PD vs. SWI, SEMR, FSLY, SPNS, EVCM, BB, PRGS, INTA, EVBG, and ZUO
Should you be buying PagerDuty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagerDuty include SolarWinds (SWI), Semrush (SEMR), Fastly (FSLY), Sapiens International (SPNS), EverCommerce (EVCM), BlackBerry (BB), Progress Software (PRGS), Intapp (INTA), Everbridge (EVBG), and Zuora (ZUO). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
PagerDuty currently has a consensus target price of $27.25, suggesting a potential upside of 38.32%. SolarWinds has a consensus target price of $13.80, suggesting a potential upside of 20.52%. Given PagerDuty's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than SolarWinds.
In the previous week, SolarWinds had 4 more articles in the media than PagerDuty. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for SolarWinds and 4 mentions for PagerDuty. PagerDuty's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat SolarWinds' score of 0.59 indicating that PagerDuty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
97.3% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.6% of PagerDuty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SolarWinds received 218 more outperform votes than PagerDuty when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.57% of users gave SolarWinds an outperform vote while only 59.32% of users gave PagerDuty an outperform vote.
PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SolarWinds has higher revenue and earnings than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SolarWinds, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SolarWinds has a net margin of 1.58% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -18.98%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 6.33% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.
Summary
SolarWinds beats PagerDuty on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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