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

Shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) have been given a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” by the forty-one research firms that are presently covering the firm, Marketbeat.com reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and thirty-five have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year target price among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is $190.7692.

DDOG has been the subject of several recent research reports. Evercore ISI raised their target price on shares of Datadog from $170.00 to $215.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday, November 6th. BMO Capital Markets reduced their price objective on Datadog from $215.00 to $170.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday. Oppenheimer upped their target price on Datadog from $165.00 to $195.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, October 17th. Raymond James Financial raised their target price on Datadog from $170.00 to $205.00 in a report on Thursday, November 6th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald boosted their price target on Datadog from $179.00 to $220.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, November 7th.

Insider Activity

In related news, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 11,195 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $137.93, for a total transaction of $1,544,126.35. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 518,133 shares in the company, valued at approximately $71,466,084.69. This trade represents a 2.11% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, COO Adam Blitzer sold 8,023 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $154.61, for a total transaction of $1,240,436.03. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer directly owned 165,197 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $25,541,108.17. The trade was a 4.63% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 1,071,709 shares of company stock valued at $192,590,597 in the last three months. Corporate insiders own 8.70% of the company’s stock.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Datadog

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of DDOG. Rothschild Investment LLC raised its stake in shares of Datadog by 126.6% during the 3rd quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 179 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the period. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. increased its holdings in Datadog by 315.2% in the 3rd quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 191 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 145 shares in the last quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. raised its position in Datadog by 74.3% during the third quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. now owns 176 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 75 shares during the period. JPL Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the third quarter worth $27,000. Finally, Tripletail Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in Datadog during the third quarter valued at $28,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Key Datadog News

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: The Iconic customer win highlights continued enterprise demand for Datadog’s monitoring platform, supporting recurring revenue growth. THE ICONIC boosts platform reliability with Datadog
• Positive Sentiment: Scotiabank continues to view DDOG as a “safe AI monitoring” play in the sector and kept an Outperform/sector-preferred stance, underlining confidence in Datadog’s strategic positioning despite the PT cut. Scotiabank Sees Datadog (DDOG) as Safe AI Monitoring Play
• Positive Sentiment: Recent analyst/market commentary and a video overview reiterate the high-growth SaaS narrative for Datadog, which can attract longer-term growth investors. Datadog (DDOG) stock analysis | High growth SaaS stock
• Neutral Sentiment: Daiwa issued a new rating on DDOG — the presence of fresh coverage can increase liquidity/attention but is neutral until details affect guidance or PTs. Datadog (DDOG) Receives a New Rating from Daiwa
• Neutral Sentiment: Coverage on “bullish DDOG notes” and possible shifts in Datadog’s AI-platform strategy flags investor interest in how the company leverages AI, but strategic details remain evolving. Are Bullish DDOG Notes Revealing a Deeper Shift
• Negative Sentiment: BMO cut its price target from $215 to $170 (while keeping an Outperform), which likely triggered short-term selling and contributed to downward momentum. DDOG: Price target lowered by BMO Capital Markets
• Negative Sentiment: Scotiabank trimmed its PT from $217 to $180 — even with a positive view, the PT cut reduces marginal upside for some investors and can pressure short-term sentiment. Scotiabank Issues Pessimistic Forecast for Datadog
• Negative Sentiment: Elevated trading volume and a spike in sell-side activity (reflected in today’s heavier-than-average volume) amplified downward price moves; reported short-interest data appears anomalous and not explanatory. (No link)

Datadog Stock Down 8.8%

Shares of DDOG stock opened at $128.18 on Friday. Datadog has a fifty-two week low of $81.63 and a fifty-two week high of $201.69. The firm has a market capitalization of $44.95 billion, a PE ratio of 413.48, a P/E/G ratio of 25.07 and a beta of 1.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.29, a quick ratio of 3.66 and a current ratio of 3.66. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $140.08 and its 200-day simple moving average is $145.40.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, November 6th. The company reported $0.55 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.45 by $0.10. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.14% and a net margin of 3.32%.The firm had revenue of $885.65 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $852.77 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.46 earnings per share. Datadog’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.4% on a year-over-year basis. Datadog has set its FY 2025 guidance at 2.000-2.020 EPS and its Q4 2025 guidance at 0.54-0.56 EPS. Equities analysts expect that Datadog will post 0.34 earnings per share for the current year.

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.