Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for QLYS in the last 90 days.
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Qualys (QLYS) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$173.83+1.40 (+0.8%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryQualys shares fell this week along with a broader group of cybersecurity names including Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7 and SentinelOne, which all saw a significant afternoon decline on 25 September. Separately, a retrospective piece noted that Qualys has significantly outperformed the market over the last decade, with an average annual return of 17.05%. Alongside these stories, a Form 4 filing for insider transactions was noted on 22 September.
Qualys closed at $173.83, up 0.8%, sitting above both its 50-day average of $170.91 and its 200-day average of $127.03, with the 50-day above the 200-day. The stock's one-month return stands at -7.8% even as its three-month and six-month returns remain strongly positive at 35.5% and 103%. The GekkoIndex reads 59.1, placing it in the Neutral zone, and the price sits 11.8% below the Gekko Fair Value of $197.10.
Over the next 20 trading days, the next earnings date falls on 3 November, 35 days away, after market close, placing it outside this window. The last report on 4 August showed EPS of $1.56 against an estimate of $1.27, with an 18.3% reaction. Seasonality over five years shows the next 20 trading days averaging -1.3%, positive in 2 of those years. Analyst consensus stands at 3 buy, 12 hold and 1 sell across 16 firms, with a consensus target of $179.36.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Qualys price vs fair value
Close $173.83200-day averageGekko Fair Value $197.10
Qualys quick facts
- Market cap
- $6.12B
- P/E ratio
- 32
- Forward P/E
- 21.9
- EPS, TTM
- $5.71
- Revenue, TTM
- $703.0M
- Profit margin
- 29.4%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 0.62
- Volume
- 600,547 avg 757,579
- 1-year return
- +28.4%
- Typical daily move
- ±5.9%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.4%
- 50-day average
- $170.91
- 200-day average
- $127.03
- Next earnings
- Nov 3 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 34.60M
Qualys swing-trade checklist
Qualys scores 3 supportive, 1 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive1 mixed1 headwind
- Trendsupportive
Above 50 and 200-day
Close $173.83 is above the 50-day ($170.91) and 200-day ($127.03) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
59.1, Neutral
Reading 59.1 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
11.8% below
Price is 11.8% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 35 days
Next report Nov 3, 2026, 35 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalityheadwind
−1.3% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −1.3% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
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Qualys stock chart and price history
Qualys closed at $173.83 on Sep 28, 2026, +28.4% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $74.51 to $201.54.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −7.8%
- 3 months
- +35.5%
- 6 months
- +103.0%
- 1 year
- +28.4%
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About Qualys
Qualys provides cloud-delivered tools that help organizations manage their information technology systems, guard against cyber threats, and stay in line with regulatory requirements. Its main offering, the Qualys Cloud Platform, brings together a range of applications covering vulnerability management, threat detection and response, endpoint security, patch management, certificate assessment, and web application scanning and firewall protection, along with tools for securing cloud and container environments. Through this platform, customers can track their IT assets, examine security data, spot and rank vulnerabilities, and confirm that fixes have been properly applied.
Beyond these core capabilities, Qualys offers asset tagging, dashboards and reporting tools, shared questionnaires, workflows for remediation, large-scale data analysis, and real-time alerting, giving clients a fuller view of their IT, security, and compliance operations. Its customer base spans large corporations, government bodies, and smaller businesses across industries like finance, healthcare, manufacturing, education, and technology. The company reaches these customers both through its own sales team and through a network of outside partners, including consulting firms, managed service providers, and resellers.
Qualys was established in 1999 and operates out of Foster City, California. Its shares trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker QLYS.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Website
- qualys.com
Qualys GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Qualys’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 59.1, in the Neutral zone, up 3.3 points over five sessions.
59.1Neutral
Up 3.3 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 59 | −0.3% | −0.9% |
| Accumulation | 293 | 0.0% | −0.4% |
| Neutral (current zone) | 281 | +0.4% | +2.0% |
| Distribution | 28 | −0.9% | +4.0% |
| Selling | 11 | +1.7% | −8.7% |
Average QLYS share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is Qualys stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Qualys trades 11.8% below Gekko Fair Value of $197.10, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Qualys shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$197.10
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026
11.8% Undervalued
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Qualys insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Qualys, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in QLYS were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Qualys has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $77.88M
- As a share of market cap
- 1.27%
- Trailing four quarters
- $225.3M
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
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Qualys earnings: next date and track record
Qualys reports on Nov 3, 2026, after the close (35 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Nov 3, 2026
Expected after the close, 35 days away
- EPS estimate
- $1.95
- Revenue estimate
- $186.7M
8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±11.3%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Aug 4, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Qualys reported strong Q2 2026 revenue growth and profitability, driven by its Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) platform. The company launched InstaScan powered by Agent Insta, enabling near-instant vulnerability detection without traditional scan cycles. New autonomous zero-day remediation capabilities were announced, including AI-scored remediation waves with patch reliability scoring. Management emphasized AI-native risk operations as differentiated from competitors' CTEM dashboard approaches.
