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QTWO · NYSE
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$60.89
+0.93%
Close on Sep 11, 2026
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70 / 100
Attractive
Is today's price reasonable?
Around the middle of the covered universe — and valuation is researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.
39 / 100
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How effectively does the company reward shareholders?
Weaker than most covered companies on this measure — and capital returns are researched separately from the Suggested Investment Score.
Long-Term Potential is not available for this company, so no long-term reading is shown.
No disclosed ownership reading is available at the required confidence, so ownership is left blank rather than estimated.
Q2 HOLDINGS INC reads 70 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Attractive. The stock currently trades below most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value. Valuation Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.
Q2 HOLDINGS INC reads 39 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Limited Capital Returns), reflecting a share count rising about 3.0% a year. Direct capital returns are limited because the company continues reinvesting most of its cash. Capital Returns Intelligence is a research model and contributes nothing to the Suggested Investment Score or the daily ranking.
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COMPOSITE DISCOVERY MODEL — RESEARCH STAGE · Ranking updated September 12, 2026
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Valuation Intelligence 70 · Attractive
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Capital Returns Intelligence 39 · Limited Capital Returns
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Valuation Intelligence
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Attractive
91
Very Attractive
Is this company expensive or inexpensive compared with its own history?
39
Elevated
How expensive is this stock compared with similar companies?
52
Reasonable
How much financial output does an investor receive relative to the price paid?
98
Very Attractive
Does the company's growth help justify the valuation investors are paying?
Q2 HOLDINGS INC reads 70 out of 100 on Valuation Intelligence, recorded as Attractive. The stock currently trades below most of its own recent valuation history and above comparable companies. This describes the price being paid relative to the company's financials — it is not a forecast and not a fair value.
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
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Only one stored valuation reading exists so far, so there is nothing to chart yet. Valuation history builds forward from activation rather than being reconstructed.
Current P/E 41.3x · peer median 27.8x
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Capital Returns Intelligence
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Limited Capital Returns
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Dividend reliability
This company currently retains rather than distributes cash through dividends. Capital Returns Intelligence therefore places more emphasis on its other measurable shareholder-return behaviors according to the frozen V1 methodology.
42
Moderate Capital Returns
Do buybacks actually reduce shares?
The company spends on share repurchases, but much of that activity offsets share issuance rather than materially reducing the share count.
15
Limited Capital Returns
Is your ownership share protected?
76
Strong Capital Returns
Can the cash flow support it?
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Limited Capital Returns
Cash returned versus company value
Q2 HOLDINGS INC reads 39 out of 100 on Capital Returns Intelligence (Limited Capital Returns), reflecting a share count rising about 3.0% a year. Direct capital returns are limited because the company continues reinvesting most of its cash.
This company currently retains rather than distributes cash through dividends. Capital Returns Intelligence therefore places more emphasis on its other measurable shareholder-return behaviors according to the frozen V1 methodology.
This company spent cash repurchasing stock, but the share count did not fall meaningfully because it also issued shares. Repurchase spending alone did not increase existing shareholders' ownership.
How returned cash was used
Dividends $0.00 · net repurchases $118.65M · total returned $118.65M · 63% of free cash flow
Price data through September 11, 2026 · Financial data through the quarter ended June 30, 2026
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Capital Returns Intelligence describes how a company returns capital to shareholders. It is not a measure of stock-price performance, it does not predict future returns, and a strong reading is never a recommendation to buy. Dividends and repurchases can be reduced or stopped at any time. Model CAPITAL_RETURNS_INTELLIGENCE_V1, contributing 0% to the Pro Investor Score.
