Duck Creek Technologies (DCT) Competitors

Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ:DCT) and PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.

Do analysts rate DCT or PD?

Duck Creek Technologies presently has a consensus price target of $15.00, suggesting a potential downside of 21.01%. PagerDuty has a consensus price target of $34.70, suggesting a potential upside of 25.00%. Given PagerDuty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Duck Creek Technologies.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Duck Creek Technologies	1 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.89
PagerDuty	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	9 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.90

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DCT or PD?

PagerDuty received 99 more outperform votes than Duck Creek Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.09% of users gave PagerDuty an outperform vote while only 51.61% of users gave Duck Creek Technologies an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Duck Creek Technologies	Outperform Votes 32 51.61%	Underperform Votes 30 48.39%
PagerDuty	Outperform Votes 131 60.09%	Underperform Votes 87 39.91%

Which has better valuation & earnings, DCT or PD?

Duck Creek Technologies has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PagerDuty. Duck Creek Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PagerDuty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Duck Creek Technologies	$302.92 million	8.58	-$8.33 million	-$0.11	-172.64
PagerDuty	$370.79 million	6.89	-$128.42 million	-$1.45	-19.14

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of DCT or PD?

74.6% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Duck Creek Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.9% of PagerDuty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer DCT or PD?

In the previous week, PagerDuty had 14 more articles in the media than Duck Creek Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for PagerDuty and 0 mentions for Duck Creek Technologies. Duck Creek Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat PagerDuty's score of 0.37 indicating that Duck Creek Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Duck Creek Technologies	Positive
PagerDuty	Neutral

Is DCT or PD more profitable?

Duck Creek Technologies has a net margin of -4.57% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -34.63%. Duck Creek Technologies' return on equity of 0.54% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Duck Creek Technologies	-4.57%	0.54%	0.48%
PagerDuty	-34.63%	-43.39%	-13.52%

Which has more volatility and risk, DCT or PD?

Duck Creek Technologies has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

PagerDuty beats Duck Creek Technologies on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.