Brokerages Set Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) Price Target at $141.80

Shares of Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) have been assigned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the seventeen research firms that are covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, twelve have issued a hold recommendation, three have issued a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $141.80.

Several brokerages have recently issued reports on QLYS. Wall Street Zen cut shares of Qualys from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, May 2nd. William Blair downgraded shares of Qualys from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 28th. Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of Qualys from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a research note on Thursday, July 16th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of Qualys from an “underweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and boosted their price target for the company from $87.00 to $139.00 in a research report on Tuesday, June 30th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada restated a “sector perform” rating and issued a $145.00 price objective on shares of Qualys in a research note on Thursday, July 16th.

Insider Buying and Selling at Qualys

In related news, Director Wendy Pfeiffer sold 500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $110.55, for a total value of $55,275.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 12,710 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,405,090.50. This represents a 3.79% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Sumedh S. Thakar sold 30,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $135.00, for a total value of $4,050,000.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 196,686 shares in the company, valued at $26,552,610. This represents a 13.23% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last three months, insiders have sold 73,846 shares of company stock valued at $9,239,073. 0.72% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Qualys

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

Qualys Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ QLYS opened at $137.48 on Friday. Qualys has a fifty-two week low of $74.51 and a fifty-two week high of $167.86. The firm has a market capitalization of $4.84 billion, a PE ratio of 24.68 and a beta of 0.61. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $125.13 and its 200-day simple moving average is $110.44.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 5th. The software maker reported $1.95 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.81 by $0.14. The firm had revenue of $175.64 million during 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 quarterly revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.67 earnings per share. 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, sell-side analysts forecast that Qualys will post 5.47 earnings per share for the current fiscal 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.