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

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) has earned an average rating of “Hold” from the twenty-three ratings firms that are presently covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Fourteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and nine have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1 year target price among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is $212.40.

Several research firms have recently commented on CHKP. Morgan Stanley set a $197.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. KeyCorp upgraded Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, January 12th. UBS Group set a $200.00 target price on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Thursday, February 12th. Evercore set a $185.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, February 13th. Finally, Robert W. Baird set a $220.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $731,276,000. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA boosted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% during the 4th 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 period. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC increased its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 26,561.6% in the 4th 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 valued at $228,962,000 after purchasing an additional 1,229,271 shares during the last quarter. DNB Asset Management AS increased its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 105.0% in the 4th 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 during the last quarter. Finally, Schroder Investment Management Group raised its position 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 period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $153.65 on Tuesday. Check Point Software Technologies has a 12-month low of $150.17 and a 12-month high of $234.35. The stock has a market cap of $16.90 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.94, a PEG ratio of 3.40 and a beta of 0.63. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $172.38 and a 200 day moving average price of $186.44. The company has a current ratio of 2.05, a quick ratio of 1.19 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 earnings per share 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 company had revenue of $744.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $746.40 million. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $2.70 EPS. Check Point Software Technologies’s 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 anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.61 earnings per share for the current year.

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).