Qualys, Inc. (QLYS) - Stock Analysis
Last updated: Apr 12, 2026
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Qualys delivers raised 2025 revenue guidance with strong AI-powered platform adoption, improving EBITDA margins, and an 8% price gain over three weeks with positive technical momentum, establishing it as a hot cybersecurity idea driven by AI innovation and growth.
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Valuation Metrics
Fundamental Analysis
Key Financial Insights: ⢠High margins ⢠Strong FCF ⢠Revenue concentration Qualtrics combines high margins and strong free cash flow with excellent ROIC, but a leveraged equity position and concentrated deferred revenue create balance-sheet and future-margin risks.
Price Behavior
Key Price Behavior Insights: ⢠Accelerating decline ⢠Elevated volatility ⢠Defined support Support Level: recent low on 2026-04-10 (price not provided) Resistance Level: $95â$100 QLYS is in a clear downtrend with momentum bearish (last month average well above price), a sharp 1â2 day sell-off on 2026-04-08â04-10 raised short-term volatility and execution risk, and failure of the 2026-04-10 low would open further downside while a sustained move back above the midâMarch $95â$100 zone is required to restore bullish momentum.
Sentiment & News
Key News Insights: ⢠Agent-led remediation ⢠AI-driven discovery ⢠Regulatory urgency Qualys launched Agent Val for autonomous exploit validation and remediation as AI models that can find vulnerabilities (e.g., Anthropic's Claude Mythos) drive urgent regulatory and vendor responses, accelerating demand for automated defensive tools.
AI Summary
Qualys' pivot to an agentâled, AI-enabled risk operations platform (ETM/Agent Val) materially raises upside by potentially expanding ACV and NDR, but the investment now hinges on clear, repeatable POC-to-multiyear-deal conversions and billings/NDR improvementâtreat the stock as watch/buy-on-confirmation until those metrics demonstrably reaccelerate.
Description
Qualys, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based IT security and compliance solutions used by enterprises, governments and small-to-medium businesses worldwide. Its Qualys Cloud Platform bundles vulnerability and threat detection, endpoint and cloud security, asset and certificate inventories, compliance and remediation workflows, and analytics to help customers discover, prioritize and address security issues. The company sells through direct sales and channel partners and is headquartered in Foster City, California, with operations since 1999.
Idea History
| Date | Close | Ticker | Company | Summary | Status | P/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15 | Dec 22 | QLYS | Qualys, Inc. | Qualys delivers raised 2025 revenue guidance with strong AI-powered platform adoption, improving EBITDA margins, and an 8% price gain over three weeks with positive technical momentum, establishing it as a hot cybersecurity idea driven by AI innovation and growth. | Closed | -2.7% |