Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.130-2.230 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.220. The company issued revenue guidance of $619.0 million-$649.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $633.1 million. Check Point Software Technologies also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 9.600-10.200 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research analysts have weighed in on the stock. Piper Sandler increased their target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies from $185.00 to $195.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Monday, January 6th. Citigroup boosted their target price on Check Point Software Technologies from $185.00 to $190.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Mizuho lifted their price objective on Check Point Software Technologies from $178.00 to $205.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 17th. Guggenheim reissued a “neutral” rating on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research note on Friday, January 24th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and issued a $200.00 target price on shares of Check Point Software Technologies in a research report on Monday. Seventeen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $206.60.

Check Point Software Technologies Price Performance

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies stock traded up $15.09 during trading on Thursday, hitting $218.99. The stock had a trading volume of 2,068,454 shares, compared to its average volume of 813,368. The business has a fifty day moving average of $187.20 and a two-hundred day moving average of $187.22. The firm has a market cap of $24.08 billion, a P/E ratio of 29.92, a PEG ratio of 3.05 and a beta of 0.63. Check Point Software Technologies has a fifty-two week low of $145.75 and a fifty-two week high of $226.03.

Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 29th. The technology company reported $2.25 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $2.25. Check Point Software Technologies had a net margin of 33.17% and a return on equity of 31.84%. The firm had revenue of $635.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $634.96 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.80 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 6.5% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts forecast that Check Point Software Technologies will post 7.87 earnings per share for the current year.

Check Point Software Technologies Company Profile

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops, markets, and supports a range of products and services for IT security worldwide. The company offers a multilevel security architecture, cloud, network, mobile devices, endpoints information, and IOT solutions. It provides Check Point Infinity Architecture, a cyber security architecture that protects against fifth generation cyber-attacks across various networks, endpoint, cloud, workloads, Internet of Things, and mobile.