PagerDuty (NYSE:PD – Get Free Report) is one of 953 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare PagerDuty to similar businesses based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and earnings.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 6.0% of PagerDuty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for PagerDuty and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| PagerDuty | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2.10 |
| PagerDuty Competitors | 5738 | 21495 | 44825 | 1493 | 2.57 |
PagerDuty currently has a consensus price target of $12.56, suggesting a potential downside of 22.52%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 28.71%. Given PagerDuty’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PagerDuty has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares PagerDuty and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| PagerDuty | $492.55 million | $173.85 million | 8.11 |
| PagerDuty Competitors | $1.91 billion | $386.80 million | 106.86 |
PagerDuty’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.
Risk and Volatility
PagerDuty has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagerDuty’s peers have a beta of 1.34, suggesting that their average stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares PagerDuty and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| PagerDuty | 37.50% | 18.52% | 4.84% |
| PagerDuty Competitors | -612.41% | 21.13% | -8.86% |
Summary
PagerDuty peers beat PagerDuty on 10 of the 13 factors compared.
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. It serves various industries, including software and technology, telecommunications, retail, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, and financial services. PagerDuty, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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