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Check Point said on Wednesday new products like ThreatCloud, which allows businesses to team up to fight cyber crime, were helping it to gain market share, and also announced plans to buy up to $1 billion of its shares in the next two years. Its shares, hit recently by fears of slowing demand, jumped 10 percent in early Nasdaq trading. "We take (the) current performance as a sigh of relief given the Street's expectations and some observers' expectations for negative results," said Oppenheimer analyst Shaul Eyal. He estimated the share buyback could boost earnings per share by 25 to 30 cents over the next two years. Check Point posted earnings per share excluding one-off items of 77 cents in the second quarter, compared with 68 cents a year earlier. Revenue rose 9 percent to $329 million. Check Point had been expected to earn 76 cents a share on revenue of $331 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Billings grew 9 percent, which investors should view positively, Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund said, adding that "given the 29 percent pullback in the stock since first quarter earnings, we believe the stock was discounting a worse result". EUROPEAN UNCERTAINTY "We have seen great acceptance of our new security appliances as a platform of choice for security consolidation," Check Point Chairman and CEO Gil Shwed said, noting sales of enterprise appliance units grew more than 20 percent. Such appliances, which combine hardware and software, account for over 80 percent of the company's revenue, Shwed told a news conference. Check Point continues to take market share from competitors such as Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) and Juniper Networks (JNPR.N), Shwed said. In April he estimated Check Point has more than 40 percent of the enterprise security market. Shwed said he did not see Palo Alto Networks, a competing designer of Internet firewalls that plans to go public on Friday, as a major threat to Check Point, the world's biggest pure-play network security company. Palo Alto coined the term "next generation firewall" to describe its products, which let companies tightly control access to Internet applications for specific users. "They are still a niche player," Shwed said, arguing that Check Point's application control technology was better. Though Shwed said he did not see pressure on prices from the competition, customers are buying smaller models that provide improved performance. Shwed said revenue growth had slowed due to economic pressures in Europe, where a weaker euro reduced the purchasing power of Check Point customers. On the other hand, the stronger dollar lowered company expenses by $6 million and Shwed said new markets were boosting growth. 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