Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP Shares Bought by World Investment Advisors

World Investment Advisors boosted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 38.4% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The firm owned 30,146 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 8,370 shares during the quarter. World Investment Advisors’ holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $5,570,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in CHKP. Penserra Capital Management LLC grew its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 14.1% during the 3rd quarter. Penserra Capital Management LLC now owns 468,954 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $97,030,000 after acquiring an additional 57,817 shares in the last quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB lifted its stake 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 worth $205,827,000 after purchasing an additional 35,448 shares in the last quarter. M&G PLC lifted its stake in 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 in the last quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. lifted its stake in 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 in the last quarter. Finally, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its stake in 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 in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Down 1.0%

CHKP stock opened at $115.17 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $12.16 billion, a PE ratio of 11.82, a PEG ratio of 3.42 and a beta of 0.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a current ratio of 1.85. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $141.50 and its 200-day moving average price is $169.27. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a one year low of $112.23 and a one year high of $233.78.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.42 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $672.55 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $2.21 EPS. 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. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.49 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

CHKP has been the topic of a number of research reports. Wedbush decreased their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $160.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Weiss Ratings lowered shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Stephens reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a $145.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Scotiabank decreased their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $180.00 to $125.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reissued a “hold” rating and issued a $180.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, February 13th. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Check Point Software Technologies currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $146.50.

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).