Cloud monitoring software company Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) will be reporting results tomorrow before the bell. Here's what investors should know.
Last quarter Datadog reported revenues of $509.5 million, up 25.4% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 1.7%. It was a weak quarter for the company, with underwhelming revenue guidance for the next quarter and full-year. The company added 80 enterprise customers paying more than $100,000 annually to a total of 2,990.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Datadog's revenue to grow 20.1% year on year to $524.2 million, slowing down from the 61.4% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.34 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company has a history of exceeding Wall St's expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years on average by 6.2%.
Looking at Datadog's peers in the software development segment, some of them have already reported Q3 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Dynatrace (NYSE:DT) delivered top-line growth of 25.9% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 2.1% and JFrog reported revenues up 23.1% year on year, exceeding estimates by 1.2%. Dynatrace traded up 9.0% on the results, JFrog was up 10.8%.
Read the full analysis of Dynatrace's and JFrog's results on StockStory.
The whole tech sector has been facing a sell-off and while some of the software development stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 2.7% over the last month. Datadog is down 9.2% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $104.5, compared to share price of $82.4.
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