PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Issues FY26 Earnings Guidance

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) updated its FY26 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.90-0.95 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $0.89. The company issued revenue guidance of $500-507 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $510.66 million. PagerDuty also updated its FY 2026 guidance to 0.900-0.950 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have weighed in on PD shares. Royal Bank of Canada lifted their price target on shares of PagerDuty from $22.00 to $24.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 27th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reaffirmed an “underweight” rating and issued a $21.00 price target on shares of PagerDuty in a research note on Wednesday, December 11th. Finally, Bank of America lowered shares of PagerDuty from a “buy” rating to an “underperform” rating and cut their price target for the company from $23.00 to $18.00 in a research note on Thursday, January 30th. Two research 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. According to data from MarketBeat, PagerDuty currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $21.64.

PagerDuty Stock Performance

NYSE PD opened at $15.56 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.40 billion, a P/E ratio of -19.45 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a current ratio of 1.97, a quick ratio of 1.97 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.52. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $18.24 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $18.70. PagerDuty has a 1 year low of $15.49 and a 1 year high of $23.85.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 13th. The company reported $0.22 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.16 by $0.06. The firm had revenue of $121.45 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $119.53 million. PagerDuty had a negative net margin of 16.29% and a negative return on equity of 22.02%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 9.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.17 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts anticipate that PagerDuty will post -0.27 EPS for the current year.

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

Insider Transactions at PagerDuty

In related news, CEO Jennifer Tejada sold 1,569 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $20.00, for a total transaction of $31,380.00. Following the transaction, 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 transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider Shelley Webb sold 7,879 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $18.19, for a total transaction of $143,319.01. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 199,122 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,622,029.18. This represents a 3.81 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 10,048 shares of company stock worth $186,699. 7.60% of the stock is owned by 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.