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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-13): Designation Watch · Cairn score +28 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 44 · Value 15 · Sentiment -14 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $184.08 vs $128.22 at analysis
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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
CHKP NASDAQCheck Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a global cybersecurity company that develops and markets security software and related services for organizations of all sizes. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and founded in 1993, the company focuses on protecting enterprise networks, cloud environments, endpoints, emails, and mobile devices against advanced cyber threats. Check Point’s portfolio centers on its Infinity Platform, which integrates network security, cloud security, and workspace security with unified management and a prevention-first approach. Its technologies include next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention, data loss prevention, secure remote access, and advanced threat prevention tools designed to block malware, ransomware, phishing, and other attacks. The company serves corporate enterprises, service providers, and government agencies across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, distributing solutions primarily through partners such as distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, and managed service providers. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. plays a significant role in the global cybersecurity market by offering consolidated, AI-enhanced defenses and centralized security management across complex hybrid IT infrastructures.
Earnings Schedule
Checked daily · calendar updated Aug 13| Print date | EPS est. | EPS actual | Revenue est. | Revenue actual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 2026 | $2.80 | $2.84 +1.4% | — | — |
| Apr 30, 2026 | $2.40 | $2.50 +4.2% | — | — |
| Feb 6, 2026 | $3.18 | $6.15 +93.4% | — | — |
Green = beat the estimate, red = missed. An earnings print is the fastest way a thesis changes — our designations should be re-read after each one.
Recent SEC Filings
| Filed | Form | Document |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2026 | SCHEDULE 13G/A | View |
| Aug 6, 2026 | 4 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 144 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 4 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 4 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 144 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 144 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 144 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 144 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 144 | View |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 144 | View |
| Aug 3, 2026 | 4 | View |
Filings link to the SEC’s EDGAR system. Annual/quarterly reports (10-K, 10-Q, 20-F) carry the full story; 8-K/6-K current reports are the fastest signal that something material happened.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a foreign private issuer — it reports to the U.S. SEC once a year (on Form 20-F or 40-F) rather than filing the quarterly statements (10-Q) that U.S.-domiciled companies must submit. Our financial statements are read directly from SEC filings, so for this company only annual figures exist at the source.
This is a property of how the company files, not missing or broken data — its filing history shows 16 annual reports, the latest filed 2026-03-31, and no quarterly filings . The company may still publish quarterly results on its own investor-relations site.
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 9.62
Total Equity: $2.88B
Shares: 109,913,789
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.80B
EBITDA: $855.90M
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.80B
Revenue: $2.73B
Revenue: $2.73B
Revenue: $2.73B
Total Equity: $2.88B
Tax Rate: -11.8%
Equity: $2.88B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $1.80B
Current Liabilities: $1.94B
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $0.00
Total Equity: $2.88B
Shares: 109,913,789
Shares: 109,913,789
CapEx: -$26.60M
Shares: 109,913,789
Stock Price: $128.23
Net Income: $1.06B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 5:53pm (13d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $2.2B | $2.3B | $2.4B | $2.6B | $2.7B |
| Cost of Revenue | $258.1M | $304.4M | $282.6M | $319.3M | $361.8M |
| Gross Profit | $1.9B | $2.0B | $2.1B | $2.2B | $2.4B |
| Operating Expenses | $1.0B | $1.1B | $1.2B | $1.4B | $1.5B |
| Operating Income | $907.5M | $884.3M | $899.1M | $876.0M | $831.1M |
| Net Income | $815.6M | $796.9M | $840.3M | $845.7M | $1.1B |
| EBITDA | $928.1M | $907.0M | $922.2M | $900.0M | $855.9M |
| EPS | $6.13 | $6.37 | $7.19 | $7.65 | $9.85 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $6.08 | $6.31 | $7.10 | $7.46 | $9.62 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 5:53pm (13d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $271.9M | $196.0M | $537.7M | $506.2M | $1.8B |
| Total Current Assets | $2.3B | $2.3B | $2.3B | $2.2B | $4.0B |
| Total Assets | $5.9B | $5.7B | $5.7B | $5.8B | $7.8B |
| Current Liabilities | $1.7B | $1.8B | $1.9B | $1.9B | $1.9B |
| Long-Term Debt | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Liabilities | $2.6B | $2.8B | $2.9B | $3.0B | $4.9B |
| Total Equity | $3.3B | $2.9B | $2.8B | $2.8B | $2.9B |
| Retained Earnings | $11.5B | $12.3B | $13.2B | $14.0B | $15.1B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 5:53pm (13d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $1.2B | $1.1B | $1.0B | $1.1B | $1.2B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$15.9M | -$22.1M | -$18.6M | -$24.2M | -$26.6M |
| Free Cash Flow | $1.2B | $1.1B | $1.0B | $1.0B | $1.2B |
| Acquisitions (net) | -$219.7M | -$48.3M | -$458.8M | -$185.8M | -$273.1M |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stock Buybacks | -$1.3B | -$1.3B | -$1.3B | -$1.3B | -$1.4B |
| Net Change in Cash | $16.2M | -$75.9M | $341.7M | -$31.5M | $1.3B |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 5:53pm (13d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +7.5% | +3.6% | +6.2% | +6.3% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +6.1% | +5.3% | +5.3% | +5.3% |
| Operating Income Growth | -2.6% | +1.7% | -2.6% | -5.1% |
| Net Income Growth | -2.3% | +5.4% | +0.6% | +25.0% |
| EBITDA Growth | -2.3% | +1.7% | -2.4% | -4.9% |
Insider Trading (Recent)
Last updated: Jul 30, 2026 6:01pm (13d ago)All SEC Form 4 codes
- P Purchase
- Open-market or private purchase of shares.
