PD vs. DDOG, GTLB, SPT, ASAN, HUBS, NET, NOW, PATH, PDS, and S
Should you be buying PagerDuty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagerDuty include Datadog (DDOG), GitLab (GTLB), Sprout Social (SPT), Asana (ASAN), HubSpot (HUBS), Cloudflare (NET), ServiceNow (NOW), UiPath (PATH), Precision Drilling (PDS), and SentinelOne (S).
PagerDuty vs. Its Competitors
PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends, profitability and institutional ownership.
Datadog has a net margin of 4.13% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -7.75%. Datadog's return on equity of 5.04% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.
PagerDuty has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.3% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of PagerDuty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Datadog shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Datadog has higher revenue and earnings than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datadog, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Datadog had 52 more articles in the media than PagerDuty. MarketBeat recorded 57 mentions for Datadog and 5 mentions for PagerDuty. PagerDuty's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Datadog's score of 1.00 indicating that PagerDuty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PagerDuty currently has a consensus price target of $19.75, suggesting a potential upside of 25.40%. Datadog has a consensus price target of $152.93, suggesting a potential upside of 20.18%. Given PagerDuty's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Datadog.
Summary
Datadog beats PagerDuty on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NYSE:PD) was last updated on 8/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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