Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) Hits New 1-Year Low – Should You Sell?

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP)’s stock price reached a new 52-week low during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as low as $152.27 and last traded at $152.44, with a volume of 1479724 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $154.73.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of analysts have issued reports on CHKP shares. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “hold” rating and issued a $180.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, February 13th. Wedbush cut their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 13th. Citigroup decreased their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, January 13th. Barclays lowered their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $220.00 to $195.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $211.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Tuesday, October 28th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have issued a Buy rating and thirteen have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Check Point Software Technologies has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $214.80.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

The company has a quick ratio of 1.19, a current ratio of 2.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The company has a market capitalization of $16.77 billion, a PE ratio of 15.81, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.43 and a beta of 0.58. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $180.22 and its 200 day simple moving average is $189.16.

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

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% during the 4th quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 7,937,229 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,472,832,000 after acquiring an additional 1,766,774 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter valued at $731,276,000. First Trust Advisors LP increased its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 6.3% in the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,654,602 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $492,588,000 after purchasing an additional 157,327 shares during the period. Ninety One UK Ltd lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 0.3% during the third quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd now owns 2,601,592 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $538,295,000 after purchasing an additional 8,814 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Ameriprise Financial Inc. lifted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 8.5% during the third quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 2,171,322 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $449,274,000 after purchasing an additional 170,075 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

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).