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Check Point Software Technologies is a company providing software and combined hardware products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, mobile security, data security, and security management. The company offers security gateways to protect the networks and prevent the threats of enterprises, data centers, and small and large branch offices, as well as security gateway appliances, including platforms for small business and small office locations, high end and high demanding data centers, and perimeter environment. It also supplies security management software that offers security management through a single console that streamlines security operations and provides visibility into policy administration and threat analysis.

TypePublic
Founded1993
HQTel Aviv-Yafo, ILMap
Websitecheckpoint.com
Employee Ratings3.7More
Overall CultureB-More
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Employees (est.) (Dec 2019)5,258(+4%)
Job Openings551
Revenue (FY, 2020)$2.1 B(+4%)
Share Price (Jun 2021)$118.9
Cybersecurity ratingCMore

Key People/Management at Check Point Software

Gil Shwed

Gil Shwed

Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Dorit Dor

Dorit Dor

Vice President of Products
Marius Nacht

Marius Nacht

Founder & Chairman of the Board
Jerry Ungerman

Jerry Ungerman

Chairman, Board of Directors
Dan Yerushalmi

Dan Yerushalmi

Chief Customer Officer
Tal Payne

Tal Payne

Chief Financial & Operations Officer
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Check Point Software Office Locations

Check Point Software has offices in Tel Aviv-Yafo, New York, San Carlos, Brisbane City and in 42 other locations
Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL (HQ)
5 Shlomo Kaplan Street
Brisbane City, AU
9 410 Queen St
Canberra, AU
1 88-96 Bunda St
Melbourne, AU
Level 5/379 Collins St
North Sydney, AU
6 118 Walker St
Wien, AT
11 Wienerbergstraße
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Check Point Software Financials and Metrics

Check Point Software Revenue

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Check Point Software's revenue was reported to be $2.06 b in FY, 2020
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Revenue (FY, 2020)

2.1b

Gross profit (FY, 2020)

1.8b

Gross profit margin (FY, 2020), %

89%

Net income (FY, 2020)

846.6m

EBIT (FY, 2020)

904.2m

Market capitalization (8-Jun-2021)

16.2b

Closing stock price (8-Jun-2021)

118.9

Cash (31-Dec-2020)

255.7m
Check Point Software's current market capitalization is $16.2 b.
Annual
USDFY, 2017FY, 2018FY, 2019FY, 2020

Revenue

1.9b1.9b2.0b2.1b

Revenue growth, %

7%3%4%

Cost of goods sold

213.0m201.4m215.4m226.5m

Gross profit

1.6b1.7b1.8b1.8b
Quarterly
USDQ1, 2018Q2, 2018Q3, 2018Q1, 2019Q2, 2019Q3, 2019Q1, 2020Q2, 2020Q3, 2020

Revenue

452.3m467.8m470.8m471.8m488.1m490.9m486.5m505.6m509.0m

Cost of goods sold

44.2m48.6m49.2m49.0m52.4m52.5m52.2m54.2m53.8m

Gross profit

408.1m419.2m421.6m422.8m435.7m438.5m434.3m451.4m455.2m

Gross profit Margin, %

90%90%90%90%89%89%89%89%89%
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Annual
USDFY, 2017FY, 2018FY, 2019FY, 2020

Cash

245.0m303.7m279.2m255.7m

Accounts Receivable

472.2m495.4m495.8m540.8m

Prepaid Expenses

50.1m

Current Assets

2.0b2.3b2.1b2.3b
Quarterly
USDQ1, 2018Q2, 2018Q3, 2018Q1, 2019Q2, 2019Q3, 2019Q1, 2020Q2, 2020Q3, 2020

Cash

213.1m236.3m324.5m309.5m249.1k302.3m407.4m342.0m248.1m

Accounts Receivable

288.5m325.6m312.7m320.0m320.6k292.5m318.7m328.9m302.3m

Current Assets

1.8b2.1b2.1b2.2b2.0m2.0b2.1b2.0b2.0b

PP&E

78.6m79.2m78.6m84.5m86.0k87.0m91.5m91.0m90.7m
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Annual
USDFY, 2017FY, 2018FY, 2019FY, 2020

Net Income

802.9m821.3m825.7m846.6m

Depreciation and Amortization

32.9m24.0m18.9m

Accounts Payable

(7.8m)6.6m(4.8m)1.6m

Cash From Operating Activities

1.1b1.1b1.1b
Quarterly
USDQ1, 2018Q2, 2018Q3, 2018Q1, 2019Q2, 2019Q3, 2019Q1, 2020Q2, 2020Q3, 2020

Net Income

187.1m384.8m583.1m179.9m365.5m553.3m178.7m375.1m575.8m

Depreciation and Amortization

4.8m9.9m15.1m5.4m10.8m17.1m6.6m13.0m19.9m

Accounts Payable

19.2m7.2m15.9m(16.7m)3.2m(25.2m)(40.6m)(17.0m)(39.9m)

Cash From Operating Activities

418.8m631.9m881.0m378.8m611.5m855.9m359.0m611.4m859.0m
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USDFY, 2017

Revenue/Employee

405.3k

Financial Leverage

1.5 x
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Check Point Software Operating Metrics

Check Point Software's Enterprise Customers was reported to be 100 k in Nov, 2020.
FY, 2014FY, 2015FY, 2016FY, 2017FY, 2018FY, 2019Nov, 2020

Enterprise Customers

100 k100 k100 k100 k100 k

Patents Issued

394571737882

Patents Pending

253436363127

Products

537083
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Check Point Software Acquisitions / Subsidiaries

