Check Point Software Technologies

CHKP

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

Price

$137.10

+0.59 (+0.43%)

Market Cap

$14.29B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is happy

A high-quality business with solid fundamentals.

Share count falling — buybacks

−18.0% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 134.1M (2021) → 109.9M (2025)

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. develops, markets, and supports a range of products and services for IT security worldwide. The company offers a portfolio of network security, endpoint security, data security, and management solutions. It provides Check Point Infinity Architecture, a cyber security architecture that protects against 5th and 6th generation cyber-attacks across various networks, endpoint, cloud, workloads, Internet of Things, and mobile. The company also offers security gat

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+4.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+3.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow EPS growth

R&D Spend

$457M/ year

↑ Rising (+16% vs prior year)

16.8% of revenue

In line with sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

24.1%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$1.1B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Heavy R&D investment

Check Point Software Technologies is putting 17% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. And they're generating enough cash to self-fund it.

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Quality

Gross Margin

85.0%

Premium pricing power — 85.0% gross margin

Operating Margin

27.7%

Excellent — 27.7% operating margin

ROCE

3.9%

Weak — 3.9% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+5.8%

Slow sales growth (5.8% YoY)

EPS YoY

+27.4%

Earnings growing fast (27.4% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

127%

Turns 127% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

47.5%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (47.5%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.70

Moderate — manageable debt (0.70)

Interest Cover

100.00x

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Comfortably covers interest (100.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

13.8x

Attractive valuation — P/E 13.8

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

P/E vs Forward

+0.7

GROWING

Earnings roughly flat

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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