PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Receives Consensus Recommendation of "Hold" from Analysts

Key Points

• Consensus "Hold": Thirteen analysts cover PagerDuty with a consensus recommendation of "Hold" (3 sell, 7 hold, 3 buy) and an average 1‑year price target of $12.40.
• Quarterly results slightly beat: PagerDuty reported $0.29 EPS vs. $0.24 expected and revenue of $124.8M vs. $123.0M, and gave Q1 2027 guidance of $0.230–0.250 and FY2027 guidance of $1.230–1.280, while sell‑side analysts still forecast -$0.27 EPS for the current fiscal year.
• Stock and valuation snapshot: Shares opened at $6.42 with a market cap of about $545M, a trailing P/E of 3.49, and a 12‑month range of $5.91–$18.00, indicating the stock is trading well below analysts' average target.

Shares of PagerDuty (NYSE:PD - Get Free Report) have received a consensus recommendation of "Hold" from the thirteen ratings firms that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have given a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1 year price objective among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $12.40.

A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on PD shares. Zacks Research downgraded PagerDuty from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Monday, January 26th. Weiss Ratings restated a "sell (d+)" rating on shares of PagerDuty in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Truist Financial decreased their target price on PagerDuty from $12.00 to $9.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, March 13th. William Blair reaffirmed a "market perform" rating on shares of PagerDuty in a report on Friday, March 13th. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $9.00 price target on PagerDuty in a research report on Thursday, February 19th.

PagerDuty Price Performance

Shares of NYSE:PD opened at $6.42 on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average of $7.51 and a 200 day moving average of $11.91. The company has a current ratio of 2.01, a quick ratio of 2.01 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.56. The stock has a market cap of $545.15 million, a P/E ratio of 3.49, a P/E/G ratio of 2.84 and a beta of 0.78. PagerDuty has a 12 month low of $5.91 and a 12 month high of $18.00.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported $0.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.24 by $0.05. PagerDuty had a net margin of 35.30% and a return on equity of 16.29%. The business had revenue of $124.79 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $122.96 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.22 EPS. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 2.7% compared to the same quarter last year. PagerDuty has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 0.230-0.250 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 1.230-1.280 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that PagerDuty will post -0.27 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On PagerDuty

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC grew its stake in PagerDuty by 252.0% in the 3rd quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 1,605 shares of the company's stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 1,149 shares in the last quarter. Aster Capital Management DIFC Ltd bought a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the 3rd quarter worth $59,000. State of Alaska Department of Revenue purchased a new stake in shares of PagerDuty during the 3rd quarter valued at $67,000. KBC Group NV lifted its holdings in shares of PagerDuty by 89.5% during the 4th quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 4,402 shares of the company's stock worth $58,000 after acquiring an additional 2,079 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Kestra Advisory Services LLC bought a new stake in shares of PagerDuty during the 4th quarter worth $68,000. 97.26% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

PagerDuty Company Profile

PagerDuty, Inc engages in the operation of a digital operations management platform in the United States and internationally. The company's digital operations management platform collects data and digital signals from virtually any software-enabled system or device and leverage machine learning to correlate, process, and predict opportunities and issues. Its platform includes PagerDuty Incident Management that provides a real-time view across the status of a digital service while incorporating noise reduction to remove false positives; AIOps that applies machine learning to correlate and automate the identification of incidents from billions of events; Process Automation offers centralized design time and run time environment for orchestrating automated workflows that span across departments, technologies, and networks; Customer Service Operations, which is offered to orchestrate, automate, and scale responses to customer impacting issues.

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