Ion Asset Management Ltd. Makes New $53.51 Million Investment in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Ion Asset Management Ltd. bought a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) in the third quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor bought 258,615 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $53,510,000. Check Point Software Technologies comprises approximately 5.9% of Ion Asset Management Ltd.’s holdings, making the stock its 4th largest position. Ion Asset Management Ltd. owned about 0.24% of Check Point Software Technologies at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. AQR Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the 1st quarter worth $262,000. Allworth Financial LP grew its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 6.2% during the second quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 1,083 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $240,000 after purchasing an additional 63 shares during the period. Security Financial Services INC. grew its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 23.2% during the second quarter. Security Financial Services INC. now owns 1,642 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $363,000 after purchasing an additional 309 shares during the period. SG Americas Securities LLC increased its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 35.0% in the second quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 58,157 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $12,867,000 after buying an additional 15,067 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Creative Planning increased its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 18.2% in the second quarter. Creative Planning now owns 27,474 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $6,079,000 after buying an additional 4,228 shares in the last quarter. 98.51% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Check Point Software Technologies Trading Down 1.4%

CHKP stock opened at $153.65 on Monday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $172.38 and a 200 day moving average price of $186.41. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a fifty-two week low of $150.17 and a fifty-two week high of $234.35. The firm has a market cap of $16.90 billion, a PE ratio of 15.94, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.40 and a beta of 0.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 1.19 and a current ratio of 2.05.

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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms have recently commented on CHKP. KeyCorp raised Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, January 12th. Argus raised shares of Check Point Software Technologies to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, February 26th. UBS Group set a $200.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, February 12th. Evercore set a $185.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets dropped their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fourteen have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Check Point Software Technologies has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $212.40.

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).