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Q2 Holdings, Inc.QTWOCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Information Technology Services

Provides a cloud-based digital banking platform used by community and regional banks and credit unions.

Momentum leader 94
Mkt cap
$4.57B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
97%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$58.0M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
22.5×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+3.9 pp
WACC 11.6%
Hurdle
+12 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
103 days
17 Feb 2027
Close · USD$73.92
1D-2.2%
1W+10.2%
1M+25.9%
3M+16.4%
6M+47.5%
YTD+2.4%
1Y+20.9%
ATR %3.5%
Beta0.24
52w lowhigh3.2% off high

What Q2 Holdings, Inc. does

Provides a cloud-based digital banking platform used by community and regional banks and credit unions.

Is paid mostly through recurring subscription fees on multi-year contracts, usually priced by the number of a bank's registered digital users, so it grows as customers' users grow and as it sells extra modules into the same banks. A smaller part comes from transaction and professional-services fees.

Products and services

  • Digital banking platform
  • Lending/account opening tools
  • Fraud/risk management

Customers

  • Community and regional banks
  • Credit unions

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Financial technology
  • Digital banking software (SaaS)
  • Community/regional bank and credit…

What could go right

  • Bank digital transformation spending
  • Cross-sell of additional modules

What could go wrong

  • Long, competitive bank sales cycles
  • Community bank consolidation reduces customer count

Moat: narrow (switching costs, customer qualification, installed base). Core banking-adjacent software is deeply embedded and costly/risky for banks to replace once implemented.

Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States · Founded: 2004 · Employees: 2,549

Named competitors

Q2 Holdings, Inc. at a glance

Size Q2 Holdings, Inc. (QTWO) is a United States Information Technology company (Information Technology Services) with a market value of $4.57B, the 1243rd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $73.92 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 47.5%, against +13.3% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 13.1% over the last twelve months (peer median +7.3%); the operating margin is 12.8% (peer median 9.1%).

Valuation It trades at 22.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 14.9× (6th most expensive of 21).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 27% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +15%, so the hurdle is +12 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.9 points above its cost of capital (11.6% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $2.77B at 30 Sep 2026, up 10% on a year earlier — 3.2 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →

Short interest Short interest is 7.9% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 17 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012515011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026QTWO 156Peer median 113
Six months, rebased to 100: Q2 Holdings, Inc. against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Q2 Holdings, Inc. financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$870M$795M$696M$625M$566M
Revenue growth—+14%+12%+10%—
Gross profit$508M$430M$338M$282M$238M
EBITDA$177M$115M$48.2M$10.0M-$17.2M
Net income$110M$52.0M-$38.5M-$65.4M-$109M
Free cash flow$233M$195M$128M$64.6M$25.4M
Capital expenditure$38.6M$28.1M$29.0M$30.6M$30.1M
Total debt$38.9M$346M$541M$546M$731M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Q2 Holdings, Inc. competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+50%-20%0%+20%SCTDOXNSITKBR2327BC8SOPPSNWKPEGASTLTECH3079503626300339BOX0696INGMNICESAICQTWO6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Q2 Holdings, Inc. is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+10%+20%+30%10×20×30×SCTDOXNSITKBR2327BC8PSNWK064400STLTECH307950300339BOX0696INGMNICEQTWORevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Q2 Holdings, Inc. is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%-20%0%20%SCTDOXNSITKBR2327BC8SOPPSNWK064400PEGASTLTECH3079503626BOX0696NICESAICQTWOGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Q2 Holdings, Inc. is the large dot.