- S Sale
- Open-market or private sale of shares.
- A Award / grant
- Grant or award of securities (RSUs, options, etc.) under Rule 16b-3.
- D Return to issuer
- Securities disposed back to the company under Rule 16b-3.
- F In-kind (tax)
- Shares withheld or delivered to pay the option-exercise price or tax — not an open-market sale.
- I Discretionary
- Discretionary transaction under an employee plan — Rule 16b-3(f).
- M Option exercise
- Exercise or conversion of a derivative (option/RSU) into shares — exempt.
- C Conversion
- Conversion of a derivative security into the underlying shares.
- E Short expiration
- Expiration of a short derivative position.
- H Long expiration
- Expiration or cancellation of a long derivative position with value received.
- O OTM exercise
- Exercise of an out-of-the-money derivative.
- X ITM exercise
- Exercise of an in-the-money or at-the-money derivative.
- G Gift
- Bona fide gift of securities.
- L Small acquisition
- Small acquisition under Rule 16a-6.
- W Inheritance
- Acquisition or disposition by will or the laws of descent.
- Z Voting trust
- Deposit into or withdrawal from a voting trust.
- J Other
- Other acquisition or disposition (explained in a Form 4 footnote).
- K Equity swap
- Transaction in an equity swap or similar instrument.
- U Tender / buyout
- Disposition via tender of shares in a change-of-control transaction.
Compensation-plan codes (A, D, F, M) are routine and rarely directional. Open-market P (buy) and S (sale) carry the most signal.
| Date | Insider | Type | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | Seddik Sherif | S-Sale | 10,272.00 | $123.59 | $1.3M |
| 2026-08-03 | Golan Roei | S-Sale | 409.00 | $123.50 | $50,510 |
| 2026-08-03 | Golan Roei | S-Sale | 9,451.00 | $123.76 | $1.2M |
| 2026-08-03 | Kremer Nataly | S-Sale | 665.00 | $123.64 | $82,222 |
| 2026-07-31 | SHWED GIL | J-Other | 17.00 | $108.06 | $1,837 |
| 2026-07-31 | Zafrir Nadiv | J-Other | 956.00 | $108.06 | $103,306 |
| 2026-07-31 | Seddik Sherif | J-Other | 801.00 | $108.06 | $86,556 |
| 2026-07-31 | Golan Roei | J-Other | 409.00 | $108.06 | $44,197 |
| 2026-07-31 | Kremer Nataly | J-Other | 665.00 | $108.06 | $71,860 |
| 2026-07-27 | Golan Roei | A-Award | 282.00 | — | — |
| 2026-07-10 | Seddik Sherif | A-Award | 6,147.00 | $0.00 | $0 |
| 2026-07-10 | Seddik Sherif | F-InKind | 1,536.00 | $131.70 | $202,291 |
| 2026-07-10 | Seddik Sherif | F-InKind | 770.00 | $131.70 | $101,409 |
| 2026-06-11 | Shavit Shenhav Tal | S-Sale | 25,000.00 | $123.07 | $3.1M |
| 2026-06-11 | Shavit Shenhav Tal | M-OptionExercise | 25,000.00 | $114.23 | $2.9M |
| 2026-06-11 | UNGERMAN JERRY T | S-Sale | 25,000.00 | $122.55 | $3.1M |
| 2026-06-11 | UNGERMAN JERRY T | M-OptionExercise | 25,000.00 | $114.23 | $2.9M |
| 2026-06-02 | Chelouche Yoav | S-Sale | 25,000.00 | $140.28 | $3.5M |
| 2026-06-02 | Chelouche Yoav | M-OptionExercise | 25,000.00 | $114.23 | $2.9M |
| 2026-05-26 | SHWED GIL | G-Gift | 3,000.00 | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Pre-flight intelligence scans the company first, then routes to the right analytical methods.
