APG Asset Management N.V. Lowers Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

APG Asset Management N.V. decreased its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 1.9% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 167,429 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 3,300 shares during the quarter. APG Asset Management N.V. owned 0.15% of Check Point Software Technologies worth $34,643,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the stock. Penserra Capital Management LLC grew its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 14.1% in the third quarter. Penserra Capital Management LLC now owns 468,954 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $97,030,000 after acquiring an additional 57,817 shares in the last quarter. Davis Capital Management bought a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies during the third quarter worth about $1,276,000. Ninety One UK Ltd lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 0.3% during the third quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd now owns 2,601,592 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $538,295,000 after purchasing an additional 8,814 shares during the last quarter. M&G PLC boosted its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 48.8% in the 3rd quarter. M&G PLC now owns 119,834 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $24,806,000 after purchasing an additional 39,292 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Meyer Handelman Co. increased its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 11.9% during the 3rd quarter. Meyer Handelman Co. now owns 52,291 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $10,820,000 after purchasing an additional 5,552 shares during the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research firms recently weighed in on CHKP. Royal Bank Of Canada dropped their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $215.00 to $195.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 5th. Barclays decreased their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $220.00 to $195.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 13th. Truist Financial set a $225.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Tuesday, January 20th. Wedbush decreased their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, February 19th. Ten investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and thirteen have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $214.80.

Check Point Software Technologies Trading Down 1.8%

Shares of CHKP opened at $152.07 on Monday. 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 current ratio of 2.05, a quick ratio of 1.19 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $178.12 and its 200-day moving average price is $188.53. The firm has a market capitalization of $16.72 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.77, a PEG ratio of 3.37 and a beta of 0.63.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.77 by $0.63. The company 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%. Check Point Software Technologies’s revenue was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm 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. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 EPS for the current 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).