PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Reaches New 52-Week Low – Should You Sell?

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) hit a new 52-week low during mid-day trading on Thursday . The stock traded as low as $10.43 and last traded at $10.5050, with a volume of 694303 shares. The stock had previously closed at $10.76.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

PD has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Wall Street Zen upgraded PagerDuty from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Sunday, January 25th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Royal Bank Of Canada lowered shares of PagerDuty from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and reduced their price target for the stock from $17.00 to $15.00 in a research note on Monday, January 5th. Truist Financial decreased their price objective on shares of PagerDuty from $20.00 to $16.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, January 7th. Finally, TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a report on Wednesday, November 26th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have assigned a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, PagerDuty has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $16.64.

PagerDuty Price Performance

The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $12.32 and a 200-day simple moving average of $14.64. The company has a market cap of $973.33 million, a P/E ratio of 6.63, a PEG ratio of 2.81 and a beta of 0.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.23, a current ratio of 2.37 and a quick ratio of 2.37.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, November 25th. The company reported $0.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.24 by $0.09. PagerDuty had a return on equity of 10.27% and a net margin of 31.12%.The business had revenue of $124.55 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $124.92 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.26 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 4.7% on a year-over-year basis. PagerDuty has set its FY 2026 guidance at 1.110-1.120 EPS and its Q4 2026 guidance at 0.240-0.250 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts predict that PagerDuty will post -0.27 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at PagerDuty

In other news, Director Dan Alexandru Solomon sold 266,667 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $13.35, for a total transaction of $3,560,004.45. Following the sale, the director owned 2,389,665 shares in the company, valued at $31,902,027.75. The trade was a 10.04% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. 8.00% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Institutional Trading of PagerDuty

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Vestmark Advisory Solutions Inc. raised its stake in shares of PagerDuty by 91.3% during the 2nd quarter. Vestmark Advisory Solutions Inc. now owns 391,215 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,978,000 after purchasing an additional 186,751 shares in the last quarter. VIRGINIA RETIREMENT SYSTEMS ET Al acquired a new position in PagerDuty in the second quarter worth approximately $246,000. Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC bought a new position in PagerDuty during the second quarter valued at approximately $320,000. SG Americas Securities LLC bought a new position in PagerDuty during the third quarter valued at approximately $4,312,000. Finally, Versor Investments LP acquired a new stake in PagerDuty in the second quarter valued at approximately $385,000. 97.26% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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.