What is Zacks Research’s Forecast for Datadog Q1 Earnings?

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) – Investment analysts at Zacks Research lowered their Q1 2025 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for shares of Datadog in a research report issued on Thursday, March 6th. Zacks Research analyst R. Department now anticipates that the company will earn $0.11 per share for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $0.13. The consensus estimate for Datadog’s current full-year earnings is $0.34 per share. Zacks Research also issued estimates for Datadog’s Q2 2025 earnings at $0.09 EPS, Q3 2025 earnings at $0.10 EPS, Q4 2025 earnings at $0.11 EPS, FY2025 earnings at $0.42 EPS, Q1 2026 earnings at $0.17 EPS, Q2 2026 earnings at $0.20 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $0.22 EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $0.25 EPS, FY2026 earnings at $0.84 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $1.42 EPS.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 13th. The company reported $0.13 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.44 by ($0.31). Datadog had a net margin of 6.85% and a return on equity of 8.28%.

A number of other research analysts have also weighed in on DDOG. JMP Securities reissued a “market perform” rating on shares of Datadog in a report on Friday, February 14th. Citigroup cut their price objective on Datadog from $170.00 to $165.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 14th. TD Cowen reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $165.00 price objective on shares of Datadog in a report on Tuesday, November 19th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $160.00 price objective on shares of Datadog in a report on Tuesday, March 4th. Finally, Guggenheim reissued a “neutral” rating on shares of Datadog in a report on Wednesday, January 22nd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating, twenty-one have assigned a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Datadog presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $158.70.

Datadog Stock Performance

Shares of DDOG stock opened at $101.96 on Monday. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $133.38 and its 200-day simple moving average is $131.66. The firm has a market capitalization of $34.95 billion, a PE ratio of 199.93, a P/E/G ratio of 44.03 and a beta of 1.22. Datadog has a fifty-two week low of $98.80 and a fifty-two week high of $170.08.

Insider Buying and Selling at Datadog

In other Datadog news, Director Amit Agarwal sold 25,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $114.21, for a total transaction of $2,855,250.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 82,324 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $9,402,224.04. This represents a 23.29 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Olivier Pomel sold 107,365 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 7th. The shares were sold at an average price of $109.56, for a total value of $11,762,909.40. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 435,793 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $47,745,481.08. The trade was a 19.77 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 517,995 shares of company stock valued at $69,482,484 over the last quarter. 11.78% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Datadog

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC increased its holdings in shares of Datadog by 172.2% in the third quarter. Los Angeles Capital Management LLC now owns 38,841 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,469,000 after purchasing an additional 24,574 shares during the last quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC increased its holdings in shares of Datadog by 62.7% in the fourth quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC now owns 127,290 shares of the company’s stock valued at $18,188,000 after purchasing an additional 49,050 shares during the last quarter. Baillie Gifford & Co. increased its holdings in shares of Datadog by 15.8% in the fourth quarter. Baillie Gifford & Co. now owns 10,905,133 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,558,234,000 after purchasing an additional 1,484,562 shares during the last quarter. Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd increased its holdings in shares of Datadog by 140.1% in the fourth quarter. Y Intercept Hong Kong Ltd now owns 53,116 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,590,000 after purchasing an additional 30,998 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Atom Investors LP acquired a new stake in shares of Datadog in the third quarter valued at approximately $1,112,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

About Datadog

Datadog, Inc operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data streams and universal service monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility.