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ESTC vs. DDOG, MDB, ZS, CRM, DT, HUBS, NET, NOW, PATH, and PD

Should you be buying Elastic stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Elastic include Datadog (DDOG), MongoDB (MDB), Zscaler (ZS), Salesforce (CRM), Dynatrace (DT), HubSpot (HUBS), Cloudflare (NET), ServiceNow (NOW), UiPath (PATH), and PagerDuty (PD). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.

Elastic vs. Its Competitors

Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Elastic currently has a consensus price target of $113.52, indicating a potential upside of 30.80%. Datadog has a consensus price target of $145.34, indicating a potential upside of 0.22%. Given Elastic's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Elastic is more favorable than Datadog.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Elastic
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
20 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.76
Datadog
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
24 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.77

97.0% of Elastic shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of Elastic shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Datadog shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Datadog has a net margin of 5.85% compared to Elastic's net margin of -7.29%. Datadog's return on equity of 6.39% beat Elastic's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Elastic-7.29% -4.46% -1.61%
Datadog 5.85%6.39%3.27%

Elastic has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Elastic$1.48B6.18-$108.11M-$1.05-82.66
Datadog$2.68B18.66$183.75M$0.46315.26

In the previous week, Datadog had 29 more articles in the media than Elastic. MarketBeat recorded 40 mentions for Datadog and 11 mentions for Elastic. Elastic's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Datadog's score of 0.83 indicating that Elastic is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Elastic
8 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Datadog
23 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Datadog beats Elastic on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ESTC vs. The Competition

MetricElasticINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$9.16B$18.31B$28.73B$20.82B
Dividend YieldN/A2.80%3.07%3.65%
P/E Ratio-82.6675.1233.6127.57
Price / Sales6.1876.821,803.5057.74
Price / Cash178.1993.5938.0922.27
Price / Book9.778.757.624.66
Net Income-$108.11M$339.44M$779.61M$995.72M
7 Day Performance2.95%4.63%2.58%-0.30%
1 Month Performance3.99%10.26%7.59%4.90%
1 Year Performance-22.39%59.83%52,486.73%11.14%

Elastic Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ESTC
Elastic
3.6428 of 5 stars
$86.79
+0.6%
$113.52
+30.8%
-22.0%$9.16B$1.48B-82.663,537Positive News
DDOG
Datadog
4.2445 of 5 stars
$143.15
+2.7%
$145.34
+1.5%
+22.1%$49.44B$2.68B311.206,500Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
MDB
MongoDB
4.61 of 5 stars
$218.53
+4.2%
$282.39
+29.2%
-10.4%$17.86B$2.01B-191.695,558Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
ZS
Zscaler
4.2247 of 5 stars
$286.29
-0.5%
$296.82
+3.7%
+51.7%$44.58B$2.17B-1,101.127,348Positive News
CRM
Salesforce
4.8585 of 5 stars
$259.66
+0.7%
$348.16
+34.1%
+6.1%$248.23B$37.90B40.6376,453Trending News
Insider Trade
DT
Dynatrace
4.6972 of 5 stars
$52.89
+1.7%
$62.26
+17.7%
+22.5%$15.96B$1.70B33.055,200Positive News
HUBS
HubSpot
4.8417 of 5 stars
$528.41
-2.4%
$764.93
+44.8%
+12.6%$27.87B$2.63B-1,174.258,246News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
NET
Cloudflare
4.0182 of 5 stars
$191.23
+0.7%
$152.32
-20.3%
+150.7%$66.28B$1.67B-831.444,263Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
NOW
ServiceNow
4.6314 of 5 stars
$959.27
-0.8%
$1,073.13
+11.9%
+30.5%$198.55B$11.47B130.3426,293Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
PATH
UiPath
2.6617 of 5 stars
$12.34
-0.5%
$13.83
+12.1%
+3.8%$6.60B$1.45B-102.794,010Insider Trade
Options Volume
PD
PagerDuty
3.4292 of 5 stars
$14.65
-1.0%
$19.50
+33.1%
-27.8%$1.33B$467.50M-36.621,242

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This page (NYSE:ESTC) was last updated on 7/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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