PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Releases Q1 2027 Earnings Guidance

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) issued an update on its first quarter 2027 earnings guidance on Monday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.230-0.250 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.200. The company issued revenue guidance of $118.0 million-$120.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $119.3 million. PagerDuty also updated its FY 2027 guidance to 1.230-1.280 EPS.

PagerDuty Stock Performance

NYSE PD traded down $0.38 on Monday, reaching $6.92. The stock had a trading volume of 1,665,335 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 firm has a fifty day moving average of $6.75 and a two-hundred day moving average of $10.36. PagerDuty has a 1-year low of $5.70 and a 1-year high of $18.00. The company has a market cap of $587.68 million, a P/E ratio of 3.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.24 and a beta of 0.78.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last released its earnings results on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported $0.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.24 by $0.05. The company 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%.PagerDuty’s quarterly revenue was up 2.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.22 EPS. PagerDuty has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 0.230-0.250 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 1.230-1.280 EPS. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that PagerDuty will post 0.34 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

PD has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Morgan Stanley set a $9.00 price objective on PagerDuty in a research report on Thursday, February 19th. Royal Bank Of Canada dropped their target price on PagerDuty from $9.00 to $8.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, March 13th. Zacks Research downgraded PagerDuty from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, January 26th. Canaccord Genuity Group decreased their price target on PagerDuty from $19.00 to $9.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, March 13th. Finally, Wall Street Zen cut PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have issued a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $12.40.

Institutional Trading of PagerDuty

A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. One68 Global Capital LLC grew its position in shares of PagerDuty by 80.0% in the fourth quarter. One68 Global Capital LLC now owns 18,000 shares of the company’s stock valued at $236,000 after purchasing an additional 8,000 shares in the last quarter. Man Group plc purchased a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the fourth quarter valued at $229,000. Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV purchased a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the third quarter valued at $210,000. AXA S.A. purchased a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the second quarter valued at $205,000. Finally, EP Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the fourth quarter valued at $191,000. 97.26% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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.