Insider buying last 90 days
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Datadog (DDOG) Stock Analysis & Forecast
$229.92−6.08 (−2.6%)
Close on Sep 18, 2026. Page updated Sep 19, 9:15 pm ET.
Gekko Brief
AI summaryDatadog (DDOG) closes at $229.92, down 2.6%, sitting between its 50-day average of $243.63 and 200-day average of $179.23. The GekkoIndex reads 58.8, placing the stock in the Neutral zone, while price sits 3.5% below Gekko Fair Value of $238.23. Over the past six months the stock has returned 76.9%, and over one year 71.3%, though the one-month return is -1.5%.
This week's headlines center on insider selling under 10b5-1 plans, with CFO David Obstler, General Counsel Kerry Acocella, Chief Revenue Officer Sean Walters, and the Chief Product Officer each disposing of shares between 11 and 16 September, transactions ranging from roughly 5,280 to 12,700 shares, including one sale generating about $2.8 million. Separately, Corient Private Wealth LP trimmed its DDOG holdings by 51.8% in the second quarter per a 13F filing, while other coverage points to accelerating enterprise customer growth tied to AI-driven observability and security adoption.
The next earnings date is 5 November, 46 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day hold; the prior report on 6 August showed EPS of $0.18 against an estimate of $0.13, with revenue of $1.12 billion, though shares reacted -17.4% that day. Datadog has beaten estimates in 8 of the last 8 quarters, with an average absolute reaction of 13.9%. Seasonality over the next 20 trading days has averaged 3.1% across 5 years, positive in 3 of them. Analyst coverage stands at 34 buy, 2 hold, and 1 sell across 37 firms, with a consensus target of $285.28.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 20, 2026 from the data above.
Price vs fair value
Close $229.92200-day averageGekko Fair Value $238.23
Key stats
- Market cap
- $81.84B
- P/E ratio
- 453.9
- Forward P/E
- 77.5
- EPS, TTM
- $0.52
- Revenue, TTM
- $3.97B
- Profit margin
- 4.5%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 1.49
- Volume
- 5.15M avg 3.60M
- 1-year return
- +71.3%
- Typical daily move
- ±4.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±9.8%
- 50-day average
- $243.63
- 200-day average
- $179.23
- Next earnings
- Nov 5 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 334.9M
Datadog swing-trade checklist
Datadog scores 2 supportive, 3 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
2 supportive3 mixed0 headwinds
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $229.92 sits between the 50-day ($243.63) and 200-day ($179.23) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
58.8, Neutral
Reading 58.8 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuemixed
3.5% below
Price is within 5% of Gekko Fair Value (3.5% below).
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No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 46 days
Next report Nov 5, 2026, 46 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+3.1% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +3.1% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
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Datadog stock chart and price history
Datadog closed at $229.92 on Sep 18, 2026, +71.3% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $98.01 to $292.72.
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −1.5%
- 3 months
- +3.1%
- 6 months
- +76.9%
- 1 year
- +71.3%
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About Datadog
Datadog builds a cloud-based platform for tracking how technology systems perform, aimed at developers, IT teams, and business users who need to keep tabs on their digital operations. It is recognized for pulling together infrastructure monitoring, application performance data, log records, and security checks into a single live picture of a customer's tech setup.
The platform also handles things like watching how users experience a product, analyzing network activity, guarding cloud environments, giving developers specialized tools to understand their systems, and helping teams respond quickly when problems arise. It rounds this out with dashboards that can be customized, tools for digging into data, ways for teams to work together, and alerts that flag issues as they come up. Datadog delivers all of this as a subscription-based software service to organizations located both within North America and abroad.
Datadog was started in 2010 and operates out of New York, New York. It trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker DDOG.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Website
- datadoghq.com
Datadog GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Datadog’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 58.8, in the Neutral zone, down 3 points over five sessions.
58.8Neutral
Down 3 points over five sessions, from the Accumulation zone.
Reading for Sep 18, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 38 | +1.4% | −0.5% |
| Accumulation | 211 | −0.3% | +1.8% |
| Neutral (current zone) | 347 | +1.0% | +4.2% |
| Distribution | 55 | +1.9% | +2.7% |
| Selling | 11 | +0.1% | +4.9% |
Average DDOG share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is Datadog stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Datadog trades 3.5% below Gekko Fair Value of $238.23, so the shares are about fair value on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Datadog shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$238.23
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 19, 2026
3.5% below fair value · About fair value
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Datadog insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Datadog, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in DDOG were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Datadog has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, year ended Dec 31, 2020
- $421K
- As a share of market cap
- 0.00%
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
5of the funds Gekko tracks hold DDOG.
1added2opened2trimmed0sold out
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Datadog earnings: next date and track record
Datadog reports on Nov 5, 2026, before the open (46 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Nov 5, 2026
Expected before the open, 46 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.64
- Revenue estimate
- $1.14B
8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±13.9%average move across the report
4 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Aug 6, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Datadog reported strong Q2 2026 results with revenue of $1.12 billion, up 36% year-over-year and above the high end of guidance. Management highlighted acceleration across both AI-native and non-AI customers, record quarter-over-quarter revenue add, strong free cash flow ($279M, 25% margin), expanding product adoption (higher multi-product usage and higher ARR contributions from products like RUM), and robust new logo bookings—particularly among enterprise and AI lab customers. Management emphasized platform positioning for observability, security, and AI-related monitoring products (GPU monitoring, Bits AI, AI monitoring/LLM surfaces), continued R&D and go-to-market investments, growing FedRAMP/government pipeline, and maintained conservative guidance methodology (including fully derisking the company’s largest customer due to reduced usage).
