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Datadog (DDOG) Competitors

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$116.29 -0.17 (-0.15%)
As of 05/20/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

DDOG vs. SHOP, APP, CRWD, INFY, NTES, SNOW, TEAM, NET, RBLX, and TTD

Should you be buying Datadog stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Datadog include Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Infosys (INFY), NetEase (NTES), Snowflake (SNOW), Atlassian (TEAM), Cloudflare (NET), Roblox (RBLX), and Trade Desk (TTD). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Datadog vs.

Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.

Shopify has a net margin of 22.74% compared to Datadog's net margin of 6.85%. Shopify's return on equity of 12.00% beat Datadog's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Shopify22.74% 12.00% 9.79%
Datadog 6.85%8.28%4.55%

In the previous week, Shopify had 10 more articles in the media than Datadog. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for Shopify and 38 mentions for Datadog. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat Shopify's score of 1.03 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Shopify
32 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
10 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Datadog
35 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Shopify received 1102 more outperform votes than Datadog when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.53% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote while only 66.30% of users gave Shopify an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
ShopifyOutperform Votes
1430
66.30%
Underperform Votes
727
33.70%
DatadogOutperform Votes
328
66.53%
Underperform Votes
165
33.47%

Shopify has higher revenue and earnings than Datadog. Shopify is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datadog, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Shopify$9.38B14.69$2.02B$1.2386.53
Datadog$2.83B14.17$183.75M$0.46252.80

Shopify presently has a consensus price target of $115.37, suggesting a potential upside of 8.40%. Datadog has a consensus price target of $141.54, suggesting a potential upside of 21.71%. Given Datadog's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Datadog is more favorable than Shopify.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Shopify
1 Sell rating(s)
14 Hold rating(s)
26 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Datadog
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
24 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

Shopify has a beta of 2.66, suggesting that its stock price is 166% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

69.3% of Shopify shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.8% of Datadog shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Shopify beats Datadog on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DDOG vs. The Competition

MetricDatadogPrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$40.16B$26.64B$25.22B$8.47B
Dividend YieldN/A1.77%2.89%4.11%
P/E Ratio228.02121.9745.0920.05
Price / Sales14.1722.092,233.78119.51
Price / Cash323.2186.0634.7834.62
Price / Book19.009.386.794.61
Net Income$183.75M$436.62M$737.99M$248.10M
7 Day Performance-0.87%-0.25%0.61%2.88%
1 Month Performance27.71%19.34%14.67%15.41%
1 Year Performance-4.12%18.75%52,433.43%7.68%

Datadog Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DDOG
Datadog
4.7052 of 5 stars
$116.29
-0.1%
$141.54
+21.7%
-4.1%$40.16B$2.83B228.024,800Positive News
SHOP
Shopify
3.8439 of 5 stars
$104.53
+13.9%
$115.37
+10.4%
+80.6%$135.79B$8.88B67.6611,600Positive News
High Trading Volume
APP
AppLovin
3.9781 of 5 stars
$349.46
+6.4%
$433.85
+24.1%
+329.3%$118.73B$5.14B76.931,710
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.1857 of 5 stars
$426.96
+4.0%
$403.20
-5.6%
+26.8%$106.12B$3.95B839.464,960Trending News
Gap Up
INFY
Infosys
3.0987 of 5 stars
$18.70
+6.9%
$17.48
-6.5%
+6.4%$77.39B$19.28B23.65339,500Trending News
NTES
NetEase
4.2803 of 5 stars
$106.79
+3.2%
$115.14
+7.8%
+15.5%$67.65B$105.30B16.7632,100Positive News
Analyst Forecast
SNOW
Snowflake
4.1465 of 5 stars
$180.49
+3.6%
$200.28
+11.0%
+11.0%$59.63B$3.63B-53.283,990Trending News
Analyst Forecast
TEAM
Atlassian
4.8813 of 5 stars
$223.16
+7.5%
$285.29
+27.8%
+19.3%$58.52B$4.96B-166.708,810Trending News
Insider Trade
Gap Up
NET
Cloudflare
3.9318 of 5 stars
$142.06
+7.3%
$142.57
+0.4%
+108.0%$49.11B$1.67B-646.913,220Gap Up
RBLX
Roblox
2.5348 of 5 stars
$74.04
+3.0%
$67.91
-8.3%
+143.1%$46.61B$3.84B-51.032,130Positive News
Insider Trade
TTD
Trade Desk
4.2614 of 5 stars
$79.96
+12.6%
$98.88
+23.7%
-21.0%$39.62B$2.44B102.402,770Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:DDOG) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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