Reviewing PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and Maquia Capital Acquisition (NASDAQ:MAQC)

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) and Maquia Capital Acquisition (NASDAQ:MAQC) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares PagerDuty and Maquia Capital Acquisition’s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PagerDuty	$430.70 million	4.57	-$81.76 million	($0.88)	-24.11
Maquia Capital Acquisition	N/A	N/A	$7.19 million	N/A	N/A

Maquia Capital Acquisition has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PagerDuty.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

97.3% of PagerDuty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.4% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.9% of PagerDuty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 78.4% of Maquia Capital Acquisition shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares PagerDuty and Maquia Capital Acquisition’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PagerDuty	-18.98%	-24.65%	-6.18%
Maquia Capital Acquisition	N/A	N/A	-4.99%

Risk & Volatility

PagerDuty has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maquia Capital Acquisition has a beta of -0.01, suggesting that its stock price is 101% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for PagerDuty and Maquia Capital Acquisition, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PagerDuty	0	4	4	0	2.50
Maquia Capital Acquisition	0	0	0	0	N/A

PagerDuty presently has a consensus target price of $27.25, suggesting a potential upside of 28.42%. Given PagerDuty’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PagerDuty is more favorable than Maquia Capital Acquisition.

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 Maquia Capital Acquisition

Maquia Capital Acquisition Corporation does not have significant operations. The company focuses on effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. It intends to focus its search on technology-focused middle market and emerging growth companies in North America. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Miami, Florida.