Swiss Life Asset Management Ltd Has $6.89 Million Stock Holdings in Datadog, Inc. $DDOG

Swiss Life Asset Management Ltd raised its stake in shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 80.2% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 50,695 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 22,569 shares during the period. Swiss Life Asset Management Ltd’s holdings in Datadog were worth $6,894,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the stock. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. grew its holdings in shares of Datadog by 11.1% during the 4th quarter. ABN AMRO Bank N.V. now owns 44,820 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,091,000 after acquiring an additional 4,483 shares in the last quarter. Plato Investment Management Ltd raised its holdings in shares of Datadog by 119.9% during the fourth quarter. Plato Investment Management Ltd now owns 10,988 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,502,000 after acquiring an additional 5,991 shares in the last quarter. NewEdge Wealth LLC boosted its position in Datadog by 385.8% during the fourth quarter. NewEdge Wealth LLC now owns 34,085 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,635,000 after purchasing an additional 27,069 shares during the last quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. grew its stake in Datadog by 90.1% in the fourth quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. now owns 9,967 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,355,000 after purchasing an additional 4,723 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Ethic Inc. grew its stake in Datadog by 14.0% in the fourth quarter. Ethic Inc. now owns 31,958 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,346,000 after purchasing an additional 3,931 shares in the last quarter. 78.29% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Datadog Stock Up 2.7%

Shares of DDOG stock opened at $205.31 on Thursday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $131.57 and its 200 day simple moving average is $138.28. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25, a quick ratio of 3.40 and a current ratio of 3.40. Datadog, Inc. has a twelve month low of $98.01 and a twelve month high of $205.44. The company has a market capitalization of $72.39 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 540.30, a PEG ratio of 69.16 and a beta of 1.30.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.51 by $0.09. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.83% and a net margin of 3.69%.The firm had revenue of $1.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $960.12 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.46 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was up 32.1% on a year-over-year basis. 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, research analysts predict that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.33 EPS for the current year.

Trending Headlines about Datadog

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog’s latest earnings report beat expectations on both revenue and profit, while management’s raised outlook signaled continued momentum in demand. DDOG Q1 Deep Dive: AI Adoption and Product Expansion Drive Strong Growth
• Positive Sentiment: Several analysts turned more constructive after earnings, including Daiwa Securities raising its price target to $240 and other firms reiterating buy-equivalent views, which supports the stock’s valuation. MarketScreener
• Positive Sentiment: Recent commentary has framed Datadog as an AI winner rather than a SaaS laggard, helping sentiment and trading interest in DDOG. Barchart
• Neutral Sentiment: Datadog also announced upcoming investor conference presentations, which may keep the stock in focus but does not change fundamentals by itself. Datadog to Present at Upcoming Investor Conference
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple insiders, including the CEO and directors, sold shares recently under 10b5-1 plans. While routine, the cluster of sales could temper some investor enthusiasm. SEC filing

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Monday, April 20th. UBS Group boosted their price target on Datadog from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, May 8th. Canaccord Genuity Group set a $225.00 price objective on shares of Datadog in a research report on Friday, May 8th. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their target price on shares of Datadog from $121.00 to $139.00 and gave the company a “sell” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Finally, Oppenheimer boosted their target price on shares of Datadog from $200.00 to $220.00 in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have given a Buy rating, one has issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Datadog presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $213.38.

Insider Buying and Selling at Datadog

In other Datadog news, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 127,141 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, May 11th. The shares were 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 owned 835,679 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $167,002,091.36. The trade was a 13.21% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider Yanbing Li sold 19,834 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $197.35, for a total value of $3,914,239.90. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 285,283 shares in the company, valued at approximately $56,300,600.05. This represents a 6.50% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold 842,739 shares of company stock worth $121,023,123 in the last quarter. 6.48% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

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.