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New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - July 9, 2025) - Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced its inclusion on the S&P 500 Index, effective prior to the opening of trading today. The S&P 500 is widely regarded as the best single gauge of large-cap U.S. equities, tracking the stock performance of 500 leading US companies.
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Shares of Datadog (DDOG -4.23%) shot up nearly 15% on July 3 after it was revealed that the provider of cloud-based observability, monitoring, and security solutions will join the S&P 500 index on July 9.
Shares of Datadog (DDOG -4.11%) fell on Tuesday, down as much as 6.3%, before recovering slightly to a 4.1% decline as of 12:51 p.m. ET.
Datadog stock has surged ahead of its addition to the S&P 500.
Datadog shares dropped by over 5% in early trading on Tuesday to $144.70 after Guggenheim downgraded the cloud monitoring and security firm from “neutral” to “sell,” warning of potential downside risks tied to OpenAI's shifting technology strategy.
The latest trading day saw Datadog (DDOG) settling at $152.41, representing a -1.77% change from its previous close.
BofAmerica Securities analyst Koji Ikeda maintained Datadog Inc DDOG with a Buy and raised the price target from $150 to $175 on Monday.
There comes a moment in every early-stage company when investors start to see the reward of being patient with their holdings, and that is when the early stage shifts into a “growth spurt” gear. When this happens, market share and financial metrics grow large enough that the company's stock earns its place in the higher ranks of the market, and it stops trading on the under-covered and obscure exchanges of the marketplace.