Check Point Software Technologies’ (CHKP) Neutral Rating Reaffirmed at Cantor Fitzgerald

Cantor Fitzgerald reissued their neutral rating on shares of Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) in a report published on Thursday, MarketBeat reports. They currently have a $150.00 price objective on the technology company’s stock.

Other analysts also recently issued research reports about the stock. Bank of America downgraded shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $120.00 price objective for the company. in a report on Monday, May 4th. Weiss Ratings cut shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. The Goldman Sachs Group set a $168.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, May 1st. Truist Financial set a $150.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, TD Cowen set a $180.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Ten analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $150.52.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Down 1.5%

CHKP stock opened at $126.01 on Thursday. Check Point Software Technologies has a fifty-two week low of $112.23 and a fifty-two week high of $224.20. 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 stock has a market capitalization of $13.31 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 12.94, a PEG ratio of 3.78 and a beta of 0.49. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $130.61 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $147.29.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share (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 analysts’ expectations of $672.55 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $2.21 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies’s quarterly revenue was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. 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. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies will post 8.45 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Check Point Software Technologies

In related news, 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 transaction of $3,507,000.00. Following the sale, the director owned 4,008 shares in the company, valued at $562,242.24. The trade was a 86.18% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 29.00% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in CHKP. Phoenix Financial Ltd. acquired a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies during the fourth quarter worth approximately $30,202,000. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% in the fourth quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 7,937,229 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,472,832,000 after buying an additional 1,766,774 shares during the period. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 7.0% in the fourth quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 162,807 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $30,210,000 after buying an additional 10,644 shares during the period. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of 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 buying an additional 149,637 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Assetmark Inc. grew its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 26.3% during the 4th quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 212,965 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $39,518,000 after buying an additional 44,366 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

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).