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IT incident response platform PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after the bell. Here's what you need to know.
Last quarter PagerDuty reported revenues of $107.6 million, up 19.2% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 2.6%. It was a strong quarter for the company, with accelerating customer growth and a decent beat of analysts' revenue estimates. The company added 57 customers to a total of 15,146.
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This quarter analysts are expecting PagerDuty's revenue to grow 14.4% year on year to $107.7 million, slowing down from the 31.3% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.14 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company has a history of exceeding Wall St's expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years on average by 2.2%.
Looking at PagerDuty's peers in the software development segment, some of them have already reported Q3 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Datadog delivered top-line growth of 25.4% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 4.5% and Dynatrace reported revenues up 25.9% year on year, exceeding estimates by 2.1%. Datadog traded up 18.9% on the results, and Dynatrace was up 9%.
Read the full analysis of Datadog's and Dynatrace's results on StockStory.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the software development segment, with the stocks up on average 11.8% over the last month. PagerDuty is up 8.6% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $28.5, compared to share price of $21.9.
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