Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) General Counsel Sells $1,937,371.80 in Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) General Counsel Kerry Acocella sold 7,252 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $267.15, for a total value of $1,937,371.80. Following the transaction, the general counsel owned 133,237 shares in the company, valued at $35,594,264.55. This trade represents a 5.16% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards.

Kerry Acocella also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, May 5th, Kerry Acocella sold 13,857 shares of Datadog stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $150.00, for a total value of $2,078,550.00.

Datadog Trading Down 3.9%

NASDAQ:DDOG opened at $234.11 on Friday. Datadog, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $98.01 and a fifty-two week high of $278.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25, a current ratio of 3.40 and a quick ratio of 3.40. The stock has a market capitalization of $83.33 billion, a PE ratio of 616.10, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 25.07 and a beta of 1.56. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $167.10 and its 200-day simple moving average is $145.28.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.51 by $0.09. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.83% and a net margin of 3.69%.The business had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $960.12 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.46 EPS. Datadog’s revenue for the quarter was up 32.1% on a year-over-year basis. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.360-2.440 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.570-0.590 EPS. Sell-side analysts expect that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms have commented on DDOG. TD Cowen boosted their target price on Datadog from $190.00 to $235.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. Citigroup boosted their target price on Datadog from $175.00 to $218.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, May 8th. Daiwa Securities Group boosted their target price on Datadog from $190.00 to $240.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 13th. Bank of America boosted their target price on Datadog from $225.00 to $260.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $305.00 target price on Datadog in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have given a Buy rating, one has assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Datadog has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $219.69.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Westside Investment Management Inc. increased its position in shares of Datadog by 74.3% during the 3rd quarter. Westside Investment Management Inc. now owns 176 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 75 shares during the last quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC increased its position in shares of Datadog by 126.6% during the 3rd quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 179 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,000 after purchasing an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. increased its position in shares of Datadog by 315.2% during the 3rd quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 191 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 145 shares during the last quarter. JPL Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Datadog during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $27,000. Finally, CoreCap Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of Datadog by 1,461.5% during the 4th quarter. CoreCap Advisors LLC now owns 203 shares of the company’s stock worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 190 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Datadog

Here are the key news stories impacting Datadog this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Datadog’s recent earnings and outlook remain solid, with Q1 revenue rising 32.1% year over year, EPS beating estimates, and management guiding for continued growth. Analyst coverage is still broadly constructive, and several firms have recently raised price targets.
• Positive Sentiment: Recent commentary has framed Datadog as a beneficiary of renewed interest in AI-related software, which may be helping support longer-term investor sentiment. Software sector rebound report
• Neutral Sentiment: Datadog also presented at the Bank of America 2026 Global Technology Conference, but the headline does not indicate a major new catalyst. Bank of America conference transcript
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple Datadog insiders sold shares in recent filings, including CTO Alexis Le-Quoc, CEO Olivier Pomel, COO Adam Blitzer, CFO David M. Obstler, CRO Sean Michael Walters, and General Counsel Kerry Acocella. Most sales were tied to 10b5-1 plans or tax withholding on equity vesting, but the broad cluster of insider selling can still weigh on sentiment. SEC insider filing
• Negative Sentiment: A separate report said insiders sold about $90 million of Datadog shares over the past year, reinforcing concerns that management may see limited near-term upside after the stock’s strong run. Datadog insiders sold US$90m of shares suggesting hesitancy

Datadog Company Profile

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a cloud-based monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations monitor, troubleshoot and secure their applications and infrastructure at scale. Its software-as-a-service offering collects and analyzes metrics, traces and logs from servers, containers, cloud services and applications to provide real-time visibility into system performance and health. Datadog’s platform is widely used by engineering, operations and security teams to reduce downtime, accelerate incident response and improve application reliability.

The company’s product suite includes infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring and network performance monitoring, along with security-focused products such as security monitoring and cloud SIEM.