J. Safra Sarasin Holding AG Has $367,000 Stock Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

J. Safra Sarasin Holding AG cut its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 82.4% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,978 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 9,230 shares during the period. J. Safra Sarasin Holding AG’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $367,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. AQR Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the first quarter valued at about $262,000. American Century Companies Inc. grew its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 9.5% during the 2nd quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 25,062 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $5,545,000 after buying an additional 2,166 shares during the period. Prudential Financial Inc. increased its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 64.1% in the 2nd quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 7,285 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,612,000 after acquiring an additional 2,846 shares during the last quarter. Choreo LLC increased its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 18.3% in the 2nd quarter. Choreo LLC now owns 2,055 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $455,000 after acquiring an additional 318 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Quantbot Technologies LP acquired a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $4,927,000. Institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Up 1.7%

CHKP stock opened at $148.23 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 2.05 and a quick ratio of 1.19. The stock has a market capitalization of $15.65 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.38, a P/E/G ratio of 3.23 and a beta of 0.65. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $135.82 and a fifty-two week high of $233.78. The business has a 50-day moving average of $161.69 and a 200-day moving average of $182.03.

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

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on CHKP. Wedbush decreased their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 13th. Weiss Ratings lowered shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a report on Wednesday. Piper Sandler reduced their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $260.00 to $240.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, January 5th. Royal Bank Of Canada decreased their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $215.00 to $195.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a report on Monday, January 5th. Finally, Argus upgraded shares of Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, February 26th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fifteen have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $208.26.

Check Point Software Technologies 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).