GF Fund Management CO. LTD. Has $9.34 Million Holdings in Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

GF Fund Management CO. LTD. raised its holdings in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 7.9% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 68,647 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 5,015 shares during the quarter. GF Fund Management CO. LTD.’s holdings in Datadog were worth $9,335,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors also recently modified their holdings of DDOG. Rothschild Investment LLC lifted 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 worth $25,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 315.2% during the third quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 191 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 145 shares during the last quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 74.3% during the third quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. now owns 176 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 75 shares during the last quarter. JPL Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Datadog during the third quarter worth approximately $27,000. Finally, Tripletail Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Datadog in the third quarter valued at $28,000. 78.29% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Datadog news, CRO Sean Michael Walters sold 22,330 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $125.68, for a total value of $2,806,434.40. Following the sale, the executive directly owned 238,384 shares in the company, valued at $29,960,101.12. This represents a 8.56% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 32,300 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, April 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $116.46, for a total value of $3,761,658.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer owned 531,311 shares in the company, valued at $61,876,479.06. This trade represents a 5.73% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 523,833 shares of company stock valued at $63,581,080. 6.67% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

DDOG has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Wolfe Research cut their target price on Datadog from $185.00 to $160.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, February 10th. Robert W. Baird set a $180.00 target price on Datadog in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Moffett Nathanson restated a “buy” rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Monday, December 29th. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, Raymond James Financial cut their target price on Datadog from $205.00 to $170.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, February 10th. Thirty-eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $179.95.

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $126.61 on Friday. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $119.97 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $138.75. Datadog, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $87.69 and a fifty-two week high of $201.69. The stock has a market capitalization of $44.64 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 408.42, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 33.94 and a beta of 1.29. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a current ratio of 3.38 and a quick ratio of 3.38.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.55 by $0.04. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.14% and a net margin of 3.14%.The firm had revenue of $953.19 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $916.53 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.49 earnings per share. The business’s revenue 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, analysts predict that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 EPS for the current fiscal year.

About Datadog

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.