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Low P/E ratio tech stocks but still not worth investing. thoughts?
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Well, the competition is very very hot for that. They have loads of direct competition and some indirect, but still focused enough to keep market share away from NTSK. Some examples (yes, it is an AI list, but I did read over it and they all apply and then some). I could find many more: * Fortinet (FTNT): While known for their firewall and network security products, Fortinet has been expanding their offerings to include a SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform that competes directly with Netskope. They leverage their existing customer base and broad portfolio. * Cloudflare (NET): Known for its content delivery network (CDN), Cloudflare has aggressively moved into the cybersecurity and SASE market with its "Cloudflare One" platform. Their global network gives them a unique advantage in terms of speed and performance. * Check Point Software (CHKP): This is another long-established cybersecurity company that offers a comprehensive suite of security solutions, including SASE products. They are a major player with a focus on a unified security approach. * Microsoft (MSFT): With its massive Azure cloud platform, Microsoft is a formidable competitor. Their integrated security solutions like Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft 365 security offerings can be a strong alternative for companies already heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem. * Broadcom (AVGO): Following its acquisition of Symantec's enterprise security business, Broadcom is now a significant player in the market, particularly in data loss prevention (DLP) and cloud access security broker (CASB) solutions, which are core to Netskope's platform. * Zscaler (ZS): Zscaler is a major player in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE) markets, which are key areas for Netskope. They are often cited as a direct and significant competitor. * Palo Alto Networks (PANW): A leading cybersecurity company, Palo Alto Networks offers a broad suite of products, including their Prisma Access SASE platform, which directly competes with Netskope's offerings. * Cisco Systems (CSCO): With their extensive portfolio of security products, including Cisco Umbrella, Cisco is a formidable competitor. They have a massive installed base and brand recognition. * Forcepoint: A global cybersecurity company specializing in data-first SASE and other security solutions. Their focus on data protection and user behavior analysis makes them a direct competitor in the cloud security space. * Cato Networks: This company is a key competitor in the SASE market, offering a converged networking and security platform from the cloud. They are known for their integrated approach to security and networking.
[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-07-fi-16994-story.html](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-07-fi-16994-story.html) >Tuesday’s intraday market plunge seemed a distant memory Thursday as analysts and investors alike were in a bullish mood. >Goldman Sachs & Co. came out with a “Super Seven” list of tech names it calls “core holdings” for a volatile market, and five of the stocks finished higher. >The list features electronic commerce specialist First Data Corp. (ticker symbol: FDC), software developer Oracle Corp. (ORCL), electronic systems maker Teradyne Inc. (TER), communications chip manufacturer PMC-Sierra Inc. (PMCS), data storage systems maker EMC Corp. (EMC), Internet gear maker Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), and PC retailer Dell Computer Corp. (DELL). >“During this period of extreme volatility, we recommend technology names \[in whose fundamentals\] we continue to have high conviction,” Goldman said in its report. >PMC-Sierra and other chip makers also got a boost as the Semiconductor Industry Assn. said worldwide chip sales climbed 33% in February from a year ago, led by rising demand in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. >“The year-to-year growth of semiconductor sales indicates a strong 2000 for the chip industry,” said George Scalise, the trade group’s president. Sales rose 19% in 1999 and are expected to climb 20% this year. >Intel Corp. (INTC), the leading maker of computer chips, eased 6 cents to $129.81, but most of its competitors got a lift, including Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN), which jumped $10 to $160. >Meanwhile, brokerage analysts issued positive ratings on several stocks in the tech sector and elsewhere, including: >\* In the retail group, Limited Inc. (LTD; $46.81, up $5.13) was upgraded to “strong buy” at Banc of America Securities; Sears, Roebuck & Co. (S; $37, down 50 cents) was called “buy” at Lazard Freres & Co.; and Intimate Brands Inc. (IBI; $43.94, up $2.94) was raised to “strong buy” at U.S. Bancorp. >\* In the struggling health-care sector, Oxford Health Plans Inc. (OXHP; $14.81, up 25 cents) was raised to “buy” at First Union Securities Inc. >\* Internet security company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP; $176.75, up $18.25), which has sunk 40% from its recent peak, was upgraded to “strong buy” at Sands Bros. & Co. >\* Two Internet incubators got recommendations, as Safeguard Scientifics Inc. (SFE; $50.50, down $2.50) was rated “buy” in new coverage by Merrill Lynch’s high-profile Henry Blodget, and Internet Capital Group Inc. (ICGE; $73.88, up 17 cents) was reinstated “strong buy” at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown.
