Nordea Investment Management AB Raises Holdings in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Nordea Investment Management AB grew its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 3.3% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 1,106,298 shares of the technology company’s stock after acquiring an additional 35,448 shares during the quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB owned about 1.01% of Check Point Software Technologies worth $205,827,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of CHKP. AQR Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies during the 1st quarter worth approximately $262,000. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. increased its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 5.9% during the 2nd quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. now owns 3,293 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $728,000 after purchasing an additional 182 shares in the last quarter. Personal CFO Solutions LLC raised its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 10.5% in the second quarter. Personal CFO Solutions LLC now owns 1,224 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $271,000 after buying an additional 116 shares during the last quarter. Swiss National Bank lifted its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 11.1% during the second quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 273,300 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $60,468,000 after buying an additional 27,400 shares during the period. Finally, Magnetar Financial LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies during the second quarter worth $227,000. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities analysts recently issued reports on the company. Evercore set a $185.00 target price on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Piper Sandler lowered their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $260.00 to $240.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 5th. Mizuho dropped their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $225.00 to $205.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 13th. The Goldman Sachs Group cut their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $208.00 to $186.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 17th. Finally, Scotiabank reduced 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 research note on Friday, February 13th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fourteen have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $212.40.

Check Point Software Technologies Trading Down 1.2%

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $152.73 on Monday. The stock has a market cap of $16.80 billion, a PE ratio of 15.84, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.38 and a beta of 0.63. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $168.84 and a 200 day moving average price of $185.05. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 1 year low of $150.17 and a 1 year high of $234.35. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 2.05 and a quick ratio of 1.19.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its quarterly earnings results 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 company had revenue of $744.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $746.40 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.78% and a return on equity of 38.98%. The firm’s revenue was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $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. Equities research analysts predict that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 earnings per share for the current year.

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).