Datadog DDOG

equity

Price History

2019-09 · DCA start$33.91

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

2019-092026-08 · -10.1%

Worst drawdown: −62%, peaking Nov 2021 and bottoming Apr 2023 — 54 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $8,400
Value today: $21,410
Return: +154.9%
Months invested: 84

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $9,528 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +124.7%.

Lump sum instead — $8,400 all at once in Sep 2019: $59,677 (+610.4%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $189.9 on $200 invested (-5.0%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

	J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026

Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2019-09: +154.9%

About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. is an American company that provides an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. Founded and headquartered in New York City, the company is a publicly traded entity on the Nasdaq stock exchange. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and application software.

It rates High Risk at 2.8/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and market / volatility (3.3/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: leverage / financial, concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

High Risk(2.8/5)60% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.3/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)4/553.6
Max drawdown from ATH3/562.2
Beta vs S&P 5003/51.3

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/51.4bn
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financialunrated · weight 20%

Debt / equitynot yet researched
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched

Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatility5/5220

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governanceunrated · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit historynot yet researched

Sector / Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure1/5low

Linked Assets

Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.