Narrative Economics
market-narrative step).
Claude Reading
Starting from the raw numbers: CHKP grew revenue from $2.17B (2021) to $2.73B (2025), a 5.9% CAGR — not "declining legacy vendor" territory, but nowhere near PANW/FTNT growth. What's more interesting is the operating income line: $907M in 2021, $831M in 2025. Operating margin compressed from 41.8% to 30.5% over four years. That's the actual story the synthesis engine is glossing over. Net income rose to $1.06B in 2025 but that's flattered by non-operating items (likely interest on the $1.8B cash pile plus tax) — operating earnings actually went backwards while revenue grew 26% cumulative. This is textbook "buying growth by spending on S&M/R&D to defend share," and it's why the market gives it 13x earnings instead of 30x. ROIC of 86% and ROE of 37% are real, but they're the trailing artifact of a capital-light legacy business, not evidence of reinvestment runway.
The synthesis verdict of $184–236 fair value vs $128 (+84%) is aggressive to the point of being unhelpful. A DCF that spits out $184 is implicitly assuming either (a) margin recovery back toward 40%+ or (b) growth acceleration — neither of which the four-year trajectory supports. FCF of $1.17B on a $13.1B market cap is a 8.9% FCF yield, which is genuinely cheap for a software business with no debt and $1.8B cash (EV ~$11.3B, so 10.4% FCF/EV yield). That's the real bull case, and it's more modest than the synthesis claims. A fair multiple for a 6% grower with compressing margins and durable FCF is probably 15–17x earnings, or roughly $145–165 — call it 15–25% upside, not 84%. The narrative model gets this right ("anchored, steady-compounder, minimal intensity"); the synthesis DCF is the outlier.
The contrarian case against even the modest bull thesis: margin compression is not random noise, it's the cost of standing still in a market where PANW and CRWD are compounding revenue at 15–25%. If CHKP has to keep spending to hold 6% growth, operating margins keep drifting toward 25% and the FCF conversion story cracks. The insider activity — repeated 25,000-share option exercise + immediate sale pairings in May/June 2026 — is not a smoking gun but it's not "neutral" either; it's programmatic monetization, not accumulation, and there are zero open-market buys. Also worth flagging: the data file shows 2026-dated insider transactions and a 2025 annual, which means we're looking at reasonably fresh data but the quarterly trajectory is missing entirely ("insufficient_data" on quarterly trend is a real gap — we can't see if Q2/Q3 2026 growth is decelerating). The macro headwinds tag matters here: enterprise security budgets are being scrutinized, and CHKP's exposure to Israeli operations adds a geopolitical discount that no model is quantifying.
GPT Reading
What stands out is how much of Check Point’s “cheapness” is real cash economics rather than accounting optics. At $128.23, the equity is worth $13.1B, but with $1.8B of cash and no debt, enterprise value is closer to $11.3B. Against 2025 revenue of $2.73B, that is only 4.1x EV/sales; against $1.17B of free cash flow, it is about 9.7x EV/FCF. For a software infrastructure company with 86.7% gross margin, 30.5% operating margin, and 42.9% FCF margin, that is plainly inexpensive. Even the earnings line, which can be noisy, looks supportive: net income jumped from $845.7M in 2024 to $1.06B in 2025, putting the stock at roughly 12-13x trailing earnings. The core story in the numbers is not “broken business,” but “mature franchise producing elite cash while growing just enough.”
The second thing that jumps out is that the market is still treating Check Point as if growth is stuck near stall speed, yet the recent annual progression is better than that caricature. Revenue has moved from $2.17B in 2021 to $2.73B in 2025, a 6.2% CAGR, while free cash flow reached $1.17B on just $26.6M of capex. This is not a transition story burning capital to maybe earn later; it is a finished software model throwing off cash today. Yes, operating income fell from $907.5M in 2021 to $831.1M in 2025, so there is some evidence of reinvestment or pricing pressure, but the decline is modest relative to the revenue gain, and net income actually inflected sharply higher in 2025. That combination—slower operating margin, higher net income, massive cash conversion—suggests the business has enough resilience that the current multiple already discounts a harsher competitive outcome than the reported results show.
