Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) CEO Sells $4,717,115.02 in Stock

Key Points

• Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares on April 9 at an average price of $111.14 for $4,717,115.02 under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, cutting his stake by 4.83% to 835,679 shares valued at roughly $92.88M.
• Datadog beat expectations for the quarter with $0.59 EPS (vs. $0.55 est.) and revenue of $953.19M, up 29.2% year-over-year, and it set FY2026 EPS guidance of 2.080–2.160.
• Pomel made additional large insider sales in March (42,443 shares on Mar 16 for $5.38M and 68,922 shares on Mar 2 for $7.62M), showing a recent pattern of dispositions.

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG - Get Free Report) CEO Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, April 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $111.14, for a total value of $4,717,115.02. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 835,679 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $92,877,364.06. This trade represents a 4.83% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Olivier Pomel also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Monday, March 16th, Olivier Pomel sold 42,443 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $126.80, for a total value of $5,381,772.40.
• On Monday, March 2nd, Olivier Pomel sold 68,922 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $110.54, for a total value of $7,618,637.88.

Datadog Price Performance

NASDAQ DDOG traded up $4.71 on Monday, hitting $110.08. 4,494,027 shares of the company's stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 5,749,473. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $119.79 and a 200-day moving average of $139.50. The company has a current ratio of 3.38, a quick ratio of 3.38 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. Datadog, Inc. has a 52 week low of $87.69 and a 52 week high of $201.69. The stock has a market cap of $38.81 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 355.10, a P/E/G ratio of 28.96 and a beta of 1.29.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, February 10th. The company reported $0.59 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.55 by $0.04. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.14% and a net margin of 3.14%.The firm had revenue of $953.19 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $916.53 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.49 earnings per share. The company's quarterly revenue was up 29.2% on a year-over-year basis. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.080-2.160 EPS and its Q1 2026 guidance at 0.490-0.510 EPS. Analysts expect that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.34 earnings per share for the current year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Datadog

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Rothschild Investment LLC lifted its position in Datadog by 126.6% in the 3rd quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 179 shares of the company's stock valued at $25,000 after acquiring an additional 100 shares in the last quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. lifted its position in shares of Datadog by 315.2% during the 3rd quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 191 shares of the company's stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 145 shares in the last quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. lifted its position in shares of Datadog by 74.3% during the 3rd quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. now owns 176 shares of the company's stock worth $27,000 after buying an additional 75 shares in the last quarter. JPL Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Datadog during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $27,000. Finally, Tripletail Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Datadog during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $28,000. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company's stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research analysts have recently issued reports on DDOG shares. Stifel Nicolaus set a $160.00 price target on shares of Datadog and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, January 22nd. KeyCorp decreased their price objective on Datadog from $170.00 to $155.00 and set an "overweight" rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, February 4th. Needham & Company LLC decreased their price objective on Datadog from $220.00 to $155.00 and set a "buy" rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, February 10th. Guggenheim upgraded Datadog from a "neutral" rating to a "buy" rating and set a $175.00 price objective for the company in a report on Thursday. Finally, BMO Capital Markets set a $165.00 price objective on Datadog in a report on Wednesday, February 11th. Thirty-eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, three have assigned a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the company's stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Datadog presently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average target price of $181.41.

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.

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