World Investment Advisors Increases Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

World Investment Advisors lifted its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 38.4% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 30,146 shares of the technology company’s stock after buying an additional 8,370 shares during the period. World Investment Advisors’ holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $5,594,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Measured Wealth Private Client Group LLC purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $27,000. Abound Financial LLC purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter worth approximately $27,000. MV Capital Management Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter worth approximately $28,000. Ossiam boosted its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 139.1% in the 3rd quarter. Ossiam now owns 165 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $34,000 after buying an additional 96 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sunbelt Securities Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $38,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on CHKP. Weiss Ratings downgraded Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $120.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Piper Sandler downgraded Check Point Software Technologies from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $120.00 price objective on the stock. in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. TD Cowen set a $180.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group set a $168.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, May 1st. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $146.50.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Up 2.0%

CHKP opened at $131.33 on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average of $135.10 and a 200 day moving average of $164.04. The company has a market cap of $13.87 billion, a PE ratio of 13.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.79 and a beta of 0.43. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 12 month low of $112.23 and a 12 month high of $233.78. The company has a current ratio of 1.85, a quick ratio of 1.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.42 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $668.40 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $672.55 million. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. Check Point Software Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $2.21 EPS. 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, sell-side analysts expect that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.47 EPS for the current year.

Check Point Software Technologies 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).