Check Point Software Technologies
CHKP on Nasdaq. Prepackaged software. Market value $13.3bn.
This company reports once a year (it is based outside the US), so every figure comes from its annual report for the year to December 2025.
We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.
Should I look at this?
Worth a closer look
Why it could be worth it
What to watch out for
Nothing stood out in the numbers we check.
This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $8.42 of spare cash last year. A savings account pays about $4.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
Quality score: 80 of 100. Price score: 83 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$131.98 a share, 18% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $112.23 to $210.66.
Pays no dividend
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $2.2bn | $2.3bn | $2.4bn | $2.6bn | $2.7bn |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 41.9% | 38.0% | 37.2% | 34.2% | 30.5% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.13bn | 0.12bn | 0.11bn | 0.11bn | 0.11bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)6 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- DebtUnknown
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 5.7% a year
- Buying back its own sharesYes, 18% fewer since 2021
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 31 March 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- n/a
Who owns it
4 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 4 last quarter. 640 funds in all.
- LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok
- Value
- $973,000
- Share of fund
- <0.1%
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston PartnersBoston Partners team | $132m | 0.1% | Cut |
| Hotchkis & WileyHotchkis & Wiley team | $131m | 0.4% | New |
| GMOJeremy Grantham | $3m | <0.1% | Added |
| LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok | $973,000 | <0.1% |
Sold out this quarter
- Sound Shore ManagementHarry BurnSold out
Largest holders overall
- Massachusetts Financial Services$1.2bnAdded
- BlackRock$931mAdded
- Banque Cantonale Vaudoise$514mCut
- Acadian Asset Management$467mAdded
- Ninety One UK$335m
- First Trust Advisors LP$335mAdded
- DNB Asset Management AS$264mAdded
- Ameriprise Financial$251mCut
- Deutsche Bank AG$234mAdded
- State Street$231mCut
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
2 investors own more than 5%.
- Gil ShwedPassive investor25.5%+0.4 ptsSince 30 June 2026
- Massachusetts Financial Services CompanyPassive investor7.4%+1.7 ptsSince 31 December 2025
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
Gil Shwed Passive investor | 25.5%+0.4 pts | 30 June 2026 | |
Massachusetts Financial Services Company Passive investor | 7.4%+1.7 pts | 31 December 2025 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 6 sold $12m, $12m of it under preset trading plans.
- Seddik SherifChief Revenue OfficerSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 4 August 2026
- Shares
- 10,272
- Price
- $123.59
- Value
- $1m
- Kremer NatalyChief Product OfficerSold
- Date
- 3 August 2026
- Shares
- 665
- Price
- $123.64
- Value
- $82,222
- Golan RoeiChief Financial OfficerSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 3 August 2026
- Shares
- 9,860
- Price
- $123.75
- Value
- $1m
- Shavit Shenhav TalDirectorSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 11 June 2026
- Shares
- 25,000
- Price
- $123.07
- Value
- $3m
- UNGERMAN JERRY TDirectorSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 11 June 2026
- Shares
- 25,000
- Price
- $122.55
- Value
- $3m
- Chelouche YoavDirectorSoldunder a preset trading plan
- Date
- 2 June 2026
- Shares
- 25,000
- Price
- $140.28
- Value
- $4m
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2026 | Seddik Sherif Chief Revenue Officer | Sold under a preset trading plan | 10,272 | $123.59 | $1m |
| 3 August 2026 | Kremer Nataly Chief Product Officer | Sold | 665 | $123.64 | $82,222 |
| 3 August 2026 | Golan Roei Chief Financial Officer | Sold under a preset trading plan | 9,860 | $123.75 | $1m |
| 11 June 2026 | Shavit Shenhav Tal Director | Sold under a preset trading plan | 25,000 | $123.07 | $3m |
| 11 June 2026 | UNGERMAN JERRY T Director | Sold under a preset trading plan | 25,000 | $122.55 | $3m |
| 2 June 2026 | Chelouche Yoav Director | Sold under a preset trading plan | 25,000 | $140.28 | $4m |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
Check Point Software Technologies doesn’t file a US annual report (10-K), so we haven’t checked it.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
Your first deep dive is free.
Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.