Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) Receives $208.26 Consensus PT from Analysts

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) has been given a consensus recommendation of “Hold” by the twenty-two analysts that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Fifteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price target among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $206.9565.

CHKP has been the subject of several research reports. Evercore set a $185.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. Citigroup dropped their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 13th. Barclays dropped their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $220.00 to $195.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 13th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “hold” rating and issued a $180.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group lowered their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $208.00 to $186.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, February 17th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Hsbc Holdings PLC lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 56.8% in the 4th quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 69,340 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $12,902,000 after acquiring an additional 25,105 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New Hampshire lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 35.8% in the 4th quarter. Bank of New Hampshire now owns 1,594 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $296,000 after acquiring an additional 420 shares during the last quarter. World Investment Advisors lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 38.4% in the 4th quarter. World Investment Advisors now owns 30,146 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $5,594,000 after acquiring an additional 8,370 shares during the last quarter. OCONNOR A Distinct Business Unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC bought a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter valued at about $1,924,000. Finally, DGS Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 3.0% in the 4th quarter. DGS Capital Management LLC now owns 12,107 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $2,247,000 after acquiring an additional 357 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Down 1.7%

CHKP opened at $145.87 on Friday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $158.92 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $180.53. Check Point Software Technologies has a 52 week low of $135.82 and a 52 week high of $233.78. The company has a market capitalization of $15.40 billion, a PE ratio of 15.13, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.28 and a beta of 0.65. 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 (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its quarterly earnings data 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 business had revenue of $744.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $746.40 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $2.70 EPS. The business’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. Analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal 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).