- Guidance
- Management referenced their Q3 and full-year 2026 outlook and reiterated a conservative guidance methodology. They said they fully derisked the guidance related to their largest customer due to reduced usage but did not disclose specific numeric guidance on the call.
- Risks flagged
- Reduced usage from the company's largest customer (noted and explicitly derisked in guidance); variability at the low end of customer counts (free vs. contract) with limited revenue impact but affecting customer-add metrics; long sales cycles in government/FedRAMP markets; customer concerns about rising AI costs and need for cost optimization; general execution risk in scaling product and go-to-market investments.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2026 | $0.18 est $0.13 | $1.12B est $1.08B | −17.4% |
| May 7, 2026 | $0.60 est $0.51 | $1.01B est $960.1M | +39.3% |
| Feb 10, 2026 | $0.59 est $0.56 | $953.2M est $918.7M | +11.7% |
| Nov 6, 2025 | $0.55 est $0.46 | $885.7M est $852.8M | +23.4% |
| Aug 7, 2025 | $0.46 est $0.41 | $826.8M est $791.1M | −4.4% |
| May 6, 2025 | $0.46 est $0.43 | $761.6M est $741.4M | +0.3% |
| Feb 13, 2025 | $0.49 est $0.44 | $737.7M est $715.2M | −11.5% |
| Nov 7, 2024 | $0.46 est $0.40 | $690.0M est $665.0M | −3.0% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Datadog stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Datadog is $285.28, +24.1% from the last close, from 37 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$285.28consensus 12-month target, +24.1% from the last close
Now $229.92Avg $285.28
Low $158High $330
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 37 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16 | Truist Financial | — | — |
| Sep 15 | Bernstein | $237 | +3.1% |
| Sep 10 | Wedbush | $275 | +19.6% |
| Aug 17 | Mizuho Securities | $300 | +30.5% |
| Aug 17 | Robert W. Baird | $300 | +30.5% |
+4.2%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
+3.1%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±4.6%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Datadog seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 19, Datadog averaged +3.1% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −2.4% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −0.2% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +2.6% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +3.1% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +4.0% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, DDOG’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 9.8%.
Datadog market cap and key statistics
Datadog’s market cap is $81.84B, with a P/E ratio of 453.9 and revenue of $3.97B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $81.84B
- P/E ratio
- 453.9
- Forward P/E
- 77.5
- EPS, TTM
- $0.52
- Gekko Fair Value
- $238.23
Trading
- Volume
- 5.15M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 3.60M
- 52-week high
- $292.72
- 52-week low
- $98.01
- Shares outstanding
- 334.9M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $3.97B
- Profit margin
- 4.5%
- Return on equity
- 4.7%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +1,498.0%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.49
- Typical daily move
- ±4.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±9.8%
Datadog stock news this week
Coverage of Datadog this week reads neutral: 0 positive, 5 neutral and 2 negative headlines.
- Datadog (DDOG) Outpaces Stock Market Gains: What You Should KnowZacks Investment Research, Sep 17
- Datadog's Enterprise Customer Expansion Accelerates: What's Ahead?Zacks Investment Research, Sep 17
- Datadog, Inc. $DDOG Shares Sold by Corient Private Wealth LPDefense World, Sep 17
- Datadog CFO David M. Obstler Executes 13 Sales of Class A Shares Under 10b5-1 PlanKalkine Media, Sep 16
- Datadog's General Counsel Kerry Acocella Sells 5,280 Shares Under 10b5-1 Plan in September 2026Kalkine Media, Sep 16
- Datadog CFO David Obstler Executes Share Conversions and Sales Under 10b5-1 PlanKalkine Media, Sep 16
Datadog peers
Datadog’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| MSFTMicrosoft | Neutral | 13.4% above |
| ORCLOracle | Neutral | 17.7% below |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | Neutral | 11.3% above |
| PANWPalo Alto Networks | Neutral | 8.9% above |
| CRWDCrowdStrike | Neutral | 19.0% above |
| CRMSalesforce | Neutral | 1.3% below |
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Datadog stock FAQ
What is Datadog’s market cap?
Datadog’s market cap is $81.84B at the Sep 18, 2026 close of $229.92, with 334.9M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 453.9.
What is the Datadog stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Datadog is $285.28, +24.1% from the last close. Of the 37 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 34 rate it a buy, 2 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Datadog stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Datadog is about fair value: the Sep 18, 2026 close of $229.92 is 3.5% below Gekko Fair Value of $238.23. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Datadog report earnings next?
Datadog is expected to report on Nov 5, 2026, before the market opens (46 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.64 per share on revenue of $1.14B. Datadog beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 13.9% on average across the report.
What is Datadog’s 52-week high and low?
Datadog’s 52-week high is $292.72 and its 52-week low is $98.01; it closed at $229.92 on Sep 18, 2026, +71.3% over the past year.
Is Datadog stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 2 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (earnings risk and seasonality), 3 as mixed (trend, gekkoindex and fair value). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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