SG Americas Securities LLC Has $4.23 Million Stock Position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

SG Americas Securities LLC cut its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) by 68.8% in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 22,799 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 50,172 shares during the quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC’s holdings in Check Point Software Technologies were worth $4,231,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA lifted its stake in Check Point Software Technologies by 27.1% in the third quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 6,170,455 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $1,276,729,000 after buying an additional 1,317,167 shares during the period. Ninety One UK Ltd grew its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 0.3% during the 3rd quarter. Ninety One UK Ltd now owns 2,601,592 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $538,295,000 after buying an additional 8,814 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP grew its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 31.4% during the 3rd quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,497,275 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $516,711,000 after buying an additional 597,413 shares during the period. Ameriprise Financial Inc. increased its stake in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 8.5% in the 3rd 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. Finally, Legal & General Group Plc raised its position in shares of Check Point Software Technologies by 5.8% in the 3rd 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 period. Institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research firms recently weighed in on CHKP. Truist Financial set a $225.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Tuesday, January 20th. Barclays lowered their target price 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 note on Friday, February 13th. Robert W. Baird set a $220.00 price target on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Wells Fargo & Company began coverage on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a report on Tuesday, March 3rd. They issued an “equal weight” rating and a $165.00 price target for the company. Finally, Scotiabank lowered their price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $195.00 to $180.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and fourteen have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $208.26.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

NASDAQ CHKP opened at $145.76 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 1.19 and a current ratio of 2.05. The stock has a market cap of $16.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.12, a PEG ratio of 3.16 and a beta of 0.65. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $162.28 and a 200 day simple moving average of $182.27. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a 52-week low of $135.82 and a 52-week high of $233.78.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates 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 firm had revenue of $744.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $746.40 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.70 earnings per share. The business’s revenue 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. Analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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).