Insider Selling: Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Insider Sells $238,829.12 in Stock

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) insider Bruce Posey sold 2,384 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $100.18, for a total transaction of $238,829.12. Following the transaction, the insider owned 66,301 shares in the company, valued at $6,642,034.18. This represents a 3.47% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Qualys Price Performance

NASDAQ:QLYS opened at $102.37 on Friday. Qualys, Inc. has a one year low of $74.51 and a one year high of $155.47. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $89.98 and its 200 day simple moving average is $115.16. The firm has a market capitalization of $3.61 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.38 and a beta of 0.58.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, May 5th. The software maker reported $1.95 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.81 by $0.14. Qualys had a net margin of 29.41% and a return on equity of 37.15%. The business had revenue of $175.64 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $173.63 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.67 earnings per share. Qualys’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. On average, equities research analysts expect that Qualys, Inc. will post 5.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts recently commented on QLYS shares. Morgan Stanley set a $96.00 price objective on shares of Qualys in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Canaccord Genuity Group dropped their price objective on shares of Qualys from $150.00 to $125.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. DA Davidson dropped their price objective on shares of Qualys from $135.00 to $125.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 6th. TD Cowen reissued a “hold” rating on shares of Qualys in a research note on Tuesday, April 14th. Finally, Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of Qualys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, May 2nd. One equities research 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 given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Qualys presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $122.14.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Root Financial Partners LLC lifted its stake in shares of Qualys by 206.2% in 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 in the last quarter. Strive Financial Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Qualys in the fourth quarter worth approximately $27,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its stake in shares of Qualys by 204.3% in 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 in the last quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. bought a new position in shares of Qualys in the third quarter worth approximately $29,000. Finally, Allworth Financial LP lifted its stake in shares of Qualys by 86.8% in 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 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.