PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Releases FY 2026 Earnings Guidance

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) issued an update on its FY 2026 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.900-0.950 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.890. The company issued revenue guidance of $500.0 million-$507.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $510.1 million. PagerDuty also updated its FY26 guidance to $0.90-0.95 EPS.

PagerDuty Price Performance

Shares of NYSE:PD opened at $18.41 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.52, a current ratio of 1.97 and a quick ratio of 1.97. PagerDuty has a 1-year low of $15.49 and a 1-year high of $23.85. The company has a market capitalization of $1.66 billion, a P/E ratio of -23.01 and a beta of 1.12. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $18.24 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $18.69.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 13th. The company reported $0.22 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.16 by $0.06. PagerDuty had a negative net margin of 16.29% and a negative return on equity of 22.02%. The business had revenue of $121.45 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $119.53 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.17 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 9.3% on a year-over-year basis. Research analysts expect that PagerDuty will post -0.27 EPS for the current fiscal year.

PagerDuty announced that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, March 13th that authorizes the company to buyback $150.00 million in outstanding shares. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 10.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually an indication that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Analyst Ratings Changes

PD has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. The Goldman Sachs Group reduced their price objective on shares of PagerDuty from $21.00 to $18.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday. Canaccord Genuity Group reduced their price objective on shares of PagerDuty from $24.00 to $23.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated an “underweight” rating and set a $21.00 price objective on shares of PagerDuty in a research report on Wednesday, December 11th. Royal Bank of Canada reduced their price objective on shares of PagerDuty from $24.00 to $22.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday. Finally, Bank of America cut shares of PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to an “underperform” rating and reduced their price target for the stock from $23.00 to $18.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 30th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $20.73.

Insider Activity

In other news, insider Shelley Webb sold 7,879 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, January 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $18.19, for a total transaction of $143,319.01. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 199,122 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,622,029.18. The trade was a 3.81 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CEO Jennifer Tejada sold 1,569 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $20.00, for a total transaction of $31,380.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 868,311 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $17,366,220. This trade represents a 0.18 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 10,048 shares of company stock valued at $186,699. 7.60% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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.