Ieq Capital LLC Reduces Stock Holdings in Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Ieq Capital LLC reduced its stake in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 4.2% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 480,816 shares of the company’s stock after selling 21,027 shares during the period. Ieq Capital LLC’s holdings in Datadog were worth $65,386,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Rothschild Investment LLC raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 126.6% during 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 during the period. JPL Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Datadog during the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. CoreCap Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 1,461.5% during 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 during the period. Flagship Harbor Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Datadog during the 4th quarter valued at about $31,000. Finally, NBC Securities Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 242.6% during 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 during the period. 78.29% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, Director Matthew Jacobson sold 52,832 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $189.28, for a total transaction of $10,000,040.96. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 622,726 shares in the company, valued at $117,869,577.28. The trade was a 7.82% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $271.05, for a total value of $14,612,847.60. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 531,311 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $144,011,846.55. This represents a 9.21% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 1,272,556 shares of company stock worth $252,615,825. 6.48% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts recently commented on DDOG shares. Oppenheimer raised their target price on Datadog from $200.00 to $220.00 in a report on Thursday, May 7th. The Goldman Sachs Group raised their target price on Datadog from $121.00 to $139.00 and gave the company a “sell” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 12th. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on Datadog from $180.00 to $225.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. New Street Research set a $260.00 price objective on Datadog in a report on Thursday. Finally, Capital One Financial dropped their price objective on Datadog from $157.00 to $135.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, April 16th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have issued a Buy rating, two have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $231.64.

Datadog Price Performance

Shares of DDOG opened at $229.90 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $81.84 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 605.02, a PEG ratio of 25.08 and a beta of 1.56. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $178.29 and a 200-day moving average of $147.38. 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, Inc. has a 52 week low of $98.01 and a 52 week high of $278.70.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. The company 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%.The business’s revenue was up 32.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.46 EPS. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.360-2.440 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.570-0.590 EPS. As a group, analysts forecast that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 EPS for the current year.

Key Datadog News

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Analysts are increasingly upbeat on Datadog’s AI opportunity. BMO raised its price target to $260, BTIG reaffirmed a buy rating with a $255 target, and Wedbush also reiterated a buy view, reinforcing expectations for further upside. Article link
• Positive Sentiment: Coverage around Datadog’s GPU Monitoring and broader AI observability stack suggests the company is expanding its role in optimizing AI workloads, which could become a meaningful growth driver. Article link
• Positive Sentiment: Technical traders are encouraged by DDOG breaking above its 20-day moving average, a sign of improving short-term momentum after a strong run. Article link
• Positive Sentiment: Financial press is highlighting Datadog as a beneficiary of AI-driven cybersecurity spending, with analysts raising targets and framing DDOG as a hidden winner from the AI boom. Article link
• Positive Sentiment: Datadog’s recent AI-focused product launch and broader platform expansion are strengthening the company’s growth narrative and supporting elevated valuation expectations. Article link
• Neutral Sentiment: Datadog remains a premium-valued stock after its strong revenue growth and beat-and-raise earnings report, so the market is balancing solid fundamentals against high expectations.
• Negative Sentiment: Recent insider sales by CEO Olivier Pomel and CFO David Obstler may create some near-term overhang, even though the transactions were made under pre-arranged trading plans. Article link

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.