Datadog, Inc. $DDOG Shares Bought by Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd

Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd boosted its holdings in Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) by 24.0% in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 310,000 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 60,000 shares during the quarter. Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd owned about 0.09% of Datadog worth $36,596,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Elevation Point Wealth Partners LLC raised its stake in shares of Datadog by 3.3% during the 3rd quarter. Elevation Point Wealth Partners LLC now owns 1,697 shares of the company’s stock worth $242,000 after buying an additional 55 shares in the last quarter. Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC grew its position in shares of Datadog by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. Chicago Partners Investment Group LLC now owns 4,778 shares of the company’s stock valued at $622,000 after purchasing an additional 73 shares during the last quarter. Vivaldi Capital Management LP increased its position in Datadog by 2.8% during the third quarter. Vivaldi Capital Management LP now owns 2,689 shares of the company’s stock worth $383,000 after buying an additional 74 shares in the last quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC raised its stake in Datadog by 2.0% in the 4th quarter. Farther Finance Advisors LLC now owns 3,892 shares of the company’s stock valued at $529,000 after purchasing an additional 78 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Roberts Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its stake in shares of Datadog by 0.6% during the fourth quarter. Roberts Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 14,041 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,909,000 after buying an additional 81 shares during the period. 78.29% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling at Datadog

In other Datadog news, Director Michael James Callahan sold 12,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $267.47, for a total transaction of $3,343,375.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 14,996 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,010,980.12. The trade was a 45.46% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, July 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $257.24, for a total value of $13,868,322.88. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 509,805 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $131,142,238.20. This trade represents a 9.56% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last three months, insiders sold 1,396,309 shares of company stock worth $317,712,002. Corporate insiders own 6.48% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

DDOG has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Wall Street Zen upgraded Datadog from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, May 16th. Needham & Company LLC boosted their price objective on Datadog from $225.00 to $260.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, June 25th. Zacks Research upgraded Datadog from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 7th. Truist Financial raised shares of Datadog from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and increased their price objective for the company from $190.00 to $300.00 in a research report on Monday, June 15th. Finally, Craig Hallum assumed coverage on shares of Datadog in a research note on Monday, June 15th. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-eight have given a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Datadog presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $259.07.

Key Stories Impacting Datadog

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Multiple analysts raised their price targets on Datadog, including Citizens JMP to $311, Wells Fargo to $295, and Oppenheimer to $300, all while maintaining bullish ratings. Read More
• Positive Sentiment: JMP Securities said infrastructure software remains in a stronger position than application software and called Datadog a top performer in its coverage, reinforcing optimism around the company’s cloud monitoring business. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Datadog has surged sharply year to date, which has led some analysts to say the stock may have less room to run and could be vulnerable if upcoming results disappoint. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Morgan Stanley said sentiment across software stocks has become too negative, suggesting some names could rebound, but the call was broad-based rather than specific to Datadog. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: Investors are also digesting a headline noting that DDOG stock fell in the latest session, reflecting some profit-taking after its recent rally. Article Title

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of DDOG stock opened at $254.79 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $90.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 670.52, a PEG ratio of 26.76 and a beta of 1.54. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $238.98 and its 200-day simple moving average is $166.45. 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 one year low of $98.01 and a one year high of $278.70.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.83% and a net margin of 3.69%.The business had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $960.12 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.46 EPS. The business’s revenue 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. Equities analysts anticipate that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.64 earnings per share 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.