NASDAQ: DDOG

Datadog (DDOG) Stock Analysis & Forecast

Nov 4 close

$188.72−31.80 (−14.4%)

Gekko Brief

AI summaryNov 4 close

Datadog shares fell 14% this week even as the company beat Q3 estimates, with revenue of $1.197 billion up 35% year over year and GAAP operating income surging; it also raised its full-year outlook for the third straight quarter. The drop centers on commentary that its largest customer has scaled back usage, weighing on sequential growth, a concern flagged alongside otherwise strong operational results and continued demand from AI-related workloads.

The stock closed at $188.72, down 14.4% on the day and down 32.2% over the past month, though it remains up 16.4% over the past year. Price sits below both the 50-day average of $250.09 and the 200-day average of $199.68. The GekkoIndex reads 73.7, placing DDOG in the Buying zone, while the price stands 23.2% below the Gekko Fair Value of $245.81.

No confirmed date is set for the next earnings report. Over the last 90 days, Congressional activity shows 1 buy and 0 sells, and holdings include 1 billionaire holder and 4 trailblazer holders. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged a 12.9% return over 5 years, rising in 2 of those years. Analyst coverage from 34 firms shows 32 buy ratings, 1 hold and 1 sell, with a consensus target of $295.55, implying 56.6% upside from current levels. The gap to Gekko Fair Value bears watching in the sessions ahead.

Written by AI from the Nov 4, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.

Datadog price vs fair value

$245.81$188.72Nov ’25May ’26Nov ’26
Close $188.72200-day averageGekko Fair Value $245.81

Datadog quick facts

Market cap
$67.76B
P/E ratio
469.8
Forward P/E
79.4
EPS, TTM
$0.46
Revenue, TTM
$3.97B
Profit margin
4.5%
Dividend yield
—
Beta
1.51
Volume
13.19M avg 3.84M
1-year return
+16.4%
Typical daily move
±10.1%
Typical 20-day move
±10.1%
50-day average
$250.09
200-day average
$199.68
Next earnings
—
Shares outstanding
334.9M
52-week range
$98.01$300.68

Datadog swing-trade checklist

Datadog scores 3 supportive, 2 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.

3 supportive2 mixed0 headwinds

  • Trendmixed

    Averages disagree

    Close $188.72 sits between the 50-day ($250.09) and 200-day ($199.68) averages, or the averages disagree.

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  • GekkoIndexsupportive

    73.7, Buying

    Reading 73.7 is in the Buying zone.

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  • Fair valuesupportive

    23.2% below

    Price is 23.2% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).

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  • Smart moneysupportive

    Leans bullish

    Last 90 days: Congress 1 buy / 0 sales.

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  • Earnings riskno data

    No data

    No confirmed report date on the calendar.

    See earnings
  • Seasonalitymixed

    +12.9% on average

    From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +12.9% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.

    See seasonality

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Datadog stock chart and price history

Datadog closed at $188.72 on Nov 4, 2026, +16.4% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $98.01 to $300.68.

Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
Datadog share price, past year, with 50-day and 200-day moving averages and volume$100$150$250$300DecJan 2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct188.72

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Performance Breakdown

1 month
−32.2%
3 months
−17.7%
6 months
+31.3%
1 year
+16.4%
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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 73.7, in the Buying zone, up 19.3 points over five sessions.

010073.7Buying

Up 19.3 points over five sessions, from the Neutral zone.

Reading for Nov 4, 2026

What followed past readings in each zone

ZoneReadings5 days10 days20 days50 days
Buying (current zone)38+1.4%+0.6%−0.5%+6.7%
Accumulation217−0.1%0.0%+2.9%+9.3%
Neutral375+1.2%+2.6%+4.3%+9.5%
Distribution56+1.6%+2.0%+2.7%+5.8%
Selling11+0.1%+2.8%+4.9%+3.9%

Average DDOG share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Buying readings averaged +3.0% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.

Buying zone: Smart money likely accumulating heavily. About the five zones →

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Is Datadog stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value

Datadog trades 23.2% below Gekko Fair Value of $245.81, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.

Gekko’s own estimate of what Datadog shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.

$245.81

Gekko Fair Value, Nov 4, 2026

23.2% Undervalued

At the end of Sep 2026 the price was 14.6% above the estimate.

Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
$246$221Sep 2026OctNov 2026

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Datadog insider and Congress trading

No open-market insider purchases were filed for Datadog, and members of Congress disclosed 1 purchase and 0 sales, in the last 90 days.

Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.

Insider buying last 90 days

No open-market insider purchases were filed for DDOG in the last 90 days.

From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.

