Expensify (NASDAQ:EXFY – Get Free Report) and PagerDuty (NYSE:PD – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
68.4% of Expensify shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of PagerDuty shares are held by institutional investors. 17.3% of Expensify shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.6% of PagerDuty shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Expensify and PagerDuty, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Expensify | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2.14 |
| PagerDuty | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2.45 |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Expensify and PagerDuty’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Expensify | $150.69 million | 1.14 | -$41.46 million | ($0.48) | -4.13 |
| PagerDuty | $430.70 million | 4.67 | -$81.76 million | ($1.01) | -20.84 |
Expensify has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PagerDuty. PagerDuty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Expensify, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Expensify and PagerDuty’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Expensify | -27.46% | -39.36% | -20.13% |
| PagerDuty | -21.34% | -28.38% | -6.24% |
Volatility & Risk
Expensify has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagerDuty has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PagerDuty beats Expensify on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Expensify
Expensify, Inc. provides a cloud-based expense management software platform to individuals and corporations, small and midsized businesses, and enterprises in the United States and internationally. The company's platform enables users to manage corporate cards, pay bills, generate invoices, collect payments, and book travel. It also offers track and submit plans for individuals. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
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.
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