group now owns 628,858 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $139,135,000 after purchasing an additional 603,836 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ CHKP opened at $155.78 on Tuesday. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $172.93 and its two-hundred day moving average is $186.68. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 2.05 and a quick ratio of 1.19. Check Point Software Technologies has a 1-year low of $150.17 and a 1-year high of $234.35. The company has a market cap of $17.13 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.16, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.41 and a beta of 0.63.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.77 by $0.63. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.98% and a net margin of 38.78%.The business had revenue of $744.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $746.40 million. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.70 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. 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. Analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.61 EPS 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).