Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.650-1.700 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.980. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.2 billion-$3.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.2 billion. Datadog also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.410-0.430 EPS.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms recently weighed in on DDOG. 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 report on Wednesday, January 29th. Robert W. Baird boosted their price objective on shares of Datadog from $140.00 to $150.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, November 8th. Guggenheim restated a “neutral” rating on shares of Datadog in a research report on Wednesday, January 22nd. Barclays dropped their target price on shares of Datadog from $187.00 to $180.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Friday. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company cut shares of Datadog from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and dropped their target price for the company from $152.00 to $140.00 in a research report on Thursday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating, twenty-three have assigned a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Datadog presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $158.39.

Datadog Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $131.01 on Friday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $145.85 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $130.93. Datadog has a one year low of $98.80 and a one year high of $170.08. The stock has a market capitalization of $44.51 billion, a PE ratio of 247.19, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 16.83 and a beta of 1.15.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last issued its quarterly earnings results 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 return on equity of 9.41% and a net margin of 7.58%. On average, analysts anticipate that Datadog will post 0.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 127,105 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, January 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $141.21, for a total value of $17,948,497.05. Following the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 324,778 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $45,861,901.38. This represents a 28.13 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CRO Sean Michael Walters sold 4,244 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $135.00, for a total transaction of $572,940.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive now directly owns 179,367 shares in the company, valued at approximately $24,214,545. The trade was a 2.31 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 627,586 shares of company stock valued at $92,540,479 in the last three months. 11.78% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

About Datadog

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.