Schroder Investment Management Group Increases Stake in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Schroder Investment Management Group lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 18.5% in the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 744,996 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 116,138 shares during the period. Schroder Investment Management Group’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $154,147,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. AQR Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 1st quarter valued at about $262,000. First Horizon Advisors Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 77.4% during the 2nd quarter. First Horizon Advisors Inc. now owns 472 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $104,000 after purchasing an additional 206 shares during the last quarter. Wedbush Securities Inc. grew its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 11.6% in the second quarter. Wedbush Securities Inc. now owns 4,351 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $963,000 after purchasing an additional 451 shares during the last quarter. Metis Global Partners LLC grew its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 3.4% in the second quarter. Metis Global Partners LLC now owns 1,671 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $370,000 after purchasing an additional 55 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Aviva PLC raised its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 70.1% in the second quarter. Aviva PLC now owns 5,602 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,239,000 after purchasing an additional 2,309 shares in the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Down 2.6%

NASDAQ CHKP opened at $160.85 on Tuesday. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $174.75 and its 200-day simple moving average is $187.36. The company has a quick ratio of 1.19, a current ratio of 2.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The firm has a market cap of $17.69 billion, a PE ratio of 16.69, a P/E/G ratio of 3.66 and a beta of 0.63. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 52 week low of $150.17 and a 52 week high of $234.35.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping 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 during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $746.40 million. During the same period last year, the business earned $2.70 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies’s revenue was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. 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. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

CHKP has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. Argus upgraded shares of Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, February 26th. Robert W. Baird set a $220.00 target price on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, February 13th. KeyCorp upgraded Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, January 12th. Citigroup dropped their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, January 13th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “hold” rating and issued a $180.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fourteen have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $212.40.

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).