Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP Shares Acquired by Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd

Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd increased its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 1,482.7% during the first quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 99,169 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 92,903 shares during the period. Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $14,166,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its holdings in shares of 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 purchasing an additional 35,448 shares in the last quarter. Phoenix Financial Ltd. acquired a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies during the fourth quarter worth $30,202,000. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA grew its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% during the fourth 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 in the last quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. increased its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 7.0% in the fourth quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 162,807 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $30,210,000 after buying an additional 10,644 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Ion Asset Management Ltd. acquired a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the third quarter valued at $53,510,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $140.28, for a total transaction of $3,507,000.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 4,008 shares in the company, valued at $562,242.24. This trade represents a 86.18% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 29.00% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

CHKP has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. UBS Group decreased their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $170.00 to $130.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Friday, May 1st. Susquehanna cut their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $255.00 to $140.00 and set a “positive” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Compass Point set a $120.00 target price on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Monday, May 4th. Barclays decreased their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $165.00 to $133.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Finally, Mizuho set a $135.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Nine 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 stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Check Point Software Technologies presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $148.04.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

Shares of CHKP opened at $136.58 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.85 and a quick ratio of 1.85. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 1-year low of $112.23 and a 1-year high of $232.07. The stock has a market cap of $14.42 billion, a PE ratio of 14.02, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.96 and a beta of 0.49. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $127.64 and a 200 day moving average price of $152.88.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.42 by $0.08. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.79% and a net margin of 38.37%.The company had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $672.55 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $2.21 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue 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 8.46 EPS for the current year.

Check Point Software Technologies Company 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).