I also don’t buy the idea that the low multiple is fully explained by “legacy vendor” status. Plenty of legacy software names deserve low teens earnings multiples because they are ex-growth and financially engineered. Check Point is different because the balance sheet is fortress-like and the cash generation is not synthetic. ROE of 36.7% is high even before considering the net-cash balance sheet, and ROIC near 85.9%—even allowing for metric distortion from the capital-light model—points to a business with unusual economic efficiency. If this were shrinking, I’d understand the discount. But 2025 revenue grew 6.3% and earnings 25%. The valuation synthesis calling for dramatic upside may be too aggressive, but the market’s current price still looks anchored to an outdated view of the company as a no-growth annuity. A fairer range is not peer-multiple euphoria, but something like 15-17x earnings or 11-13x EV/FCF, which would support a stock in roughly the $150-$170 area.
The best case against this view is that the market is correctly looking through today’s margins and cash flow because the strategic position is weaker than the backward-looking numbers imply. Revenue growth of 6% is acceptable, but not strong for cybersecurity, and the more telling warning sign is that operating income in 2025 remains below 2021 despite an extra $560M of revenue. That means incremental margins have been poor, which is exactly what you’d expect if Check Point is spending harder just to defend relevance against faster platforms. The valuation can stay cheap for years if investors believe 2025’s 25% earnings jump is non-repeatable, helped by below-the-line factors rather than a durable acceleration in the core business. The insider tape is not a positive either: mostly option exercises and associated sales, nothing that signals conviction at these levels.
What would change my mind is straightforward. If the next set of annual numbers shows revenue slipping back toward 3-4% growth while operating income stays flat-to-down from the current $831M, then the low multiple is not a mispricing but a value trap on a slowly eroding franchise. Conversely, if Check Point can put up another year near or above $2.9B of revenue, keep FCF around or above $1.1B, and show that operating profit can resume growth instead of just cash flow holding the line, then the stock should not trade at 4.1x EV/revenue and sub-10x EV/FCF. That is the key debate: whether 2025 was a one-year earnings pop on a mature base, or proof the business can still compound. I lean to the latter, enough to say the current discount has overshot the risk.
Grok Reading
Check Point’s numbers describe a capital-light cash machine that is quietly losing operating leverage even as the top line grinds higher. Revenue has compounded at roughly 6% from $2.17B in 2021 to $2.73B in 2025, yet operating income has slipped from $907M to $831M over the same stretch—operating margin compressing from the low-40s toward 30.5%. Net income’s 25% jump to $1.06B in 2025 and the 12% earnings CAGR therefore look more like tax or non-operating noise than genuine operating momentum. What is unambiguous is the cash: $1.20B of operating cash flow and $1.17B of free cash flow against a $13.1B market cap produces a ~9% FCF yield, with essentially zero debt and $1.80B of cash on the balance sheet. Gross margins remain elite at 86.7%, ROIC prints an almost absurd 86%, and the company needs only $27M of capex to sustain the franchise. At 13.3x earnings, 4.1x EV/revenue and 13.2x EV/EBITDA, the market is pricing CHKP as a melting ice cube rather than a durable high-teens-ROE compounder still growing mid-single digits.
The story the raw data tells is therefore not collapse but slow competitive attrition: Check Point is still collecting tolls on a large installed base, converting them into cash at exceptional rates, and returning or accumulating that cash with fortress-like discipline. The valuation synthesis fair-value range of $184–$236 implies 40–80% upside from $128, which is aggressive but directionally consistent with a business that should not trade at half the multiple of peers when it still generates more free cash per dollar of sales than most of them. Insider activity is noise—routine option exercises and sales—rather than a signal of impending deterioration. The contradiction worth catching is between the clean balance-sheet and FCF picture that quantitative screens love, and the five-year erosion in absolute operating profit that those same screens under-weight.
The strongest counter-argument is precisely that operating-income decline and the market’s refusal to re-rate. A smart skeptic would note that revenue growth has never reaccelerated despite years of Infinity Platform promises, that peers with superior growth trajectories command 30–40x earnings for a reason, and that a 13x multiple already embeds the correct terminal-growth assumption of low-single digits plus continued share loss to cloud-native platforms. They would also flag that the 2025 net-income spike looks optically flattering relative to the softer operating line, and that any multiple expansion requires proof the company can stop the margin bleed—proof that has been absent for half a decade. I weigh this less heavily because even a perpetual 5–6% grower with 35%+ net margins, zero leverage and 9% FCF yield is worth more than 13x; the discount already prices in a fair amount of permanent impairment.