How does that compare to CHKP?
I see!I am so glad to have your valuable input! OKTA is my favorite too. Other stocks that I feel have potential are RBRK, NET, DDOG, PLTR, CHKP, and BBAI, what is your opinion on these stocks? Do you think the stocks you listed earlier are superior?
MCD/PEP are value stocks. They're not tech stocks; they're food. They're not gonna be going on wild swings comparatively. ASML is in semi-conductors; sure those are tech and in demand, but the hardware side of tech is always somewhat inherently risky. These could definitely swing a lot, but who knows in what direction. CHKP is an Israeli software company; geopolitically that makes it very complicated. Again, could swing a lot, but who knows what direction.
Thoughts on stocks that did not participate in the recent market rally? For example CHKP, MCD, PEP, ASML? I’m curious because someone I know recommended these for that reasoning. Do you think these are buys or do you think it’s better to stick to index funds?
Bought 3 random Israel stocks last week, ASMB + 18%, CHKP +9%, CYBR +7%. War never changes.
I'm a Unix guy but it seems these exploits need Administrator privileges in Windows? If yes then I think it's not as serious as it sounds, you can do lot of bad shit being administrator, no? If an endpoint allow non-administrator users to modify a lot of shit like this, isn't it Microsoft's problem? Like everyone said, PANW has wide range of products. Yes, it started as Firewall company and it still dominate the market. Fun fact: PANW founder was the founding engineer of the 1st stateful packet inspection firewall when working at Check Point. They even sued him later claiming he took the source code to found PANW. Ater that this, CheckPoint employees in US can't access source code even from VPN at home, you have to go office and connect thru another VPN to fetch code hosted in Tel Aviv. (Source: I used to work for CHKP around 2016).
Others: S FSLY TENB OKTA AVGO CHKP SWI CYBR
CHKP their AI driven inline email security product, Avanan, is pretty impressive.
If it's CHKP, don't say anything
Eyes on CHKP. Something, something, something, AI.
CHKP. Steady as a fucking ship on glass seas
Thoughts on CHKP? Looks like cyber security will be the e hottest new thing
I’ve been watching cybersecurity close the gap from early January when a lot of them were left behind. CHKP, PSN, QLYS,S, ZS, and RPD. RPD and S both pumped today, I unfortunately only had shares in S. I wanted to buy calls for S but I think I might be too late after today.
Well tax wise, it depends on your state, single or married, and your salary for how much you're going to pay in taxes on that. I'm not that familiar with CHKP - but looking at this history. It seems to have been growing since 2002. It's a little bit volatile - so you might end up selling it for a gain of 13k and not 15k + your taxes. It looks like it has hit $148 high - sitting at $146. Decent growth of 15% this year. 5 year growth at 36%. Which isn't bad. VOO is a better option. If you sell at 15000 taxed at 22% you're losing out on 3300. So you're going to need a 28% return rate on your VOO to break even. I would personally just hold that 15k in your CHKP for a bit. Maybe sell when you need the money or when you leave the company. Sell in a year at a hopefully 15% growth and use those profits to pay off your taxes.
Maybe they're shorting NLOK or CHKP
**Earnings** Today 1-year return of most anticipated companies of Mon 13 Feb Treehouse [$THS](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24THS&src=cashtag_click): 26.6% **Solaredge** [$SEDG](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24SEDG&src=cashtag_click): 20.6% Roivant [$ROIV](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24ROIV&src=cashtag_click): 10.7% Avis [$CAR](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24CAR&src=cashtag_click): 10.3% 📷 CheckPoint [$CHKP](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24CHKP&src=cashtag_click): -1.9% 📷 Monday [$MNDY](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24MNDY&src=cashtag_click): -42.1% 📷 Palantir [$PLTR](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24PLTR&src=cashtag_click): -43.3%
For financials, the only 2 stellar are on the TSE, ticker TD and ticker RY.TO. For US, only rising is V and MA, which would be expected in this environment. A few companies you might want to check for possible gains are tickers AON, APH, CHKP, ITW, NEE. Not tech darlings, but profits moving up.
I've got a bunch that are ADRs to diversify outside of the US. Vodafone VOD pays a nice dividend but has been terrible for the last eight years. Checkpoint CHKP is a great stock but doesn't pay a dividend, good price right now too, Toyota is down a bit from it's ATH but still looking good and pays a nice dividend, hard to go wrong with the world's best run company! I've also got Nordisk NVO , but I don't know if I'd buy here. Vale is another good one if you think the world is changing and the green revolution is a real thing, copper prices are set to go way up over the next decade and the nickel deal with the big EV car manufacturer means stable income. TEVA is risky but all good value stocks are kinda scratch and dent buys, TEVA has serious potential returns if they catch a break. HDB is a well run band in India that has been on my watch list for about six months, I haven't bought any yet, but it's interesting.
