Datadog is fascinating to me in that its experience over the last five years can teach us a lot about investing. In addition to being a great teacher, Datadog is also a fantastic business with rapid growth and huge margins, alongside a strong balance sheet. Today, I will walk us through some of the "Lessons From Datadog," then provide a comprehensive valuation of the business.

Datadog (DDOG) closed the most recent trading day at $110.58, moving +0.37% from the previous trading session.

Datadog, Inc. offers a leading observability and monitoring platform, with potential to achieve $8 billion in sales and $2-2.5 billion in net income by 2030. Despite recent technical setbacks, DDOG remains a consistent performer with an 80% gross margin and potential for significant profitability improvements due to AI efficiencies. DDOG's current valuation is relatively inexpensive, trading at around 15 times 2030 EPS estimates, making it a compelling growth stock with a long growth runway.

It's not often that every analyst covering a stock on Wall Street thinks its shares trade below where they'll be a year from now. Most widely covered stocks trade somewhere in the middle of analysts' various one-year price targets as selling pressure from the bears offsets the enthusiasm of the bulls.

Even though major U.S. stock market indexes like the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite continue climbing to new highs, not every individual stock is following along.

Shares of Datadog (DDOG -5.23%) are down 19% since the cloud security platform provider issued a weaker-than-expected 2025 outlook with slower revenue growth and higher expenses.

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Datadog (DDOG) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended December 2024, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

The S&P 500 (^GSPC -0.01%) has advanced 21% in the last year, and many stocks now trade at expensive valuations. However, most Wall Street analysts still see buying opportunities in Datadog (DDOG -3.59%) and The Trade Desk (TTD -2.15%):

DDOG's Q4 2024 results benefit from serving more customers with more products, driven by rising demand for modern observability, cloud security and more.

Datadog NASDAQ: DDOG is in the doghouse following its FQ4 2024 earnings release, but this pullback is an opportunity to buy a great stock at a discounted price. The pullback was caused by tepid guidance, but guidance is in the eye of the beholder.