Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP Shares Sold by Artemis Investment Management LLP

Artemis Investment Management LLP cut its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 7.2% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 60,242 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 4,693 shares during the quarter. Artemis Investment Management LLP’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $11,179,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in CHKP. Measured Wealth Private Client Group LLC acquired a new position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies in the third quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Ossiam lifted its holdings in Check Point Software Technologies by 139.1% during the 3rd quarter. Ossiam now owns 165 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $34,000 after buying an additional 96 shares in the last quarter. First Horizon Corp acquired a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $38,000. Sunbelt Securities Inc. purchased a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $38,000. Finally, Hilltop National Bank purchased a new position in Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $36,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Evercore set a $185.00 price objective on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Susquehanna decreased their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $255.00 to $140.00 and set a “positive” rating for the company in a report on Friday. Weiss Ratings cut Check Point Software Technologies from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. UBS Group cut their price target on Check Point Software Technologies from $170.00 to $130.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Friday. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $133.00 price target on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday. Eight investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have assigned a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $154.96.

Key Check Point Software Technologies News

Here are the key news stories impacting Check Point Software Technologies this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q1 earnings beat — CHKP reported $2.50 EPS vs. $2.42 consensus and strong margins, showing profitability strength despite softer top‑line metrics. Q1 earnings transcript
• Positive Sentiment: Product/government win — Check Point’s Infinity platform achieved GovRAMP authorization, which can help expand federal/state contracts over time. GovRAMP announcement
• Neutral Sentiment: Mixed quarter — revenue ($668.4M) slightly missed Street estimates even as subscription growth remained healthy; billings also disappointed, which clouds durability of top‑line momentum. Key metrics analysis
• Negative Sentiment: Weaker guidance — CHKP trimmed Q2 revenue and narrowed FY outlook (FY revenue range below consensus), a primary catalyst for the recent negative reaction as investors re‑price growth expectations. Reuters: guidance and results
• Negative Sentiment: Law‑firm investigations — multiple firms (Block & Leviton, Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz and others) have announced securities‑fraud probes into Check Point’s disclosures, increasing legal/ reputational risk and adding selling pressure. Block & Leviton alert Frank R. Cruz notice
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst downgrades & price‑target cuts — several firms trimmed targets (Wells Fargo, RBC, JPMorgan, Piper Sandler) or reduced ratings; while some remain constructive, the clustered cuts pressure the stock near term. Piper Sandler coverage
• Negative Sentiment: Options flow turned bearish — a notable increase in put purchases suggests traders hedging or speculating on further weakness. (Market data entry)

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Up 1.8%

CHKP stock opened at $114.51 on Friday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $146.93 and a 200 day moving average price of $173.21. 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 market cap of $12.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 11.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.53 and a beta of 0.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 2.05 and a quick ratio of 2.05.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.42 by $0.08. The company had revenue of $668.40 million for 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 38.40%. 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 posted $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. Sell-side analysts expect that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.58 earnings per share for the current 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).