Datadog Draws AI Growth Backing After Q1 Beat as BofA Lifts Target Above $225

6 articles · Updated · letsdatascience.com · May 31

Datadog emerged as CNBC's lead AI-demand stock pick after posting market-beating first-quarter results and issuing a strong outlook earlier in May.
Bank of America analyst Koji Ikeda reiterated a buy rating after an investor webinar with Cognizant's Vikram Thaker and raised a price target that had been $225.
TipRanks highlighted three analyst-backed stocks positioned to capture rising hyperscaler and enterprise spending on AI infrastructure and related software.
That demand thesis extends beyond chips: heavier AI workloads increase telemetry, monitoring and security needs, supporting observability platforms such as Datadog.
Investors are likely to watch upcoming quarters for bookings, net retention, AI-workload expansion and further analyst target revisions to test whether the momentum holds.

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