What would flip the view is two consecutive quarters of operating-margin expansion back above 33–34% alongside billings or calculated current RPO growth sustainably above 8%, or conversely a further drop in operating income below $800M that confirms structural decay rather than cyclical investment.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · four lenses
Check Point runs a fortress-style balance sheet: $1.80B liquid cash, zero debt drag, and $1.17B of annual FCF against a mature security-software base. Earnings quality is unambiguously clean - OCF/NI of 1.29x, accruals at -4.2% of assets, Beneish M of -2.68, Altman Z of 5.31. Capital return is disciplined: diluted shares fell from 134.1M (2021) to 109.9M (2025), a -4.9% CAGR, with buybacks running 8.75x SBC, so the 7.5% SBC/revenue is more than absorbed. Per-share value is being concentrated, not leaked. Revenue growth is steady but modest: $2.17B to $2.73B over four years, roughly 6% CAGR - respectable for a mature security vendor but not a share-taker's trajectory. The real concern is margin drift: operating margin has slid every year from 41.9% (2021) to 38.0%, 37.2%, 34.2%, and now 30.5% - a cumulative ~1140 bps of compression while gross margin held near 87%. That points to opex growth (likely GTM/R&D catch-up against Palo Alto/CRWD/ZS) outrunning revenue. Net income jumped to $1.06B in 2025 largely on non-operating items, since operating margin fell further; investors should verify the mix. Insider tape is neutral-to-mild-negative: three option-exercise-and-sell events (~$9.7M) and a gift by founder Shwed, but no open-market buys. Normal for a mature Israeli tech founder-led firm, not a red flag.
Verify before trusting this (6)
- Composition of 2025 net income - how much came from interest/FX/other non-operating vs operations
- Segment/product mix trends: is Harmony/CloudGuard actually accelerating or is legacy Quantum firewall carrying revenue?
- Opex breakdown - is S&M or R&D driving the op-margin compression, and is there a stated reinvestment plan?
- Customer concentration and net revenue retention disclosures
- Details of buyback authorization remaining and pace
- Whether new CEO Nadav Zafrir era brings changed capital allocation or reinvestment posture
The e2e composite pins fair value at $184 and signal-adjusted at $236, implying 44-84% upside. I discount that hard: the DCF at $219 embeds growth optimism that clashes with the actual trend of operating margin falling from 42% to 30% since 2021 and revenue growth in the high single digits, not 20%+. The EPV floor at $113 is more honest for a business whose franchise is quietly eroding at the margin line. Splitting the difference and adjusting up for genuinely high earnings quality, a fortress balance sheet, and negative dilution, I anchor deserved value around $150-160.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Infinity Platform ARR growth and attach rates in latest transcript
- Operating margin trajectory - is the 30% level stabilizing or still falling
- Buyback pace and remaining authorization (negative dilution is a real value driver)
- Segment detail on subscription/SaaS mix vs legacy product revenue
CHKP sits in an unusual sentiment pocket: the tape is stressed (VIX in the 97th percentile, S&P off its highs, macro headwind from 4.61% 10y and a 26x market PE), but with beta 0.49 and a profitable, cash-generative security incumbent profile, the macro press lands softly on this name. It is neither a high-multiple AI beneficiary being rerated up nor a speculative unprofitable name getting mauled down. The narrative is explicitly minimal intensity, moderate durability, low cult - which is exactly why sentiment is not doing much work here in either direction. Q2 just printed in-line with an EPS beat and guidance maintained, which is a non-event for a steady-compounder story: no fresh fuel, no fresh crack. The AI Network Firewall launch is a modest narrative nudge - it lets CHKP participate in the AI-cyber tape that is lifting CRWD and peers, but the market still treats CHKP as the legacy value name in the group, not the AI winner. The April guide-cut memory (-14.8%) and the unexplained -3.5% drop on 7/21 hint at a lingering slow-drip skepticism rather than active selling. Net: sentiment pressure is close to neutral with a mild negative tilt from sector-relative narrative disadvantage versus CRWD/PANW, offset by defensive beta in a risk-off tape.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- Whether AI Network Firewall gets analyst upgrades or price-target revisions that pull CHKP into the AI-cyber narrative basket
- Sector rotation signals - if CRWD/PANW stall and money rotates to value-cyber, CHKP is the obvious beneficiary
- Any subscription revenue acceleration in the next print that would validate the Infinity consolidation story and lift narrative intensity
- Whether the risk-off regime deepens (VIX >25) - defensive-beta software historically outperforms in that scenario
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