Royal Bank Of Canada Lowers PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Price Target to $8.00

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) had its price objective cut by research analysts at Royal Bank Of Canada from $9.00 to $8.00 in a research report issued on Friday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “sector perform” rating on the stock. Royal Bank Of Canada’s price target would suggest a potential upside of 14.37% from the company’s current price.

PD has been the subject of several other reports. Craig Hallum lowered shares of PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and cut their target price for the company from $20.00 to $15.00 in a research report on Wednesday, November 26th. William Blair reaffirmed a “market perform” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a report on Friday. Bank of America initiated coverage on PagerDuty in a research report on Tuesday, December 2nd. They set an “underperform” rating and a $12.00 target price on the stock. Truist Financial reduced their price target on PagerDuty from $20.00 to $16.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, January 7th. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $19.00 price objective on shares of PagerDuty in a research note on Wednesday, November 26th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $14.45.

PagerDuty Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE PD traded down $0.28 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $7.00. 2,651,740 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,290,337. The firm has a market capitalization of $642.00 million, a P/E ratio of 4.39, a PEG ratio of 1.84 and a beta of 0.73. PagerDuty has a one year low of $6.15 and a one year high of $19.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.23, a quick ratio of 2.37 and a current ratio of 2.37. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $9.19 and a two-hundred day moving average of $13.00.

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. PagerDuty had a return on equity of 10.27% and a net margin of 31.12%.The company had revenue of $124.79 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $122.96 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.22 earnings per share. PagerDuty’s revenue for the quarter was up 2.7% compared to the same quarter last year. 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 analysts forecast that PagerDuty will post -0.27 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at PagerDuty

In other news, Director Dan Alexandru Solomon sold 266,667 shares of PagerDuty stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $13.35, for a total value of $3,560,004.45. Following the sale, the director directly owned 2,389,665 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $31,902,027.75. The trade was a 10.04% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 8.00% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of PagerDuty by 252.0% in the third quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 1,605 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 1,149 shares in the last quarter. Aster Capital Management DIFC Ltd purchased a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the 3rd quarter worth $59,000. State of Alaska Department of Revenue bought a new stake in shares of PagerDuty in the 3rd quarter worth about $67,000. KBC Group NV raised its position in shares of PagerDuty by 89.5% during the 4th quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 4,402 shares of the company’s stock valued at $58,000 after buying an additional 2,079 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Kestra Advisory Services LLC bought a new position in shares of PagerDuty in the 4th quarter valued at about $68,000. 97.26% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

More PagerDuty News

Here are the key news stories impacting PagerDuty this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q4 EPS beat analyst estimates, delivering $0.29 per share vs. consensus ~$0.24, and revenue modestly beat/roughly met expectations — a near‑term proof point for profitability momentum. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Management raised EPS guidance materially for FY‑2027 (EPS $1.230–1.280 vs. consensus ~0.85), and Q1 EPS guide also topped estimates — indicating confidence in margin expansion and continued path to GAAP profitability. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst support remains: TD Cowen reiterated a Buy, highlighting early signs of growth reacceleration from a usage‑based transition and potential AI‑driven upside — a positive tail‑risk if execution accelerates. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Product/market development: PagerDuty expanded its AI integration ecosystem and rolled out the Spring 2026 Operations Cloud updates, strengthening its positioning in AI‑first operations — longer‑term strategic positive if adoption follows. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Revenue guidance disappointed — FY revenue guide ($488.5M–$496.5M) and Q1 revenue guide ($118M–$120M) came in below consensus, creating uncertainty about near‑term top‑line growth and triggering the biggest negative reaction. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Operational and cash‑flow signals were mixed: reports flagged narrower operating profit, weaker operating cash flow and lower cash balances vs. a year ago — factors that amplify investor sensitivity to the revenue miss. Read More.

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.