PD vs. DBX, CCCS, SPSC, S, KVYO, SQSP, RBRK, BILL, SMAR, and QLYS
Should you be buying PagerDuty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagerDuty include Dropbox (DBX), CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS), SPS Commerce (SPSC), SentinelOne (S), Klaviyo (KVYO), Squarespace (SQSP), Rubrik (RBRK), BILL (BILL), Smartsheet (SMAR), and Qualys (QLYS). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Dropbox has a net margin of 20.50% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -18.98%. PagerDuty's return on equity of -24.65% beat Dropbox's return on equity.
Dropbox received 214 more outperform votes than PagerDuty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.30% of users gave Dropbox an outperform vote while only 59.32% of users gave PagerDuty an outperform vote.
PagerDuty presently has a consensus target price of $27.25, indicating a potential upside of 38.40%. Dropbox has a consensus target price of $29.78, indicating a potential upside of 30.43%. Given PagerDuty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Dropbox.
97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Dropbox shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of PagerDuty shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.4% of Dropbox shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dropbox has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Dropbox has higher revenue and earnings than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dropbox, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Dropbox had 1 more articles in the media than PagerDuty. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Dropbox and 6 mentions for PagerDuty. Dropbox's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat PagerDuty's score of 0.44 indicating that Dropbox is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dropbox beats PagerDuty on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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