Aware Super Pty Ltd as trustee of Aware Super Takes Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Aware Super Pty Ltd as trustee of Aware Super purchased a new stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) during the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund purchased 21,787 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,112,000.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Horizon Investments LLC raised its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 28.9% during the third quarter. Horizon Investments LLC now owns 241 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $50,000 after acquiring an additional 54 shares in the last quarter. Leonard Rickey Investment Advisors P.L.L.C. raised its holdings in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 4.6% in the 4th quarter. Leonard Rickey Investment Advisors P.L.L.C. now owns 1,353 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $251,000 after buying an additional 59 shares in the last quarter. RIA Advisory Group LLC boosted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 5.1% in the fourth quarter. RIA Advisory Group LLC now owns 1,258 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $233,000 after purchasing an additional 61 shares in the last quarter. Transamerica Financial Advisors LLC lifted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 9.4% during the 4th quarter. Transamerica Financial Advisors LLC now owns 745 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $138,000 after buying an additional 64 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Diversified Trust Co. grew its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 0.7% during the fourth quarter. Diversified Trust Co. now owns 9,975 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,851,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research analysts have issued reports on CHKP shares. Truist Financial set a $150.00 target price on Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. UBS Group reduced their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $170.00 to $130.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, May 1st. Morgan Stanley set a $133.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Friday, May 1st. Stephens reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $145.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, Compass Point set a $120.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Monday, May 4th. Ten equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $150.70.

Check Point Software Technologies Trading Up 0.4%

Shares of CHKP opened at $137.10 on Friday. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a twelve month low of $112.23 and a twelve month high of $225.23. The company has a quick ratio of 1.85, a current ratio of 1.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70. The stock has a market cap of $14.48 billion, a PE ratio of 14.08, a P/E/G ratio of 4.03 and a beta of 0.49. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $129.55 and its 200-day moving average price is $149.12.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 30th. The technology company reported $2.50 earnings per share for the quarter, beating 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 for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $672.55 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $2.21 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. 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. On average, equities analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.46 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Check Point Software Technologies news, Director Yoav Chelouche sold 25,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $140.28, for a total transaction of $3,507,000.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 4,008 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $562,242.24. The trade was a 86.18% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Company insiders own 29.00% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies 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).