Insider Selling: Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) COO Sells $3,041,836.58 in Stock

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) COO Adam Blitzer sold 12,202 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $249.29, for a total value of $3,041,836.58. Following the transaction, the chief operating officer owned 263,771 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $65,755,472.59. The trade was a 4.42% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards.

Adam Blitzer also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, June 2nd, Adam Blitzer sold 13,642 shares of Datadog stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $267.15, for a total value of $3,644,460.30.

Datadog Trading Down 3.9%

Datadog stock opened at $234.11 on Friday. Datadog, Inc. has a 52 week low of $98.01 and a 52 week high of $278.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25, a quick ratio of 3.40 and a current ratio of 3.40. The stock has a market capitalization of $83.33 billion, a P/E ratio of 616.10, a PEG ratio of 25.07 and a beta of 1.56. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $167.10 and a 200 day simple moving average of $145.28.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates 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 during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $960.12 million. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.46 earnings per share. Datadog’s quarterly revenue 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. Analysts expect that Datadog, Inc. will post 0.61 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in DDOG. Brighton Jones LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $209,000. Bison Wealth LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $228,000. Empowered Funds LLC raised its position in Datadog by 7.0% during the first quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 10,313 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,023,000 after purchasing an additional 672 shares in the last quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. raised its position in Datadog by 17.6% during the first quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 769 shares of the company’s stock valued at $76,000 after purchasing an additional 115 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sivia Capital Partners LLC acquired a new position in Datadog during the second quarter valued at approximately $509,000. 78.29% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on DDOG. Citizens Jmp upgraded Datadog from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $225.00 price objective for the company in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Datadog from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, May 16th. CICC Research boosted their price objective on Datadog from $150.00 to $204.00 in a report on Monday, May 11th. Royal Bank Of Canada boosted their price objective on Datadog from $219.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. Finally, UBS Group boosted their price objective on Datadog from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have assigned a Buy rating, one has issued a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Datadog presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $219.69.

Trending Headlines about 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

About Datadog

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.