Key Points
- Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares on April 9 at an average price of $111.14 for a total of $4,717,115.02, reducing his stake by 4.83% to 835,679 shares; the transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
- Pomel has made additional sales this quarter — 42,443 shares on March 16 at $126.80 ($5.38M) and 68,922 shares on March 2 at $110.54 ($7.62M) — indicating ongoing insider selling activity.
- Datadog recently beat quarterly revenue and EPS estimates with revenue up 29.2% year-over-year and set FY2026 EPS guidance of 2.080–2.160; the stock trades below its 50- and 200-day averages and carries a high P/E, while analysts have an average rating of Moderate Buy with a $181.41 target.
Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG - Get Free Report) CEO Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $111.14, for a total transaction of $4,717,115.02. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 835,679 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $92,877,364.06. The trade was a 4.83% decrease in their position. 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.
Olivier Pomel also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Monday, March 16th, Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $126.80, for a total value of $5,381,772.40.
- On Monday, March 2nd, Olivier Pomel sold 68,922 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $110.54, for a total value of $7,618,637.88.
Datadog Trading Up 4.5%
Datadog stock opened at $110.08 on Tuesday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $119.41 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $139.32. The company has a quick ratio of 3.38, a current ratio of 3.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. Datadog, Inc. has a 12 month low of $87.69 and a 12 month high of $201.69. The stock has a market cap of $38.81 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 355.10, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 28.96 and a beta of 1.29.
Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.55 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $953.19 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $916.53 million. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.14% and a net margin of 3.14%.Datadog's revenue for the quarter was up 29.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last 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, equities analysts forecast that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 EPS for the current year.
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
DDOG has been the topic of several analyst reports. BTIG Research lowered their price target on shares of Datadog from $221.00 to $170.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 10th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $160.00 price objective on shares of Datadog and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, January 22nd. Mizuho decreased their target price on shares of Datadog from $200.00 to $170.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, January 21st. Moffett Nathanson reissued a "buy" rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Citigroup dropped their price target on shares of Datadog from $200.00 to $175.00 and set a "buy" rating for the company in a research report on Friday, January 16th. Thirty-eight research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Datadog has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $181.41.
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Institutional Inflows and Outflows
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in DDOG. Rothschild Investment LLC boosted its stake in shares of Datadog by 126.6% in the 3rd quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 179 shares of the company's stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. increased its position in shares of Datadog by 315.2% during the 3rd quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 191 shares of the company's stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 145 shares in the last quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. increased its position in shares of Datadog by 74.3% during the 3rd quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. now owns 176 shares of the company's stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. JPL Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in Datadog during the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, Tripletail Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in Datadog during the 3rd quarter valued at about $28,000. 78.29% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
About Datadog
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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.
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