Insider Selling: Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Director Sells $55,275.00 in Stock

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) Director Wendy Pfeiffer sold 500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $110.55, for a total transaction of $55,275.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 12,710 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,405,090.50. The trade was a 3.79% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Qualys Price Performance

NASDAQ QLYS opened at $116.19 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $4.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.86 and a beta of 0.66. Qualys, Inc. has a 12 month low of $74.51 and a 12 month high of $155.47. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $99.70 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $109.43.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The software maker reported $1.95 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.81 by $0.14. The company had revenue of $175.64 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $173.63 million. Qualys had a net margin of 29.41% and a return on equity of 37.15%. The company’s revenue was up 9.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.67 EPS. Qualys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.440-7.650 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 1.730-1.800 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that Qualys, Inc. will post 5.47 EPS for the current year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Qualys

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of QLYS. Pacer Advisors Inc. raised its position in shares of Qualys by 1,338.8% during the 1st quarter. Pacer Advisors Inc. now owns 129,693 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $11,394,000 after purchasing an additional 120,679 shares during the period. NewEdge Advisors LLC boosted its position in Qualys by 12.9% during the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 6,110 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $537,000 after purchasing an additional 696 shares during the period. Segall Bryant & Hamill LLC bought a new position in Qualys during the 1st quarter worth $3,057,000. Verus Capital Partners LLC bought a new position in Qualys during the 1st quarter worth $264,000. Finally, Argent Capital Management LLC increased its position in Qualys by 54.5% in the first quarter. Argent Capital Management LLC now owns 6,767 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $594,000 after buying an additional 2,386 shares during the period. 99.31% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts have issued reports on the company. Morgan Stanley set a $96.00 price objective on Qualys in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Royal Bank Of Canada boosted their price target on Qualys from $85.00 to $90.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Canaccord Genuity Group dropped their price target on Qualys from $150.00 to $125.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Scotiabank reduced their price objective on Qualys from $135.00 to $100.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Finally, Weiss Ratings downgraded shares of Qualys from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have given a Buy rating, eleven have given a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $122.14.

Qualys Company Profile

Qualys, Inc (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions designed to help organizations streamline their IT security programs. Operating on a unified, modular platform, Qualys offers continuous visibility into global IT assets through a combination of lightweight cloud agents and on-premises scanner appliances. The platform supports an array of security and compliance use cases, enabling real-time detection of vulnerabilities, policy violations and misconfigurations across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.

The company’s flagship Qualys Cloud Platform delivers a suite of integrated applications, including vulnerability management, detection and response (VMDR), policy compliance, web application scanning, file integrity monitoring, asset inventory and container security.