Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) CTO Alexis Le-Quoc Sells 53,541 Shares of Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,541 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $110.54, for a total value of $5,918,422.14. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 437,257 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $48,334,388.78. The trade was a 10.91% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website.

Alexis Le-Quoc also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Wednesday, February 11th, Alexis Le-Quoc sold 43,106 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $126.79, for a total transaction of $5,465,409.74.
• On Wednesday, January 28th, Alexis Le-Quoc sold 32,418 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $140.99, for a total transaction of $4,570,613.82.
• On Monday, January 5th, Alexis Le-Quoc sold 43,106 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $133.93, for a total transaction of $5,773,186.58.
• On Monday, December 29th, Alexis Le-Quoc sold 32,418 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $137.85, for a total transaction of $4,468,821.30.

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ DDOG opened at $123.08 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a quick ratio of 3.38 and a current ratio of 3.38. The company has a market cap 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. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $123.60 and its two-hundred day moving average is $141.84. Datadog, Inc. has a 52-week low of $81.63 and a 52-week high of $201.69.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported $0.59 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.55 by $0.04. The business had revenue of $953.19 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $916.53 million. Datadog had a net margin of 3.14% and a return on equity of 4.14%. The business’s revenue was up 29.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.49 EPS. 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, analysts anticipate that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Key Stories Impacting Datadog

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

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research firms have issued reports on DDOG. UBS Group set a $195.00 price objective on Datadog in a research note on Monday, February 9th. BNP Paribas Exane reduced their price target on shares of Datadog from $210.00 to $175.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, January 15th. Jefferies Financial Group decreased their price target on shares of Datadog from $180.00 to $160.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Cantor Fitzgerald lowered their price objective on shares of Datadog from $220.00 to $150.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Capital One Financial lifted their price objective on shares of Datadog from $156.00 to $157.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Thirty-six research 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’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Datadog has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $179.62.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Brighton Jones LLC bought a new stake in shares of Datadog in the 4th quarter worth about $209,000. Bison Wealth LLC purchased a new position in shares of Datadog during the 4th quarter worth about $228,000. Empowered Funds LLC grew its holdings in Datadog by 7.0% during the 1st quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 10,313 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,023,000 after purchasing an additional 672 shares during the last quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. raised its position in 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 period. Finally, Sivia Capital Partners LLC purchased a new stake in Datadog in the 2nd quarter worth about $509,000. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

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.