Head-To-Head Comparison: PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) & EverCommerce (NASDAQ:EVCM)

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and EverCommerce (NASDAQ:EVCM) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for PagerDuty and EverCommerce, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PagerDuty	3	7	3	0	2.00
EverCommerce	2	6	2	0	2.00

PagerDuty currently has a consensus price target of $12.40, indicating a potential upside of 96.36%. EverCommerce has a consensus price target of $10.71, indicating a potential downside of 7.87%. Given PagerDuty’s higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than EverCommerce.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares PagerDuty and EverCommerce”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PagerDuty	$492.55 million	1.09	$173.85 million	$1.84	3.43
EverCommerce	$588.91 million	3.51	$17.60 million	$0.09	129.22

PagerDuty has higher earnings, but lower revenue than EverCommerce. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EverCommerce, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares PagerDuty and EverCommerce’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PagerDuty	35.30%	16.29%	3.82%
EverCommerce	2.99%	2.49%	1.30%

Volatility and Risk

PagerDuty has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EverCommerce has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

97.3% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of EverCommerce shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of PagerDuty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.4% of EverCommerce shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

PagerDuty beats EverCommerce on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. engages in the operation of a digital operations management platform in the United States and internationally. The company’s digital operations management platform collects data and digital signals from virtually any software-enabled system or device and leverage machine learning to correlate, process, and predict opportunities and issues. Its platform includes PagerDuty Incident Management that provides a real-time view across the status of a digital service while incorporating noise reduction to remove false positives; AIOps that applies machine learning to correlate and automate the identification of incidents from billions of events; Process Automation offers centralized design time and run time environment for orchestrating automated workflows that span across departments, technologies, and networks; Customer Service Operations, which is offered to orchestrate, automate, and scale responses to customer impacting issues. It serves various industries, including software and technology, telecommunications, retail, travel and hospitality, media and entertainment, and financial services. PagerDuty, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About EverCommerce

EverCommerce Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated software-as-a-service solutions for service-based small and medium sized businesses in the United States and internationally. The company’s solutions include business management software that offers route-based dispatching, medical practice management, and gym member management solutions; billing and payment solutions comprising e-invoicing, mobile payments, and integrated payment processing; customer experience solution, which include reputation management and messaging solutions; and marketing technology solutions that cover websites, hosting, and digital lead generation. It also provides EverPro suite of solutions in home services; EverHealth suite of solutions within health services; and EverWell suite of solutions in fitness and wellness services. In addition, the company offers professional services, such as implementation, configuration, installation, or training services. It serves home service professionals, including home improvement contractors and home maintenance technicians; physician practices and therapists in the health services industry; and personal trainers and salon owners in the fitness and wellness sectors. The company was formerly known as PaySimple Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to EverCommerce Inc. in December 2020. EverCommerce Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.