Q2 Holdings, Inc. competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (QTWO vs VYX vs JKHY vs FISV)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Q2 Holdings, Inc. QTWO$4.57B+47%+13%13%22.5×26.6%
NCR Voyix VYX$1.35B+17%-5%7%9.9×n/a
Jack Henry & Associates JKHY$12.1B+19%+6%25%22.9×n/a
Fiserv FISV$33.4B+13%-2%19%8.2×n/a
Alkami Technology ALKT$1.44B-25%+24%-5%13.1×12.6%

How Q2 Holdings, Inc. compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Q2 Holdings, Inc. against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureQTWOPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+25.9%-1.6%highest of 21
6-month return+47.5%+13.3%6th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-3.2%-25.5%2nd highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+13.1%+7.3%6th highest of 21
Operating margin12.8%9.1%5th highest of 21
Forward P/E22.5×14.9×6th most expensive of 21
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)26.6%2.9%3rd most demanding of 20
Growth delivered (Del g)+14.6%+7.2%4th highest of 20
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+12.0 pp-2.6 pp3rd most demanding of 20
ROIC minus cost of capital+3.9 pp+5.3 pp8th lowest of 20
EV / EBITDA25.3×10.0×2nd most expensive of 16
Net debt / EBITDA-0.5×0.5×6th least indebted of 18

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Q2 Holdings, Inc. QTWOUnited States$4.57B+47%+13%13%22.5×26.6%+14.6%
Softcat SCT.LUnited Kingdom$4.53B+14%+35%11%17.9×-4.1%+20.3%
Amdocs DOXUnited States$4.53B-34%+4%17%7.7×-15.8%+1.8%
Insight Enterprises NSITUnited States$4.64B+89%+3%6%11.7×2.9%-0.2%
KBR KBRUnited States$4.69B+14%-3%9%9.5×-8.7%+6.2%
NS Solutions 2327.TJapan$4.43B+6%+12%12%21.3×-5.1%+8.6%
Bechtle BC8.DEGermany$4.72B+13%+8%5%16.8×6.9%+4.9%
Sopra Steria SOP.PAFrance$4.29B+50%+2%9%11.2×-0.6%+5.8%
Parsons PSNUnited States$5.16B-1%-3%5%14.8×8.4%+10.2%
Workiva WKUnited States$3.96B+42%+20%3%23.0×33.1%+20.3%
LG Cns 064400.KSSouth Korea$5.29B+14%+4%9%15.5×5.6%+7.2%
Pegasystems PEGAUnited States$5.30B-10%+1%12%13.8×8.8%+11.4%
Sterlite Technologies STLTECH.NSIndia$3.91B+101%+63%17%28.2×22.6%-0.4%
HyundaiAutoever 307950.KSSouth Korea$5.49B-40%+16%5%35.7×27.6%+22.2%
TISI 3626.TJapan$5.50B+20%+5%13%15.1×-7.7%+5.9%
Jiangsu Hoperun Software 300339.SZChina$3.65B-31%+11%3%141.9×n/an/a
Box BOXUnited States$5.76B+63%+10%9%26.0×20.3%+8.8%
TravelSky Technology 0696.HKHong Kong$3.59B-5%+7%28%9.8×-16.5%+9.0%
Ingram Micro INGMUnited States$5.85B-6%+15%2%6.8×2.9%+1.4%
NICE Ltd. Sponsored ADR NICEUnited States$5.87B+4%+8%17%7.8×-0.7%+12.3%
Science Applications International SAICUnited States$6.13B+56%-1%8%14.3×-4.6%+0.6%

Q2 Holdings, Inc. backlog

Q2 Holdings, Inc. reported $2.77B of remaining performance obligations at 30 Sep 2026, up 10% from a year earlier and up 0% from the previous quarter. That is 3.2 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 1.04.

Questions

Who are Q2 Holdings, Inc.'s main competitors?
Named competitors: NCR Voyix (VYX), Jack Henry & Associates (JKHY), Fiserv (FISV), Alkami Technology (ALKT). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Softcat (SCT.L), Amdocs (DOX), Insight Enterprises (NSIT), KBR (KBR), NS Solutions (2327.T), Bechtle (BC8.DE).
Is Q2 Holdings, Inc. expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 22.5× against a peer median of 14.9×, 6th most expensive of 21 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 27% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +15%, so the hurdle is +12 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Q2 Holdings, Inc. stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +47.5% against +13.3% for the median peer; over one year +20.9%.
What is Q2 Holdings, Inc.'s backlog?
Q2 Holdings, Inc.'s remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $2.77B at 30 Sep 2026, +10% on a year earlier.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.