Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) – Analysts at William Blair issued their Q1 2017 EPS estimates for shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report issued on Tuesday. William Blair analyst J. Ho anticipates that the brokerage will post earnings of $1.01 per share for the quarter. William Blair also issued estimates for Check Point Software Technologies’ Q2 2017 earnings at $1.04 EPS.
Other analysts have also recently issued research reports about the stock. Pacific Crest reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Sunday, May 22nd. Wunderlich raised their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $95.00 to $105.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday. Citigroup Inc. raised their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $88.00 to $89.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday. Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Friday, July 15th. Finally, Macquarie started coverage on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, July 8th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $91.00 price target on the stock. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have issued a hold rating and twelve have given a buy rating to the company. The company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $91.09.
Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) traded down 0.24% during midday trading on Thursday, reaching $77.91. The company had a trading volume of 2,018,848 shares. Check Point Software Technologies has a 12 month low of $65.09 and a 12 month high of $89.98. The stock has a market cap of $13.32 billion and a P/E ratio of 20.00. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $81.50 and a 200-day moving average of $82.14.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (Check point) develops, markets and supports a range of products and services for information technology (IT) security. The products and services are sold to enterprises, service providers, small and medium sized businesses and consumers. The Checkpoint’s Software Blade architecture offers enterprises a common platform to deploy independent, modular and interoperable security applications (Software Blades), such as firewall, virtual private network (VPN), intrusion prevention system (IPS), Application Control, Anti-Bot, antivirus, data loss prevention (DLP), policy management, event analysis, or multi-domain management.
