Joo Mi Kim Sells 965 Shares of Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Stock

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) CFO Joo Mi Kim sold 965 shares of Qualys stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, July 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $143.44, for a total transaction of $138,419.60. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 81,215 shares in the company, valued at $11,649,479.60. This represents a 1.17% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Joo Mi Kim also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, June 2nd, Joo Mi Kim sold 1,031 shares of Qualys stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $111.67, for a total transaction of $115,131.77.
• On Tuesday, May 19th, Joo Mi Kim sold 1,627 shares of Qualys stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $100.17, for a total transaction of $162,976.59.

Qualys Stock Performance

NASDAQ QLYS opened at $157.55 on Wednesday. Qualys, Inc. has a 1 year low of $74.51 and a 1 year high of $164.17. The business’s fifty day moving average is $109.04 and its two-hundred day moving average is $109.13. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.55 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.29 and a beta of 0.61.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The software maker reported $1.95 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.81 by $0.14. The business had revenue of $175.64 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $173.63 million. Qualys had a return on equity of 37.15% and a net margin of 29.41%.The company’s quarterly revenue was up 9.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $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, research analysts forecast that Qualys, Inc. will post 5.47 earnings per share for the current year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Qualys

Hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Nordea Investment Management AB increased its stake in shares of Qualys by 62.4% during the 4th quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 125,636 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $16,769,000 after purchasing an additional 48,267 shares during the last quarter. Comerica Bank lifted its stake in shares of Qualys by 100.6% in the 4th quarter. Comerica Bank now owns 22,710 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $3,018,000 after purchasing an additional 11,391 shares during the last quarter. Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH boosted its holdings in Qualys by 9.8% in the fourth quarter. Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH now owns 208,832 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $27,754,000 after purchasing an additional 18,711 shares in the last quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. boosted its holdings in Qualys by 6,727.1% in the fourth quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 14,883 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,978,000 after purchasing an additional 14,665 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC increased its position in Qualys by 4.0% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 1,256,002 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $168,380,000 after buying an additional 48,877 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.31% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Qualys

Here are the key news stories impacting Qualys this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Scotiabank upgraded Qualys from sector perform to sector outperform and lifted its price target to $190 from $100, signaling meaningful upside and reinforcing bullish sentiment. Article link
• Positive Sentiment: Recent coverage argues Qualys could benefit from rising demand for vulnerability management, AI-driven security tools, and management’s FY2026 guidance, which may be supporting investor optimism. Article link
• Neutral Sentiment: CFO Joo Mi Kim sold 965 shares in a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan. While insider selling can weigh on sentiment, this appears to be a routine transaction rather than a strong negative signal. SEC filing
• Neutral Sentiment: Insider Bruce K. Posey also sold 1,000 shares under a pre-arranged trading plan, adding to the recent insider-selling headlines but not necessarily changing the investment thesis. SEC filing

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts recently weighed in on the company. Wedbush dropped their price target on Qualys from $155.00 to $125.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their target price on Qualys from $85.00 to $90.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Scotiabank raised shares of Qualys from a “sector perform” rating to a “sector outperform” rating and increased their price target for the stock from $100.00 to $190.00 in a research report on Monday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of Qualys from an “underweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and boosted their price objective for the company from $87.00 to $139.00 in a research report on Tuesday, June 30th. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $96.00 price objective on shares of Qualys in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, three have given a Buy rating, twelve have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Qualys has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $132.29.

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.