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Elastic (ESTC) Competitors

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$84.42 +1.73 (+2.09%)
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ESTC vs. DDOG, TEAM, ZS, CRM, DT, HUBS, NET, NOW, PATH, and PD

Should you be buying Elastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elastic include Datadog (DDOG), Atlassian (TEAM), Zscaler (ZS), Salesforce (CRM), Dynatrace (DT), HubSpot (HUBS), Cloudflare (NET), ServiceNow (NOW), UiPath (PATH), and PagerDuty (PD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Elastic vs. Its Competitors

Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and profitability.

In the previous week, Datadog had 15 more articles in the media than Elastic. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Datadog and 13 mentions for Elastic. Datadog's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Elastic's score of 0.64 indicating that Datadog is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Elastic
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Datadog
20 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Datadog has a net margin of 5.85% compared to Elastic's net margin of -7.29%. Datadog's return on equity of 6.39% beat Elastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Elastic-7.29% -4.46% -1.61%
Datadog 5.85%6.39%3.27%

Elastic presently has a consensus target price of $113.52, indicating a potential upside of 34.47%. Datadog has a consensus target price of $143.03, indicating a potential upside of 6.48%. Given Elastic's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Elastic is more favorable than Datadog.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Elastic
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
20 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.76
Datadog
0 Sell rating(s)
6 Hold rating(s)
25 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.81

97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of Elastic shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Datadog shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Datadog has higher revenue and earnings than Elastic. Elastic 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
Elastic$1.48B6.01-$108.11M-$1.05-80.40
Datadog$2.68B17.28$183.75M$0.46292.02

Elastic has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Datadog beats Elastic on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding ESTC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ESTC vs. The Competition

MetricElasticINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$8.91B$18.13B$27.24B$20.33B
Dividend YieldN/A2.62%2.94%3.78%
P/E Ratio-80.4066.1535.8727.52
Price / Sales6.0166.232,193.4038.36
Price / Cash169.7783.9433.8917.85
Price / Book9.518.537.044.54
Net Income-$108.11M$335.91M$762.33M$985.09M
7 Day Performance2.69%4.92%3.33%1.70%
1 Month Performance4.29%2.74%6.32%4.05%
1 Year Performance-25.89%62.90%52,327.28%12.20%

Elastic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESTC
Elastic
3.337 of 5 stars
$84.42
+2.1%
$113.52
+34.5%
-27.4%$8.91B$1.48B-80.403,537Analyst Upgrade
DDOG
Datadog
4.2029 of 5 stars
$131.12
+0.7%
$143.03
+9.1%
+1.8%$45.28B$2.68B285.056,500Positive News
TEAM
Atlassian
4.7188 of 5 stars
$198.50
+0.1%
$282.19
+42.2%
+14.4%$52.11B$4.36B-119.5812,157Insider Trade
ZS
Zscaler
3.8479 of 5 stars
$313.85
+0.6%
$294.03
-6.3%
+64.1%$48.87B$2.17B-1,207.127,348Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
CRM
Salesforce
4.9438 of 5 stars
$270.50
+1.0%
$349.08
+29.0%
+6.1%$258.60B$37.90B42.3376,453Positive News
DT
Dynatrace
4.8364 of 5 stars
$55.01
+0.6%
$61.75
+12.3%
+22.6%$16.48B$1.70B34.385,200Analyst Downgrade
HUBS
HubSpot
4.9371 of 5 stars
$547.70
+0.8%
$766.71
+40.0%
-6.7%$28.89B$2.63B-1,217.108,246Positive News
NET
Cloudflare
3.8817 of 5 stars
$190.91
+0.4%
$145.92
-23.6%
+135.0%$66.17B$1.67B-830.064,263Positive News
NOW
ServiceNow
4.4168 of 5 stars
$1,012.73
+0.8%
$1,065.32
+5.2%
+30.1%$209.62B$11.47B137.6026,293Positive News
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Analyst Revision
PATH
UiPath
1.7952 of 5 stars
$12.79
+2.5%
$13.83
+8.2%
+0.3%$6.84B$1.43B-106.534,010Insider Trade
PD
PagerDuty
3.9298 of 5 stars
$14.91
+3.1%
$19.50
+30.8%
-33.6%$1.36B$467.50M-37.261,242

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This page (NYSE:ESTC) was last updated on 6/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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