Research Analysts Issue Forecasts for Datadog Q4 Earnings

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) – Capital One Financial boosted their Q4 2025 EPS estimates for shares of Datadog in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, January 15th. Capital One Financial analyst C. Murphy now expects that the company will post earnings of $0.23 per share for the quarter, up from their prior forecast of $0.21. The consensus estimate for Datadog’s current full-year earnings is $0.52 per share.

DDOG has been the subject of several other research reports. Robert W. Baird raised their price target on shares of Datadog from $140.00 to $150.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, November 8th. Loop Capital lifted their target price on Datadog from $160.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, December 23rd. BMO Capital Markets boosted their price objective on shares of Datadog from $135.00 to $145.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 8th. Barclays upped their price objective on Datadog from $155.00 to $187.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, December 6th. Finally, BNP Paribas assumed coverage on Datadog in a research note on Tuesday, October 8th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $150.00 price target for the company. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating, twenty-six have issued a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $156.97.

Datadog Stock Performance

NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $140.95 on Thursday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $145.36 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $128.42. The firm has a market cap of $47.88 billion, a P/E ratio of 265.95, a P/E/G ratio of 19.82 and a beta of 1.14. Datadog has a fifty-two week low of $98.80 and a fifty-two week high of $170.08.

Insider Transactions at Datadog

In other Datadog news, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 178,723 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction on Monday, December 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $161.28, for a total value of $28,824,445.44. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 379,693 shares in the company, valued at approximately $61,236,887.04. The trade was a 32.01 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director Matthew Jacobson sold 3,393 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $125.03, for a total transaction of $424,226.79. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 695,086 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $86,906,602.58. This trade represents a 0.49 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 609,763 shares of company stock valued at $87,543,649. 11.78% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Trading of Datadog

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Jackson Square Capital LLC purchased a new position in shares of Datadog in the fourth quarter valued at $1,116,000. HB Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Datadog by 20.0% in the 4th quarter. HB Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,428 shares of the company’s stock worth $347,000 after buying an additional 404 shares in the last quarter. Retirement Wealth Solutions LLC bought a new stake in shares of Datadog in the 4th quarter worth about $30,000. Merit Financial Group LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Datadog during the 4th quarter valued at about $343,000. Finally, Avanza Fonder AB bought a new position in shares of Datadog in the 4th quarter valued at about $3,065,000. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

About Datadog

Datadog, Inc operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data streams and universal service monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility.