Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) Receives $212.40 Average Price Target from Analysts

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

Several equities analysts have issued reports on CHKP shares. Argus raised 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 shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note 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. Royal Bank Of Canada reduced their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $215.00 to $195.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, January 5th. Finally, Citigroup decreased their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, January 13th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in CHKP. Penserra Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 14.1% during the third quarter. Penserra Capital Management LLC now owns 468,954 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $97,030,000 after buying an additional 57,817 shares during the period. Davis Capital Management purchased a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $1,276,000. Ninety One UK Ltd raised its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 0.3% in the 3rd 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. M&G PLC lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 48.8% in the 3rd quarter. M&G PLC now owns 119,834 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $24,806,000 after acquiring an additional 39,292 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Meyer Handelman Co. lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 11.9% in the 3rd quarter. Meyer Handelman Co. now owns 52,291 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $10,820,000 after acquiring an additional 5,552 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Down 0.5%

Shares of CHKP opened at $152.83 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $16.81 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.85, a PEG ratio of 3.40 and a beta of 0.63. Check Point Software Technologies has a 12 month low of $150.17 and a 12 month high of $234.35. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $171.73 and its two-hundred day moving average is $186.14. 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 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. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.98% and a net margin of 38.78%.The firm had revenue of $744.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $746.40 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $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 predict 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).