Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Director Sells 500 Shares of Stock

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

Qualys Price Performance

NASDAQ:QLYS traded up $3.82 on Tuesday, hitting $112.33. 563,875 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 749,157. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $97.64 and a 200-day moving average price of $110.14. Qualys, Inc. has a 52 week low of $74.51 and a 52 week high of $155.47. The company has a market cap of $3.96 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.17 and a beta of 0.65.

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

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Qualys

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Envestnet Portfolio Solutions Inc. lifted its position in shares of Qualys by 4.3% in the fourth quarter. Envestnet Portfolio Solutions Inc. now owns 1,985 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $264,000 after buying an additional 81 shares during the last quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC increased its holdings in shares of Qualys by 1.8% during the 3rd quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC now owns 5,027 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $665,000 after acquiring an additional 88 shares during the last quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors raised its stake in Qualys by 4.6% in the 2nd quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 2,038 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $291,000 after acquiring an additional 90 shares during the period. Covestor Ltd raised its stake in Qualys by 9.1% in the 4th quarter. Covestor Ltd now owns 1,178 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $156,000 after acquiring an additional 98 shares during the period. Finally, EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC raised its stake in Qualys by 8.9% in the 4th quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 1,231 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $164,000 after acquiring an additional 101 shares during the period. 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 issued reports on the company. William Blair cut Qualys from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 28th. Piper Sandler decreased their target price on shares of Qualys from $135.00 to $100.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Weiss Ratings downgraded shares of Qualys from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. Wedbush dropped their price target on shares of Qualys from $155.00 to $125.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $96.00 price target on shares of Qualys in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have given a Buy rating, eleven have assigned a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target 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.