Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) CEO Olivier Pomel Sells 127,141 Shares

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) CEO Olivier Pomel sold 127,141 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction on Monday, June 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.69, for a total transaction of $29,457,298.29. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 612,747 shares in the company, valued at approximately $141,967,352.43. This trade represents a 17.18% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Olivier Pomel also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, June 2nd, Olivier Pomel sold 26,012 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $267.15, for a total transaction of $6,949,105.80.
• On Tuesday, May 26th, Olivier Pomel sold 84,698 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $223.58, for a total transaction of $18,936,778.84.
• On Monday, May 11th, Olivier Pomel sold 127,141 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $199.84, for a total transaction of $25,407,857.44.
• On Thursday, April 9th, Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $111.14, for a total transaction of $4,717,115.02.
• On Monday, March 16th, Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $126.80, for a total transaction of $5,381,772.40.

Datadog Trading Up 0.1%

Shares of DDOG stock opened at $227.63 on Thursday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $173.74 and its 200-day moving average price is $146.26. The company has a current ratio of 3.40, a quick ratio of 3.40 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25. The stock has a market cap of $81.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 599.04, a PEG ratio of 24.34 and a beta of 1.56. Datadog, Inc. has a twelve month low of $98.01 and a twelve month high of $278.70.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $960.12 million. Datadog had a net margin of 3.69% and a return on equity of 4.83%. The company’s revenue was up 32.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company 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. As a group, equities analysts predict that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on DDOG. CICC Research boosted their price target on shares of Datadog from $150.00 to $204.00 in a research report on Monday, May 11th. Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Datadog in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. BMO Capital Markets boosted their price target on shares of Datadog from $165.00 to $220.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 8th. Sanford C. Bernstein upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $167.00 to $180.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 8th. Finally, Scotiabank upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $160.00 to $225.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, May 8th. One research 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 issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $225.52.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of DDOG. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in Datadog by 30.3% in the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 41,902,227 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,966,877,000 after buying an additional 9,748,738 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp lifted its position in Datadog by 106.8% in the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 13,732,777 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,955,547,000 after buying an additional 7,091,075 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in Datadog during the fourth quarter worth about $469,461,000. Jennison Associates LLC lifted its position in shares of Datadog by 43.7% during the fourth quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 7,623,993 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,036,787,000 after purchasing an additional 2,316,994 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its position in shares of Datadog by 119.2% during the third quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 4,075,721 shares of the company’s stock worth $580,383,000 after purchasing an additional 2,216,402 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about Datadog

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog unveiled 100+ new AI, observability and security capabilities at its DASH 2026 event, including major upgrades to Bits AI, AI Guard, Bring Your Own Cloud, Bits Agent Builder and Agent Console. The new tools deepen Datadog’s AI platform story and could support stronger adoption and revenue growth. GlobeNewswire article
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts turned more constructive after the launch, with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce raising its target to $280 and Evercore lifting its target to $265, while RBC reaffirmed an outperform view. Higher targets can reinforce the market’s growth expectations for DDOG. Benzinga article
• Positive Sentiment: Coverage in the financial press said Datadog’s agentic AI push is winning Wall Street support, with analysts seeing more upside as the company expands into autonomous operations and AI security. Yahoo Finance article
• Neutral Sentiment: Datadog’s strong revenue growth and recent beat-and-raise quarter continue to underpin the stock’s premium valuation, but the shares already reflect high expectations after a big run. Yahoo Finance article
• Negative Sentiment: Heavy insider selling may temper enthusiasm: CEO Olivier Pomel and CFO David M. Obstler both sold large blocks of stock under pre-arranged 10b5-1 plans, adding to a pattern of recent insider sales at Datadog. SEC filing
• Negative Sentiment: A prior director sale also added to the overhang, reinforcing concerns that insiders may be taking advantage of the stock’s strong rally. 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.