+10% YTD. I'm about 25% energy and 25% financials. I like to do the thing where you buy low so I didn't own any of the stuff that had huge drops. I've sold half my pipeline stock WMB and bought more banks after they dropped, sold the KO that I had for a year and a half and used that to double my small Walmart position at $120, and bought TREX at $59.75. I also sold 25% of my Checkpoint CHKP that I've held for two and a half years at $142 and bought 20 shares of FB at $175. Limit buy orders are great, just set a wish price then go to work. Check back a week later and see if it hit. I used the rest of that to buy SCL at $99. My biggest mistake so far was doubling my position in ROST right before earnings, 45 shares at $104. Ouch. I get paid again in a week plus some dividends so I'll just do some more bottom fishing. Set a limit order for something that looks like a bottom and wait. Percentage wise I'm lite on health care stocks so maybe try to pick up a biotech that's been slaughtered. Maybe some CRISPR?
How's CHKP compared to FTNT? in terms of earning multiples and operating margins, CHKP looks like a better buy
How's CHKP compared to FTNT? in terms of earning multiples and operating margins, CHKP looks like a better buy
How's Check Point compared to Fortinet for their OS? In terms of earning multiples and operating margins, CHKP seems like the better buy.
What would you recommend I read to attempt to understand how the currency exchange rates affects the price of my non US stocks. I have some ADRs, Toyota TM, Checkpoint CHKP, Novo Nordisk NVO, and others. I'd like to understand enough to predict a change in stock price based on currency exchange rates. I have no idea where to begin, what good references are available?
I sold a quarter of my Checkpoint CHKP and half of my Williams Companies WMB. Each one had gotten to be over 10% of my entire portfolio. I still like both stocks, but I couldn't justify having that much concentrated without knowing a good reason for them to keep going up. I'm using that cash to buy more Bank of NY Mellon (BK). It's fallen almost back to my cost basis when I was buying January through April of 2021 even though they are going to be making even more money with the higher short term interest rates. I didn't think I'd get this kind of opportunity again, but I'll take it. Also bought some JPMORGAN JPM and Stepan company SCL. Not huge amounts, but it's a start.
monday might not be good because large losses on friday mean the market is not done. Today i bought NEM CHKP CVX XOM EOG SLB. Thinking about TSLA and Crypto montag.
CHKP, actually profitable and no debt.
CRWD, ZS, CHKP, OKTA (depending on what comes of this “breach”)
Find buying opportunities. Learn the DCF valuation model. Look at valuation charts on quality companies that have shown consistent earnings and revenue growth. A lot of stocks in this market have seen significant PE multiple expansion the past few years. Do not buy these stocks if growth expectations have not increased. Instead, look for non-cyclical stocks that have depressed valuation multiples. Make a spreadsheet with all the quality companies that you want to own with buy and sell prices. Make sure the buy prices coincide with the DCF fair value and historically opportune entry price multiple. Examples: CHKP: This stock has an amazing earnings and revenue growth history. During the financial crisis, it still grew revenue. However, its EV/EBITDA multiple was decreasing while the market was skyrocketing during COVID. Using just 3% growth in cash flow and 10% rate of return which is very conservative, the intrinsic value for the stock came out to about $123. At the moment, it is historically too expensive to buy. MMM: People like to call this stock “dead money” since it hasn’t gone anywhere in the past 5 years. That’s because the valuation multiples were really high for the stock back in 2018 and earnings growth slowed. Valuation multiples have compressed to below March 2020 levels. MMM is currently dealing with a lawsuit that may or may not cost them many billions of dollars. This is a risky stock to pick right now, but you may be greatly rewarded if the effect of the lawsuit is minimal. Using a WACC of 8.42% and 2.5% revenue growth, fair value is $171. If you use a 10% rate of return, fair value is only $135.
CHKP, PANW, FTNT but only assuming I could wait a bit and buy when the mania has tapered off some and the price comes back to a reasonable level. If a wizard offered to sell me a goose that laid golden eggs it would be an amazing investment. But if the wizards asking price was one trillion dollars, then its not so good. It is possible for a company to be good while at the exact same time the stock for the company could be bad.
