GHP Investment Advisors Inc. Buys 14,665 Shares of Qualys, Inc. $QLYS

GHP Investment Advisors Inc. increased its stake in Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ:QLYS) by 6,727.1% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 14,883 shares of the software maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 14,665 shares during the quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc.’s holdings in Qualys were worth $1,978,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Nordea Investment Management AB increased its position in shares of Qualys by 62.4% in the fourth 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. RWA Wealth Partners LLC bought a new position in shares of Qualys in the third quarter worth approximately $80,820,000. Federated Hermes Inc. increased its position in shares of Qualys by 26.3% in the third quarter. Federated Hermes Inc. now owns 87,217 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $11,541,000 after purchasing an additional 18,164 shares during the last quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of Qualys by 748.6% in the third quarter. HighTower Advisors LLC now owns 31,346 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $4,148,000 after purchasing an additional 27,652 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH increased its position in shares of 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 during the last quarter. 99.31% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms recently weighed in on QLYS. JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price objective on shares of Qualys from $117.00 to $113.00 and set an “underweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Scotiabank cut their target price on Qualys from $139.00 to $135.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 6th. DA Davidson cut their target price on Qualys from $135.00 to $125.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Royal Bank Of Canada cut their target price on Qualys from $140.00 to $134.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Weiss Ratings lowered Qualys from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a research note on Friday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, two have given a Buy rating, nine have assigned a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $140.46.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, CFO Joo Mi Kim sold 6,799 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $128.46, for a total transaction of $873,399.54. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer owned 88,489 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $11,367,296.94. This represents a 7.14% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, insider Bruce K. Posey sold 1,101 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, January 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $132.34, for a total value of $145,706.34. Following the sale, the insider directly owned 68,598 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $9,078,259.32. This trade represents a 1.58% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last three months, insiders have sold 11,479 shares of company stock valued at $1,498,671. Insiders own 0.88% of the company’s stock.

Qualys Price Performance

Shares of QLYS opened at $83.17 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $2.97 billion, a P/E ratio of 15.29 and a beta of 0.62. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $93.73 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $121.11. Qualys, Inc. has a 1 year low of $74.51 and a 1 year high of $155.47.

Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The software maker reported $1.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.78 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $175.28 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $173.18 million. Qualys had a return on equity of 37.65% and a net margin of 29.64%.Qualys’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.60 earnings per share. Qualys has set its Q1 2026 guidance at 1.760-1.830 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 7.170-7.450 EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Qualys, Inc. will post 3.85 earnings per share for the current 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.