Clearbridge Investments LLC Grows Stock Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Clearbridge Investments LLC increased its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 1.7% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 987,465 shares of the technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 16,423 shares during the quarter. Clearbridge Investments LLC’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $183,234,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Measured Wealth Private Client Group LLC acquired a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. Ossiam raised its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 139.1% in the 3rd quarter. Ossiam now owns 165 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $34,000 after purchasing an additional 96 shares during the last quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. acquired a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at about $38,000. Hilltop National Bank acquired a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter valued at about $36,000. Finally, LRI Investments LLC raised its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 100.9% in the 4th quarter. LRI Investments LLC now owns 215 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $40,000 after purchasing an additional 108 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

NASDAQ CHKP opened at $135.82 on Monday. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 12 month low of $112.23 and a 12 month high of $233.78. The company has a 50-day moving average of $133.57 and a 200-day moving average of $161.40. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.85 and a quick ratio of 1.85. The company has a market cap of $14.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.94, a P/E/G ratio of 4.00 and a beta of 0.49.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its quarterly earnings data 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 the consensus estimate of $672.55 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $2.21 EPS. The company’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, equities analysts predict that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.47 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity at Check Point Software Technologies

In other news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated 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 transaction, the director 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 SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 29.00% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages recently weighed in on CHKP. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $160.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Weiss Ratings downgraded shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Truist Financial set a $150.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Royal Bank Of Canada cut their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $157.00 to $135.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $133.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $146.50.

Check Point Software Technologies 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).