Russell Investments Group Ltd. Sells 289,411 Shares of Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Russell Investments Group Ltd. trimmed its holdings in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 38.9% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 453,622 shares of the company’s stock after selling 289,411 shares during the period. Russell Investments Group Ltd.’s holdings in Datadog were worth $64,637,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of DDOG. Brighton Jones LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $209,000. Bison Wealth LLC bought a new position in Datadog in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $228,000. Empowered Funds LLC increased its position in shares of Datadog by 7.0% during the 1st quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 10,313 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,023,000 after purchasing an additional 672 shares during the last quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. increased its position in shares of Datadog by 17.6% during the 1st quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 769 shares of the company’s stock worth $76,000 after purchasing an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sivia Capital Partners LLC bought a new stake in shares of Datadog during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $509,000. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at Datadog

In other news, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 68,922 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $110.54, for a total value of $7,618,637.88. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 704,821 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $77,910,913.34. This represents a 8.91% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director Shardul Shah sold 7,916 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $124.89, for a total transaction of $988,629.24. Following the sale, the director owned 340,701 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $42,550,147.89. This represents a 2.27% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 292,622 shares of company stock worth $36,347,847 over the last ninety days. Insiders own 6.67% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

DDOG has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Jefferies Financial Group cut their price objective on Datadog from $180.00 to $160.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 6th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $160.00 target price on shares of Datadog and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 22nd. Citigroup dropped their price target on shares of Datadog from $200.00 to $175.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, January 16th. Barclays cut their price target on shares of Datadog from $195.00 to $165.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of Datadog in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st. Thirty-six analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, Datadog currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $179.62.

Datadog News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog has had a 5-day winning streak with roughly +16% over that period and an estimated market-cap gain of about $6.1B, which signals renewed investor interest and momentum into the name. Why Investors Are Flocking Back To DDOG Stock?
• Positive Sentiment: Cohesity announced a strategic integration with Datadog to combine observability with rapid data recovery for AI production environments — a partnership that can expand enterprise use cases around AI agent resilience. Cohesity Partners with Datadog
• Positive Sentiment: Datadog launched an MCP Server product to give AI agents secure, real‑time access to unified observability data — a product expansion that reinforces its positioning in AI-enabled observability. Datadog Launches MCP Server
• Neutral Sentiment: Media/analyst attention has picked up (Zacks, Yahoo pieces highlight trending interest), which can drive both flows and volatility but does not by itself change fundamentals. Is Trending Stock Datadog, Inc. (DDOG) a Buy Now?
• Neutral Sentiment: Reported short-interest figures in the feed show zero shares and NaN changes (data inconsistency). This looks like a reporting/data error rather than a material increase in short exposure; short-interest impact appears negligible.
• Negative Sentiment: Datadog CTO Alexis Le‑Quoc sold 53,541 shares at an average $110.54 on March 2 (~$5.92M), trimming his position by ~10.9% — an insider sale that can weigh on sentiment, especially amid recent gains. SEC filing: SEC Form 4

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ DDOG opened at $123.08 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 3.38, a quick ratio of 3.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. Datadog, Inc. has a 12 month low of $81.63 and a 12 month high of $201.69. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $123.60 and a 200-day moving average of $141.84. The company has a market capitalization of $43.40 billion, a P/E ratio of 397.03, a P/E/G ratio of 35.34 and a beta of 1.31.

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

Datadog Profile

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.