PD vs. ALTR, U, PATH, SPSC, CCCS, SQSP, KVYO, BILL, RBRK, and S
Should you be buying PagerDuty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagerDuty include Altair Engineering (ALTR), Unity Software (U), UiPath (PATH), SPS Commerce (SPSC), CCC Intelligent Solutions (CCCS), Squarespace (SQSP), Klaviyo (KVYO), BILL (BILL), Rubrik (RBRK), and SentinelOne (S). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and Altair Engineering (NASDAQ:ALTR) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.4% of Altair Engineering shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of PagerDuty shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.8% of Altair Engineering shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Altair Engineering has a net margin of 1.55% compared to PagerDuty's net margin of -21.34%. Altair Engineering's return on equity of 5.60% beat PagerDuty's return on equity.
PagerDuty currently has a consensus price target of $27.13, indicating a potential upside of 42.99%. Altair Engineering has a consensus price target of $94.60, indicating a potential upside of 8.32%. Given PagerDuty's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Altair Engineering.
PagerDuty has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Altair Engineering has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Altair Engineering received 424 more outperform votes than PagerDuty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.49% of users gave PagerDuty an outperform vote while only 58.61% of users gave Altair Engineering an outperform vote.
Altair Engineering has higher revenue and earnings than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Altair Engineering, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, PagerDuty had 19 more articles in the media than Altair Engineering. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for PagerDuty and 3 mentions for Altair Engineering. Altair Engineering's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat PagerDuty's score of 0.15 indicating that Altair Engineering is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Altair Engineering beats PagerDuty on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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