Insider Selling: Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Sells $9,999,951.60 in Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Matthew Jacobson sold 39,912 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $250.55, for a total transaction of $9,999,951.60. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 544,220 shares in the company, valued at $136,354,321. This represents a 6.83% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website.

Matthew Jacobson also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, August 14th, Matthew Jacobson sold 19,512 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $256.25, for a total value of $4,999,950.00.

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of DDOG opened at $233.52 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 3.20, a quick ratio of 3.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The firm has a market cap of $83.85 billion, a PE ratio of 476.58, a P/E/G ratio of 24.14 and a beta of 1.54. Datadog, Inc. has a 12 month low of $98.01 and a 12 month high of $292.72. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $249.72 and a 200-day moving average price of $184.87.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, August 6th. The company reported $0.65 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.58 by $0.07. Datadog had a return on equity of 5.67% and a net margin of 4.48%.The firm had revenue of $1.12 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.08 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.46 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 35.6% on a year-over-year basis. Datadog has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 0.630-0.650 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 2.500-2.540 EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.7 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

DDOG has been the topic of several research analyst reports. Zacks Research downgraded shares of Datadog from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday. Needham & Company LLC raised their price target on shares of Datadog from $260.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, August 7th. Barclays lifted their price objective on shares of Datadog from $260.00 to $290.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 21st. Mizuho boosted their price objective on shares of Datadog from $220.00 to $300.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 15th. Finally, BTIG Research upped their target price on Datadog from $255.00 to $289.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-eight have given a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Datadog currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $276.32.

Institutional Trading of Datadog

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Greenleaf Trust raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 54.9% during the second quarter. Greenleaf Trust now owns 2,985 shares of the company’s stock worth $777,000 after purchasing an additional 1,058 shares during the last quarter. Archer Investment Corp acquired a new position in Datadog during the second quarter valued at $419,000. North Star Asset Management Inc. purchased a new stake in Datadog in the second quarter valued at $22,651,000. Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio acquired a new stake in Datadog during the 2nd quarter worth about $32,564,000. Finally, Advent International L.P. acquired a new stake in Datadog during the 2nd quarter worth about $495,000. 78.29% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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.