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Check Point Software – Revenues rose 12.8% year on year

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP). Last Market Price: 58.54, Change: +0.51, % Change: (0.88%). Shares trade in the range of 56.22 – 59.41 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 12.15B dollars, making it a Large Cap Stock and has 207.59M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 0.65, indicating, the stock to be less volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 2.35; P/E of 24.95. It operates in Technology sector and belongs to Software and Programming industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 73%. The company has a 52 week high of $ 61.46 and a 52 week low of $ 38.23. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 1,950,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 1,670,000, 0.86 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (September)
    • EPS of $0.72 better than the market estimates
    • Revenues rose 12.8% year/year to $308.3 million

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 42.57%, an Operating margin of 49.91%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 13.78%, Return on average equity of 18.08%. The organization has an employee strength of 2,239

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 354.03 million dollars, an estimate high of 363.10 million dollars and an estimate low of 345.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 316.89 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 312.63 million dollars, an estimate high of 323.10 million dollars and an estimate low of 307.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 289.62 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 0.81 dollars, an estimate high of 0.84 dollars and an estimate low of 0.78 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.72 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 0.71 dollars, an estimate high of 0.75 dollars and an estimate low of 0.68 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.65 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 295.99 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 300.64 million dollars, 4.65 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 276.71 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 281.27 million dollars, 4.56 million dollars more than estimates.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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