“Revenues increased by $33.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, driven by increased demand for our subscription services by our end customers .”10-Q · Aug 4, 2026 ↗
Qualys, Inc.
QLYS
Market read
Qualys, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 6 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 11.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Sales and marketing expense rose $6.1M (19%) in Q1 2026, primarily from $5.8M higher personnel costs including stock-based compensation driven by increased headcount.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if QLYS's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 6 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 5 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 11.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 2.6 percentage points.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Sales and marketing expense rose $6.1M (19%) in Q1 2026, primarily from $5.8M higher personnel costs including stock-based compensation driven by increased headcount.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +10.1% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +2.4 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed +1.1 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 1.56x in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
No qualifying adverse evidence was identified; that is not proof there is no downside.
- P/E is 94% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
150.15Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Research and development expenses increased by $0.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, an increase in overhead allocations of $1.4 million, partially offset by lower average personnel costs, including stock-bas…”10-Q · Aug 4, 2026 ↗
“Total other income, net decreased by $4.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, compared to the same periods in 2025, primarily due to unfavorable changes in foreign currency of $2.5 million, an impairment to our non-marketable security of $2.0 mill…”10-Q · Aug 4, 2026 ↗
“or expansion of our office spaces, as compared to $6.4 million of cash generated from sales and maturities of marketable securities net of purchases, partially offset by $3.1 million of cash used in capital expenditures mainly related to purchases of computer…”10-Q · Aug 5, 2025 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 8.2× · EV/sales 7.8×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for QLYS. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-08-04 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-05.
Capital and cash conversion
Investment load increased
Capital spending consumed more revenue while free-cash-flow margin declined.
- Capital spending YoY
- +59.5%
- Capital spending / revenue
- +1.5%
- Free-cash-flow margin
- +41.8%
- FCF margin change
- -1.4 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 11.0% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 2.6 percentage points.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“During the six months ended June 30, 2025, we generated $13.3 million of cash from changes in working capital, of which $13.5 million was related to the net favorable change in accounts receivable and deferred revenue due to the timing of collections and billings, and a $4.4 million favorable change in payables and accrued liabilities primarily driven by the timing of payments, partially offset by a $4.6 million unfavorable change in prepaid expenses primarily driven by the timing of payments.”
“In addition, we also generated $1.3 million of cash from changes in working capital during the six months ended June 30, 2026, of which $15.8 million was related to a net favorable change in accounts receivable and deferred revenue due to the timing of billings and collections, partially offset by an $14.5 million net unfavorable change in prepaid expenses and payables and accrued liabilities primarily due to the timing of payments.”
“Revenues increased by $33.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 compared to the same period in 2025, driven by increased demand for our subscription services by our end customers .”
Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind QLYS
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
CRWDCrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.competitorMay 5, 2026 ▾
“We compete with large and small public companies, such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7, and Tenable Holdings, as well as privately held security providers including Invicti, Tanium, and Wiz (which has announced a pending acquisition by Google).”
PANWPalo Alto Networks, Inc.competitorMay 5, 2026 ▾
“We compete with large and small public companies, such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7, and Tenable Holdings, as well as privately held security providers including Invicti, Tanium, and Wiz (which has announced a pending acquisition by Google).”
Depended on by
TENBTenable Holdings, Inc.competitorFeb 27, 2026 ▾
“Our competitors include: vulnerability management and assessment vendors, including Qualys and Rapid7; diversified security software and services vendors; endpoint security vendors with vulnerability assessment capabilities, including CrowdStrike;”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
QLYS is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Cybersecurity Software. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.