Thanks for sharing, reading through it now. You know, it's interesting because people have been talking about the FW market dying off for a few years now, but if you look at $FTNT, $CHKP, and even $PANW's core FW businesses, they grew like crazy in the 2H 2021. $FTNT no doubt being helped by SD-WAN use cases, but they don't do much in the way of cloud and they're still absolutely crushing it.
Thanks for the input. I have about 6% of my taxable invested in CIBR, so not really a big play. But yes, will keep watching CSCO, ACN, PANW, CRWD, JNPR, CHKP, VMW... I probably should've allocated this money to CSCO (which is approximately 8% of my portfolio.) But still learning about diversification and her dreaded partner, diWORSE-ification... Wow... Leidos (LDOS) is looking VERY promising... And returning a dividend... hmmmm
First, hello, I use DuckDuckgo, nice to meet you. I don't think that was your point though. ​ I'm not really sure what you're talking about. Since this in an investing sub I'm going to assume you're talking about stocks and stock price, otherwise you can just ignore this. ​ Software has already eaten the world, that happened years ago. Where is there growth left to make the share price of the big companies go up? I guess we can start with Google, but I don't think of them as a software company, they don't sell software. They sell advertising. Same with the others you mentioned, Facebook, Instagram, tic Tok. They've done great and taken a lot of money that used to go to television and cable companies, but there is a limited amount of advertising dollars in the world and people have many more options for what they view than in the past so those advertising dollars will get spread out more. The idea of marginal production cost doesn't work. What did Google do to continue growth? They started making physical products (tablets, phones, wearables, etc.) which have all of the headwinds you talked about with supply chains and materials and such. ​ Is Netflix software? I don't think so, seems like just another content creator selling shows not too much different than the old television or movie studios. Again, they do it well I've heard, but there is plenty of competition and their marginal cost to distribute is negligible (just like MGM or ABC/NBC/CBS) but like those other companies they need to continuously create new product, or they will lose subscribers. ​ Apple is an odd example for you to use since they've almost always been a hardware company. I understand that Apple Maps is free if you buy a very expensive Apple phone. ​ Most pure software companies seem to have kept a lower profile than your examples. ​ I'm looking at Finviz and screening for just companies it categorizes in the Industry: "software applications", sorted by market cap Salesforce CRM is the largest at \~225 Billion, but they quickly drop off from there with number 6 and below all under 100 billion market cap. I mean, even a single Billion is a lot, but these companies aren't currently eating the world. ​ Microsoft a long time ago used to be what I would have considered a software company, and at the time they did eat the world and then to continue growing had to shift into real world goods (data centers, tablet computers, a phone <giggle giggle>, video game consoles, etc.) ​ Investing in value just means buying companies that are worth more than the current share price would have you believe. Some of those might be software companies (CHKP is one of my biggest holdings), or Oil companies, or banks, it really doesn't matter when buying value. Heck, I bought MSFT back in 2014 when it was a value company. ​ I wish you many happy returns, good luck.
I’m watching CHKP now, thank you! Israelies know their shit and I think people undervalue stock buybacks. Plus it does have very nice FCF
I realize I'm ignorant of a lot of things and I don't have enough time to do the deep enough research to have enough confidence to put all of my money into two or three stocks. I try to pick a diversified group of 20 to 25 stocks that I think will outperform their peers. ​ My biggest holding right now is Wells Fargo WFC based on a combination of positive events. First, they are a consumer bank, rising rates on their reserves, higher mortgages at higher rates will help. The eventual removal of the asset cap is a big positive also. This didn't start as my biggest position; it just grew into the position, and I don't have a good reason to sell any yet. ​ My next biggest in Williams Companies WMB, again, I didn't intentionally make it my second largest position, but it hasn't grown too big that I sell some. Same with my third largest Aflac AFL. I've been holding this one for a long time and it just keeps slowly going up. ​ My fourth is Checkpoint CHKP. At one point last year this was my largest by a lot and I came close to selling a portion, but then it dropped. I have a good feeling about CHKP for this year and I'm planning on holding even if it runs up a quite a bit before selling. CHKP doesn't have a lot of institutional investors since it's an Israeli company and isn't part of the major indexes. No debt, lots of Free Cash Flow. They buy back lots of stock every year, the total share count is down a lot over the past decade. They shifted to a subscription model for security which made them look worse than they were for a while, and their newest product is ramping up sales. I'm kind of excited for people returning to value may find this one and once it starts going up the momentum people will show some love. Also about a 5% short float from people using it as a hedge when buying some of their hot running unprofitable competitors. Those competitors are dropping so this should help give it a little gas.
