Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Director Sells $103,994.25 in Stock

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) Director Thomas Berquist sold 939 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, June 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $110.75, for a total transaction of $103,994.25. Following the sale, the director directly owned 6,781 shares in the company, valued at $750,995.75. The trade was a 12.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Qualys Trading Up 3.1%

QLYS traded up $3.41 during trading on Monday, reaching $114.65. 889,284 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 744,687. Qualys, Inc. has a one year low of $74.51 and a one year high of $155.47. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.04 billion, a PE ratio of 20.58 and a beta of 0.66. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $94.59 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $111.43.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 5th. The software maker reported $1.95 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.81 by $0.14. Qualys had a net margin of 29.41% and a return on equity of 37.15%. The company had revenue of $175.64 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $173.63 million. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.67 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 9.8% on a year-over-year basis. Qualys has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.440-7.650 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 1.730-1.800 EPS. Sell-side analysts expect that Qualys, Inc. will post 5.47 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Root Financial Partners LLC raised its holdings in Qualys by 206.2% during the first quarter. Root Financial Partners LLC now owns 297 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $26,000 after buying an additional 200 shares during the last quarter. Strive Financial Group LLC acquired a new position in Qualys during the fourth quarter worth $27,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. raised its holdings in Qualys by 204.3% during the fourth quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 213 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $28,000 after buying an additional 143 shares during the last quarter. Allworth Financial LP raised its holdings in Qualys by 86.8% during the third quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 284 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $38,000 after buying an additional 132 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Employees Retirement System of Texas acquired a new position in Qualys during the fourth quarter worth $43,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.31% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on QLYS shares. Piper Sandler reduced their price objective on shares of Qualys from $135.00 to $100.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Scotiabank reduced their price objective on shares of Qualys from $135.00 to $100.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their target price on shares of Qualys from $113.00 to $87.00 and set an “underweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. TD Cowen reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Qualys in a research report on Tuesday, April 14th. Finally, Truist Financial dropped their target price on shares of Qualys from $120.00 to $85.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, April 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have given a Buy rating, eleven have issued a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $122.14.

About Qualys

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.