Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 1.650-1.700 for the period, compared to the consensus 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.

Datadog Stock Performance

DDOG stock opened at $131.01 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $44.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 247.19, a P/E/G ratio of 16.83 and a beta of 1.15. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $145.85 and a 200 day simple moving average of $130.93. Datadog has a 52 week low of $98.80 and a 52 week high of $170.08.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last posted 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%. Sell-side analysts predict that Datadog will post 0.53 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

DDOG has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $165.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a research note on Tuesday, November 19th. Truist Financial reduced their target price on shares of Datadog from $150.00 to $140.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Friday. Scotiabank reduced their target price on shares of Datadog from $135.00 to $133.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, November 8th. Guggenheim reiterated a “neutral” rating on shares of Datadog in a research note on Wednesday, January 22nd. Finally, Robert W. Baird lifted their target price on shares of Datadog from $140.00 to $150.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, November 8th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating, twenty-three have issued a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $158.39.

Insider Buying and Selling at Datadog

In other Datadog news, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 178,723 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $161.28, for a total transaction of $28,824,445.44. Following the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 379,693 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $61,236,887.04. The trade was a 32.01 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, President Amit Agarwal sold 25,000 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, December 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $147.99, for a total value of $3,699,750.00. Following the sale, the president now directly owns 195,667 shares in the company, valued at $28,956,759.33. The trade was a 11.33 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last ninety days, insiders have sold 627,586 shares of company stock valued at $92,540,479. 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.