If you have never seen it before, its worth watching [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1GIbs0NULg) of a buy on a news program talking about how great a stock is, but when the host asks what the company does, they couldn't answer. Please don't be that guy. The number one rule of investing is to invest in what you know. If you work in cybersecurity, or if you otherwise would be able to look at a list of companies and instantly think to yourself "Yeah, yeah, hummm maybe not, yeah, oh i love that one, yeah, oh hell no, yeah yeah" without googling anything then you shouldn't be investing in cybersecurity at all, and you most certainly not be asking strangers on the internet to decide on your behalf. How would you even know if we were giving you good advice or trolling you? But anyway, to answer your question. The three that I keep on my watch list are $NLOK $FTNT and $CHKP. Although in the case of $FTNT I would not go in at its current price. To give a metaphor, if a wizard came to me and offered to sell a goose that laid golden eggs, it would sound like a great opportunity. But if the wizard then said they wanted one trillion dollars, I would do the math and calculate that I would never be able to collect enough gold eggs in my lifetime in order to justify the price. But if I could haggle some and talk the wizard down to a more reasonable price, then I would love to have it. Disclaimer: I myself dont work in cyber security myself, but I am one of those nut jobs whos password is 20 characters long, puts tape over my laptop camera, and uses VPNs even on my home network.
Hmm, are you in the industry? Id be curious why youd say this. I've been doing tech sales for 5+ years and see "critical infra" get ripped and replaced literally all the time. I actually think check point is a semi decent solution for on-prem situations, but due to recent events most major companies are moving to cloud environments/remote work architecture that check point isnt ready to handle. Also, because of that massuve shift to the cloud CHKP is now attempting to compete with cloud native companies as well (Sysdig, Orca, Lacework, etc) that are true experts in this space. Something that CHKP is not. I also think CHKP made 2 shit acquisitions recently. Odo and Avanade, just makes no sense. Okta or any SSO solution like Azure AD absolutely crushes Odo and Avanade is already a solved problem that O365 accomplishes or GSuite.
You could either be talking about SSL decryption/reencryption that CHKP can do at the firewall level or CHKP also has an endpoint product that does drive encryption. Both suck and your blue screen story is not unique.
Check point CHKP is my biggest holding right now, I've been buying since July 2019. I've got a small position in TEVA that I've been adding to lately.
OK, I'm buying more CHKP and PANW because of this story right here: [https://www.reuters.com/article/cyber-markets-attack-simulation-idCNL1N2SU0P7](https://www.reuters.com/article/cyber-markets-attack-simulation-idCNL1N2SU0P7) 'EXCLUSIVE-IMF, 10 countries simulate cyber attack on global financial system'
But companies like PANW, S, FTNT are really overvalued Undervalued companies like CHKP have not come with proper products.. Shitty of two position
I have a bunch, but I stick to the bigger ones. I have VOD which paid for itself when they they gave me VZ shares, but haven't done anything since. My basic materials have done well lately, BBL and VALE, but I'm a little worried about BBL with all the changes they are planning. Along with that, I've been recently putting money into Canadian oil sands with Suncor SU and Cenovus CVE which have been doing well. Novo Nordisk NVO has been awesome for me! I put a little into TEVA as a risky value play that hasn't paid off....yet. The last one is Toyota TM, which so far has been a nice win, and I'm still holding. I had hoped to get more shares at $140, but I'm not selling until I see what happens when they do a five for one share split. Checkpoint CHKP is my second biggest holding and has done well but I have very high hopes for the future.
I'm with the other comments that said Checkpoint, CHKP! Right now it's my second largest holding, 200 shares at a cost basis of $109.49. They are very profitable and have been buying back shares for years and actually reducing the share count. Lots of Free Cash Flow. They are crazy cheap at this price.
CHKP! Actually very profitable business too.
I'm gonna fling a turd at CHKP seeing if the Avanan purchase is a waste of time or not. &#x200B; [https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/08/30/2288308/0/en/Check-Point-Software-Technologies-Acquires-Avanan-the-fastest-growing-cloud-email-and-collaboration-security-company-to-redefine-security-for-cloud-email.html](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/08/30/2288308/0/en/Check-Point-Software-Technologies-Acquires-Avanan-the-fastest-growing-cloud-email-and-collaboration-security-company-to-redefine-security-for-cloud-email.html)
I built a cybersecurity basket in late 2020. It was originally weighted: CRWD (24%), OKTA (24%), ZS (22%), CHKP (20%), and BB (10%).
