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Qualys, Inc.

$QLYS·$5.6B·Software - Infrastructure·Technology
$152.69-4.2%YTD+20.2%1Y+9.2%
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QLQLYS
$QLYSQualys, Inc.
$152.69-4.20%106 posts
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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $QLYS, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-07-10

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Qualys is up 20% YTD at 95% of range on a 28.5x multiple but CEO Sumedh Thakar sold roughly $6.5M in late-June open-market sales — August 4 is where the AI-tailwind thesis meets the numbers.

Qualys is a cybersecurity-software-as-a-service provider specializing in vulnerability management, policy compliance, and cloud-security posture management — a real, high-margin software franchise. The stock is up 20% year-to-date at 95% of the 52-week range as the AI-and-cybersecurity narrative rotation has re-rated the sector, but the CEO tape is running strongly against the trend.

Where the setup is:

  • Last quarter posted $177 million in revenue up 10.5% year-on-year with an 83% gross margin and 34% operating margin — genuinely high-quality software economics with 5.2% free-cash-flow yield on the trailing base.
  • Valuation is elevated at 28.5x trailing price-to-earnings, 8.2x price-to-sales, and 20.2x EV-to-EBITDA — the multiple has compressed to 20x forward earnings on the sell-side's 2027 model, which is defensible for a cybersecurity compounder.
  • The insider tape is genuinely negative: chief executive Sumedh Thakar sold 50,000 shares across June 26, June 29, and June 30 at $120-135 for roughly $6.5 million combined — a real, sustained CEO-tape sale into the run, and vice-president Bruce Posey plus general counsel Joo Mi Kim also sold on July 2 and July 6.
  • Consensus sees $7.60 in earnings per share on $720 million revenue for the current year and $8.31 on $780 million next year — high-single-digit revenue growth combined with continued meaningful margins.
  • Position sits at 95% of the 52-week range with the tape 45% above the 50-day and 35% above the 200-day moving average — a highly-extended momentum setup where the August 4 Q2 print becomes the referee.

August 4 Q2 earnings is the confirmation event — revenue growth trajectory, cybersecurity-attach commentary in the AI-and-cybersecurity rotation, and any commentary on the CEO Thakar sales decide whether the 95%-of-range extended tape converts into a sustained re-rating or the insider-sale signal drives a pullback.

What to watch: August 4 Q2 earnings — revenue growth trajectory, cybersecurity-attach commentary in the AI-and-cybersecurity rotation, and any additional insider transactions from CEO Sumedh Thakar; the $6.5 million June-30 CEO cluster of sales is the near-term counterweight.

On the calendar: 2026-08-04 — Q2 earnings

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Qualys, Inc., founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, California, specializes in delivering cloud-based solutions for information technology (IT) management, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance to organizations globally. The company's integrated Qualys Cloud Platform hosts a comprehensive suite of "Qualys Cloud Apps," encompassing a broad spectrum of services such as vulnerability management, threat detection and response, multi-vector endpoint security, patch management, certificate assessment, web application scanning and firewall, as well as various IT, cloud, and container security and compliance tools. This powerful platform empowers customers to meticulously identify and manage their IT assets, gather and analyze critical security data, proactively uncover and prioritize vulnerabilities, recommend and initiate effective remediation actions, and ultimately verify their successful implementation. Complementing these core functions, Qualys also provides features like advanced asset tagging, intuitive reporting and dashboards, collaborative questionnaires, streamlined remediation workflows, a robust big data correlation and analytics engine, and real-time alerts. These components collectively ensure integrated operations, in-depth real-time analysis, and comprehensive reporting across an organization's entire IT, security, and compliance landscape. Qualys serves a diverse client base, including large enterprises, government entities, and small to medium-sized businesses across numerous sectors such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, education, and technology. Its solutions are distributed through a dedicated internal sales force and an extensive global network of channel partners, including security consulting firms, managed service providers, and resellers.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Software - Infrastructure sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $QLYS.

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

No material change from last week — Enterprise software infrastructure is in a multiple compression phase (-16.

Top industry ETF

$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
-11.8%YTD
-15.7%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
28.5How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
28.8%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
34.0%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
5.2%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
8.2Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
37.2%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
83.2%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.1Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 5, 2026$1.95$1.81+7.7%
Q4 2025Feb 5, 2026$1.87$1.78+5.1%
Q3 2025Nov 4, 2025$1.86$1.56+19.2%
Q2 2025Aug 5, 2025$1.68$1.47+14.3%
Next earningsTue, Aug 4·consensus EPS $1.78

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$176.6M+10.5%83.4%35.6%$1.42$93.6M
Q4 FY25$175.3M+10.1%83.4%33.6%$1.48$74.9M
Q3 FY25$169.9M+10.4%83.6%35.3%$1.40$89.5M
Q2 FY25$164.1M+10.3%82.4%31.3%$1.30$32.4M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 17 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$724.5M$721.4M – $729.0M$7.60$7.42 – $7.6817
FY27$775.3M$769.5M – $782.2M$8.31$8.04 – $8.7817
FY28$825.1M$823.9M – $826.2M$8.72$7.90 – $9.299
FY29$950.0M$943.5M – $957.9M$10.10$10.01 – $10.214

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.6×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.95%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+44.9%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+35.5%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatLow float · 34.9M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.5% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β0.605-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 6Bruce K PoseyCHIEF LEGAL OFFICER1.0K sh$155KSellJul 2Joo Mi KimCFO965 sh$138KSellJun 30Sumedh S ThakarCEO30.0K sh$4.0MSellJun 29Sumedh S ThakarCEO10.0K sh$1.3MSellJun 26Sumedh S ThakarCEO10.0K sh$1.2MSellJun 22Bruce K PoseyCHIEF LEGAL OFFICER865 sh$95KSellJun 22Wendy PfeifferDirector500 sh$55KSellJun 15Sumedh S ThakarCEO3.2K sh$367KSellJun 12Thomas BerquistDirector939 sh$104KSellJun 12Jeffrey P HankDirector470 sh$52K
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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Qualys: Recent Tailwinds Should Propel The Stock Price Higherseekingalpha.com·4d agoQualys (QLYS) Soars 6.1%: Is Further Upside Left in the Stock?zacks.com·12d agoQualys: AI Tailwinds And A Reasonable Valuationseekingalpha.com·20d agoA Qualys Director Sold Company Shares Worth $104,000. Here's What That Means for Investors.fool.com·24d agoQualys (QLYS) Up 22.9% Since Last Earnings Report: Can It Continue?zacks.com·36d ago

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