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Datadog (DDOG) Competitors

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$138.40 +1.61 (+1.18%)
As of 01/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

DDOG vs. PLTR, SHOP, APP, INFY, CRWD, TEAM, NTES, TTD, SNOW, and NET

Should you be buying Datadog stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Datadog include Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Shopify (SHOP), AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Atlassian (TEAM), NetEase (NTES), Trade Desk (TTD), Snowflake (SNOW), and Cloudflare (NET). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Datadog vs.

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Palantir Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Datadog. Datadog is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Palantir Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Palantir Technologies$2.23B73.48$209.82M$0.20358.87
Datadog$2.13B22.09$48.57M$0.53261.14

Datadog received 220 more outperform votes than Palantir Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.52% of users gave Datadog an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Palantir Technologies an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Palantir TechnologiesOutperform Votes
84
41.18%
Underperform Votes
120
58.82%
DatadogOutperform Votes
304
66.52%
Underperform Votes
153
33.48%

45.7% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Palantir Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Datadog shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Palantir Technologies has a beta of 2.82, meaning that its share price is 182% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Palantir Technologies has a net margin of 18.01% compared to Datadog's net margin of 7.58%. Palantir Technologies' return on equity of 9.94% beat Datadog's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Palantir Technologies18.01% 9.94% 7.91%
Datadog 7.58%9.41%5.09%

Palantir Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $43.78, indicating a potential downside of 39.00%. Datadog has a consensus target price of $158.45, indicating a potential upside of 14.49%. Given Datadog's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Datadog is more favorable than Palantir Technologies.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Palantir Technologies
7 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.76
Datadog
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
26 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.91

In the previous week, Palantir Technologies had 42 more articles in the media than Datadog. MarketBeat recorded 106 mentions for Palantir Technologies and 64 mentions for Datadog. Palantir Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Datadog's score of 0.57 indicating that Palantir Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Palantir Technologies
69 Very Positive mention(s)
8 Positive mention(s)
23 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Datadog
21 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
15 Neutral mention(s)
6 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Palantir Technologies beats Datadog on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DDOG vs. The Competition

MetricDatadogPrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$47.70B$24.68B$26.77B$8.91B
Dividend YieldN/A2.07%2.78%4.01%
P/E Ratio261.1493.60236.9317.34
Price / Sales22.0914.273,251.1965.36
Price / Cash359.5282.5634.3735.97
Price / Book22.6112.638.414.79
Net Income$48.57M$444.67M$672.98M$225.00M
7 Day Performance-1.44%2.44%2.05%1.52%
1 Month Performance-5.81%4.31%6.09%4.88%
1 Year Performance6.21%29.46%25.94%20.12%

Datadog Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DDOG
Datadog
4.662 of 5 stars
$138.40
+1.2%
$158.45
+14.5%
+6.2%$47.02B$2.13B261.145,200Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
PLTR
Palantir Technologies
2.4412 of 5 stars
$64.52
-4.1%
$42.12
-34.7%
+327.8%$146.98B$2.65B322.623,735Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
SHOP
Shopify
4.4107 of 5 stars
$100.16
-3.4%
$100.31
+0.2%
+29.0%$129.42B$8.21B93.618,300Analyst Revision
Positive News
APP
AppLovin
2.6722 of 5 stars
$312.50
-1.9%
$338.06
+8.2%
+732.1%$104.87B$4.29B94.701,745Gap Up
INFY
Infosys
1.8635 of 5 stars
$22.62
-0.4%
$20.85
-7.8%
+5.9%$93.69B$18.84B29.00317,240Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.3421 of 5 stars
$337.24
-3.3%
$365.88
+8.5%
+22.9%$83.07B$3.74B661.277,925Analyst Forecast
TEAM
Atlassian
4.0438 of 5 stars
$237.57
-2.0%
$266.10
+12.0%
+3.9%$61.87B$4.57B-156.308,810Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Gap Up
NTES
NetEase
4.253 of 5 stars
$93.97
+3.1%
$108.43
+15.4%
+8.8%$60.34B$105.69B15.8729,128Gap Up
TTD
Trade Desk
3.2357 of 5 stars
$117.93
-0.7%
$129.55
+9.9%
+86.1%$58.21B$2.31B193.333,115Gap Up
SNOW
Snowflake
4.5869 of 5 stars
$161.72
-0.5%
$187.69
+16.1%
-11.5%$53.38B$3.41B-47.703,990Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
NET
Cloudflare
4.0494 of 5 stars
$110.04
-2.3%
$102.30
-7.0%
+44.0%$37.77B$1.57B-423.233,682Analyst Upgrade
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:DDOG) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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