I'm interested, why not? I'm not in cyber security so I don't know anything about it really, my day job is to teach people how to break big atoms into little atoms. Very interested to learn why you think CHKP isn't sustainable, it's my second biggest holding as of today!
CHKP is my 2nd biggest holding right now (200 shares). They make a lot of free cash flow and have been wisely using it for years. They continue to buy back a lot of stock, their share count has been going down for years. The changes to a subscription model are doing great and the recent sales incentives seem to be working. CHKP an odd duck though, an Israeli company and a tech company included in the NASDAQ, so they don't get a lot of attention. The founder/CEO also always gives very conservative guidance (you just have to let the numbers speak for themselves without any cheerleading) I consider that a good thing since I was able to accumulate shares over a long time at good prices ($109.5 cost basis). Eventually the stock will begin moving steadily up (past few years have been bouncy, but overall up) they will get some momentum love. I'm happy to hold, and if the price drops down below my cost basis, I'll buy more again. I'm not sure if I'll get that opportunity again and I'm fairly confident that after the next annual earnings that isn't going to happen ever again.
Check out CHKP, outstanding financials and 8% buyback yield. No debt either, so risk is very low.
Checkpoint CHKP is one of my biggest holdings, great company, awesome cash flow, completing the transition from standalone subscription well. They always give overly conservative guidance so they are staying cheap, but it's getting harder to hide the good earnings and I expect the stock price to keep doing average until next year, then gain some momentum.
Checkpoint CHKP is the one I own. Big, very profitable, been reducing share count for years.
It's not a crazy idea and a lot of people do exactly that and there are websites who sell/advertise hedge fund positioning (insider monkey). The downside is that the hedge funds usually "hedge" their positioning, for example, I own 200 shares of CHKP, a big cyber security company, it has a fairly high amount of shorts because it is big and stable, a hedge fund can buy a small cyber security company and short CHKP to make a pure bet on the long company going up relative to the other cyber security stocks. If the economy goes south (when everything goes down) they make money on CHKP down and lose money on whatever long they have, canceling each other out. They make money if the long outperforms even in a down market. You can follow, but you likely aren't going to hedge, or use complex options to match what they do. It will likely work in a bull market, but lead to very large losses in a bear market. Good luck.
I like NLOK and CHKP they are more established than many of the other companies
CHKP looks good right now ... Really this is caused by sloppy programming.
AMD - Phenomenal products with a lot of opportunity for market share gains from Intel. Down 20% from their all-time high a few months ago. Lisa Su is a great leader. CHKP, FEYE, MSFT (and similar) - Cyber security spending is going to increase across the board with the recent high profile hacks and ransom demands.
Good call, sit and collect the dividends and wait until everyone else recognizes the value. I don't own any, and right now between CHKP and QCOM, I have a little too much tech relative to some other sectors, but I've got them on the watch list once I get the other areas back into balance.
Thoughts on the following from an allocation perspective? This is for the Cyber Security part of my portfolio. Portfolio Allocation % Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT) 30% Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW) 20 CyberArk Software Ltd. (CYBR) 20 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP) 10% Trend Micro Incorporated (TMICY) 10% Proofpoint, Inc. (PFPT) 10%
Toyota TM, very attractive value and bright future, should have an outstanding quarter since they said they didn't expect major problems from microchip shortage like the other manufacturers did. They have the best hybrid lineup right now, and lots more HEV, PHEV, in the pipeline, BEV in 2025. Best run company, possibly ever. BK makes piles of cash, usually buys back a lot of stock (significantly shrinking share count for years). The Fed limited buybacks and dividend increases for all the Significant Financial Institutions, even though they were/are in great shape. Fed handcuffs should be coming off next month and they plan on buying max amount allowed daily for the next year. CHKP. awesome cyber security company, unknown and unloved (profitable tech company). It's an Israeli company listed on NASDAQ, 25% insider owned, buys back a lot of stock.
AFL does a lot more business in Japan, every quarter the EPS gets a currency adjustment up or down based on the JPY/USD exchange rate. TM is a Japanese company but it does do a third of sales in the US. Most of the major mining companies BBL, VALE, RIO meet your criteria. VOD is huge everywhere but the US, it's an ADR but still listed. NVO is Danish. CHKP and TEVA are Israeli. Those are all the ones I own.
