Contrasting FingerMotion (NASDAQ:FNGR) and PagerDuty (NYSE:PD)

FingerMotion (NASDAQ:FNGR) and PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and dividends.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

3.9% of FingerMotion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of FingerMotion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of PagerDuty shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

FingerMotion has a beta of -0.72, meaning that its stock price is 172% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagerDuty has a beta of 0.88, meaning that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for FingerMotion and PagerDuty, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FingerMotion	0	0	0	0	0.00
PagerDuty	2	6	4	0	2.17

PagerDuty has a consensus price target of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 32.76%. Given PagerDuty’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than FingerMotion.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares FingerMotion and PagerDuty”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FingerMotion	$35.61 million	3.61	-$3.76 million	($0.09)	-24.78
PagerDuty	$476.13 million	2.81	-$81.76 million	($0.40)	-36.72

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FingerMotion	-16.14%	-51.57%	-20.08%
PagerDuty	-16.29%	-22.02%	-3.77%

Summary

PagerDuty beats FingerMotion on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About FingerMotion

FingerMotion, Inc., a mobile data specialist company, provides mobile payment and recharge platform system in China. The company offers telecommunication products and services, including data plans, subscription plans, mobile phones, and loyalty points redemption services; bulk short message service and multimedia messaging services; and Rich Communication Services (RCS) platform, a proprietary business messaging platform that enables businesses and brands to communicate and service their customers on the 5G infrastructure. It also operates Sapientus, a proprietary big data insights platform that deliver data-driven for businesses in the insurance, healthcare, and financial services industries. In addition, the company offers value added product and services. FingerMotion, Inc. is headquartered in Singapore.

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.