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Datadog, Inc.

Strong FundamentalsStrong FundamentalsRevenue growing 32% YoYStreet coverage with positive forward estimatesConsistent chatter on X (244/wk), no spike
$DDOG·$83B·Software - Application·Technology
$228.75-3.5%YTD+109.9%1Y+76.0%
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2026-08-22: 11 posts2026-08-23: 5 posts2026-08-24: 28 posts244+4%
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DDDDOG
$DDOGDatadog, Inc.
$228.75-3.50%244 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.

Proven numbersWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-09-01

Trading in a tight range and building pressure — a move looks likely soon, but the direction isn't clear yet.

Palo Alto merger pitch pushed the floor higher, but insiders sold $21M last week and OpenAI is shifting log workloads to ClickHouse.

Datadog is the observability platform for cloud infrastructure. The tape has doubled from last year's lows, and the crowd is pricing continued AI-workload monitoring share while insiders exit and one specific customer starts to migrate.

Why the coil is worth naming:

  • Growth is textbook AI-cycle — last quarter revenue grew 32% YoY to $1.01B at an 80% gross margin, and consensus is $4.35B with $2.42 EPS.
  • The Palo Alto merger pitch (Nikesh Arora, 2025, per The Information) is a floor signal — knowing a strategic buyer valued DDOG well above prior levels is why the crowd is comfortable holding through the pullback risk.
  • Insider tape is loud and specific — cofounder Alexis Le-Quoc sold $9.88M on Aug 24, CEO Olivier Pomel sold $11.08M on Aug 19; ~$21M of founder-CEO selling in five days is worth flagging.
  • The OpenAI shift is the specific customer-loss risk — reports that OpenAI is moving parts of its log workload to ClickHouse would be the tell that hyperscaler-native tools are eroding DDOG's share among the most valuable AI-workload customers.
  • The multiple is stretched — 644x trailing PE (near-zero trailing OM), 24x sales — priced entirely on growth continuation.

The coil resolves higher on the Nov 5 print if RPO continues accelerating and no additional named customer log-shift lands; the wrong way if a second hyperscaler-native migration is disclosed.

Agrees with X sentimentX captures both halves — the Palo Alto merger-pitch floor and analyst target lists are real bullish inputs, and the OpenAI-log-shift plus SaaS-valuation gripes are fair; the crowd is under-weighting the $21M founder-CEO sale cluster.

What to watch: Nov 5 earnings — RPO acceleration, AI-workload observation revenue growth, and any customer-migration disclosures; a second hyperscaler-native customer shift is the invalidation.

On the calendar: 2026-11-05 — Q3 earnings

X sentiment

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

Bullish sentiment19 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-31

Sentiment leans bullish around The Information's disclosure that Palo Alto's Nikesh Arora pitched a Datadog merger in 2025 that CEO Olivier Pomel wasn't receptive to — traders frame that as a floor and note Datadog has 'roughly doubled' since. Analyst target lists ($110 to $200) and Elliott-Wave charts reinforce the bid. Pushback centers on OpenAI 'shifting parts of its log workload from $DDOG' to ClickHouse and SaaS-valuation gripes calling names 'way too expensive.'

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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

SaaS multiples remain compressed as rate-sensitive valuations weigh on pure-play software; customers are lengthening deal cycles outside of AI-native workloads. AI co-pilot upsell is the only clear near-term catalyst — companies without it are treading water.

What this means for $DDOG

Partial — cloud infrastructure exposure benefits indirectly from hyperscaler capex; core business is Datadog, Inc.

Top industry ETF

$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
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+2.5%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
Q2 2026Aug 6, 2026$0.65$0.58+11.5%
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%
Next earningsThu, Nov 5·consensus EPS $0.64

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 – $2.5234
FY27$5.3B$4.9B – $5.7B$2.85$2.69 – $3.5334
FY28$6.5B$5.9B – $7.5B$3.50$2.22 – $4.9419
FY29$8.3B$7.9B – $9.0B$3.98$3.72 – $4.4210
FY30$8.3B$7.9B – $9.0B$4.69$4.38 – $5.2116

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.0.9×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.71%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.-5.1%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.+34.9%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 today1.2% 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.β1.515-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

SellAug 24Alexis Le-quocCTO43.2K sh$9.9MSellAug 19Olivier PomelCEO47.1K sh$11.1MSellAug 14Matthew JacobsonDirector19.5K sh$5.0MSellAug 13Matthew JacobsonDirector39.9K sh$10.0MSellAug 13Amit AgarwalDirector20.0K sh$5.0MSellAug 10Alexis Le-quocCTO3.5K sh$819KSellAug 6Amit AgarwalDirector2.5K sh$563KSellAug 5Olivier PomelCEO21.4K sh$6.1MSellAug 4Callahan Michael JamesDirector12.5K sh$3.6MSellJul 30Amit AgarwalDirector20.0K sh$5.3M
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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.

+ 11 other (3 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks · 2 proxys) in window

Recent news

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

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