OCONNOR A Distinct Business Unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC Invests $1.92 Million 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 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm purchased 10,370 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,924,000.

Other large investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. HUB Investment Partners LLC raised its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. HUB Investment Partners LLC now owns 3,558 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $736,000 after buying an additional 53 shares during the period. Modern Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 3.6% during the third quarter. Modern Wealth Management LLC now owns 1,513 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $313,000 after acquiring an additional 53 shares in the last quarter. Horizon Investments LLC grew its stake in 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 acquiring an additional 54 shares during the period. Leonard Rickey Investment Advisors P.L.L.C. grew its stake in 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 acquiring an additional 59 shares during the period. Finally, RIA Advisory Group LLC increased its holdings in shares of 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 acquiring an additional 61 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

CHKP stock opened at $122.33 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $129.40 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $157.23. 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 $12.92 billion, a PE ratio of 12.56, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.60 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 (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.42 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $668.40 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $672.55 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.79% and a net margin of 38.37%.The company’s quarterly revenue was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company 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. Equities analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.47 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Check Point Software Technologies

In related news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock in a transaction that occurred 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 sale, the director owned 4,008 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $562,242.24. This trade represents a 86.18% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Corporate insiders own 29.00% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on CHKP shares. Stifel Nicolaus set a $120.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st. JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $185.00 to $135.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Bank of America cut Check Point Software Technologies from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $120.00 target price for the company. in a research note on Monday, May 4th. Citigroup dropped their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $190.00 to $125.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, May 4th. Finally, Wedbush cut their price target 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. Eight 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. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average 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).