Inspire Investing LLC Boosts Holdings in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Inspire Investing LLC lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 39.0% in the first quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 20,170 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 5,662 shares during the period. Inspire Investing LLC’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $2,881,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA grew its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% in 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 acquiring an additional 1,766,774 shares during the period. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the fourth quarter valued at $731,276,000. First Trust Advisors LP lifted its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 6.3% in the 4th quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,654,602 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $492,588,000 after purchasing an additional 157,327 shares during the last quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 8.5% during the 3rd quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 2,171,322 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $449,274,000 after purchasing an additional 170,075 shares during the period. Finally, DNB Asset Management AS increased its position 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 purchasing an additional 932,485 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have commented on the stock. Morgan Stanley set a $133.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Stifel Nicolaus set a $120.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Weiss Ratings lowered shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. Scotiabank lowered their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $180.00 to $125.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $185.00 to $135.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, May 1st. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $146.50.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $128.75 on Tuesday. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $127.88 and a 200-day simple moving average of $154.19. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a current ratio of 1.85. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a one year low of $112.23 and a one year high of $232.07. The company has a market cap of $13.60 billion, a PE ratio of 13.22, a P/E/G ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 0.49.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share for the quarter, beating 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 firm had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $672.55 million. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $2.21 earnings per share. The firm’s 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. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.46 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Check Point Software Technologies

In other news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock in a transaction 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 completion of the sale, 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 position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, 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.

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).