Company NameDateDeal Size
Odo SecuritySeptember 16, 2020
Protego LabsDecember 02, 2019
CymplifyNovember 14, 2019
ForceNockJanuary 14, 2019
Dome9 SecurityOctober 24, 2018$175 m
Lacoon Mobile SecurityApril 02, 2015
HyperwiseFebruary 18, 2015$80 m
SofaWareNovember 10, 2013
easy2comply (Dynasec)November 01, 2011
Liquid MachinesJune 09, 2010
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Check Point Software Revenue Breakdown

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Check Point Software revenue breakdown by business segment: 43.8% from Software Updates and Maintenance, 25.6% from Product and Licenses and 30.6% from Security Subscriptions

Check Point Software revenue breakdown by geographic segment: 45.8% from Americas, 42.6% from Europe, Middle East and Africa and 11.6% from Asia Pacific

Check Point Software Cybersecurity Score

Cybersecurity ratingPremium dataset

C

75/100

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Check Point Software Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) Ratings

CSRHub ESG ratingPremium dataset

40-49

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Check Point Software Online and Social Media Presence

Check Point Software's Trends

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Check Point Software Company Culture

  • Overall Culture

    B-

    69/100

  • CEO Rating

    D-

    56/100

  • Compensation

    B

    73/100

  • Diversity

    C

    66/100

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Check Point Software News and Updates

May 13, 2021

Check Point Software Aims To Return To Faster Growth

In 1999, Check Point's revenues grew 55%. In the latest quarter growth was 5%. If it can get to double digit growth, its stock could rise.
May 04, 2021

Check Point Software Technologies Launches Global Cloud Academy Education

Dedicated cloud security education program for partners and IT professionals to be rolled out globally in partnership with three Check Point Platinum Elite ATC Partners Dedicated cloud security education program for partners and IT professionals to be rolled out globally in partnership with three Ch…
April 28, 2021

Check Point Software Introduces New Initiatives to Channel Sales Model to Further Accelerate Benefits and Profits for Partners

Enhancements give extra rewards for new customer wins and new technology sales, and new professional services program helps partners to grow value; lead-generation campaigns and support tools also expanded Enhancements give extra rewards for new customer wins and new technology sales, and new profes…
April 26, 2021

Check Point Software stock set to rally after profit, revenue rise above expectations

Shares of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. were indicated up nearly 2% in premarket trading Monday, after the Israel-based cyber security company reported first-quarter profit and revenue that rose above expectations. "Net income rose to $182.9 million or $1.33 a share, from $178.7 million, o…
April 26, 2021

Check Point Software Technologies Reports 2021 First Quarter Financial Results

SAN CARLOS, Calif., April 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), today announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31st, 2021.
April 02, 2021

Check Point Software to Announce First Quarter 2021 Financial Results on April 26, 2021

SAN CARLOS, Calif., April 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, today announced that it will release its first quarter financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, on Monday, April 26…
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Check Point Software Blogs

May 11, 2021

Companies’ 5 Million Personal identifiable information records detected on an AWS service due to misconception of users

Highlights Check Point Research (CPR) identified a trend of user’s misconception of service on AWS system manager, resulting in personal records detection 5 million personally identifiable information (PII) records and credit card transactions revealed by CPR Check Point Research worked closely with…
May 05, 2021

Check Your Privilege – the Risks of Privilege Escalation In the Cloud

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto, ‘move fast and break things’ is believed to be one of the drivers behind the company’s innovations and growth.  However, moving faster than you’d planned isn’t always a good thing, as organizations worldwide discovered during the COVID-19 pand…
May 04, 2021

Enhance Application Security with Nutanix Flow and Check Point CloudGuard

By Daniel Mirkin, CloudGuard Project Manager, and Abhishek Tiwari, Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix Flow, published May 4, 2021 Nutanix provides a “web-scale, hyperconverged infrastructure solution purpose-built for virtualization and both containerized and private cloud environments”. N…
April 14, 2021

AWS Marketplace offerings explained: CloudGuard adds AWS GWLB

By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Manager, published April 14, 2021 Too much choice is often confusing. Think about all the different types of cereal, perfume, or even political parties in some countries. However, often the multitude of choices is unavoidable. For example, when flying to a far…
April 09, 2021

“The WAF Is Dead” (and we know who did it)

TJ Gonen, Head of Cloud Security Products, Check Point The past couple of decades has turned the Web Application Firewall (WAF) into a ubiquitous piece of security kit. Any organization with a web application (which includes most large businesses) has a WAF installed to protect their data and assets…
March 31, 2021

Check Point Software and HashiCorp partner to help organizations automate firewall operations while maintaining security posture and compliance.

By, John Guo, Cloud Alliance Architect, Check Point Software Technologies Firewalls can be the main bottleneck when it comes to publishing new applications because they cannot keep up with the dynamic nature of modern applications and DevOps teams. In this blog, we will share how Check Point and Has…
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 Check Point Software Frequently Asked Questions

  • When was Check Point Software founded?

    Check Point Software was founded in 1993.

  • Who are Check Point Software key executives?

    Check Point Software's key executives are Gil Shwed, Dorit Dor and Marius Nacht.

  • How many employees does Check Point Software have?

    Check Point Software has 5,258 employees.

  • What is Check Point Software revenue?

    Latest Check Point Software annual revenue is $2.1 b.

  • What is Check Point Software revenue per employee?

    Latest Check Point Software revenue per employee is $392.7 k.

  • Who are Check Point Software competitors?

    Competitors of Check Point Software include NCC Group, Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks.

  • Where is Check Point Software headquarters?

    Check Point Software headquarters is located at 5 Shlomo Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo.

  • Where are Check Point Software offices?

    Check Point Software has offices in Tel Aviv-Yafo, New York, San Carlos, Brisbane City and in 42 other locations.

  • How many offices does Check Point Software have?

    Check Point Software has 46 offices.