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PagerDuty and Twilio were well positioned to gain during the pandemic, but since early 2021 they have dropped along with most other tech/platform stocks. Still, we think both have room to rebound as their services continue to experience strong, and growing, demand. Both are buys. PAGERDUTY INC., $22.75, is a buy. The company (New York symbol PD; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.pagerduty.com; Shares outstanding: 92.2 million; Market cap: $2.1 billion; No dividends paid) operates a platform that collects real-time data from software systems and devices and then notifies its IT customers of any incident that could harm their operations. For the three months ended April 30, 2023, revenue rose 20.9%, to $103.2 million from $85.4 million a year earlier. Sales were higher due to the addition of new customers. As well, many of the company’s existing customers increased their spending on PagerDuty services. Excluding one-time items, PagerDuty made $0.20 a share. That’s compared to its year-earlier loss of $0.04. It also beat the consensus forecast for…