PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Hits New 1-Year Low – Should You Sell?

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD)’s share price hit a new 52-week low during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as $6.67 and last traded at $6.9880, with a volume of 125179 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $6.69.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

PD has been the topic of a number of research reports. Bank of America initiated coverage on shares of 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 decreased their price target on PagerDuty from $20.00 to $16.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, January 7th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of PagerDuty from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Sunday, January 25th. Canaccord Genuity Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $19.00 target price on shares of PagerDuty in a research note on Wednesday, November 26th. Finally, Zacks Research downgraded shares of PagerDuty from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, January 26th. Three 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.com, PagerDuty has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $16.00.

PagerDuty Trading Up 3.5%

The stock has a market cap of $635.58 million, a PE ratio of 4.33, a PEG ratio of 1.74 and a beta of 0.66. 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 business has a 50-day moving average of $10.93 and a 200 day moving average of $13.90.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 25th. The company reported $0.33 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.24 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $124.55 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $124.92 million. PagerDuty had a net margin of 31.12% and a return on equity of 10.27%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 4.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.26 earnings per share. PagerDuty has set its FY 2026 guidance at 1.110-1.120 EPS and its Q4 2026 guidance at 0.240-0.250 EPS. Equities research analysts predict that PagerDuty will post -0.27 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at PagerDuty

In other PagerDuty 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 completion of 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 position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Insiders own 8.00% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On PagerDuty

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