Datadog (DDOG)
NASDAQ:DDOG
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Datadog
(NASDAQ:DDOG)
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Rating:65Neutral
Price Target:
$125.00
▲(7.30% Upside)
Action:ReiteratedDate:02/10/26
The score is supported primarily by strong financial quality (high gross margins and robust free cash flow) and a positive earnings call emphasizing demand strength and backlog/bookings momentum. It is weighed down by weak technicals (clear downtrend with negative momentum) and a very expensive valuation (P/E 386), alongside guidance pointing to slower growth and ongoing investment-driven margin pressure.
Positive Factors
Strong free cash flow generation
Datadog's near‑billion dollar operating and free cash flow provides durable financial flexibility to fund R&D, sales expansion, and debt reduction without relying on equity raises. High FCF also supports sustained product investment, smoothing cycles and enabling strategic optionality over the next 2–6 months and beyond.
Negative Factors
Guidance implies growth deceleration
Management's conservative full‑year guide signals a meaningful slowdown from recent quarterly acceleration; slower top‑line growth compresses the time to justify investments and raises the bar for sustaining ARR expansion, making execution and upsell within the installed base more critical over the coming year.
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Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Strong free cash flow generation
Datadog's near‑billion dollar operating and free cash flow provides durable financial flexibility to fund R&D, sales expansion, and debt reduction without relying on equity raises. High FCF also supports sustained product investment, smoothing cycles and enabling strategic optionality over the next 2–6 months and beyond.
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Datadog (DDOG) vs. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
Market Cap
$41.10B
Dividend YieldN/A
Average Volume (3M)4.44M
Price to Earnings (P/E)438.4
Beta (1Y)1.26
Revenue Growth26.63%
EPS Growth-46.13%
CountryUS
Employees8,100
SectorTechnology
Sector Strength88
IndustrySoftware - Application
Share Statistics
EPS (TTM)0.59
Shares Outstanding328,483,370
10 Day Avg. Volume3,662,267
30 Day Avg. Volume4,440,349
Financial Highlights & Ratios
PEG Ratio-10.05
Price to Book (P/B)12.65
Price to Sales (P/S)13.78
P/FCF Ratio47.20
Enterprise Value/Market Cap0.97
Enterprise Value/Revenue11.58
Enterprise Value/Gross Profit14.49
Enterprise Value/Ebitda174.86
Forecast
1Y Price Target
$184.43Price Target Upside58.31% Upside
Rating ConsensusStrong Buy
Number of Analyst Covering38
EPS Forecast (FY)2.14
Revenue Forecast (FY)$4.11B
Datadog Business Overview & Revenue Model
Company Description
Datadog, Inc. provides monitoring and analytics platform for developers, information technology operations teams, and business users in the cloud in North America and internationally. The company's SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastruc...
How the Company Makes Money
Datadog primarily makes money by selling subscriptions to its cloud-based observability and security platform. Revenue is largely generated through usage-based and product-based pricing where customers pay based on the volume of telemetry they ing...
Datadog Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Any
Customers Over $100k
Shows the number of customers generating over $100,000 in annual revenue, reflecting the company's ability to attract and retain high-value clients.
Shows the number of customers generating over $100,000 in annual revenue, reflecting the company's ability to attract and retain high-value clients.
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The FlyDatadog Earnings Call Summary
Earnings Call Date:Feb 10, 2026
(Q4-2025)
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Next Earnings Date:Apr 30, 2026
Earnings Call Sentiment Positive
The call presented many strong operational and financial highlights: accelerated revenue growth (+29% YoY), record bookings (+37% YoY), rising platform adoption and large multi‑product deals, healthy cash generation (FCF $291M, 31% margin), strong retention (~120% net retention), and notable AI product momentum (multiple product launches and rapid usage growth). Offsetting these positives are conservative FY2026 guidance implying year-over-year deceleration (18%–20%), sustained high OpEx growth as the company invests in AI and go-to-market (affecting near-term margins), slight gross margin compression, and some transparency gaps around AI cohort revenue and dependence on the largest customer. On balance, the highlights materially outweigh the lowlights given robust demand, strong bookings/RPO tailwinds, expanding ARR pillars, and healthy cash flows, while the lowlights are primarily related to measured conservatism and continued investment.Positive Updates
Strong Q4 Revenue Growth
Revenue was $953 million, up 29% year-over-year and up 8% sequentially, beating the high end of guidance.
Negative Updates
Guidance Reflects Slower Full-Year Growth
Full-year FY2026 revenue guidance of $4.06–$4.10 billion implies 18%–20% year-over-year growth, a deceleration from recent quarter growth (Q4 +29%), reflecting a more conservative outlook for the year.
