During the last session, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP)’s traded shares were 0.82 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.60. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $215.5, reflecting an intraday loss of -2.60% or -$5.76. The 52-week high for the CHKP share is $234.35, that puts it down -8.75 from that peak though still a striking 21.57% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $169.01. The company’s market capitalization is $23.35B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 0.71 million shares, and the average trade volume was 786.62K shares over the past three months.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (CHKP) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.27. CHKP has a Sell rating from 2 analyst(s) out of 14 analysts who have looked at this stock. 4 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 8 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP) trade information
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (CHKP) registered a -2.60% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -2.60% in intraday trading to $215.5, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -3.64%, and it has moved by -6.16% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 15.43%. The short interest in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP) is 3.72 million shares and it means that shorts have 5.2 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $252.5, which implies an increase of 14.65% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $215 and $260 respectively. As a result, CHKP is trading at a discount of -20.65% off the target high and 0.23% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 6.34%. While earnings are projected to return 8.17% in 2025, the next five years will return 9.66% per annum.
CHKP Dividends
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-23. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP)’s Major holders
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd insiders own 22.97% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 70.39%, with the float percentage being 91.37%. MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/ is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1182.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 5.53 million shares (or 4.9754% of all shares), a total value of $912.07 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 5.49 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 4.9411% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $905.78 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (CHKP) shares are First TRT Exch-Trd Fd. II-First TRT NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF and MFS Series Trust XVII-MFS International Equity Fund . Data provided on May 31, 2025 indicates that First TRT Exch-Trd Fd. II-First TRT NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF owns about 1.55 shares. This amounts to just over 1.41 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $334.42 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 1.4, or about 1.27% of the stock, which is worth about $301.23 million.
