Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. Purchases New Position in PagerDuty $PD

Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of PagerDuty (NYSE:PDFree Report) in the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm purchased 294,556 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,842,000.

A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. WealthCollab LLC purchased a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the first quarter valued at $25,000. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. increased its position in PagerDuty by 1,219.9% in the first quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 4,976 shares of the company’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 4,599 shares during the last quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC raised its stake in PagerDuty by 419.3% during the first quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 5,136 shares of the company’s stock valued at $32,000 after purchasing an additional 4,147 shares in the last quarter. Optiver Holding B.V. raised its stake in PagerDuty by 5,699.0% during the first quarter. Optiver Holding B.V. now owns 6,031 shares of the company’s stock valued at $37,000 after purchasing an additional 5,927 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Kestra Advisory Services LLC bought a new position in PagerDuty during the fourth quarter valued at $68,000. Institutional investors own 97.26% of the company’s stock.

PagerDuty Price Performance

PD stock opened at $13.80 on Friday. PagerDuty has a 12 month low of $5.70 and a 12 month high of $17.29. The company has a current ratio of 1.95, a quick ratio of 1.95 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.83. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $10.68 and a 200 day moving average price of $8.44. The stock has a market cap of $1.06 billion, a PE ratio of 6.90, a P/E/G ratio of 3.24 and a beta of 0.93.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PDGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 27th. The company reported $0.32 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.32. PagerDuty had a net margin of 37.50% and a return on equity of 17.97%. The company had revenue of $124.44 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $124.22 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.30 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up .8% on a year-over-year basis. PagerDuty has set its FY 2027 guidance at 1.330-1.370 EPS and its Q3 2027 guidance at 0.340-0.360 EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that PagerDuty will post 0.58 earnings per share for the current year.

PagerDuty announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, May 28th that allows the company to buyback $100.00 million in shares. This buyback authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 16.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company’s board believes its shares are undervalued.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have commented on PD. Wall Street Zen cut shares of PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, July 25th. TD Cowen restated a “buy” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a research report on Wednesday. Royal Bank Of Canada increased their price target on shares of PagerDuty from $9.00 to $12.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a report on Friday, August 14th. UBS Group set a $13.50 price target on PagerDuty in a research report on Wednesday. Finally, Weiss Ratings raised PagerDuty from a “sell (d+)” rating to a “hold (c-)” rating in a research note on Friday, August 21st. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have issued a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $12.94.

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Trending Headlines about PagerDuty

Here are the key news stories impacting PagerDuty this week:

  • Positive Sentiment: Q2 results exceeded expectations. PagerDuty reported adjusted earnings of $0.32 per share versus the $0.31 consensus estimate and revenue of $124.44 million, ahead of expectations for $123.27 million. Revenue increased 0.8% year over year. PagerDuty Q2 Earnings Results
  • Positive Sentiment: Management raised its earnings outlook. Fiscal 2027 EPS guidance of $1.33 to $1.37 is well above the $1.17 analyst consensus, while third-quarter EPS guidance of $0.34 to $0.36 also exceeds expectations. Full-year revenue guidance of $491.5 million to $496.5 million is broadly in line with estimates. PagerDuty Guidance Update
  • Positive Sentiment: Cost reductions are supporting margins. PagerDuty plans to cut approximately 15% of its workforce and forecast third-quarter operating margins of 26.5% to 27.5%. Investors appear to be viewing the restructuring as a way to accelerate profitable growth. The company also highlighted more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue and $33 million in quarterly free cash flow. PagerDuty Margin Forecast and Restructuring
  • Positive Sentiment: Canaccord Genuity upgraded its valuation view. The firm raised its price target from $10 to $15 and maintained a Buy rating, providing additional support for the stock’s advance. Canaccord Raises PagerDuty Price Target
  • Neutral Sentiment: Analyst opinion remains mixed. Monness analyst Brian White reiterated a Hold rating, citing sluggish demand and mixed fundamentals. This suggests investors may question whether the improved profitability can be sustained if growth remains limited. PagerDuty Hold Rating

PagerDuty Company Profile

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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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