PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Downgraded by Wall Street Zen to Hold

Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report released on Saturday morning.

Other analysts also recently issued reports about the company. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a report on Monday, December 29th. Royal Bank Of Canada cut their target price on shares of PagerDuty from $9.00 to $8.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday. William Blair restated a “market perform” rating on shares of PagerDuty in a report on Friday. Canaccord Genuity Group lowered their price target on shares of PagerDuty from $19.00 to $9.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday. Finally, Craig Hallum downgraded shares of PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price objective for the company from $20.00 to $15.00 in a research note on Wednesday, November 26th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, seven have issued a Hold rating and three have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $12.40.

PagerDuty Price Performance

PD stock opened at $7.05 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $646.94 million, a PE ratio of 3.83, a P/E/G ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 0.73. PagerDuty has a 12 month low of $6.15 and a 12 month high of $19.70. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $9.08 and a 200 day moving average price of $12.92. The company has a current ratio of 2.37, a quick ratio of 2.37 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.23.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last released its 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 business had revenue of $124.79 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $122.96 million. PagerDuty had a return on equity of 17.01% and a net margin of 35.30%.The business’s revenue was up 2.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.22 earnings per share. PagerDuty has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 0.230-0.250 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 1.230-1.280 EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that PagerDuty will post -0.27 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity 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 transaction of $3,560,004.45. Following the completion of the sale, the director 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 position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Insiders own 8.00% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On PagerDuty

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of PD. Arizona State Retirement System increased its stake in shares of PagerDuty by 2.6% in the third quarter. Arizona State Retirement System now owns 25,911 shares of the company’s stock worth $428,000 after acquiring an additional 658 shares during the period. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. boosted its holdings in PagerDuty by 1.3% in the first quarter. MIRAE ASSET GLOBAL ETFS HOLDINGS Ltd. now owns 51,601 shares of the company’s stock valued at $943,000 after purchasing an additional 671 shares during the last quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its holdings in PagerDuty by 1.4% in the second quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 81,474 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,245,000 after purchasing an additional 1,129 shares during the last quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC grew its position in PagerDuty by 252.0% during the 3rd quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 1,605 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 1,149 shares during the period. Finally, ProShare Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of PagerDuty by 11.8% during the 4th quarter. ProShare Advisors LLC now owns 16,324 shares of the company’s stock valued at $214,000 after buying an additional 1,720 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 97.26% of the company’s stock.

More PagerDuty News

Here are the key news stories impacting PagerDuty this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q4 EPS beat and margin progress — PagerDuty reported EPS above consensus and highlighted improved profitability and a full-year EPS guide that tops street estimates, supporting the company’s path to sustained GAAP profitability. PagerDuty Announces Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Fiscal 2026 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: AI/product push — PagerDuty announced expansions to its AI ecosystem and a Spring 2026 platform release, which could drive product-led growth and higher enterprise stickiness if adoption accelerates. PagerDuty Expands AI Ecosystem
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst support remains mixed — some shops (e.g., TD Cowen, Truist, Canaccord) have kept buy/positive stances even after lowering targets, indicating belief in longer-term upside despite near-term headwinds. TD Cowen/TipRanks Coverage
• Negative Sentiment: Revenue guidance and churn concerns — management guided Q1 and FY revenue below consensus ranges and discussed churn/usage headwinds, which directly hit growth expectations and investor confidence. PagerDuty’s Q4 Sales Beat But Stock Drops
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple price-target cuts and a downgrade — several firms trimmed targets (RBC to $8, TD Cowen to $10, Canaccord/Truist to $9) and William Blair downgraded the name after the quarter, amplifying selling pressure. William Blair Downgrade (Seeking Alpha) TD Cowen PT Cut (StreetInsider) RBC PT Cut (TickerReport)
• Negative Sentiment: Market reaction — shares fell sharply after the print as investors punished the revenue guide and margin/cash-flow signs, reinforcing near-term downside risk. Stock Tumbles on Weak Outlook (Investing.com)

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.