Headlands Technologies LLC Buys New Shares in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Headlands Technologies LLC bought a new position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm bought 19,882 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,613,000.

Several other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in CHKP. Phoenix Financial Ltd. purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the fourth quarter worth about $30,202,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. grew its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 30.5% during the 4th quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 639,967 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $118,752,000 after acquiring an additional 149,637 shares during the last quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. increased its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 16.2% in the 4th quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,684,756 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $312,623,000 after purchasing an additional 234,539 shares during the period. Hsbc Holdings PLC lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 56.8% in the fourth quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 69,340 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $12,902,000 after purchasing an additional 25,105 shares during the last quarter. Finally, World Investment Advisors lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 38.4% in the fourth quarter. World Investment Advisors now owns 30,146 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $5,594,000 after purchasing an additional 8,370 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several brokerages have recently issued reports on CHKP. BMO Capital Markets cut their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $135.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, May 4th. TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Wells Fargo & Company lowered their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $140.00 to $130.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, July 31st. Raymond James Financial downgraded Check Point Software Technologies from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 15th. Finally, Weiss Ratings upgraded Check Point Software Technologies from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a report on Friday, August 7th. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and nineteen have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Check Point Software Technologies presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $149.67.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Check Point Software Technologies news, CRO Sherif Seddik sold 10,272 shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $123.59, for a total transaction of $1,269,516.48. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive owned 24,675 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,049,583.25. The trade was a 29.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. 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. Also, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the business’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 completion of the sale, the director directly owned 4,008 shares in the company, valued at $562,242.24. This trade represents a 86.18% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders own 29.00% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $138.32 on Monday. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 1 year low of $112.23 and a 1 year high of $210.66. The firm has a market cap of $14.12 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.16, a PEG ratio of 5.14 and a beta of 0.49. The company has a 50-day moving average of $131.18 and a 200 day moving average of $137.66. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 1.67 and a quick ratio of 1.67.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 30th. The technology company reported $2.55 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.45 by $0.10. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 37.93% and a return on equity of 38.80%. The business had revenue of $673.60 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $675.45 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.37 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies’s quarterly revenue was up 1.3% on a year-over-year basis. Check Point Software Technologies has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 2.430-2.530 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 10.050-10.850 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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).