Yanbing Li Sells 12,700 Shares of Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) insider Yanbing Li sold 12,700 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $221.26, for a total transaction of $2,810,002.00. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 250,446 shares in the company, valued at approximately $55,413,681.96. This trade represents a 4.83% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

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

• On Wednesday, September 2nd, Yanbing Li sold 11,206 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $212.90, for a total transaction of $2,385,757.40.

Datadog Trading Up 0.1%

Shares of Datadog stock traded up $0.22 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $230.27. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 4,019,745 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,434,902. The business has a fifty day moving average of $245.08 and a 200 day moving average of $198.22. Datadog, Inc. has a 1-year low of $98.01 and a 1-year high of $292.72. 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 company has a market capitalization of $82.68 billion, a PE ratio of 469.95, a P/E/G ratio of 21.48 and a beta of 1.49.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, August 6th. The company reported $0.65 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.58 by $0.07. Datadog had a net margin of 4.48% and a return on equity of 5.67%. The business had revenue of $1.12 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.08 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.46 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 35.6% on a year-over-year basis. Datadog has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 0.630-0.650 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 2.500-2.540 EPS. As a group, equities analysts forecast that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.71 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Trading of Datadog

Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Revere Asset Management Inc acquired a new position in Datadog during the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $2,752,000. Tidal Investments LLC lifted its stake in Datadog by 17.4% in the second quarter. Tidal Investments LLC now owns 94,299 shares of the company’s stock valued at $24,552,000 after buying an additional 13,977 shares during the last quarter. BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd boosted its holdings in shares of Datadog by 30.2% during the second quarter. BlueCrest Capital Management Ltd now owns 6,771 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,763,000 after acquiring an additional 1,571 shares during the period. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Datadog during the second quarter worth about $297,000. Finally, NorthRock Partners LLC bought a new position in shares of Datadog during the second quarter worth about $220,000. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

DDOG has been the topic of several research reports. Zacks Research cut Datadog from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, August 17th. Mizuho raised their price objective on Datadog from $220.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Evercore lifted their price objective on shares of Datadog from $225.00 to $265.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, June 10th. Citigroup boosted their target price on shares of Datadog from $300.00 to $305.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, August 7th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company increased their target price on shares of Datadog from $230.00 to $295.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-eight have given a Buy rating, four have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $276.66.

Datadog Company Profile

Datadog, Inc (NASDAQ:DDOG) is a cloud-based software company that provides monitoring, observability, security and analytics tools for modern applications and information technology environments. Its platform helps organizations collect, correlate and analyze data from servers, databases, applications, containers, networks and cloud services in a unified environment.

The company’s products include infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user and synthetic monitoring, database monitoring, cloud security, software delivery tools, incident management and cloud cost management.