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Datadog, Inc.

$DDOG·$92B·Software - Application·Technology
$258.69-1.4%YTD+91.1%1Y+88.2%
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DDDDOG
$DDOGDatadog, Inc.
$258.69-1.38%2.6k posts+4%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $DDOG, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Driven by hypeAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-07-17

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Textbook breakout — with the CEO cashing out $33M into the same rally the retail crowd is chasing.

Datadog is the observability platform for cloud-native software — it monitors what's running, where, and how well, across every enterprise cloud stack. The stock has broken out to near all-time highs on AI-workload monitoring demand.

What both sides are voting on:

  • The tape is legitimately strong: sitting at 96% of the 52-week range and 20% above the 50-day, up 91% year-to-date on a base breakout above a five-year cup-and-handle — that pattern historically extends.
  • Fundamentals don't yet pay for the multiple: 80% gross margin with a 0.7% negative operating margin — Datadog earns real cash, but 644x TTM P/E is entirely a forward-growth bet.
  • The insider signal cuts against the tape hard: officers and directors sold $63.8M in the last week, with CEO Olivier Pomel unloading $33M of that — a specific tell that executives think the current price fully captures the AI-monetization tailwind.
  • The category read is real: pricing evolution from per-seat to per-petabyte and per-agent is exactly the mix shift that scales revenue with AI workload growth, which is why Needham's caution — 'AI monetization already priced in' — is the honest bear line.

What keeps the leg extending is Aug 6 earnings landing above the ARR bar and margin expansion showing up. What breaks it is a soft ARR print given the CEO's timing — the insider trail is the specific reason to size positions carefully.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bullish on the cup-and-handle breakout and the AI-monetization tailwind, and both are real — the pattern is textbook and the pricing-model shift is genuinely category-expanding. The gap the crowd isn't sizing is the $33M CEO sale in the last week: that's not a note bulls should dismiss, it's a specific position tell into an earnings print.

What to watch: The Aug 6 print — ARR growth trajectory, any per-agent or per-petabyte pricing traction commentary, and margin trend. Above ARR consensus plus margin expansion extends the leg; a soft ARR print validates the CEO's timing.

On the calendar: 2026-08-06 — Q2 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment31 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15

Datadog chatter is bullish. Bulls flag a beautiful weekly base breakout with over $4.8M in positive new options flow, and describe a five-year cup-and-handle setup (2021-2026) that price is now attempting to break above - with the base measured move suggesting a violent leg higher. Traders describe a retest to all-time highs and a daily whale-momentum setup. The stock is on multiple mainstream watchlists at $251.50 alongside CRWD, STX, INTC, CSCO, AMD and DOCN. The dominant caution is Needham arguing MDB investor comparisons to $SNOW and $DDOG on AI tailwinds are 'unfair' - i.e., a note flagging DDOG's AI-monetization tailwind as already priced in.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Provides cloud monitoring, logging, and APM SaaS platform for DevOps teams observing complex distributed applications.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Software - Application sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $DDOG.

Software - Application · Technology

No material change from last week — platforms where agents expand contract value (ServiceNow, Snowflake) are re-rated upward, while tools where agents substitute human users (Adobe Creative..

What this means for $DDOG

Partial — Provides cloud monitoring, logging, and APM SaaS platform for DevOps teams observing complex distributed applications; exposure exists but is diluted by diverse end markets and revenue mix.

Top industry ETF

$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
-12.0%YTD
-14.7%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
644.1How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-0.4%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-0.7%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
1.2%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
24.0Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
3.8%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
79.9%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.3Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026May 7, 2026$0.60$0.51+18.1%
Q4 2025Feb 10, 2026$0.59$0.56+6.3%
Q3 2025Nov 6, 2025$0.55$0.46+20.2%
Q2 2025Aug 7, 2025$0.46$0.41+12.1%
Next earningsThu, Aug 6·consensus EPS $0.58

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$1.0B+32.2%79.2%0.7%$0.15$323.3M
Q4 FY25$953.2M+29.2%80.4%0.8%$0.13$318.2M
Q3 FY25$885.7M+28.4%80.1%-0.7%$0.10$234.7M
Q2 FY25$826.8M+28.1%79.9%-4.1%$0.01$203.3M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 34 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$4.4B$4.3B – $4.5B$2.42$2.37 – $2.5233
FY27$5.3B$4.9B – $5.7B$2.85$2.68 – $3.5234
FY28$6.5B$6.5B – $6.5B$3.49$2.39 – $5.3119
FY29$8.3B$8.0B – $8.9B$3.98$3.77 – $4.3410
FY30$8.3B$8.0B – $8.9B$4.69$4.44 – $5.1216

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.6×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.96%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+19.7%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+68.7%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 328.9M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today1.1% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.545-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 13Olivier PomelCEO127.1K sh$32.9MSellJul 9Amit AgarwalDirector20.0K sh$5.3MSellJul 8Alexis Le-quocCTO53.9K sh$13.9MSellJul 2Amit AgarwalDirector20.0K sh$5.2MSellJul 1Callahan Michael JamesDirector12.5K sh$3.3MSellJun 29Callahan Michael JamesDirector12.5K sh$3.1MSellJun 25Amit AgarwalDirector20.0K sh$4.4MSellJun 22Alexis Le-quocCTO17.0K sh$3.7MSellJun 18Amit AgarwalDirector19.4K sh$4.3MSellJun 16Olivier PomelCEO42.2K sh$9.7M
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KShareholder voteJun 168-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Datadog, Inc. (DDOG) reported annual meeting vote results (Item 5.07) in an 8-K filed June 16, 2026. Body unavailable — excerpt cuts off before specific vote tallies or proposal outcomes are disclosed.

8-KCharter amendmentApr 228-K — Item 3.03 · Item 5.03: Charter amendment · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote · Item 8.01: Other event
AI summary

DDOG held its special meeting of stockholders around 2026-04-22 (8-K Item 5.07). Stockholders elected 1 director to the board. Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

3New insider — initial holdingsMar 23
8-KOfficer or director changeMar 28-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
+ 13 other (4 proxys · 3 13Gs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 1 10-Q) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Datadog Announces Date of Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Callglobenewswire.com·1d agoDatadog (DDOG) Stock Dips While Market Gains: Key Factszacks.com·2d agoAI Play Datadog Nears A Buy Point On Big Money's Appetite For 'Observability' Technologyinvestors.com·2d agoDatadog Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ For Observability Platforms For Sixth Consecutive Yearglobenewswire.com·2d agoDigitalOcean vs. Datadog: What the Revenue Trends of These Tech Companies Reveal for Investorsfool.com·3d ago

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