Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) issued an update on its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.410-0.430 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share 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 Down 8.8 %

NASDAQ:DDOG traded down $12.99 on Thursday, hitting $135.10. The stock had a trading volume of 14,788,252 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,661,066. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $146.40 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $130.89. Datadog has a 1-year low of $98.80 and a 1-year high of $170.08. The stock has a market cap of $45.90 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 254.90, a PEG ratio of 16.83 and a beta of 1.15.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.13 earnings per share (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%. As a group, analysts anticipate that Datadog will post 0.53 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

DDOG has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $165.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a research report on Tuesday, November 19th. Sanford C. Bernstein decreased their price objective on shares of Datadog from $157.00 to $151.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, October 21st. Guggenheim reiterated a “neutral” rating on shares of Datadog in a report on Wednesday, January 22nd. Rosenblatt Securities boosted their target price on Datadog from $148.00 to $160.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Finally, UBS Group restated an “underperform” rating on shares of Datadog in a research report on Friday, October 18th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a hold rating, twenty-five have given a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $158.52.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 127,105 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction on Wednesday, January 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $141.21, for a total transaction of $17,948,497.05. Following the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 324,778 shares in the company, valued at $45,861,901.38. This trade represents a 28.13 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 11,195 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, January 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $139.86, for a total value of $1,565,732.70. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 379,693 shares in the company, valued at approximately $53,103,862.98. The trade was a 2.86 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 777,586 shares of company stock valued at $111,444,979 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 11.78% of the company’s stock.

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.