- Guidance
- No specific revenue or EPS guidance figures were provided in this excerpt. Management signaled continued investment in AI-native security capabilities and ETM platform expansion, with Black Hat showcasing upcoming product launches suggesting continued growth momentum.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | $1.56 est $1.27 | $182.2M est $178.6M | +18.3% |
| May 5, 2026 | $1.95 est $1.80 | $175.6M est $173.6M | −1.8% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | $1.87 est $1.78 | $175.3M est $173.2M | −14.2% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $1.86 est $1.56 | $169.9M est $173.2M | +16.8% |
| Aug 5, 2025 | $1.68 est $1.47 | $164.1M est $161.3M | −4.0% |
| May 6, 2025 | $1.67 est $1.46 | $159.9M est $159.9M | −0.4% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | $1.60 est $1.37 | $159.2M est $156.3M | −7.1% |
| Nov 5, 2024 | $1.56 est $1.34 | $153.9M est $150.7M | +27.8% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Qualys stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Qualys is $179.36, +3.2% from the last close, from 16 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$179.36consensus 12-month target, +3.2% from the last close
Now $173.83Avg $179.36
Low $130High $220
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 16 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 | Wedbush | $175 | +0.7% |
| Aug 5 | Needham | — | — |
| Aug 5 | Northland Securities | $208 | +19.7% |
| Aug 5 | D.A. Davidson | $165 | −5.1% |
| Aug 5 | Scotiabank | $220 | +26.6% |
+2.0%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
−1.3%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±5.9%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Qualys seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 26, Qualys averaged −1.3% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −1.4% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −1.8% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −1.1% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | −1.3% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +10.2% | 4 of 5 |
For scale, QLYS’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 6.4%.
Qualys market cap and key statistics
Qualys’s market cap is $6.12B, with a P/E ratio of 32 and revenue of $703.0M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $6.12B
- P/E ratio
- 32
- Forward P/E
- 21.9
- EPS, TTM
- $5.71
- Gekko Fair Value
- $197.10
Trading
- Volume
- 600,547
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 757,579
- 52-week high
- $201.54
- 52-week low
- $74.51
- Shares outstanding
- 34.60M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $703.0M
- Profit margin
- 29.4%
- Return on equity
- 38.6%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +16.1%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.62
- Typical daily move
- ±5.9%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±6.4%
Qualys stock news this week
Coverage of Qualys this week reads positive: 2 positive, 2 neutral and 1 negative headlines.
- Qualys, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7, and SentinelOne Shares Plummet, What You Need To KnowThe Globe and Mail, Sep 25
- If You Invested $1000 In Qualys Stock 10 Years Ago, You Would Have This Much TodayBenzinga, Sep 24
- Bank of America Corp DE Acquires Shares of 158,937 Qualys, Inc. $QLYSMarketBeat, Sep 24
- Qualys, Inc. $QLYS Shares Sold by Engineers Gate Manager LPMarketBeat, Sep 24
- Form 4 Qualys Inc For: 22 September By Investing.comInvesting.com Nigeria, Sep 23
- Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) Insider Bruce Posey Sells 866 Shares of StockDefense World, Sep 23
Qualys peers
Qualys’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| MSFTMicrosoft | Neutral | 17.3% above |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | Neutral | 15.7% above |
| ORCLOracle | Accumulation | 25.9% below |
| PANWPalo Alto Networks | Neutral | 16.1% above |
| CRWDCrowdStrike | Neutral | 27.2% above |
| CRMSalesforce | Neutral | 5.9% below |
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Qualys stock FAQ
What is Qualys’s market cap?
Qualys’s market cap is $6.12B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $173.83, with 34.60M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 32.
What is the Qualys stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Qualys is $179.36, +3.2% from the last close. Of the 16 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 3 rate it a buy, 12 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Qualys stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Qualys is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $173.83 is 11.8% below Gekko Fair Value of $197.10. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Qualys report earnings next?
Qualys is expected to report on Nov 3, 2026, after the market closes (35 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.95 per share on revenue of $186.7M. Qualys beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 11.3% on average across the report.
What is Qualys’s 52-week high and low?
Qualys’s 52-week high is $201.54 and its 52-week low is $74.51; it closed at $173.83 on Sep 28, 2026, +28.4% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $206.35 on Dec 19, 2023.
Is Qualys stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (trend, fair value and earnings risk), 1 as mixed (gekkoindex) and 1 as a headwind (seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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