Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) Raised to Hold at Argus

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) was upgraded by analysts at Argus to a “hold” rating in a report issued on Thursday,Zacks.com reports.

Several other research firms have also recently commented on CHKP. Evercore set a $185.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. The Goldman Sachs Group cut their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $208.00 to $186.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, February 17th. UBS Group set a $200.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Thursday, February 12th. KeyCorp raised shares of Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, January 12th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets reduced their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Ten equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and thirteen have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Check Point Software Technologies presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $214.80.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Down 1.8%

Shares of CHKP traded down $2.73 during mid-day trading on Thursday, reaching $152.07. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,803,933 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,686,067. The company has a market cap of $16.72 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.43 and a beta of 0.58. The business has a fifty day moving average of $178.12 and a 200 day moving average of $188.47. 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 has a 1 year low of $150.17 and a 1 year high of $234.35.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 period in the previous year, the firm earned $2.70 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies’s quarterly 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. As a group, analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Trading of Check Point Software Technologies

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. 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 in the last quarter. Davis Capital Management acquired a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at $1,276,000. Ninety One UK Ltd lifted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 0.3% during the 3rd quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd now owns 2,601,592 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $538,295,000 after acquiring an additional 8,814 shares during the period. M&G PLC boosted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 48.8% during the 3rd quarter. M&G PLC now owns 119,834 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $24,806,000 after acquiring an additional 39,292 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Meyer Handelman Co. increased its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 11.9% in the third quarter. Meyer Handelman Co. now owns 52,291 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $10,820,000 after acquiring an additional 5,552 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

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).