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Congress trades last 90 days

1trade disclosed: 1 purchase and 0 sales.

MemberTypeAmountDisclosed
Jonathan Jackson
House, IL, purchase
Purchase$50,001 - $100,000Oct 20
traded Sep 28

From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.

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 beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 15.4% on average across the report.

8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±15.4%average move across the report
4 of 7reports followed by a gain

Share-price move across each report

−11.5%Feb ’25+0.3%May ’25−4.4%Aug ’25+23.4%Nov ’25+11.7%Feb ’26+39.3%May ’26−17.4%Aug ’26
ReportedEPSSurpriseRevenueSurpriseMove
Nov 4, 2026$0.81
est $0.64
+26.0%$1.20B
est $1.15B
+4.4%—
Aug 6, 2026$0.18
est $0.13
+38.5%$1.12B
est $1.08B
+4.0%−17.4%
May 7, 2026$0.60
est $0.51
+17.6%$1.01B
est $960.1M
+4.8%+39.3%
Feb 10, 2026$0.59
est $0.56
+6.3%$953.2M
est $918.7M
+3.8%+11.7%
Nov 6, 2025$0.55
est $0.46
+20.2%$885.7M
est $852.8M
+3.9%+23.4%
Aug 7, 2025$0.46
est $0.41
+12.1%$826.8M
est $791.1M
+4.5%−4.4%
May 6, 2025$0.46
est $0.43
+6.7%$761.6M
est $741.4M
+2.7%+0.3%
Feb 13, 2025$0.49
est $0.44
+11.4%$737.7M
est $715.2M
+3.2%−11.5%

“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 $295.55, +56.6% from the last close, from 34 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.

$295.55consensus 12-month target, +56.6% from the last close
Low $158High $350
Buy32
Hold1
Sell1

Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 34 firms.

Latest analyst actions

DateFirmRatingTargetvs price
Nov 4TD CowenBuy, maintained$275+45.7%
Nov 4JefferiesHold, maintained$230+21.9%
Nov 4BTIGBuy, reiterated$260+37.8%
Nov 2BernsteinBuy, maintained$350+85.5%
Nov 2MonnessBuy, maintained$280+48.4%
−0.5%average 20-day move after past Buying readings
+12.9%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±10.1%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 Nov 4, Datadog averaged +12.9% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.

Next 20 trading days, by year

−1.6%2021−0.2%2022+48.4%2023+23.5%2024−1.1%2025

Average move and hit rate

WindowAverageYears higher
Next 5 trading days+16.1%4 of 5
Next 10 trading days+13.8%5 of 5
Next 15 trading days+15.0%5 of 5
Next 20 trading days+12.9%2 of 5
Next 30 trading days+14.4%4 of 5

For scale, DDOG’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 10.1%.

Datadog market cap and key statistics

Datadog’s market cap is $67.76B, with a P/E ratio of 469.8 and revenue of $3.97B over the last twelve months.

Valuation

Market cap
$67.76B
P/E ratio
469.8
Forward P/E
79.4
EPS, TTM
$0.46
Gekko Fair Value
$245.81

Trading

Volume
13.19M
Avg volume, 20 days
3.84M
52-week high
$300.68
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
1.51
Typical daily move
±10.1%
Typical 20-day move
±10.1%

Datadog stock news this week

Coverage of Datadog this week reads positive: 3 positive, 1 neutral and 1 negative headlines.

News sentiment positive

Datadog peers

Datadog’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.

StockTodayGekkoIndex zonevs Fair Value
MSFTMicrosoft+2.2%Neutral17.8% above
PLTRPalantir Technologies+4.1%Accumulation4.7% below
ORCLOracle+1.6%Accumulation29.7% below
PANWPalo Alto Networks+0.2%Accumulation7.4% above
CRWDCrowdStrike−0.7%Neutral8.1% above
CRMSalesforce−0.8%Accumulation9.3% below

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In the Buying zone today

Reporting earnings this week

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Datadog stock FAQ

What is Datadog’s market cap?

Datadog’s market cap is $67.76B at the Nov 4, 2026 close of $188.72, with 334.9M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 469.8.

What is the Datadog stock forecast?

The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Datadog is $295.55, +56.6% from the last close. Of the 34 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 32 rate it a buy, 1 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 undervalued: the Nov 4, 2026 close of $188.72 is 23.2% below Gekko Fair Value of $245.81. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.

What is Datadog’s 52-week high and low?

Datadog’s 52-week high is $300.68 and its 52-week low is $98.01; it closed at $188.72 on Nov 4, 2026, +16.4% 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, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and smart money), 2 as mixed (trend and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.

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