Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Updates Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.410-0.430 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 0.450. The company issued revenue guidance of $737.0 million-$741.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $739.9 million. Datadog also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 1.650-1.700 EPS.

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $135.89 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $46.16 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 256.40, a P/E/G ratio of 16.83 and a beta of 1.15. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $146.40 and a 200 day moving average price of $130.89. Datadog has a fifty-two week low of $98.80 and a fifty-two week high of $170.08.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.13 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.44 by ($0.31). Datadog had a net margin of 7.58% and a return on equity of 9.41%. As a group, research analysts predict that Datadog will post 0.53 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of analysts have issued reports on the company. Truist Financial downgraded Datadog from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and reduced their price objective for the stock from $170.00 to $150.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 7th. UBS Group restated an “underperform” rating on shares of Datadog in a research report on Friday, October 18th. Loop Capital increased their price objective on shares of Datadog from $160.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, December 23rd. Stifel Nicolaus cut shares of Datadog from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their price objective for the stock from $165.00 to $140.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 29th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities upped their target price on shares of Datadog from $148.00 to $160.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have assigned a hold rating, twenty-four have given a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Datadog currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $158.17.

Insider Activity at Datadog

In other Datadog news, Director Shardul Shah sold 7,916 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $155.25, for a total transaction of $1,228,959.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 435,701 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $67,642,580.25. This trade represents a 1.78 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 127,105 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $141.21, for a total transaction of $17,948,497.05. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 324,778 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $45,861,901.38. The trade was a 28.13 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 627,586 shares of company stock worth $92,540,479. Company insiders own 11.78% of the company’s stock.

Datadog Company Profile

Datadog, Inc operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data streams and universal service monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility.