Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
—- Market cap
- —
- Debt
- +$4.83B
- Cash
- −$1.80B
Complete market value, debt and cash evidence is required for enterprise value.
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FY 2025 · Mkt capMarket cap $45.52B
Decision snapshot: CHKP stock price vs CIEN: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at CIEN's multiple
Needs EPS (TTM).
Implied fair value · at CHKP's multiple
Needs CHKP P/E.
Metric by metric
Snapshot Sep 4, 4:00 PM ET
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth lag
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: CHKP FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025) · CIEN FY 2025 (ended Nov 1, 2025). Fiscal years are not aligned.
Trendline
Five fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Complete market value, debt and cash evidence is required for enterprise value.
Capital structure 97% equity / 3% debt · EV / Revenue 9.59x · EV / EBITDA 123.18x
Price framework
The same filing-backed model used on each company's valuation page, with company-specific inputs and calculated scenarios.
CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. · implied price per share
The ordinary-share to listed-security ratio could not be verified.
Ciena Corp · implied price per share
Debt and bridge-cash inputs are required to translate enterprise value into equity value.
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
1.68x
0.56x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
2.99x
0.61x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$1.80B
$1.31B
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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$4.83B
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If you believe CHKP can sustain its high-margin business model and continue modest growth without meaningful deterioration in leverage, then CHKP is the better relative-value choice because it combines far stronger profitability with dramatically lower valuation multiples than CIEN.
The valuation gap is extreme on every major multiple: CHKP trades at 13.3x P/E and 5.0x P/S versus CIEN at 485.2x P/E and 12.2x P/S. That gap is hard to justify because CHKP also has materially better profitability, so the market is paying a steep premium for CIEN's faster revenue growth.
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