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In the company’s own words
Q2 is a leading provider of digital solutions to financial institutions, financial technology companies, or FinTechs, and alternative finance companies, or Alt-FIs, seeking to incorporate banking into their customer engagement and servicing strategies. Our solutions transform the ways in which financial institutions and other financial services providers engage with account holders and retail and commercial End Users. Digital financial services are highly regulated, subject to extensive and evolving supervisory, consumer protection, privacy and third party risk management requirements, and security is paramount, as providers must protect sensitive financial data and funds and defend against continually evolving cyber threats and fraud. Providers must also manage significant technical and operational complexity to deliver consistent, compliant experiences across channels, devices and third party integrations while integrating with core systems, legacy infrastructure and multiple third party service providers, all while maintaining high availability and resiliency. We deliver these solutions through a unified, cloud-based software platform purpose-built for the complex, regulated financial services industry, enabling scalable and highly configurable digital financial experiences. Our solutions comprise a broad and deep portfolio of digital banking offerings, digital lending and relationship pricing solutions, risk and fraud solutions, Q2 Innovation Studio and Helix.
Founded over 21 years ago, Q2 began by providing digital banking solutions to domestic regional and community financial institutions, or RCFIs. We have rapidly grown since then through a combination of innovation, broad market adoption of our solutions, strategic investments and acquisitions. As customer needs and technology architectures have evolved, we have expanded our solution portfolio to address a broader set of mission-critical technology, data and operational requirements across the financial services value chain. Our expanded collection of solutions now spans digital banking, digital lending and relationship pricing, regulatory and compliance, risk and fraud, account switching, data-driven sales enablement, spending insights and portfolio management, and also includes our open platform solutions as well as our core and BaaS offerings. We serve account holders and borrowers across retail, small to medium business, or SMBs and commercial segments. As of December 31, 2025, we had more than 1,200 financial institution customers using one or more of our solutions, including more than 50% of the top 100 U.S. Banks and more than 50% of the top 100 U.S. Credit Unions, based on total assets. As of December 31, 2025, we had 457 installed digital banking platform customers, and those customers had approximately 27.3 million account holders registered on our digital banking platform. During 2025, End Users executed over $4.0 trillion in financial transactions on our digital banking platform. While we continue to generate a substantial majority of our revenue from our digital banking platform, we are actively leveraging our broader product portfolio and deep domain expertise to expand our market presence. This strategy includes seeking to further penetrate the digital banking market and drive significant growth across our diverse customer base in the broader financial services sector, while opening up new and meaningful expansion opportunities for our business.
The financial services industry is experiencing significant transformation driven by the growing demand within financial institutions to digitize their operations and offerings, as well as the rise of FinTechs and Alt-FIs, which are reshaping End-User expectations for more innovative and engaging digital financial experiences. At the same time, advancements in data analytics, automation, and AI are increasing the importance of modern, fast, flexible technology platforms that can support innovation while meeting stringent regulatory, security and resiliency requirements. These shifts are leading to new roles and interdependencies among financial institutions, FinTechs and Alt-FIs, necessitating new technology, partnerships, and business models. We believe that lasting value creation in financial services will be achieved by those companies that are capable of supporting and embracing these market dynamics. We have developed a comprehensive suite of offerings to accelerate and optimize this transformation for our customers, ranging from digitizing entire banks to facilitating partnerships between financial institutions, FinTechs and Alt-FIs.
We believe this creates an expanded market opportunity for our business, which we have been thoughtfully evolving for several years. We have continuously invested in expanding and improving our digital banking platform since its introduction in 2005. Over the past several years, we have broadened our offerings through strategic investments and acquisitions to serve a wider range of needs for financial institutions, FinTechs and Alt-FIs. These investments have emphasized platform extensibility, configurability and the ability to integrate data and functionality across digital channels. Our portfolio of digital solutions includes a comprehensive suite of offerings for retail, SMB and commercial banking, onboarding, regulatory and compliance, risk and fraud, digital lending and relationship pricing, open platform solutions, BaaS, account switching and data-driven sales enablement, spending insights and portfolio management solutions, among others. We believe our portfolio, which reflects years of strategic development and innovation, affords us a distinct competitive advantage across multiple market segments. As a result of our expanded offerings and market opportunity, we estimate our addressable market for our solutions to be approximately $23.0 billion.
Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed February 11, 2026. Read the filing
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Fundamentally Qualified
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Durable business economics and reinvestment characteristics. Independent external validation is pending.
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Last stored close $60.89 · -26.4% over the selected range · 52 sessions shown
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