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Pegasystems Inc.

$PEGA·$4.4B·Software - Application·Technology
$29.53+3.3%YTD-52.4%1Y-52.3%
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PEPEGA
$PEGAPegasystems Inc.
$29.53+3.25%201 posts0%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $PEGA, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Broken storySelling offAI verdict · as of 2026-07-25

Falling on heavy selling — points lower unless it turns around.

Pegasystems warned that AI is causing enterprise clients to delay purchase decisions — the tape is at 52-week lows and the read-through hit NOW, DDOG, WDAY, PANW.

Pegasystems is an enterprise low-code business-process-automation software vendor — the specific competitor to Appian in the workflow-automation space. Shares are down 55% year-to-date at the 4th percentile of the 52-week range, and the July 22 Q2 warning about AI-driven deal delays is the specific event that broke the tape.

  • The AI-disruption warning is the defining fact: management said unprecedented changes in the AI market are causing clients to delay purchasing decisions, and the trend may continue to adversely affect ACV growth for the rest of the year — that's the specific language that historically triggers multi-quarter multiple compression in a software name.
  • Analyst downgrades are stacking hard: Loop Capital downgraded to Hold from Buy with target cut to $25 from $55, and Citizens downgraded to Market Perform citing growing concern the demand issue may be durable — two separate downgrades on the same theme in the same window, which historically extends the underperformance.
  • The Q2 print backs the warning: Q2 revenue grew just 9.4% YoY to $421M with operating margin at 4%, following Q1's revenue decline of -9.6% — the sequential improvement is small, and the deceleration relative to the prior 4-quarter average is what actually validates the AI-disruption thesis.
  • Read-through was broad: NOW, DDOG, WDAY, and PANW all traded lower on the PEGA warning day — the market is genuinely digesting a sector-wide question about enterprise software demand in an AI-transition environment, and Pega is the specific name that made the concern concrete.

October 20 Q3 earnings is the next real hurdle — a beat with ACV growth showing stabilization plus specific commentary that pipelines are re-accelerating is what would arrest the breakdown; another warning or a repeat of the AI-delay narrative extends the tape to fresh lows. What breaks the negative trend is a specific enterprise-customer win at scale or credible AI-native product differentiation.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bearish and I fully agree — the AI-driven-deal-delay warning is a genuine strategic problem for enterprise software (not just Pega), the stacked analyst downgrades validate the durability concern, and the read-through into NOW/DDOG/WDAY/PANW is a real sector-wide signal; the crowd's read is well-supported by the specific management language and the analyst-target trajectory.

What to watch: October 20 Q3 2026 earnings — the deciding numbers are ACV growth trajectory, any material enterprise-customer win disclosure, and management commentary on AI-native product velocity; another warning or a repeat AI-delay narrative extends the breakdown to fresh lows.

On the calendar: 2026-10-20 — Q3 2026 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bearish sentiment16 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-27

Pegasystems fell roughly 13-16% after weak Q2 results citing AI-driven customer purchase delays, and Loop Capital downgraded to Hold cutting the target to $25 from $55. Citizens also downgraded to Market Perform. The CEO's comments about unprecedented AI-market changes triggered a broader software selloff and comparisons to IBM's stalled quarter.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Pegasystems Inc., founded in 1983 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a global provider of enterprise software solutions. The company's operations span the United States, the wider Americas, the United Kingdom, other European nations, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, encompassing development, marketing, licensing, hosting, and support services. Their product portfolio includes the Pega Platform, designed for application development, and Pega Infinity, an integrated software suite that merges customer engagement capabilities with digital process automation. Pegasystems also offers specialized customer engagement applications such as the Pega Customer Decision Hub, which helps businesses enhance customer acquisition and overall experience across various digital and traditional channels. Other key applications include Pega Sales Automation, which streamlines sales workflows, and Pega Customer Service, engineered to anticipate client needs, facilitate connections between customers and company resources, automate service interactions, and ultimately improve both the customer experience and employee productivity. Further expanding its offerings, Pegasystems provides intelligent automation software and Pega Cloud, an internet-based infrastructure enabling clients to develop, test, and deploy applications, including the Pega Platform itself. Complementing its software, the company offers Pega Academy for comprehensive training (both in-person and online) to its staff, customers, and partners, alongside extensive guidance, implementation, and technical support services. Pegasystems primarily serves a broad spectrum of industries, including financial services, life sciences, healthcare, communications, media, government, insurance, manufacturing, high-tech, and consumer services, leveraging both a direct sales force and strategic partnerships with technology providers and application developers.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Software - Application sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $PEGA.

Software - Application · Technology

No material change from last week — platforms where agents expand contract value (ServiceNow, Snowflake) are re-rated upward, while tools where agents substitute human users (Adobe Creative..

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$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
13.7How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
26.0%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
9.9%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
11.8%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
2.5Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
48.9%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
75.6%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.1Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 21, 2026$0.35$0.43-19.2%
Q1 2026Apr 21, 2026$0.46$0.65-29.1%
Q4 2025Feb 10, 2026$0.76$0.72+5.6%
Q3 2025Oct 21, 2025$0.30$0.18+66.7%
Next earningsTue, Oct 20·consensus EPS $0.49

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q2 FY26$420.7M+9.4%74.3%4.0%$0.08$91.7M
Q1 FY26$430.0M-9.6%75.2%8.6%$0.19$206.5M
Q4 FY25$504.3M+2.7%79.5%20.7%$1.38$152.4M
Q3 FY25$381.4M+17.3%72.2%3.8%$0.25$51.8M

Forward consensus

3-year forecast · up to 8 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$1.9B$1.9B – $1.9B$2.45$2.39 – $2.496
FY27$2.1B$2.0B – $2.1B$2.64$2.22 – $3.048
FY28$2.2B$2.1B – $2.5B$2.81$2.42 – $3.536

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.1.5×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.4%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-16.8%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-41.0%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

β0.875-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJun 16Efstathios A KouninisSVP, Chief Accounting Officer750 sh$24K
+ 32 other (16 exempts · 16 inkinds) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteJun 188-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

PEGA filed an 8-K covering Item(s) 5.07. Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders Pegasystems Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on June 16, 2026. At the Annual Meeting, the following items were presented to the shareholders of the Company for their approval, and the shareholders voted as follows: 1. The Company’s shareholders reelected the eight directors named below to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their successors. Investors should review the full filing for complete details.

8-KPress release / Reg FDJun 88-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

PEGA filed an 8-K under Reg FD (Item 7.01), disclosing material non-public information simultaneously to all investors. The disclosure covers: investors. This is typically an investor presentation, conference slides, or press release furnished as an exhibit. Reg FD filings ensure equal access to information for all investors; the substantive data is in the attached exhibit.

8-KOfficer or director changeFeb 128-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
+ 10 other (2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 proxys · 1 ARS) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Fifth Third Bancorp Increases Stock Position in Pegasystems Inc. $PEGAdefenseworld.net·4d agoIs It Too Late to Buy Pegasystems Inc (PEGA) After 3.1% Rally? GF Value Says Undervaluedgurufocus.com·4d agoPegasystems Q2 Earnings Call Highlightsdefenseworld.net·5d agoPegasystems Analysts Cut Their Forecasts After Downbeat Q2 Earningsbenzinga.com·6d agoHere Are Thursday’s Top Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: AT&T, Applied Digital, Autodesk, Duke Energy, Exxon Mobil, JPMorgan Chase & Company, Live Nation Entertainment, and More247wallst.com·6d ago

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