Havemeyer Place LP acquired a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP – Free Report) in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund acquired 8,174 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,517,000.
Other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Nordea Investment Management AB boosted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 3.3% in the 4th quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 1,106,298 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $205,827,000 after buying an additional 35,448 shares during the period. M&G PLC lifted its position 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 purchasing an additional 39,292 shares during the period. Phoenix Financial Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter worth approximately $30,202,000. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% in 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. Finally, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 7.0% in the 4th quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 162,807 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $30,210,000 after purchasing an additional 10,644 shares during the period. 98.51% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Insider Buying and Selling
In related news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $140.28, for a total transaction of $3,507,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 4,008 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $562,242.24. This represents a 86.18% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 29.00% of the stock is owned by insiders.
Check Point Software Technologies Trading Down 0.5%
Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP – Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.42 by $0.08. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. The company had revenue of $668.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $672.55 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $2.21 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. Check Point Software Technologies has set its FY 2026 guidance at 10.050-10.850 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 2.400-2.500 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Analyst Ratings Changes
Several brokerages have recently weighed in on CHKP. Scotiabank lowered their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $180.00 to $125.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Wedbush lowered their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $160.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $165.00 to $120.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, May 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $168.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Finally, UBS Group cut their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $170.00 to $130.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Check Point Software Technologies presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $146.50.
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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).
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