Qualys, Inc. provided earnings guidance for the first quarter and full year of 2026. For the quarter, the company expects revenues to be in the range of $172.5 million to $174.5 million, representing 8% to 9% growth over the same quarter in 2025. GAAP net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $1.29 to $1.36, which assumes an effective income tax rate of 21%. Net income per diluted share estimates are based on approximately 36.0 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding for the quarter.
For the year, the company expects revenues to be in the range of $717.0 million to $725.0 million, representing 7% to 8% growth over 2025. GAAP net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $5.20 to $5.48. Net income per diluted share estimates are based on approximately 35.4 million weighted average diluted shares outstanding.
Qualys, Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based platform delivering information technology (IT), security and compliance solutions. The Company’s integrated suite of IT, security and compliance solutions delivered on Qualys' Enterprise TruRisk Platform enables its customers to identify and manage their IT and operational technology (OT) assets, collect, and analyze large amounts of IT security data, recommend, and implement remediation actions and verify the implementation of such actions. It provides its solutions through a software-as-a-service model, primarily with renewable annual subscriptions. Its cloud platform offers an integrated suite of solutions that automates the lifecycle of asset discovery and management, security and compliance assessments, and remediation for an organization’s IT infrastructure and assets, whether such infrastructure and assets reside inside the organization, on their network perimeter, on endpoints or in the cloud.
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