Insider Selling: Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) CEO Sells 127,141 Shares of Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) CEO Olivier Pomel sold 127,141 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, June 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.69, for a total value of $29,457,298.29. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 612,747 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $141,967,352.43. This represents a 17.18% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Olivier Pomel also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, June 2nd, Olivier Pomel sold 26,012 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $267.15, for a total value of $6,949,105.80.
• On Tuesday, May 26th, Olivier Pomel sold 84,698 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $223.58, for a total value of $18,936,778.84.
• On Monday, May 11th, Olivier Pomel sold 127,141 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $199.84, for a total value of $25,407,857.44.
• On Thursday, April 9th, Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $111.14, for a total value of $4,717,115.02.
• On Monday, March 16th, Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $126.80, for a total value of $5,381,772.40.

Datadog Stock Up 0.1%

NASDAQ:DDOG traded up $0.29 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $227.63. The company had a trading volume of 3,508,245 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,966,630. The firm has a market capitalization of $81.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 599.04, a PEG ratio of 24.81 and a beta of 1.56. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $171.50 and its 200-day simple moving average is $145.78. Datadog, Inc. has a 12-month low of $98.01 and a 12-month high of $278.70. The company has a current ratio of 3.40, a quick ratio of 3.40 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last released its earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.51 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $1.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $960.12 million. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.83% and a net margin of 3.69%.Datadog’s revenue was up 32.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.46 earnings per share. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.360-2.440 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.570-0.590 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Datadog

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Rothschild Investment LLC lifted its stake in Datadog by 126.6% in the 3rd quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 179 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after buying an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. JPL Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in Datadog in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $27,000. CoreCap Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Datadog by 1,461.5% in the 4th quarter. CoreCap Advisors LLC now owns 203 shares of the company’s stock valued at $28,000 after buying an additional 190 shares in the last quarter. Flagship Harbor Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Datadog in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Finally, NBC Securities Inc. lifted its stake in Datadog by 242.6% in the 4th quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 233 shares of the company’s stock valued at $32,000 after buying an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Datadog

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog unveiled 100+ new AI, observability and security capabilities at its DASH 2026 event, including major upgrades to Bits AI, AI Guard, Bring Your Own Cloud, Bits Agent Builder and Agent Console. The new tools deepen Datadog’s AI platform story and could support stronger adoption and revenue growth. GlobeNewswire article
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts turned more constructive after the launch, with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce raising its target to $280 and Evercore lifting its target to $265, while RBC reaffirmed an outperform view. Higher targets can reinforce the market’s growth expectations for DDOG. Benzinga article
• Positive Sentiment: Coverage in the financial press said Datadog’s agentic AI push is winning Wall Street support, with analysts seeing more upside as the company expands into autonomous operations and AI security. Yahoo Finance article
• Neutral Sentiment: Datadog’s strong revenue growth and recent beat-and-raise quarter continue to underpin the stock’s premium valuation, but the shares already reflect high expectations after a big run. Yahoo Finance article
• Negative Sentiment: Heavy insider selling may temper enthusiasm: CEO Olivier Pomel and CFO David M. Obstler both sold large blocks of stock under pre-arranged 10b5-1 plans, adding to a pattern of recent insider sales at Datadog. SEC filing
• Negative Sentiment: A prior director sale also added to the overhang, reinforcing concerns that insiders may be taking advantage of the stock’s strong rally. SEC filing

Analysts Set New Price Targets

DDOG has been the topic of several research analyst reports. TD Cowen raised their target price on Datadog from $190.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $305.00 price target on Datadog in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Raymond James Financial boosted their price target on Datadog from $170.00 to $220.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Truist Financial boosted their target price on Datadog from $120.00 to $190.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, Mizuho upped their price target on Datadog from $145.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have assigned a Buy rating, one has given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $225.52.

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.