DDOG
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- DDOG −1.82% on the last session vs SPY +0.08%: −1.9 pts of stock-specific move.
- Against the group: its software peers +2.9% (+2.8 pts vs SPY).
- Aftermath, big drop (Oct 14): After its 50 big drops in the past 5 years, DDOG was higher a day later 20 times out of 50; half the outcomes fell between -2.5% and +1.0%. History, not a forecast.
- 1 analyst action in the past 10 days (1 positive, 0 negative); latest: CIBC maintained Outperformer, raised target $280 → $315.
- 1 insider or congressional trade in the past 30 days.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices DDOG only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
278.30 +3.3% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
289.79 +7.6% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 264.44 · prior close 269.33 | |
| Bargain buy side |
260.65 -3.2% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
250.31 -7.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 257.89 | 2 in 10 days | 281.27 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 260.65 | 3 in 10 days | 278.30 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 263.25 | 4 in 10 days | 275.55 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 244.43 | 2 in 10 weeks | 296.77 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 250.31 | 3 in 10 weeks | 289.79 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 255.92 | 4 in 10 weeks | 283.44 | 5 in 10 weeks↑ 49% vs 48% |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From DDOG's daily swings (about 3.4% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
- Stretch price, next session: reached 31% of days instead of the usual 28% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Stretch price, next 5 sessions: reached 31% of weeks instead of the usual 30% (held in 8 of 10 years)
| Date | That day | 1 week on | 1 month on | 3 months on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | -5.6% | +0.6% | +23.5% | — |
| Aug 17, 2026 | -3.2% | -8.7% | -6.7% | — |
| Aug 6, 2026 | -19.0% | +10.0% | -7.1% | — |
| Jul 21, 2026 | -3.2% | -1.5% | -8.3% | — |
| Jul 10, 2026 | -4.3% | +0.4% | +1.3% | +6.3% |
| Jun 3, 2026 | -7.0% | -9.1% | +2.0% | -16.4% |
| Apr 23, 2026 | -3.2% | +3.4% | +73.9% | +93.1% |
| Apr 6, 2026 | -3.2% | -5.5% | +25.1% | +120.4% |
Big drop and big gain: among DDOG's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| Highest analyst target | 340.00 +28.6% |
| All-time and 52-week closing high Oct 9, 2026 |
293.26 +10.9% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 289.79 +9.6% |
| Mean analyst target | 287.83 +8.8% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
269.33 +1.8% |
| Now | 264.44 |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 250.31 -5.3% |
| 50-day average | 246.71 -6.7% |
| 200-day average | 191.06 -27.8% |
| Lowest analyst target | 158.00 -40.3% |
| 52-week closing low Feb 23, 2026 |
102.61 -61.2% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 7 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.