Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) Given Average Rating of “Moderate Buy” by Analysts

Shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) have been given a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” by the forty-five brokerages that are covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have given a hold rating, thirty-eight have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating on the company. The average 12 month price target among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is $276.3182.

A number of analysts have commented on DDOG shares. UBS Group reduced their target price on shares of Datadog from $315.00 to $280.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, August 7th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $305.00 price objective on shares of Datadog in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Capital One Financial boosted their price objective on shares of Datadog from $217.00 to $268.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 17th. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce upped their price objective on Datadog from $250.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, June 10th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald raised their target price on Datadog from $226.00 to $327.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, August 3rd.

Datadog Trading Up 1.3%

NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $235.62 on Tuesday. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $249.81 and its 200-day moving average price is $185.94. Datadog has a 52 week low of $98.01 and a 52 week high of $292.72. The company has a quick ratio of 3.20, a current ratio of 3.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The stock has a market cap of $84.61 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 480.87, a PEG ratio of 23.12 and a beta of 1.54.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 6th. The company reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter, beating 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 company had revenue of $1.12 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.08 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.46 earnings per share. Datadog’s revenue was up 35.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Datadog has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 0.630-0.650 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 2.500-2.540 EPS. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Datadog will post 0.7 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Datadog

In related news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $271.05, for a total transaction of $14,612,847.60. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer owned 531,311 shares in the company, valued at approximately $144,011,846.55. This trade represents a 9.21% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 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. Also, Director Dev Ittycheria sold 120,000 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $248.78, for a total value of $29,853,600.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 39,235 shares in the company, valued at $9,760,883.30. This trade represents a 75.36% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 1,512,188 shares of company stock worth $374,502,256 in the last 90 days. Company insiders own 6.48% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Datadog

Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. JPL Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Datadog in the third quarter worth $27,000. EMC Capital Management bought a new position in shares of Datadog during the second quarter worth $28,000. NBC Securities Inc. grew its stake in Datadog by 242.6% during the fourth quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 233 shares of the company’s stock valued at $32,000 after acquiring an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC grew its stake in Datadog by 52.5% during the fourth quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 273 shares of the company’s stock valued at $37,000 after acquiring an additional 94 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Datadog by 341.7% in the 1st quarter. Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC now owns 318 shares of the company’s stock valued at $38,000 after acquiring an additional 246 shares during the last quarter. 78.29% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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.