PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Issues FY 2027 Earnings Guidance

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) issued an update on its FY 2027 earnings guidance on Monday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.230-1.280 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.080. The company issued revenue guidance of $488.5 million-$496.5 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $492.9 million. PagerDuty also updated its Q1 2027 guidance to 0.230-0.250 EPS.

PagerDuty Price Performance

PagerDuty stock traded down $0.38 during trading hours on Monday, hitting $6.92. The stock had a trading volume of 1,665,301 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,008,032. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.56, a current ratio of 2.01 and a quick ratio of 2.01. The stock has a market capitalization of $587.68 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 3.76, a PEG ratio of 3.24 and a beta of 0.78. PagerDuty has a 1-year low of $5.70 and a 1-year high of $18.00. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $6.75 and its two-hundred day moving average is $10.36.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported $0.29 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.24 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $124.79 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $122.96 million. PagerDuty had a return on equity of 16.29% and a net margin of 35.30%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 2.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.22 earnings per share. 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, analysts predict that PagerDuty will post 0.34 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities analysts recently weighed in on the company. Wall Street Zen downgraded PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday. Morgan Stanley set a $9.00 price objective on PagerDuty in a report on Thursday, February 19th. William Blair restated a “market perform” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a report on Friday, March 13th. Royal Bank Of Canada cut their price objective on PagerDuty from $9.00 to $8.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, March 13th. Finally, Zacks Research downgraded PagerDuty from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, January 26th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and three have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $12.40.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On PagerDuty

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in PD. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. boosted its position in PagerDuty by 1.3% during the 1st quarter. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. now owns 51,601 shares of the company’s stock valued at $943,000 after purchasing an additional 671 shares during the period. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its position in PagerDuty by 1.4% during the 2nd quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 81,474 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,245,000 after purchasing an additional 1,129 shares during the period. Loomis Sayles & Co. L P boosted its position in PagerDuty by 0.3% during the 4th quarter. Loomis Sayles & Co. L P now owns 1,092,963 shares of the company’s stock valued at $14,329,000 after purchasing an additional 3,276 shares during the period. Alliancebernstein L.P. boosted its position in PagerDuty by 4.1% during the 3rd quarter. Alliancebernstein L.P. now owns 95,302 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,574,000 after purchasing an additional 3,784 shares during the period. Finally, Swiss National Bank boosted its position in PagerDuty by 2.3% during the 3rd quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 169,700 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,803,000 after purchasing an additional 3,800 shares during the period. 97.26% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

About PagerDuty

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.