Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) Receives $179.62 Average PT from Brokerages

Shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) have been assigned an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the forty-two research firms that are covering the firm, MarketBeat reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and thirty-six have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 12-month price target among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $179.6154.

Several analysts recently commented on DDOG shares. Bank of America raised their target price on Datadog from $180.00 to $215.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, November 7th. Sanford C. Bernstein reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of Datadog in a report on Wednesday, January 21st. Scotiabank cut their price objective on shares of Datadog from $180.00 to $160.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Moffett Nathanson reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Datadog in a report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Wedbush lowered their target price on shares of Datadog from $215.00 to $190.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th.

Datadog Trading Up 5.6%

Shares of NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $116.46 on Tuesday. The company has a quick ratio of 3.38, a current ratio of 3.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $126.81 and its 200 day moving average price is $142.17. The company has a market cap of $40.84 billion, a PE ratio of 375.68, a P/E/G ratio of 30.33 and a beta of 1.27. Datadog has a fifty-two week low of $81.63 and a fifty-two week high of $201.69.

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

Insider Activity at Datadog

In other Datadog news, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 32,923 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $154.63, for a total transaction of $5,090,883.49. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 518,133 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $80,118,905.79. This trade represents a 5.97% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction on Monday, December 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $154.05, for a total value of $8,305,143.60. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 295,448 shares in the company, valued at approximately $45,513,764.40. This trade represents a 15.43% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 337,291 shares of company stock worth $48,909,907 over the last quarter. 8.70% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Brighton Jones LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the fourth quarter worth about $209,000. Bison Wealth LLC bought a new position in shares of Datadog during the 4th quarter valued at about $228,000. Empowered Funds LLC grew its stake in shares of Datadog by 7.0% in 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. grew its stake in shares of Datadog by 17.6% in 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 in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $509,000. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Datadog Company 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.