Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) reported Q2 EPS of $0.74, $0.11 better than the analyst estimate of $0.63. Revenue for the quarter came in at $88.8 million versus the consensus estimate of $88.15 million.

"The unprecedented shift towards remote working caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has created significant new IT and cybersecurity challenges. With most employees working from home, there has been not only an explosion of remote endpoints accessing organizations' critical assets and data, but also an increase in cyberattacks that are targeting these remote endpoints to exploit vulnerabilities. Qualys is uniquely positioned with its robust scalable cloud platform to enable organizations to both continuously monitor and quickly patch vulnerabilities. We have seen a strong uptake of our free Remote Endpoint Protection offering, with over 650 companies, including nearly 300 customer prospects, actively using the service, and we added additional malware detection capabilities to it this quarter. In addition, we have also seen a strong customer response to our Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR®) application, with over 600 customers using VMDR, of which approximately 200 are new to our cloud platform. VMDR is helping make our Cloud Agents ubiquitous and, in turn, driving our multi-product adoption higher," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys. "The recent introduction of our Multi-Vector EDR solution and our upcoming Data Lake / SIEM offering presents a significant extension of our cloud platform that will help our customers to further consolidate their IT, security and compliance stack during these challenging times."

GUIDANCE:

Qualys sees FY2020 EPS of $2.60-$2.65, versus the consensus of $2.49. Qualys sees FY2020 revenue of $359-360.5 million, versus the consensus of $357.39 million.

Full Year 2020 Guidance: Management expects revenues for the full year 2020 to be in the range of $359.0 million to $360.5 million, representing 12% growth over 2019. GAAP net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $1.78 to $1.83, which assumes an effective income tax rate of 15%. Non-GAAP net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $2.60 to $2.65, which assumes a non-GAAP effective income tax rate of 21%. Full year 2020 net income per diluted share estimates are based on approximately 41.0 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding.Full Year 2020 Guidance: Management expects revenues for the full year 2020 to be in the range of $359.0 million to $360.5 million, representing 12% growth over 2019. GAAP net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $1.78 to $1.83, which assumes an effective income tax rate of 15%. Non-GAAP net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $2.60 to $2.65, which assumes a non-GAAP effective income tax rate of 21%. Full year 2020 net income per diluted share estimates are based on approximately 41.0 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding.

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