World Investment Advisors Acquires 8,370 Shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

World Investment Advisors boosted its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 38.4% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 30,146 shares of the technology company’s stock after acquiring an additional 8,370 shares during the period. World Investment Advisors’ holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $5,570,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 28.6% during the fourth quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 7,937,229 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,472,832,000 after acquiring an additional 1,766,774 shares during the last quarter. First Trust Advisors LP lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 31.4% during the third quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,497,275 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $516,711,000 after acquiring an additional 597,413 shares during the last quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. lifted its position in 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 valued at $449,274,000 after acquiring an additional 170,075 shares during the last quarter. Legal & General Group Plc lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 5.8% during the third quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 1,362,148 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $281,842,000 after acquiring an additional 75,056 shares during the last quarter. Finally, WGI DM LLC lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 7.9% during the third quarter. WGI DM LLC now owns 1,304,930 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $270,003,000 after acquiring an additional 95,504 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Trading Down 1.0%

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock opened at $115.17 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.85 and a quick ratio of 1.85. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $141.50 and a 200 day moving average price of $169.27. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 1 year low of $112.23 and a 1 year high of $233.78. The stock has a market cap of $12.16 billion, a PE ratio of 11.82, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.42 and a beta of 0.43.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last issued its earnings results 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. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 38.37% and a return on equity of 38.79%. The firm had revenue of $668.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $672.55 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $2.21 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. 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. Equities research analysts predict that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.49 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Citigroup decreased their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $190.00 to $125.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Monday, May 4th. Mizuho set a $135.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, May 1st. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “hold” rating and issued a $180.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, February 13th. Barclays decreased their price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $165.00 to $133.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, May 1st. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $133.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, May 1st. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $146.50.

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).