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Q4-2025 Updates
Positive
Negative
Strong Q4 Revenue Growth
Revenue was $953 million, up 29% year-over-year and up 8% sequentially, beating the high end of guidance.
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Company Guidance
Datadog guided Q1 revenue of $951–$961M (up 25–26% YoY), non‑GAAP operating income of $195–$205M (implying ~21% operating margin) and non‑GAAP EPS of $0.49–$0.51 based on ~367M diluted shares; for FY2026 it expects revenue of $4.06–$4.10B (18–20% YoY), non‑GAAP operating income of $840–$880M (≈21% margin) and non‑GAAP EPS of $2.08–$2.16 based on ~372M diluted shares, with modeling that the business excluding the largest customer grows at least 20% during the year. Additional guidance items include net interest and other income of about $140M, cash taxes of ~$30–$40M, a 21% non‑GAAP tax rate going forward, and capital expenditures plus capitalized software of roughly 4–5% of revenue.Datadog Financial Statement Overview
Summary
Income Statement
72
Positive
Balance Sheet
70
Positive
Cash Flow
86
Very Positive
| Breakdown | Dec 2025 | Dec 2024 | Dec 2023 | Dec 2022 | Dec 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Income Statement | |||||
| Total Revenue | 3.43B | 2.68B | 2.13B | 1.68B | 1.03B |
| Gross Profit | 2.74B | 2.17B | 1.72B | 1.33B | 793.94M |
| EBITDA | 260.61M | 317.99M | 150.21M | 41.10M | 25.57M |
| Net Income | 107.74M | 183.75M | 48.57M | -50.16M | -20.75M |
Balance Sheet | |||||
| Total Assets | 6.64B | 5.79B | 3.94B | 3.00B | 2.38B |
| Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments | 4.47B | 4.19B | 2.58B | 1.88B | 1.55B |
| Total Debt | 1.54B | 1.84B | 902.34M | 837.52M | 807.75M |
| Total Liabilities | 2.91B | 3.07B | 1.91B | 1.59B | 1.34B |
| Stockholders Equity | 3.73B | 2.71B | 2.03B | 1.41B | 1.04B |
Cash Flow | |||||
| Free Cash Flow | 1.00B | 835.88M | 632.37M | 353.52M | 250.52M |
| Operating Cash Flow | 1.05B | 870.60M | 659.95M | 418.41M | 286.55M |
| Investing Cash Flow | -1.33B | -736.84M | -731.37M | -384.67M | -273.74M |
| Financing Cash Flow | -572.48M | 787.08M | 58.28M | 36.02M | 34.94M |
Datadog Technical Analysis
Negative
116.50
Price Trends
121.32
Negative
133.66
Negative
139.18
Negative
Market Momentum
-1.60
Positive
43.86
Neutral
28.57
Neutral
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For DDOG, the sentiment is Negative. The current price of 116.5 is below the 20-day moving average (MA) of 122.86, below the 50-day MA of 121.32, and below the 200-day MA of 139.18, indicating a bearish trend. The MACD of -1.60 indicates Positive momentum. The RSI at 43.86 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 28.57 is Neutral, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Negative sentiment for DDOG.
Datadog Risk Analysis
Datadog disclosed 59 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. Datadog reported the most risks in the "Finance & Corporate" category.
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy
Latest Risks Added 0 New Risks
Datadog Peers Comparison
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (61)
Name | Overall Rating | Market Cap | P/E Ratio | ROE | Dividend Yield | Revenue Growth | EPS Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
72 Outperform | $10.98B | 81.46 | 6.81% | ― | 18.50% | 207.45% | |
70 Outperform | $108.17B | -686.05 | -4.68% | ― | 22.05% | -341.24% | |
65 Neutral | $41.10B | 438.37 | 3.24% | ― | 26.63% | -46.13% | |
64 Neutral | $530.27M | 5.56 | 77.23% | ― | 7.01% | ― | |
61 Neutral | $37.18B | 12.37 | -10.20% | 1.83% | 8.50% | -7.62% | |
56 Neutral | $51.85B | -48.84 | -60.27% | ― | 28.48% | -19.12% |
* Technology Sector Average
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Datadog Corporate Events
Executive/Board Changes
Datadog Expands Board and Appoints New Class II Director
Neutral
Mar 2, 2026
On February 26, 2026, Datadog, Inc. expanded its Board of Directors from ten to eleven members and appointed Dominic Phillips as a Class II director, with his term set to run until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The company noted that Ph...
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