It's easy to find companies good companies outside the US. I've got CHKP and TEVA in Israel, VOD and RDS for EU/UK, AFL and TM in Japan, BBL for Australia, VALE in Brazil, NVO is Denmark. If you're really worried about hyper inflation in the US then the stocks in other currencies should hold their value better, although if the US has serious problems, they will all sell off, but they aren't going to go bankrupt (i think?)
\- Check Point Software (CHKP) \- Palo Alto Networks (PANW)
I went big safe and profitable CHKP I have 200 shares and a cost basis of $109.49. It's one of my biggest holdings. They have zero debt and have been buying back shares for years (actually reducing share count). They are cautious about spending, they have a second mover type philosophy, let the small players try different things hoping to hit on something good, but a lot of those ideas fail, when something new works, then CHKP uses their huge profits to copy the good idea and do it better. Last Earnings call they talked about how their cloud security services were extremely good and were now sending out a lot of sales reps to get more business. The business they have stick with them. Expect to see lower margins (more salesperson cost) but higher growth (more new customers) for the rest of the year. It's on Eddy Elfenbein crossing wall street blog buy list too.
Well, maybe, but where is the money? Right now things seem very expensive but I haven't gotten a raise recently. My kid is almost finished building a wooden feed bin for a final project in Ag class. A darn 2x4 was over $7 which is crazy! I paid up for ten of them, but I'm putting off buying wood for some other projects I wanted to do because I'm hoping that it's temporary. That's plausible since I've read about mills being shutdown until recently and shipping backlogs, but it could be permanent and I'll either have to pay more or abandon my plans. Thats what I was trying to say with my example, if I'm trying to sell something that people don't need, and I raise the price, i might make fewer sales and my overall profit would go down. Yes, if everyone in my neighborhood gets a raise then I could raise my price also, but until that happens I'd be the one hurting. Even if everyone gets a raise, if my input costs keep going up, I'm in the same spot since my ability to raise the price would be dependent on my neighbors getting more raises. As far as your second point, I'm not selling my stocks, but I try to maintain a balanced portfolio with one or more holdings in different sectors. Usually i have a few going down, but overall the entire portfolio going up. Embarrassingly I'm often surprised by which particular ones go which direction. I've owned TROX since 2013 and foolishly thought of it as dead money. It was a huge loss but I couldn't find a better option for a cyclical so I kept it BUT I DIDN'T BUY MORE! I should have, that was my plan, to maintain about the same dollar amount in each area, and it's up over 300% in the last year. If I had executed my plan I'd have been much better off. My two tech stocks (QCOM and CHKP) are not doing as well as I expected. Luckily there i sold some of my QCOM after it jumped last year and became too big a percentage of my holdings (stuck to my plan). The government says that inflation is temporary, and maybe it is, I don't know, but I hope to have more gains then loses either way. Good luck!
Just bought small amount of ARKW. Also CHKP, which seems to be near a floor. Also an OOM Put on the VIX to recede to 20 by May 19.
I have CHKP. Financials are absolutely beautiful, but need to learn more about the company. Anyone have any insight here?
Yes. Zero debt, making a lot of money, buying back tons of stock so their share count has been going down for years. Has a good bit of shorts against it, not because it's bad, but to bet on specific growth companies. They buy one of the hot growth cyber security stocks and short CHKP so the overall market swings don't affect their bet that the hot stock will grow relative to CHKP. downside/risk is that they are cautious, they don't create new trends, but watch and see what works. They weren't the first to jump into cloud based protection until other companies were making it work, then they built their own. I forget they term, second mover or something like that. It works for them and keeps them from wasting money. I own 200 shares at $109.50 cost basis.
Hey boys, Cathie Wood is accumulating PINS, TWTR, and CHKP this week. Get in before her pussy buying
A lot of the time hedge funds short a stock it isn't because they think it will go down, it's a way to isolate a specific bet. Example, I own shares of CHKP which has a high amount of shares sold short for a large stable company making huge amounts of money, doesn't make sense right? Well the reason is that they think a different Cyber security company will grow faster and gain market share. Now if the entire market drops for unrelated reason they lose money on the growing company and make money on CHKP, or vice versa. Either way they are even. The only way they make or lose money is the bet that the growing company will do better relative to CHKP. It's not that they think CHKP is bad, it's big and stable and they can borrow shares cheap so it's a good stand in for the general cyber security sector.
CHKP is a terrible buy man, I’d sell and move into pretty much ANYTHING else. Trust me on this, please.
Check Point software based on fundamentals (CHKP).
