Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd. Makes New Investment in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. $CHKP

Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd. acquired a new position in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund acquired 200,000 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $37,112,000.

Several other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the stock. Novem Group purchased a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter worth approximately $1,066,000. Evergreen Capital Management LLC boosted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 215.7% in the 4th quarter. Evergreen Capital Management LLC now owns 9,637 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $1,788,000 after purchasing an additional 6,584 shares in the last quarter. PFG Advisors boosted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 16.9% in the 4th quarter. PFG Advisors now owns 1,465 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $272,000 after purchasing an additional 212 shares in the last quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. boosted its position in Check Point Software Technologies by 3.6% in the 4th quarter. TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. now owns 3,487 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $646,000 after purchasing an additional 122 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Earned Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Check Point Software Technologies in the 4th quarter worth approximately $441,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 98.51% of the company’s stock.

Check Point Software Technologies Stock Up 1.4%

NASDAQ CHKP opened at $140.08 on Wednesday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $151.59 and a 200 day moving average price of $176.19. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has a one year low of $132.43 and a one year high of $233.78. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 2.05 and a current ratio of 2.05. The company has a market cap of $14.79 billion, a P/E ratio of 14.53, a P/E/G ratio of 3.05 and a beta of 0.65.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 12th. The technology company reported $3.40 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.77 by $0.63. Check Point Software Technologies had a return on equity of 38.98% and a net margin of 38.78%.The firm had revenue of $744.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $746.40 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $2.70 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. 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. Research analysts anticipate that Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. will post 8.57 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research firms have commented on CHKP. Stephens lowered their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 13th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “hold” rating and issued a $180.00 price objective on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Friday, February 13th. TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Thursday, February 19th. Mizuho decreased their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $205.00 to $165.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, April 14th. Finally, Truist Financial set a $225.00 target price on Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Tuesday, January 20th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, fourteen have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $202.17.

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).