PD vs. SWI, EVCM, SPNS, SEMR, BB, PRGS, ZUO, SOUN, SPT, and APPN
Should you be buying PagerDuty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagerDuty include SolarWinds (SWI), EverCommerce (EVCM), Sapiens International (SPNS), Semrush (SEMR), BlackBerry (BB), Progress Software (PRGS), Zuora (ZUO), SoundHound AI (SOUN), Sprout Social (SPT), and Appian (APPN). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
PagerDuty presently has a consensus target price of $27.25, indicating a potential upside of 25.75%. SolarWinds has a consensus target price of $13.80, indicating a potential upside of 13.67%. Given PagerDuty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than SolarWinds.
SolarWinds has a net margin of 1.58% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -18.98%. SolarWinds' return on equity of 6.47% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.
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.
97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.0% of SolarWinds shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of PagerDuty shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of SolarWinds shares are held 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 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.
In the previous week, SolarWinds had 1 more articles in the media than PagerDuty. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SolarWinds and 4 mentions for PagerDuty. SolarWinds' average media sentiment score of 1.16 beat PagerDuty's score of 0.97 indicating that SolarWinds is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SolarWinds has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SolarWinds beats PagerDuty on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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