Check Point (CHKP) as a value pick. P/E 19.58; YoY EPS growth 10%; Revenue growth 4%; established and high efficiency Profit Margins 41% (one of best in the industry) Cloudflare (NET) as a growth pick. P/E not profitable yet; YoY EPS growth 60%; Revenue growth 50%; consistent revenue growth rate of around 50% for past 4 years (gaining market share)
Anyone got any cybersecurity stocks they like? I currently have PANW, FTNT, CHKP, and FEYE (after the big attack) - any others y'all think are good?
BK I have 250. makes money in every type of market, sitting on cash to do a ton of buybacks when allowed by the fed. CHKP I have 217 solid cash, been actually reducing share count for years. MRK i only have 12 so far. solid underrated, good value. WFC I have 518. will eventually get out of fed jail, unloved so high value. BBL i have 100. materials have been cheap for years and are used to build everything. ZTS. I only have 12 so far.. Pet and livestock meds. Great price for solid company right now.
I bought CHKP 217 shares slowly bought since mid 2019, big profitable, buying back a ton of stock, share count has been dropping for years. Still growing (slowly).
I've been slowly buying CHKP since mid 2019. Solid company, still growing (slowly), large buybacks, lots of shorts (to hedge long positions in other cyber stocks, not as a bet against CHKP), zero debt. Very nice price right now I think.
CHKP. Big tech stock, close to value stock PE. Big ongoing buyback, relatively high short interest (not because they don't like CHKP, but to hedge against other longs). Well run business. Zero debt. Only downside I see is no dividend. Unloved, forgotten stock.
I think you've got it right. "The market " is doing just fine and there is a lot of good stocks that are cheap right now. There is a massive bubble in the popular stocks, and it will be hard on them, but it isn't a "market " problem. I went with XOM, BBL, BK KO and VALE as new adds, kept my VOD and VZ, WFC WMB and my biggest worry CHKP only because it's tech and doesn't have a dividend but it's too cheap and unloved to let go.
My understanding since I'm not fool enough to do it, if you borrow a stock to sell short then yes, at any time the person you borrowed from could demand it back and you would have to buy it and deliver. IRL that doesn't really happen because you're likely borrowing from a giant index fund, paying them intrest, and there are enough unborrowed shares that aren't earning them intrest to sell when they rebalance . Shorting stock isn't something normal people do! There is limited gain, it can only go to zero, but unlimited loss and your paying interest and also have to pay any dividends. Professionals use it in combination with options to protect against huge losses (unless they are taking foolish risks and aren't going to be around long). Usually it's to achieve a bet on relative performance. Example, I own some CHKP Which has quite a bit of shorts because the shorts are long PANW. The idea is that if the overall market or even just the cyber security stocks all go down they will break even (make money on CHKP and Lose the same amount on PANW). They only win if PANW goes up relative to CHKP regardless of the rest of the market. They only lose if the opposite happens (chkp does better than PANW.
The difference with CHKP, FTNT and CSCO is they make profit. Neither Palo Alto, zscaler nor cloudflare does that at the moment.
**TL;DR: fuck no**. in the last 10 years CHKP has been outperformed by the SPY.... SPY!!!! just buying boomer fucking index funds did better than this. **this is WSB, i don't want to read about going from $125 to $145 long-term after under performing the god damn S&P!** give me 20% gains a day, or GTFO and buy $SPY (or better, $SPYG). &#x200B; yeah ex-CHKP here. i didn't buy their stock during the 15% employee discount and i wouldn't buy it today. these guys were the leader in the 2000s with their "stateful firewall". they feel like blockbuster video to me: when cloud started, they tried to sell more appliances in a world quickly losing favour for appliances when they were perfectly positions to be first, they are now lagging and have been for years. no one gives a shit about a firewall today. i mean, you need to have one, but it's a commodity, something in the background, a design detail... not the main course. the main course today is CASB and and ZTNA and SASE in this space. CHKP doesn't do either of those well. i interviewed a guy from CHKP last year from their sales team. he said his commission was 70% appliances, 30% cloud. that means as of last year, regardless of what CHKP says, they are still focused on selling appliances to a world that doesn't need and doesn't want them. they are poised to have their lunch continued to be eaten by the likes CRWD and others. i can't believe Gil is still the CEO.... he should have handed the reins a long time ago as is evident to how out of favor they are in the industry.... i mean R80 came out years ago and is still their defacto, and that's hardly an improvement over R77!
It’s me attempting to look at intrinsic valuation. It could be an exit if we get there short term. However, in the long run the price target may move depending on the fundamentals of CHKP and Cyber Security as a sector. So if it gets there within this year with no further announcements I’d most likely exit.