Analysts Set Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) Target Price at $149.67

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) have been assigned an average rating of “Hold” from the twenty-seven ratings firms that are covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Eighteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have issued a buy rating on the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $149.6667.

CHKP has been the topic of a number of analyst reports. Weiss Ratings raised shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a report on Friday, August 7th. Roth Capital set a $105.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, July 31st. UBS Group upped their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $130.00 to $135.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, July 31st. Raymond James Financial lowered shares of Check Point Software Technologies from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Finally, Bank of America lifted their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $120.00 to $140.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Monday, July 27th.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ CHKP opened at $137.41 on Tuesday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.67, a current ratio of 1.67 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $132.24 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $136.62. Check Point Software Technologies has a 52-week low of $112.23 and a 52-week high of $210.66. The stock has a market capitalization of $14.03 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.06, a P/E/G ratio of 3.83 and a beta of 0.50.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 30th. The technology company reported $2.55 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.45 by $0.10. The business had revenue of $673.60 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $675.45 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.80% and a net margin of 37.93%.The business’s revenue was up 1.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $2.37 EPS. Check Point Software Technologies has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 2.430-2.530 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 10.050-10.850 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.46 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Check Point Software Technologies news, CRO Sherif Seddik sold 10,272 shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $123.59, for a total transaction of $1,269,516.48. Following the sale, the executive owned 24,675 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,049,583.25. The trade was a 29.39% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 29.00% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Check Point Software Technologies

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Horizon Investments LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.9% in the third quarter. Horizon Investments LLC now owns 241 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $50,000 after acquiring an additional 54 shares in the last quarter. Transamerica Financial Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 9.4% in the 4th quarter. Transamerica Financial Advisors LLC now owns 745 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $138,000 after acquiring an additional 64 shares during the last quarter. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC raised its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 42.7% during the 2nd quarter. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC now owns 254 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $33,000 after buying an additional 76 shares during the period. Advisory Services Network LLC raised its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 1.5% during the fourth quarter. Advisory Services Network LLC now owns 5,109 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $948,000 after acquiring an additional 76 shares during the period. Finally, Fifth Third Bancorp lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 18.2% in the fourth quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 525 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $97,000 after purchasing an additional 81 shares in the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by 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).