Hantz Financial Services Inc. Sells 7,040 Shares of Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Hantz Financial Services Inc. decreased its holdings in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 13.6% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 44,694 shares of the company’s stock after selling 7,040 shares during the quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc.’s holdings in Datadog were worth $6,078,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Hartford Investment Management Co. bought a new stake in shares of Datadog during the 3rd quarter valued at $2,689,000. IQ EQ FUND MANAGEMENT IRELAND Ltd raised its position in shares of Datadog by 134.5% during the 3rd quarter. IQ EQ FUND MANAGEMENT IRELAND Ltd now owns 31,142 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,435,000 after acquiring an additional 17,860 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in shares of Datadog by 30.3% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 41,902,227 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,966,877,000 after acquiring an additional 9,748,738 shares during the last quarter. BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. raised its position in shares of Datadog by 71.3% during the 3rd quarter. BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. now owns 170,310 shares of the company’s stock valued at $24,288,000 after acquiring an additional 70,888 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Patton Fund Management Inc. raised its position in shares of Datadog by 1,964.8% during the 4th quarter. Patton Fund Management Inc. now owns 38,550 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,242,000 after acquiring an additional 36,683 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several analysts have commented on DDOG shares. TD Cowen upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $190.00 to $235.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $305.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Daiwa Securities Group upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $190.00 to $240.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 13th. BTIG Research upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $170.00 to $212.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group set a $210.00 target price on shares of Datadog and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have assigned a Buy rating, one has issued a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $213.98.

Datadog Price Performance

Shares of DDOG stock opened at $222.32 on Tuesday. Datadog, Inc. has a 12-month low of $98.01 and a 12-month high of $224.77. The firm has a market capitalization of $79.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 585.07, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 41.66 and a beta of 1.30. The company has a quick ratio of 3.40, a current ratio of 3.40 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $146.07 and a 200-day moving average of $141.40.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.51 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $1.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $960.12 million. Datadog had a net margin of 3.69% and a return on equity of 4.83%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 32.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $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. On average, equities research analysts forecast that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $125.49, for a total value of $6,765,416.88. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 437,257 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $54,871,380.93. This represents a 10.98% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 127,141 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, May 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $199.84, for a total transaction of $25,407,857.44. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 835,679 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $167,002,091.36. The trade was a 13.21% 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. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 885,963 shares of company stock valued at $130,015,444. Company insiders own 6.48% of the company’s stock.

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.