Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) Given Average Rating of “Hold” by Brokerages

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) has been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the seventeen research firms that are currently covering the firm, Marketbeat.com reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, twelve have given a hold recommendation, two have given a buy recommendation and one has issued a strong buy recommendation on the company. The average 12-month price objective among brokerages that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $122.1429.

Several research firms have issued reports on QLYS. Truist Financial decreased their price objective on shares of Qualys from $120.00 to $85.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Wedbush decreased their price objective on shares of Qualys from $155.00 to $125.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. Piper Sandler decreased their price objective on shares of Qualys from $135.00 to $100.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price objective on shares of Qualys from $113.00 to $87.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday. Finally, Scotiabank decreased their price objective on shares of Qualys from $135.00 to $100.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Qualys

Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP boosted its stake in Qualys by 6.4% in the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 763,099 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $67,041,000 after acquiring an additional 45,718 shares in the last quarter. KBC Group NV boosted its stake in Qualys by 251.3% in the first quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 27,958 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $2,456,000 after acquiring an additional 20,000 shares in the last quarter. Aurora Investment Counsel boosted its stake in shares of Qualys by 3.7% during the first quarter. Aurora Investment Counsel now owns 19,142 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,682,000 after buying an additional 689 shares during the period. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Qualys during the first quarter worth about $301,000. Finally, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund boosted its stake in shares of Qualys by 12.6% during the first quarter. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund now owns 18,041 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,585,000 after buying an additional 2,025 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.31% of the company’s stock.

Qualys Trading Down 0.7%

Shares of QLYS stock opened at $94.28 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $90.24 and a 200 day moving average price of $117.56. The company has a market cap of $3.32 billion, a P/E ratio of 16.93 and a beta of 0.58. Qualys has a 12 month low of $74.51 and a 12 month high of $155.47.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The software maker reported $1.95 EPS for the quarter, topping 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 firm had revenue of $175.64 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $173.63 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.67 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. 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, equities analysts forecast that Qualys will post 5.38 EPS for the current year.

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.