Union Square Park Capital Management LLC Has $2.07 Million Stake in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Union Square Park Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 100.0% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 10,000 shares of the technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 5,000 shares during the quarter. Check Point Software Technologies comprises 0.8% of Union Square Park Capital Management LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 29th largest position. Union Square Park Capital Management LLC’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $2,069,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Louisbourg Investments Inc. acquired a new position in Check Point Software Technologies during the 3rd quarter worth $29,000. First Horizon Corp bought a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at $38,000. Heartwood Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at $42,000. Richardson Financial Services Inc. increased its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 63.2% in the 3rd quarter. Richardson Financial Services Inc. now owns 204 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $42,000 after buying an additional 79 shares during the period. Finally, AlphaCore Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies during the second quarter worth $43,000. Institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. UBS Group set a $200.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, February 12th. Stephens lowered their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 13th. TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Thursday, February 19th. Barclays cut their target price 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 report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada lowered their price target on shares of 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. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fourteen have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Check Point Software Technologies has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $212.40.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Down 1.4%

Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $153.65 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $16.90 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.94, a PEG ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 0.63. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $172.38 and its 200 day simple moving average is $186.44. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 2.05 and a quick ratio of 1.19. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $150.17 and a fifty-two week high of $234.35.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.77 by $0.63. The firm 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%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 5.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter 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. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 EPS for the current year.

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).