Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Titilope Cole Sells 5,131 Shares of Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Titilope Cole sold 5,131 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $247.87, for a total value of $1,271,820.97. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 1,216 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $301,409.92. This trade represents a 80.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink.

Datadog Trading Down 1.0%

NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $231.68 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25, a current ratio of 3.40 and a quick ratio of 3.40. The firm has a market capitalization of $82.47 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 609.70, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 25.07 and a beta of 1.56. Datadog, Inc. has a one year low of $98.01 and a one year high of $278.70. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $169.25 and a 200-day moving average price of $145.42.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $1.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $960.12 million. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.83% and a net margin of 3.69%.Datadog’s revenue was up 32.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.46 EPS. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.360-2.440 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.570-0.590 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 30.3% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 41,902,227 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,966,877,000 after purchasing an additional 9,748,738 shares during the last quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD boosted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 7.1% during the 4th quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 14,423,814 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,961,496,000 after purchasing an additional 956,993 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 106.8% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 13,732,777 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,955,547,000 after purchasing an additional 7,091,075 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 2.2% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 9,056,086 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,227,184,000 after purchasing an additional 197,816 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Janus Henderson Group PLC boosted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 22.8% during the 1st quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC now owns 7,749,569 shares of the company’s stock valued at $905,570,000 after purchasing an additional 1,439,082 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

DDOG has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Robert W. Baird set a $210.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a report on Friday, May 8th. Guggenheim upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $175.00 to $225.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 7th. UBS Group upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $219.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. Finally, Truist Financial upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $120.00 to $190.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, May 7th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have issued a Buy rating, one has assigned a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Datadog currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $220.17.

Key Headlines Impacting Datadog

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Bank of America raised its price target on Datadog to $280 from $260 and reiterated a Buy rating, implying meaningful upside from recent trading levels. Benzinga article
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple analyst-writeups this morning highlighted Datadog as a buy candidate, reinforcing the view that Wall Street remains constructive on the company’s growth outlook. Zacks article
• Neutral Sentiment: A Yahoo Finance preview says investors should “mark their calendars for June 9,” suggesting an upcoming catalyst or event that could move the stock, though the article details are not yet clear. Yahoo Finance article
• Neutral Sentiment: Recent commentary has emphasized Datadog’s strong year-to-date rally and improved growth narrative after its beat-and-raise earnings report, which continues to support the stock’s premium valuation. Seeking Alpha article
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling has been a drag on sentiment: Director Titilope Cole sold 5,131 shares, cutting her stake by more than 80%, adding to a cluster of recent executive sales at Datadog. SEC filing

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.