Check Point Software Technologies Ltd CHKP

What the company does

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd is a large-cap company in the Technology sector (Software - Infrastructure), with a market value of $14.0B, based in the USA.

It employs about 6,825 people and has been listed since Jun 28, 1996.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops, markets, and supports a range of products and services for IT security worldwide. It provides a multilevel security architecture that defends enterprises' cloud, network, mobile devices, endpoints information, and IOT solutions.

Cheap or expensive? relatively cheap

Its price-to-earnings (P/E) is 14.0 versus 43.5 for the median of the Technology sector in our universe (65 companies) — relatively cheap.

Revenue is growing 1% versus the same quarter last year.

On analysts' next-year forecasts the multiple drops to 12.5 — they expect higher earnings.

The average analyst price target is 145.83, 6% above the current price (their view, not ours).

The stock sits at 25% of its one-year range (0% = the low, 100% = the high).

The risks

• • The stock is 35% below its one-year high.

Strengths

• ✅ Profitable — 29 of every 100 dollars of revenue stays as profit.
• ✅ Generates free cash flow — profit becomes cash in the bank.
• ✅ Buys back its shares (6% fewer shares in a year).
• ✅ More cash than debt.
• ✅ Most analysts rate it buy (13 vs 0).

What changed this week

Over the past week the stock rose 5.2% (for comparison: S&P 500 +1.2%, sector ETF XLK -0.5%).

No notable news about the company was found in the past week.

What changed since last week

This is the first summary for this stock; from next week this section shows what changed.