Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP)’s traded shares stood at 0.79 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.60. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $220.11, to imply a decrease of -0.86% or -$1.9 in intraday trading. The CHKP share’s 52-week high remains $234.35, putting it -6.47% down since that peak but still an impressive 23.22% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $169.01. The company has a valuation of $23.85B, with an average of 0.63 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 707.17K shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (CHKP), translating to a mean rating of 2.27. Of 14 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 2 analyst(s) give CHKP a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 4 advise Hold as 8 recommend it as a Buy.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP) trade information
After registering a -0.86% downside in the last session, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (CHKP) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 2.15%, and 0.54% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 29.48%. Short interest in Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP) saw shorts transact 3.49 million shares and set a 5.01 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $215 and $260 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, CHKP has been trading -18.12% off suggested target high and 2.32% from its likely low.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 6.34% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 8.15% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 9.71% annually.
CHKP Dividends
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd has its next earnings report out on 2025-Apr-23. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:CHKP)’s Major holders
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd insiders hold 22.97% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 70.83% of the shares at 91.95% float percentage. In total, 70.83% institutions holds shares in the company, led by MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES CO /MA/. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 5.53 million shares (or 4.9754% of shares), all amounting to roughly $912.07 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 5.49 million shares, or about 4.9411% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $905.78 million.
We also have First TRT Exch-Trd Fd. II-First TRT NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF and MFS Series Trust XVII-MFS International Equity Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (CHKP) shares. Going by data provided on May 31, 2025 , First TRT Exch-Trd Fd. II-First TRT NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF holds roughly 1.55 shares. This is just over 1.41% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $341.57 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 1.4, or 1.27% of the shares, all valued at about 307.68 million.
