OCONNOR A Distinct Business Unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC Purchases New Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

OCONNOR A Distinct Business Unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC purchased a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund purchased 10,370 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,924,000.

A number of other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. HUB Investment Partners LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 1.5% in the third quarter. HUB Investment Partners LLC now owns 3,558 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $736,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the period. Modern Wealth Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 3.6% in the third quarter. Modern Wealth Management LLC now owns 1,513 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $313,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares during the period. Horizon Investments LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.9% in the third quarter. Horizon Investments LLC now owns 241 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $50,000 after purchasing an additional 54 shares during the period. Leonard Rickey Investment Advisors P.L.L.C. boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 4.6% in the fourth quarter. Leonard Rickey Investment Advisors P.L.L.C. now owns 1,353 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $251,000 after purchasing an additional 59 shares during the period. Finally, RIA Advisory Group LLC raised its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 5.1% in the fourth quarter. RIA Advisory Group LLC now owns 1,258 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $233,000 after buying an additional 61 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

Shares of CHKP stock opened at $123.46 on Tuesday. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $131.44 and its 200-day simple moving average is $158.84. The company has a market cap of $13.04 billion, a PE ratio of 12.68, a PEG ratio of 3.66 and a beta of 0.49. The company has a current ratio of 1.85, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 12-month low of $112.23 and a 12-month high of $232.07.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.42 by $0.08. The business had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $672.55 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.79% and a net margin of 38.37%.The business’s quarterly revenue was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $2.21 earnings per share. 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. Analysts expect that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts recently commented on the stock. Susquehanna reduced their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $255.00 to $140.00 and set a “positive” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Roth Mkm set a $160.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Bank of America downgraded shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $120.00 price objective for the company. in a research note on Monday, May 4th. Compass Point set a $120.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Monday, May 4th. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $133.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $146.50.

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).