Square Peg Capital PTY Ltd. Has $15.63 Million Position in Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Square Peg Capital PTY Ltd. trimmed its holdings in Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 3.1% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 114,920 shares of the company’s stock after selling 3,706 shares during the quarter. Datadog comprises 15.6% of Square Peg Capital PTY Ltd.’s portfolio, making the stock its 2nd largest holding. Square Peg Capital PTY Ltd.’s holdings in Datadog were worth $15,628,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Elevation Point Wealth Partners LLC increased its position in Datadog by 3.3% during the third quarter. Elevation Point Wealth Partners LLC now owns 1,697 shares of the company’s stock worth $242,000 after buying an additional 55 shares during the last quarter. Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC increased its position in Datadog by 1.6% during the fourth quarter. Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC now owns 4,778 shares of the company’s stock worth $622,000 after buying an additional 73 shares during the last quarter. Vivaldi Capital Management LP increased its position in Datadog by 2.8% during the third quarter. Vivaldi Capital Management LP now owns 2,689 shares of the company’s stock worth $383,000 after buying an additional 74 shares during the last quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC increased its position in Datadog by 2.0% during the fourth quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 3,892 shares of the company’s stock worth $529,000 after buying an additional 78 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Roberts Wealth Advisors LLC increased its position in Datadog by 0.6% during the fourth quarter. Roberts Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 14,041 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,909,000 after buying an additional 81 shares during the last quarter. 78.29% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Datadog Trading Down 1.9%

Shares of NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $229.90 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $81.84 billion, a P/E ratio of 605.02, a P/E/G ratio of 25.08 and a beta of 1.56. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $178.29 and its 200-day moving average is $147.38. Datadog, Inc. has a 52-week low of $98.01 and a 52-week high of $278.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25, a quick ratio of 3.40 and a current ratio of 3.40.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. The company had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $960.12 million. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.83% and a net margin of 3.69%.The firm’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. Equities research analysts predict that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current year.

Key Stories Impacting Datadog

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

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Dev Ittycheria sold 120,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated 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 completion of the sale, the director owned 39,235 shares in the company, valued at approximately $9,760,883.30. This trade represents a 75.36% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, COO Adam Blitzer sold 12,202 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $249.29, for a total transaction of $3,041,836.58. Following the completion of the sale, the chief operating officer owned 263,771 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $65,755,472.59. The trade was a 4.42% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. 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. Insiders have sold 1,272,556 shares of company stock valued at $252,615,825 in the last quarter. 6.48% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts have commented on DDOG shares. Citizens Jmp raised shares of Datadog from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $225.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Evercore increased their target price on shares of Datadog from $225.00 to $265.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $250.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a research report on Wednesday. CICC Research increased their target price on shares of Datadog from $150.00 to $204.00 in a research report on Monday, May 11th. Finally, Morgan Stanley increased their target price on shares of Datadog from $180.00 to $225.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, May 8th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have issued a Buy rating, two have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Datadog has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $231.64.

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.