TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) & PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) Financial Survey

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

97.3% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of TeraWulf shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of PagerDuty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.9% of TeraWulf shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PagerDuty	37.50%	18.52%	4.84%
TeraWulf	-1,179.94%	-458.62%	-8.54%

Volatility and Risk

PagerDuty has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TeraWulf has a beta of 3.8, meaning that its share price is 280% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PagerDuty	$492.55 million	2.58	$173.85 million	$2.00	8.07
TeraWulf	$168.46 million	40.79	-$661.42 million	($4.37)	-3.15

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for PagerDuty and TeraWulf, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PagerDuty	2	5	3	0	2.10
TeraWulf	1	3	18	3	2.92

PagerDuty presently has a consensus target price of $12.56, indicating a potential downside of 22.19%. TeraWulf has a consensus target price of $33.33, indicating a potential upside of 142.01%. Given TeraWulf’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe TeraWulf is more favorable than PagerDuty.

Summary

PagerDuty beats TeraWulf on 8 of the 15 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 TeraWulf

TeraWulf Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital asset technology company in the United States. The company develops, owns, and operates bitcoin mining facilities in New York and Pennsylvania. It is also involved in the provision of miner hosting services to third-party entities. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Easton, Maryland.