As Q1 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter's best and worst performers amongst the cloud monitoring stocks, including Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) and its peers.
Software is eating the world, increasing organizations’ reliance on digital-only solutions. As more workloads and applications move to the cloud, the reliability of the underlying cloud infrastructure becomes ever more critical, and ever more complex. To solve the challenge, companies and their engineering teams have turned to a range of cloud monitoring tools that provide them with visibility to troubleshoot the issues in real time.
The 4 cloud monitoring stocks we track reported a weaker Q1; on average, revenues beat analyst consensus estimates by 1.71%, while on average next quarter revenue guidance was 1.58% under consensus. Investors abandoned cash burning companies since high interest rates will make it harder to raise capital , but cloud monitoring stocks held their ground better than others, with the share prices up 6.59% since the previous earnings results, on average.
Best Q1: Dynatrace (NYSE:DT)
Founded in Austria in 2005, Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) provides companies with software that allows them to monitor the performance of their full technology stack, from software applications to the infrastructure they run on.
Dynatrace reported revenues of $314.5 million, up 24.5% year on year, beating analyst expectations by 3.23%. It was a strong quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for the next quarter and full year beating analysts' expectations.
“Dynatrace delivered a great finish to the year with strong fourth quarter results that exceeded expectations across the board, demonstrating the durability of our business model,” said Rick McConnell, Chief Executive Officer.
Dynatrace pulled off the strongest analyst estimates beat and highest full year guidance raise of the whole group. The stock is up 10.7% since the results and currently trades at $51.82.
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Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG)
Named after a database the founders had to painstakingly look after at their previous company, Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) is a software as a service platform that makes it easier to monitor cloud infrastructure and applications.
Datadog reported revenues of $481.7 million, up 32.7% year on year, beating analyst expectations by 2.72%. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analyst estimates but decelerating growth in large customers.
Datadog achieved the fastest revenue growth among its peers. The company added 130 enterprise customers paying more than $100,000 annually to a total of 2,910. The stock is up 48.4% since the results and currently trades at $97.75.
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Weakest Q1: PagerDuty (NYSE:PD)
Started by three former Amazon engineers, PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) is a software as a service platform that helps companies respond to IT incidents fast and make sure that any downtime is minimized.
PagerDuty reported revenues of $103.2 million, up 20.9% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a weak quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for the next quarter and full year missing analysts' expectations.
PagerDuty had the weakest performance against analyst estimates and weakest full year guidance update in the group. The company lost 155 customers and ended up with a total of 15,089. The stock is down 17.8% since the results and currently trades at $22.82.
Read our full analysis of PagerDuty's results here.
New Relic (NYSE:NEWR)
With the name being an anagram of its founder, Lew Cirne, New Relic (NYSE:NEWR) makes a monitoring software that collects, scores, and analyses performance data about a client's IT stack.
New Relic reported revenues of $242.5 million, up 17.9% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a weak quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for the next quarter and full year missing analysts' expectations.
New Relic had the slowest revenue growth among the peers. The stock is down 14.9% since the results and currently trades at $70.27.
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