Insider Selling: Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Insider Sells 11,070 Shares of Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) insider Yanbing Li sold 11,070 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $267.15, for a total transaction of $2,957,350.50. Following the completion of the sale, the insider owned 274,352 shares in the company, valued at $73,293,136.80. The trade was a 3.88% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards.

Yanbing Li also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, May 8th, Yanbing Li sold 19,834 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $197.35, for a total transaction of $3,914,239.90.

Datadog Stock Down 2.7%

NASDAQ:DDOG traded down $6.73 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $243.60. 6,970,327 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,998,771. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $162.46 and a 200 day simple moving average of $144.24. Datadog, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $98.01 and a fifty-two week high of $278.70. 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 company has a market capitalization of $86.71 billion, a PE ratio of 641.07, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 28.82 and a beta of 1.56.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. Datadog had a net margin of 3.69% and a return on equity of 4.83%. The firm had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $960.12 million. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.46 EPS. Datadog’s revenue for the quarter was up 32.1% compared to the same quarter last year. 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 anticipate that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Datadog News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog was highlighted as one of the most upgraded software stocks last month, reinforcing Wall Street optimism around its growth outlook and the broader rebound in software names tied to AI adoption. 3 Most Upgraded Stocks Last Month According to MarketBeat (DDOG)
• Positive Sentiment: Recent commentary said software stocks are rebounding as investors view AI as a growth catalyst, which supports Datadog’s positioning in AI workload monitoring and observability. DDOG, ORCL, MSFT emerge as top software stock picks as the sector rebounds: report
• Positive Sentiment: A Seeking Alpha piece argued Datadog is becoming “too important to ignore,” citing Q1 2026 revenue of $761.6 million, 25% year-over-year growth, and expanding customer adoption across multiple product lines. Datadog Is Becoming Too Important To Ignore
• Neutral Sentiment: Management presented at the Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference, but no major new catalyst was identified in the headline provided. Datadog, Inc. (DDOG) Presents at Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference Transcript
• Neutral Sentiment: Datadog attracted heavy investor search interest on Zacks, but the item did not add a specific new business or financial update. Investors Heavily Search Datadog, Inc. (DDOG): Here is What You Need to Know
• Negative Sentiment: CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares and then another 21,506 shares in separate transactions, which can weigh on sentiment even though both sales were made under a pre-arranged 10b5-1 plan and for tax withholding tied to equity vesting. SEC insider filing

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Jefferies Financial Group set a $210.00 price objective on shares of Datadog and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. BMO Capital Markets lifted their target price on shares of Datadog from $165.00 to $220.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. Capital One Financial lowered their target price on shares of Datadog from $157.00 to $135.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, April 16th. Scotiabank lifted their target price on shares of Datadog from $160.00 to $225.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. Finally, UBS Group lifted their target price on shares of Datadog from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have issued a Buy rating, one has given a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $219.69.

Institutional Trading of Datadog

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Rothschild Investment LLC lifted its stake in shares of Datadog by 126.6% in the third quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 179 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 100 shares during the period. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. raised its position in 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 acquiring an additional 145 shares during the last quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. raised its position in 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 acquiring an additional 75 shares during the last quarter. JPL Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the third quarter worth about $27,000. Finally, CoreCap Advisors LLC raised its position in Datadog by 1,461.5% during the fourth quarter. CoreCap Advisors LLC now owns 203 shares of the company’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 190 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 78.29% 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.