I've liked Check Point Software (NASDAQ:CHKP) as a good risk-reward play on the IT security space for some time and the stock worked reasonably well since my last article. The roughly 20% appreciation since then absolutely pales next to the performances of other security firms like Palo Alto (NYSE:PANW) and Imperva (NYSE:IMPV) (which have more than doubled), as well as Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) and FireEye (NASDAQ:FEYE), but relative to old school tech stocks like EMC (NYSE:EMC), Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), and Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), the comparison is more favorable to Check Point.
I
continue to like Check Point as a Goldilocks tech stock, but I don't
think it is significantly undervalued today. Mid-single digit long-term
growth supports a fair value close to $80, but Check Point doesn't seem
structured to generate the sort of absolute revenue growth or relative
share growth that would support major reratings.
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Check Point Software Still On Point
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