DDOG Datadog, Inc.
Datadog, Inc. (DDOG) trend channel, buy level and 3-month target on Trade The Path. Sector: Technology. Listed on NASDAQ. Levels below are fitted to this ticker's own swing highs and lows (Theil–Sen, log-price), then projected 3 months. If this ticker has no settled sample yet, treat the numbers as a geometric read, not a track record. Information only, not financial advice.
Mid-channel (provisional)
Price is between the two trend lines. Nothing to act on yet.
Read from the last 2 years of history we hold: rising, drifting +33% a year. The target of US$293.68 is below the nearest ceiling (US$308.09), so it does not depend on a breakout. What would overturn this: a close below US$211.53 — the floor of the channel being read — after which the trend, not the entry, is what was wrong.
- 2 years read from
- US$211.53 – US$308.09 Rising channel, +33% a year
- Position in that channel
- 20% 0% at the floor, 100% at the ceiling
Provisional: fitted to a short history, so treat the lines as a first read rather than a projection. No trade is suggested and alerts stay off until there is more data.
What broke this trend
- The fall
- -27% from US$288.174 Aug 2026 → 2 Sept 2026
- Whose problem it was
- This company2 of 20 Software - Application peers fell with it
- Does it resolve?
- Temporary falls like it have resolved on the record
- Regained so far
- 28%of what it lost
- What the record says
- 93% of 27 comparable falls came back, typically in 80 days measured on its own peer group
The trend broke in August 2026: price fell 27% from 288.17 to 209.00 by September 2026, and has regained 28% of that fall since. Its peers did not fall with it, so this was about the company rather than its sector. The wire that week: “Cantor Fitzgerald Maintains Overweight on Datadog, Raises Price Target to $327”. Falls like it have resolved: falls of about 27% here have come back to the old high 93% of the time (27 comparable falls), typically in 80 days. On that record the fall is treated as temporary, and the trend lines are fitted to the regime it created rather than through it. Priced from that: 293.68 within 65 days, reached 93% of the time in 27 comparable falls — about 0.42% a day held.
The buy and sell prices below are priced off this recovery rather than off the channel: it is the better expected return per day held once each is charged for the odds of working.
Reported at the time: Cantor Fitzgerald Maintains Overweight on Datadog, Raises Price Target to $327 — 3 Aug 2026
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (2 years)
- Lower trend line (2 years)
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Our target
The lines above are fitted to a short history, which is not a base we will project a published call from. The buy and target below are still this site's read of those lines.
Buy now
US$230.85
last close · 16 Sept 2026
Channel buy is US$231.12; last close is the better price available now.
Our target
US$293.68
by 20 Nov 2026
Projected move
27.2%
gross, before costs
Last close is our buy — the best price available now.
- Upper line touches
- 6
- Lower line touches
- 3
- Fit confidence
- 22%
- Fitted
- 16 Sept 2026
About Datadog, Inc.
Datadog, Inc. offers a comprehensive cloud-based monitoring and analytics solution, serving the needs of developers, IT operations personnel, and business stakeholders across North America and internationally. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering skillfully combines and automates several crucial functions, including infrastructure oversight, application performance tracking, log management, and security surveillance, all designed to deliver live, end-to-end visibility into its customers' technology environments. Additionally, the platform extends its capabilities to include user experience monitoring, network performance analytics, robust cloud security measures, specialized observability tools for developers, and efficient incident response management. It also comes equipped with standard features like configurable dashboards, sophisticated analytical tools, collaborative features, and proactive alert systems. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Software - Application
- CEO
- Olivier Pomel
- Employees
- 8,100
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own pillar scores, computed from the fundamentals below. They are not Morningstar ratings — that data is licensed and we do not redistribute it.
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$78.74B
- Enterprise value
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- Beta
- 1.49
- Avg volume
- 5.38M
- Revenue per share
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- Dividend yield
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- 52-week range
- 98.01-292.72
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
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- Price / sales
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- Price / book
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Gross margin
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- Operating margin
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- Current ratio
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- Quick ratio
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- Debt / equity
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- Interest cover
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Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted statistically to past swing highs and lows and projected forward on the assumption the same rhythm continues. It often does not. This is information, not advice.