Insider Selling: Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Insider Sells $155,000.00 in Stock

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) insider Bruce Posey sold 1,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, July 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $155.00, for a total value of $155,000.00. Following the sale, the insider directly owned 63,571 shares in the company, valued at $9,853,505. The trade was a 1.55% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal 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 Price Performance

NASDAQ:QLYS opened at $153.54 on Thursday. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.41 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.57 and a beta of 0.61. Qualys, Inc. has a 1 year low of $74.51 and a 1 year high of $164.17. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $110.40 and a 200-day simple moving average of $109.21.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last announced 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 return on equity of 37.15% and a net margin of 29.41%.The firm had revenue of $175.64 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $173.63 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $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. As a group, analysts expect that Qualys, Inc. will post 5.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms recently commented on QLYS. Truist Financial dropped their price target 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. Weiss Ratings raised shares of Qualys from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 2nd. William Blair lowered Qualys from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 28th. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Qualys in a research note on Tuesday, April 14th. Finally, Scotiabank raised Qualys from a “sector perform” rating to a “sector outperform” rating and raised their price target for the stock from $100.00 to $190.00 in a research note on Monday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, three have assigned a Buy rating, twelve have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $132.29.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Qualys

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Envestnet Portfolio Solutions Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Qualys by 4.3% in the 4th quarter. Envestnet Portfolio Solutions Inc. now owns 1,985 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $264,000 after purchasing an additional 81 shares in the last quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC boosted its stake in shares of Qualys by 1.8% during the third quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC now owns 5,027 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $665,000 after purchasing an additional 88 shares in the last quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors increased its holdings in Qualys by 4.6% during the second quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 2,038 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $291,000 after buying an additional 90 shares during the period. Covestor Ltd increased its holdings in Qualys by 9.1% during the fourth quarter. Covestor Ltd now owns 1,178 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $156,000 after buying an additional 98 shares during the period. Finally, EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC raised its stake in Qualys by 8.9% in the fourth quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 1,231 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $164,000 after buying an additional 101 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 99.31% of the company’s stock.

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.