Datadog (DDOG) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Datadog's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
DDOG closed at $235.62 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -5.5% from its 50-day average and +35.2% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “split trend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +8.1%, beating SPY by 5.0%. It remains 19.5% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -5.5% from its 50-day average and +35.2% from its 200-day average. Over three months, DDOG returned +8.1% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -5.5%
- vs 200-day
- +35.2%
- From 52W high
- -19.5%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
DDOG appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 2 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 2 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.30, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-21 | #27 | — |
| 2026-06-01 | #27 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.061 calls, 0.062 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-08-10Aug 10: a wave of analyst defenses after the Aug 6 record ~19% post-earnings plunge — Baird raised its target to $300 from $210, Needham to $300 from $260, Stifel maintained Buy at $305, and BTIG called the selloff a buying opportunity — sparked a sharp mean-reversion rally.
Datadog sells cloud observability and monitoring software. Q2 itself was strong (revenue $1.12B, +36% YoY; adj. EPS $0.65 vs ~$0.59 consensus; FY26 guide raised to ~$4.46B), but shares had their worst day on record Aug 6 after management said its largest customer — widely understood to be OpenAI, a nine-figure account — will cut usage starting in Q3 (Stifel estimated roughly an $80M annual hit). Even after Monday's bounce the stock sits below its pre-earnings level; watch Q3 commentary on the large-customer usage ramp-down and whether other AI-native customers offset it.
Source: Investing.com, Aug 10 ↗Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Datadog position in their latest filing, worth $132M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · DDOG | $132M | 0.20% | 508,356 | -13.4% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open DDOG Financials →How DDOG trades — the working manual
Datadog sells cloud observability and security products priced largely around customer usage. For the stock, cloud-workload growth, product adoption and large-customer expansion must outweigh optimization cycles while improving sales efficiency and converting high gross margins into durable per-share cash flow.
What can move the tape
- 01Growth in cloud workloads, monitored hosts and usage across infrastructure and application products.
- 02Large-customer additions, multiproduct adoption and net retention within the installed base.
- 03Expansion into security, service management, data observability and AI workload monitoring.
- 04Gross margin, sales efficiency, free cash flow and dilution from stock-based compensation.
What can fool the read
- 01Cloud optimization can reduce usage before customer counts or contracts show the slowdown.
- 02Hyperscalers and independent observability vendors can compete through bundling and pricing.
- 03A widening product portfolio can add complexity without producing equivalent customer expansion.
- 04High expectations make the shares sensitive to usage trends and forward guidance.
Datadog triggered 5 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was DDOG on 2026-08-10: 1.8× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +12.8% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported DDOG events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
DDOG stock questions
Is DDOG stock in an uptrend?+
DDOG is classified in the “split trend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -5.5% from its 50-day average and +35.2% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in DDOG mean?+
Datadog's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the DDOG 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are DDOG's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated DDOG Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no DDOG earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.