Vinva Investment Management Ltd Purchases 7,175 Shares of Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Vinva Investment Management Ltd lifted its position in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 41.9% during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 24,313 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 7,175 shares during the quarter. Vinva Investment Management Ltd’s holdings in Datadog were worth $3,532,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of DDOG. Parallel Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of Datadog by 7.8% in the third quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 6,239 shares of the company’s stock valued at $889,000 after purchasing an additional 452 shares in the last quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. boosted its stake in Datadog by 74.0% during the third quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. now owns 24,130 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,436,000 after buying an additional 10,264 shares in the last quarter. Black Swift Group LLC boosted its stake in Datadog by 33.3% during the third quarter. Black Swift Group LLC now owns 20,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,848,000 after buying an additional 5,000 shares in the last quarter. Natixis Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Datadog by 12.8% in the 3rd quarter. Natixis Advisors LLC now owns 39,429 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,615,000 after buying an additional 4,467 shares during the period. Finally, First Trust Advisors LP increased its holdings in Datadog by 6.2% in the 3rd quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 1,899,851 shares of the company’s stock valued at $270,539,000 after buying an additional 111,093 shares during the period. 78.29% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Datadog Stock Up 2.2%

Shares of NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $128.56 on Tuesday. The company’s fifty day moving average is $123.89 and its 200-day moving average is $141.89. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a quick ratio of 3.38 and a current ratio of 3.38. Datadog, Inc. has a 52 week low of $81.63 and a 52 week high of $201.69. The company has a market capitalization of $45.33 billion, a PE ratio of 414.71, a P/E/G ratio of 34.56 and a beta of 1.31.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.55 by $0.04. Datadog had a net margin of 3.14% and a return on equity of 4.14%. The business had revenue of $953.19 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $916.53 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.49 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 29.2% on a year-over-year basis. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.080-2.160 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.490-0.510 EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Datadog

In other news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 43,106 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $126.79, for a total value of $5,465,409.74. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 490,798 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $62,228,278.42. The trade was a 8.07% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Shardul Shah sold 7,916 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, January 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $124.89, for a total value of $988,629.24. Following the sale, the director owned 340,701 shares in the company, valued at approximately $42,550,147.89. This trade represents a 2.27% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 239,081 shares of company stock valued at $30,429,425. Corporate insiders own 6.67% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts have recently commented on DDOG shares. Scotiabank reduced their price objective on shares of Datadog from $180.00 to $160.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, February 11th. Royal Bank Of Canada lowered their target price on shares of Datadog from $175.00 to $150.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, February 9th. Robert W. Baird set a $180.00 price target on shares of Datadog in a research report on Wednesday, February 11th. Daiwa Securities Group initiated coverage on shares of Datadog in a research note on Tuesday, January 27th. They set a “buy” rating and a $190.00 price target for the company. Finally, Wolfe Research decreased their price objective on Datadog from $185.00 to $160.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 10th. Thirty-six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $179.62.

About Datadog

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a cloud-based monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations monitor, troubleshoot and secure their applications and infrastructure at scale. Its software-as-a-service offering collects and analyzes metrics, traces and logs from servers, containers, cloud services and applications to provide real-time visibility into system performance and health. Datadog’s platform is widely used by engineering, operations and security teams to reduce downtime, accelerate incident response and improve application reliability.

The company’s product suite includes infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring and network performance monitoring, along with security-focused products such as security monitoring and cloud SIEM.