Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.410-0.430 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.450. The company issued revenue guidance of $737.0 million-$741.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $739.9 million. Datadog also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 1.650-1.700 EPS.

Datadog Price Performance

Shares of Datadog stock opened at $131.01 on Friday. Datadog has a fifty-two week low of $98.80 and a fifty-two week high of $170.08. The firm has a market capitalization of $44.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 247.19, a P/E/G ratio of 16.83 and a beta of 1.15. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $145.85 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $130.93.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.13 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.44 by ($0.31). Datadog had a net margin of 7.58% and a return on equity of 9.41%. On average, analysts expect that Datadog will post 0.53 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Barclays dropped their price target on shares of Datadog from $187.00 to $180.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday. Monness Crespi & Hardt raised shares of Datadog from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $155.00 price target for the company in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Stifel Nicolaus downgraded shares of Datadog from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price target for the company from $165.00 to $140.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 29th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and set a $160.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a research note on Friday. Finally, TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating and set a $165.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a research note on Tuesday, November 19th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating, twenty-three have issued a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $158.39.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Datadog news, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 178,723 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction dated 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 owns 379,693 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $61,236,887.04. The trade was a 32.01 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 127,105 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $142.78, for a total transaction of $18,148,051.90. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 324,778 shares in the company, valued at approximately $46,371,802.84. This represents a 28.13 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 627,586 shares of company stock worth $92,540,479. 11.78% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.