Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Sells $2,534,600.00 in Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Amit Agarwal sold 20,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, March 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $126.73, for a total value of $2,534,600.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 1,640 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $207,837.20. This trade represents a 92.42% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink.

Amit Agarwal also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Monday, March 9th, Amit Agarwal sold 20,000 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $124.81, for a total value of $2,496,200.00.

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of DDOG traded up $2.39 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $131.26. The stock had a trading volume of 3,451,748 shares, compared to its average volume of 6,069,785. Datadog, Inc. has a 52 week low of $81.63 and a 52 week high of $201.69. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a current ratio of 3.38 and a quick ratio of 3.38. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $122.76 and a 200-day moving average price of $141.63. The firm has a market cap of $46.28 billion, a P/E ratio of 423.42, a PEG ratio of 34.79 and a beta of 1.31.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last posted its quarterly earnings results 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. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.14% and a net margin of 3.14%.The company had revenue of $953.19 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $916.53 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.49 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 29.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.080-2.160 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.490-0.510 EPS. On average, equities research analysts expect that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts have issued reports on the company. UBS Group set a $195.00 target price on Datadog in a research report on Monday, February 9th. Moffett Nathanson reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Wall Street Zen cut Datadog from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, January 17th. TD Cowen restated a “buy” rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, Evercore decreased their price target on Datadog from $215.00 to $175.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, February 2nd. Thirty-six research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $179.62.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Datadog

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Osbon Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in Datadog during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $116,000. World Investment Advisors increased its holdings in shares of Datadog by 27.6% in the 4th quarter. World Investment Advisors now owns 3,141 shares of the company’s stock worth $427,000 after buying an additional 679 shares during the last quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC raised its position in shares of Datadog by 51.6% during the 4th quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 24,356 shares of the company’s stock valued at $3,300,000 after buying an additional 8,292 shares in the last quarter. Employees Provident Fund Board bought a new stake in shares of Datadog during the 4th quarter worth $251,582,000. Finally, Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd purchased a new position in Datadog in the fourth quarter worth $229,000. 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.