{"id":70860,"date":"2025-08-09T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70860\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:05:07","slug":"datadog-ddog-pt-lifted-to-170-on-ai-driven-usage-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70860\/","title":{"rendered":"Datadog (DDOG) PT Lifted to $170 on AI-Driven Usage Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/DDOG\" data-ylk=\"slk:DDOG;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DDOG<\/a>) is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidermonkey.com\/blog\/15-hot-ai-stocks-on-wall-streets-radar-1586527\/?singlepage=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hot AI Stocks on Wall Street\u2019s Radar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Hot AI Stocks on Wall Street\u2019s Radar<\/a>.\u00a0On August 7,\u00a0 DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria raised the price target on the stock to $170.00 (from $160.00) while maintaining a Buy rating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The firm continues to highlight Datadog as a top pick, with the rating affirmation following Datadog\u2019s \u201c strong beat and raise\u201d quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The New-York based company reported better-than-expected\u00a0 usage growth due to AI native activity and normal growth from other business segments.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Datadog (DDOG) PT Lifted to $170 on AI-Driven Usage Growth\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"538\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1gfnohs loader\"\/> Datadog (DDOG) PT Lifted to $170 on AI-Driven Usage Growth      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">A quantitative analyst poring over many index tracking charts related to public obligations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Its overall growth outlook has improved as well. Its September quarter sales guidance came in well above expectations while 2025 revenue guidance was also raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1ba2ufg\">\u201cThe overall growth outlook improved and Datadog is doubling down on product investments where it is seeing good traction. Datadog\u2019s favorable positioning for growth this year is unchanged in our view after results. We continue to highlight DDOG as a top pick. We reiterate our BUY rating and raise our price target to $170.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">While we acknowledge the potential of DDOG as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. 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(NASDAQ:DDOG) is one of the Hot AI Stocks on Wall Street\u2019s Radar.\u00a0On August 7,\u00a0 DA Davidson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,51078,51080,23982,51079,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-70860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-datadog","12":"tag-ddog","13":"tag-growth-outlook","14":"tag-quantitative-analyst","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}