Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Amit Agarwal Sells 20,000 Shares

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) Director Amit Agarwal sold 20,000 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction on Monday, March 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $127.36, for a total transaction of $2,547,200.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 1,640 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $208,870.40. This represents a 92.42% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link.

Amit Agarwal also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Monday, March 16th, Amit Agarwal sold 20,000 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $126.73, for a total transaction of $2,534,600.00.
• On Monday, March 9th, Amit Agarwal sold 20,000 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $124.81, for a total value of $2,496,200.00.

Datadog Trading Up 0.6%

Shares of DDOG stock traded up $0.72 during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $123.29. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 3,546,928 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,973,350. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $122.53 and its 200-day simple moving average is $141.39. Datadog, Inc. has a 52 week low of $81.63 and a 52 week high of $201.69. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a quick ratio of 3.38 and a current ratio of 3.38. The company has a market cap of $43.47 billion, a PE ratio of 397.71, a P/E/G ratio of 35.52 and a beta of 1.31.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported $0.59 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.55 by $0.04. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.14% and a net margin of 3.14%.The company had revenue of $953.19 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $916.53 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.49 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 29.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.080-2.160 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.490-0.510 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

DDOG has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Robert W. Baird set a $180.00 price objective on shares of Datadog in a research report on Wednesday, February 11th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $160.00 target price on shares of Datadog and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 22nd. Needham & Company LLC cut their target price on shares of Datadog from $220.00 to $155.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, February 10th. Evercore reduced their price target on shares of Datadog from $215.00 to $175.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Monday, February 2nd. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald decreased their price target on shares of Datadog from $220.00 to $150.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Thirty-six investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Datadog has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $179.62.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Rothschild Investment LLC grew its holdings in shares of Datadog by 126.6% during the third quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 179 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 315.2% in the 3rd quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 191 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 145 shares during the last quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. lifted its position in Datadog by 74.3% in the 3rd quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. now owns 176 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after acquiring an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. JPL Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in Datadog in the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, Tripletail Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the 3rd quarter valued at about $28,000. 78.29% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

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.