Left Brain Wealth Management LLC Buys 5,196 Shares of Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Left Brain Wealth Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 308.4% during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 6,881 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 5,196 shares during the period. Left Brain Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Datadog were worth $1,884,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the stock. EMC Capital Management bought a new stake in Datadog during the second quarter worth $28,000. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC lifted its stake in Datadog by 54.9% during the 2nd quarter. Cornerstone Financial Management LLC now owns 127 shares of the company’s stock valued at $33,000 after acquiring an additional 45 shares in the last quarter. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC boosted its holdings in Datadog by 2,700.0% during the 2nd quarter. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC now owns 168 shares of the company’s stock worth $44,000 after acquiring an additional 162 shares during the last quarter. Armstrong Advisory Group Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Datadog in the 3rd quarter worth $46,000. Finally, Planning Strategies Inc. grew its stake in shares of Datadog by 529.6% in the 3rd quarter. Planning Strategies Inc. now owns 170 shares of the company’s stock worth $47,000 after acquiring an additional 143 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about Datadog

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q4 2026. The recognition highlights its AI-powered observability platform and Bits AI capabilities for detecting, investigating and remediating operational issues, potentially strengthening its competitive position. Datadog Named a Leader in AIOps Platforms Research
• Positive Sentiment: A Wells Fargo analyst reportedly expects Datadog’s stock price to rise, providing some analyst support ahead of the company’s upcoming results. Datadog Stock Price Expected to Rise
• Neutral Sentiment: Wall Street is concentrating on Datadog’s third-quarter 2026 metrics, including revenue growth, customer additions, usage trends and profitability. The company’s latest reported quarter showed revenue growth of 35.6% year over year and adjusted EPS above expectations, but investors are likely demanding continued strength. Datadog Q3 Earnings Projections
• Negative Sentiment: Datadog fell alongside other cybersecurity and technology software stocks even as a major Binance cryptocurrency theft underscored demand for digital-security products. The move suggests broad market and sector selling, rather than a deterioration in Datadog’s fundamentals, is currently dominating trading. Datadog and Cybersecurity Stocks Fall
• Negative Sentiment: CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 43,224 shares worth approximately $12.1 million. The transaction was made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, which reduces its significance as a discretionary bearish signal, although insider selling can still weigh on sentiment. SEC Insider Trading Filing

Datadog Stock Down 11.5%

Datadog stock opened at $235.27 on Friday. Datadog, Inc. has a 1-year low of $98.01 and a 1-year high of $300.68. The firm has a market capitalization of $84.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 480.15, a P/E/G ratio of 25.95 and a beta of 1.51. The company has a current ratio of 3.20, a quick ratio of 3.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $251.27 and a 200 day simple moving average of $198.14.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, August 6th. The company reported $0.65 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.58 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $1.12 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.08 billion. Datadog had a net margin of 4.48% and a return on equity of 5.67%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 35.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.46 EPS. 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, analysts predict that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.70 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity

In other Datadog news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, September 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $227.02, for a total value of $12,239,102.24. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 509,805 shares in the company, valued at $115,735,931.10. This trade represents a 9.56% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 127,141 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $286.71, for a total value of $36,452,596.11. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 612,747 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $175,680,692.37. This represents a 17.18% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last three months, insiders sold 904,934 shares of company stock worth $220,279,519. 6.48% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts have recently commented on the stock. Oppenheimer increased their target price on shares of Datadog from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday. Wells Fargo & Company boosted their price target on shares of Datadog from $295.00 to $325.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday. Needham & Company LLC upped their price objective on shares of Datadog from $260.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, August 7th. Canaccord Genuity Group upped their price objective on shares of Datadog from $250.00 to $295.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, August 4th. Finally, Benchmark reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have given a Buy rating, three have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $287.22.

Datadog Profile

Datadog, Inc is a technology company that provides a cloud-based monitoring and security platform for applications, infrastructure and other technology environments. Its platform helps organizations collect, analyze and visualize data from servers, databases, containers, cloud services, applications and user interactions in a unified environment.

Datadog’s products include infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, network performance monitoring, cloud security, software delivery tools and incident-management capabilities.