Kepler Cheuvreux Suisse SA Invests $3.45 Million in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Kepler Cheuvreux Suisse SA purchased a new position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) during the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm purchased 16,680 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,451,000.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in CHKP. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA grew its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 27.1% during the 3rd quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 6,170,455 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,276,729,000 after buying an additional 1,317,167 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the second quarter valued at $714,801,000. Ninety One UK Ltd boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 0.3% during the third quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd now owns 2,601,592 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $538,295,000 after acquiring an additional 8,814 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 31.4% during the third quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,497,275 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $516,711,000 after acquiring an additional 597,413 shares during the period. Finally, Ameriprise Financial Inc. grew its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 9.3% during the second quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 2,001,247 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $442,733,000 after acquiring an additional 170,373 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

CHKP has been the topic of several recent research reports. Robert W. Baird set a $220.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Mizuho decreased 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 report on Friday, February 13th. UBS Group set a $200.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, February 12th. KeyCorp raised Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, January 12th. Finally, Scotiabank reduced their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $195.00 to $180.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fourteen have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Check Point Software Technologies has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $212.40.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

CHKP stock opened at $157.32 on Wednesday. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $174.15 and a 200 day simple moving average of $187.13. The company has a market capitalization of $17.30 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.32, a PEG ratio of 3.56 and a beta of 0.63. The company has a quick ratio of 1.19, a current ratio of 2.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $150.17 and a fifty-two week high of $234.35.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.77 by $0.63. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.78% and a return on equity of 38.98%. The firm had revenue of $744.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $746.40 million. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $2.70 EPS. Check Point Software Technologies’s quarterly revenue was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. 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. Sell-side analysts predict that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 earnings per share 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).