Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Price Target Raised to $325.00

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) had its price objective raised by Wells Fargo & Company from $295.00 to $325.00 in a research report released on Wednesday morning,Benzinga reports. The brokerage currently has an overweight rating on the stock.

Other analysts also recently issued reports about the stock. Guggenheim upped their price objective on shares of Datadog from $225.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on shares of Datadog from $225.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. KeyCorp raised their target price on shares of Datadog from $225.00 to $320.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, July 16th. TD Cowen restated a “buy” rating on shares of Datadog in a research report on Monday. Finally, Zacks Research lowered shares of Datadog from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, August 17th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have assigned a Buy rating, three have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Datadog currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $287.22.

Datadog Trading Down 11.5%

Shares of NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $235.27 on Wednesday. Datadog has a 52-week low of $98.01 and a 52-week high of $300.68. The stock has a market cap of $84.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 480.15, a PEG ratio of 25.95 and a beta of 1.51. The company has a quick ratio of 3.20, a current ratio of 3.20 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $251.27 and a 200-day moving average price of $198.14.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last released its earnings results on Thursday, August 6th. The company reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.58 by $0.07. The firm had revenue of $1.12 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.08 billion. Datadog had a return on equity of 5.67% and a net margin of 4.48%. The company’s revenue was up 35.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.46 earnings per share. Datadog has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 0.630-0.650 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 2.500-2.540 EPS. Equities analysts predict that Datadog will post 0.70 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Datadog

In other news, CRO Sean Walters sold 11,710 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $221.04, for a total transaction of $2,588,378.40. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive directly owned 233,135 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $51,532,160.40. The trade was a 4.78% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 43,224 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, October 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $278.90, for a total transaction of $12,055,173.60. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 488,033 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $136,112,403.70. This trade represents a 8.14% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 904,934 shares of company stock worth $220,279,519. 6.48% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. 3Chopt Investment Partners LLC increased its stake in shares of Datadog by 16.1% in the 3rd quarter. 3Chopt Investment Partners LLC now owns 909 shares of the company’s stock worth $249,000 after acquiring an additional 126 shares during the last quarter. Rakuten Investment Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 11.4% during the 3rd quarter. Rakuten Investment Management Inc. now owns 87,823 shares of the company’s stock worth $23,586,000 after acquiring an additional 8,955 shares during the period. AIA Group Ltd boosted its position in shares of Datadog by 11.5% during the 3rd quarter. AIA Group Ltd now owns 34,900 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,557,000 after acquiring an additional 3,600 shares during the last quarter. Provenance Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its position in shares of Datadog by 482.7% during the 3rd quarter. Provenance Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 5,926 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,623,000 after acquiring an additional 4,909 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund boosted its position in shares of Datadog by 1.5% during the 3rd quarter. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund now owns 41,222 shares of the company’s stock valued at $11,289,000 after acquiring an additional 610 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Key Datadog News

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog was named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q4 2026. The recognition highlights its AI-powered observability platform and Bits AI capabilities for detecting, investigating and remediating operational issues, potentially strengthening its competitive position. Datadog Named a Leader in AIOps Platforms Research
• Positive Sentiment: A Wells Fargo analyst reportedly expects Datadog’s stock price to rise, providing some analyst support ahead of the company’s upcoming results. Datadog Stock Price Expected to Rise
• Neutral Sentiment: Wall Street is concentrating on Datadog’s third-quarter 2026 metrics, including revenue growth, customer additions, usage trends and profitability. The company’s latest reported quarter showed revenue growth of 35.6% year over year and adjusted EPS above expectations, but investors are likely demanding continued strength. Datadog Q3 Earnings Projections
• Negative Sentiment: Datadog fell alongside other cybersecurity and technology software stocks even as a major Binance cryptocurrency theft underscored demand for digital-security products. The move suggests broad market and sector selling, rather than a deterioration in Datadog’s fundamentals, is currently dominating trading. Datadog and Cybersecurity Stocks Fall
• Negative Sentiment: CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 43,224 shares worth approximately $12.1 million. The transaction was made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, which reduces its significance as a discretionary bearish signal, although insider selling can still weigh on sentiment. SEC Insider Trading Filing

About Datadog

Datadog, Inc is a technology company that provides a cloud-based monitoring and security platform for applications, infrastructure and other technology environments. Its platform helps organizations collect, analyze and visualize data from servers, databases, containers, cloud services, applications and user interactions in a unified environment.

Datadog’s products include infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, network performance monitoring, cloud security, software delivery tools and incident-management capabilities.