PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Issues Q1 2027 Earnings Guidance

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) issued an update on its first quarter 2027 earnings guidance on Monday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.230-0.250 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS 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 Down 5.1%

NYSE PD opened at $6.92 on Tuesday. The stock has a market cap of $587.71 million, a PE ratio of 3.76, a P/E/G ratio of 3.24 and a beta of 0.78. PagerDuty has a fifty-two week low of $5.70 and a fifty-two week high of $18.00. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $6.76 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $10.23. The company has a quick ratio of 2.01, a current ratio of 2.01 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.56.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported $0.29 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.24 by $0.05. The firm had revenue of $124.79 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations 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% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $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. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that PagerDuty will post 0.34 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

PD has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. TD Cowen decreased their price target on PagerDuty from $20.00 to $10.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, March 13th. William Blair restated a “market perform” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a research note on Friday, March 13th. Wall Street Zen lowered shares of PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday. Zacks Research lowered shares of PagerDuty from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, January 26th. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $9.00 price objective on shares of PagerDuty in a report on Thursday, February 19th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have given a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $12.40.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On PagerDuty

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Ameriprise Financial Inc. grew its holdings in PagerDuty by 333.2% during the third quarter. Ameriprise Financial Inc. now owns 1,450,429 shares of the company’s stock worth $23,961,000 after acquiring an additional 1,115,577 shares during the period. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. acquired a new position in PagerDuty during the third quarter worth about $13,710,000. Danske Bank A S acquired a new position in PagerDuty during the third quarter worth about $13,271,000. Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. acquired a new position in PagerDuty during the fourth quarter worth about $9,910,000. Finally, Two Sigma Investments LP grew its holdings in PagerDuty by 184.1% during the third quarter. Two Sigma Investments LP now owns 855,831 shares of the company’s stock worth $14,138,000 after acquiring an additional 554,611 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.