Insider Selling: Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Insider Sells 2,384 Shares of Stock

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) insider Bruce Posey sold 2,384 shares of Qualys stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $100.18, for a total value of $238,829.12. Following the sale, the insider directly owned 66,301 shares in the company, valued at $6,642,034.18. The trade was a 3.47% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Qualys Stock Up 0.3%

Qualys stock traded up $0.30 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $100.85. 665,822 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 759,484. The firm has a 50 day moving average price of $89.76 and a 200 day moving average price of $115.41. The company has a market cap of $3.55 billion, a PE ratio of 18.11 and a beta of 0.58. Qualys, Inc. has a one year low of $74.51 and a one year high of $155.47.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The software maker reported $1.95 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.81 by $0.14. The firm 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%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 9.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business 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. On average, analysts expect that Qualys, Inc. will post 5.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research firms have recently commented on QLYS. Wedbush dropped their price objective on Qualys from $155.00 to $125.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. William Blair downgraded Qualys from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 28th. TD Cowen reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Qualys in a research note on Tuesday, April 14th. Piper Sandler dropped their price objective on Qualys from $135.00 to $100.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Finally, DA Davidson dropped their price objective on Qualys from $135.00 to $125.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 6th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have assigned a Buy rating, twelve have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Qualys has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $122.14.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Qualys

A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of QLYS. NewEdge Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Qualys by 3,948.0% in the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 2,024 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $255,000 after acquiring an additional 1,974 shares during the last quarter. Sivia Capital Partners LLC acquired a new position in shares of Qualys in the 2nd quarter worth $292,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. grew its holdings in shares of Qualys by 3,218.8% in the 2nd quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 531 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $76,000 after acquiring an additional 515 shares during the last quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Qualys by 482.0% in the 2nd quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 646 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $92,000 after acquiring an additional 535 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Amundi grew its holdings in shares of Qualys by 47.1% in the 2nd quarter. Amundi now owns 21,365 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $3,076,000 after acquiring an additional 6,844 shares during the last quarter. 99.31% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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.