[1/2] Gil Shwed, Founder and CEO, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, speaks at a Cyber security conference in Tel Aviv, Israel January 31, 2017.
The Israeli-based company said it earned $2.07 per diluted share excluding one-off items in the July-September quarter, up 17% from $1.77 a year earlier.
It was forecast to earn $2.02 a share on revenue of $591.5 million, according to I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv.
Check Point said it bought back 2.48 million shares in the quarter, worth $325 million, as part of its ongoing $2 billion share buyback programme.
CEO Gil Shwed said that despite the "tragic events in Israel over the past three weeks our global business has continued to operate as planned", introducing new products and completing acquisitions.
Persons:
Gil Shwed, Baz Ratner, Steven Scheer, Louise Heavens
Organizations:
Software Technologies, REUTERS, Rights, Revenue, Thomson
Locations:
Tel Aviv, Israel