Cybersecurity cloud platform provider Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.
Qualys beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $175.6 million, up 9.8% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and full-year EPS guidance exceeding analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Qualys’s revenue to grow 8.9% year on year, slowing from the 10.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Qualys has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.
Looking at Qualys’s peers in the cybersecurity segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Tenable delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.4%, and Varonis Systems reported revenues up 18.3%, topping estimates by 1.8%. Tenable traded up 3.4% following the results while Varonis Systems was down 9%.
Read our full analysis of Tenable’s results here and Varonis Systems’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the cybersecurity segment, with share prices up 2.7% on average over the last month. Qualys is down 8.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $131.13 (compared to the current share price of $144.75).
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