IT incident response platform PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) will be reporting results tomorrow after market close. Here’s what investors should know.
PagerDuty beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $118.9 million, up 9.4% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with accelerating customer growth and a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates. It added 6 customers to reach a total of 15,050.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting PagerDuty’s revenue to grow 7.8% year on year to $119.8 million, slowing from the 10.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.16 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. PagerDuty has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at PagerDuty’s peers in the software development segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Dynatrace delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 19.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.3%, and Datadog reported revenues up 25.1%, topping estimates by 3%. Dynatrace’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Datadog was down 11.5%.
Read our full analysis of Dynatrace’s results here and Datadog’s results here.
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