PD vs. DDOG, GTLB, SPT, ASAN, HUBS, NET, NOW, PATH, PDS, and S
Should you be buying PagerDuty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagerDuty include Datadog (DDOG), GitLab (GTLB), Sprout Social (SPT), Asana (ASAN), HubSpot (HUBS), Cloudflare (NET), ServiceNow (NOW), UiPath (PATH), Precision Drilling (PDS), and SentinelOne (S).
PagerDuty vs. Its Competitors
Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) and PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
78.3% of Datadog shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Datadog shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of PagerDuty shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Datadog currently has a consensus target price of $156.69, suggesting a potential downside of 0.43%. PagerDuty has a consensus target price of $18.70, suggesting a potential upside of 17.09%. Given PagerDuty's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Datadog.
In the previous week, Datadog had 34 more articles in the media than PagerDuty. MarketBeat recorded 36 mentions for Datadog and 2 mentions for PagerDuty. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat PagerDuty's score of 0.38 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Datadog has a net margin of 4.13% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -2.87%. Datadog's return on equity of 5.04% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.
Datadog has higher revenue and earnings than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datadog, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Datadog has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagerDuty has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Datadog beats PagerDuty on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:PD) was last updated on 10/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
