Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) Upgraded at Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company upgraded shares of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) to a hold rating in a research note issued to investors on Monday,Zacks.com reports.

CHKP has been the subject of several other research reports. Scotiabank dropped their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $195.00 to $180.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 13th. Royal Bank Of Canada dropped their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $215.00 to $195.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, January 5th. Mizuho cut their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $225.00 to $205.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 13th. Robert W. Baird set a $220.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, UBS Group set a $200.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Thursday, February 12th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fourteen have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $212.40.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $158.04 on Monday. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $176.24 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $187.90. Check Point Software Technologies has a 12-month low of $150.17 and a 12-month high of $234.35. The firm has a market cap of $17.38 billion, a PE ratio of 16.39, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.54 and a beta of 0.63. The company has a quick ratio of 1.19, a current ratio of 2.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.77 by $0.63. The firm had revenue of $744.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $746.40 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.78% and a return on equity of 38.98%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $2.70 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies has set its Q1 2026 guidance at 2.350-2.450 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 10.050-10.850 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.61 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Check Point Software Technologies

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Legacy Investment Solutions LLC purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies during the second quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Abound Financial LLC bought a new position in Check Point Software Technologies during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Measured Wealth Private Client Group LLC purchased a new position in Check Point Software Technologies during the third quarter valued at $27,000. MV Capital Management Inc. bought a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the fourth quarter worth $28,000. Finally, Louisbourg Investments Inc. bought a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the third quarter worth $29,000. Institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

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).