85,337 Shares in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP Purchased by Intech Investment Management LLC

Intech Investment Management LLC acquired a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund acquired 85,337 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $17,657,000. Intech Investment Management LLC owned approximately 0.08% of Check Point Software Technologies at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in CHKP. MAI Capital Management increased its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 23.3% during the 3rd quarter. MAI Capital Management now owns 3,064 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $634,000 after purchasing an additional 580 shares in the last quarter. TD Asset Management Inc lifted its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 4.4% in the 3rd quarter. TD Asset Management Inc now owns 55,282 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $11,438,000 after purchasing an additional 2,337 shares in the last quarter. Portland Global Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 12.9% during the 3rd quarter. Portland Global Advisors LLC now owns 43,395 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $8,979,000 after purchasing an additional 4,949 shares during the last quarter. Clearstead Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 1.9% during the 3rd quarter. Clearstead Advisors LLC now owns 3,458 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $715,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Marks Group Wealth Management Inc grew its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 14.4% during the third quarter. Marks Group Wealth Management Inc now owns 4,795 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $992,000 after buying an additional 603 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

CHKP has been the subject of several analyst reports. The Goldman Sachs Group cut their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $208.00 to $186.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, February 17th. Evercore set a $185.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. KeyCorp upgraded Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, January 12th. Morgan Stanley set a $197.00 target price on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Finally, Truist Financial set a $225.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Tuesday, January 20th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have given a Buy rating and thirteen have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $214.80.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Performance

Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $152.84 on Thursday. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 12-month low of $150.17 and a 12-month 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. The company has a market capitalization of $16.81 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.85, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.38 and a beta of 0.58. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $179.53 and its 200 day moving average price is $188.91.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.77 by $0.63. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.98% and a net margin of 38.78%.The firm had revenue of $744.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $746.40 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $2.70 earnings per share. Check Point Software Technologies’s revenue for the quarter was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. 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. On average, research analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 EPS for the current fiscal 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).