Qualys has retired 11.8% of its shares since 2020, from 39,207,735 to 34,595,001.
At $181.05 a share, a market value of $6.3B. FCF yield 5.0%, P/E 30.3, trailing twelve months to June 2026.
| Fiscal year | Date | Shares outstanding | Filing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013-02-28 | 31,547,650 | 10-K | |
| 2013 | 2014-01-31 | 32,451,633 | 10-K | |
| 2014 | 2015-02-27 | 33,915,121 | 10-K | |
| 2015 | 2016-01-31 | 34,432,373 | 10-K | |
| 2016 | 2017-01-31 | 36,359,340 | 10-K | |
| 2017 | 2018-01-31 | 38,628,442 | 10-K | |
| 2018 | 2019-01-31 | 39,038,263 | 10-K | |
| 2019 | 2020-02-13 | 39,092,443 | 10-K | |
| 2020 | 2021-02-12 | 39,207,735 | 10-K | |
| 2021 | 2022-02-16 | 39,029,415 | 10-K | |
| 2022 | 2023-02-16 | 37,009,478 | 10-K | |
| 2023 | 2024-02-12 | 36,977,259 | 10-K | |
| 2024 | 2025-02-11 | 36,477,672 | 10-K | |
| 2025 | 2026-02-11 | 35,675,926 | 10-K |
Source: all 10-K filings of Qualys on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.
Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $181.05.
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Yes. Qualys has 3.5% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 34,595,001 as of July 22, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 10.9%.
Net of every new share it issued, Qualys has 4.6 million fewer shares than at its 2020 peak. That is 11.8% of the company. Since fiscal 2021 alone it bought back about 5.9 million shares, while the count fell by 4.4 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.
34,595,001 shares, as of July 22, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2020 peak it had 39,207,735.
Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Qualys stock in 2020 owns 1.1 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.
Qualys ranks No. 450 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Thermo Fisher (12.0%), Vail Resorts (12.0%), Boise Cascade (11.8%), Reinsurance Group of America (11.7%).
Every answer is computed from Qualys' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.
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