Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd Sells 9,100 Shares of Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd lessened its holdings in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 29.1% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 22,130 shares of the company’s stock after selling 9,100 shares during the period. Hel Ved Capital Management Ltd’s holdings in Datadog were worth $3,151,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of the business. First Trust Advisors LP raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 6.2% in the third quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 1,899,851 shares of the company’s stock worth $270,539,000 after buying an additional 111,093 shares during the period. Neuberger Berman Group LLC grew its position in Datadog by 13.1% in the 3rd quarter. Neuberger Berman Group LLC now owns 529,779 shares of the company’s stock valued at $75,440,000 after acquiring an additional 61,160 shares during the last quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC increased its stake in Datadog by 25.2% in the third quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC now owns 8,113 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,155,000 after purchasing an additional 1,634 shares during the period. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. lifted its position in shares of Datadog by 47.9% during the third quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. now owns 5,244 shares of the company’s stock worth $747,000 after purchasing an additional 1,699 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Leeward Financial Partners LLC lifted its position in shares of Datadog by 17.8% during the third quarter. Leeward Financial Partners LLC now owns 1,835 shares of the company’s stock worth $261,000 after purchasing an additional 277 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research analysts recently commented on the stock. Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of Datadog from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, January 17th. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on shares of Datadog from $165.00 to $180.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 7th. DA Davidson reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $225.00 price target on shares of Datadog in a report on Tuesday, February 17th. Capital One Financial increased their price objective on Datadog from $156.00 to $157.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lifted their target price on Datadog from $190.00 to $230.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 7th. Thirty-six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, Datadog presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $179.62.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 43,106 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $126.79, for a total transaction of $5,465,409.74. Following the sale, the chief technology officer owned 490,798 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $62,228,278.42. This trade represents a 8.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 68,922 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $110.54, for a total value of $7,618,637.88. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 704,821 shares in the company, valued at $77,910,913.34. This trade represents a 8.91% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold 292,993 shares of company stock worth $38,734,569 in the last three months. 8.70% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Datadog Price Performance

NASDAQ DDOG opened at $125.75 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $44.34 billion, a PE ratio of 405.65, a P/E/G ratio of 33.63 and a beta of 1.31. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $124.08 and its 200-day moving average price is $141.71. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a quick ratio of 3.38 and a current ratio of 3.38. Datadog, Inc. has a 52-week low of $81.63 and a 52-week high of $201.69.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported $0.59 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.55 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $953.19 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $916.53 million. Datadog had a net margin of 3.14% and a return on equity of 4.14%. Datadog’s revenue for the quarter was up 29.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.49 earnings per share. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.080-2.160 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.490-0.510 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.