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<ul><li>Datadog reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024, revealing a strong performance characterized by a 25% year-over-year revenue increase to $738 million, surpassing the high end of its guidance range.</li><li>The company highlighted robust growth in customer adoption, reporting a rise in its total customer base to approximately 30,000, with significant contributions from customers generating over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).</li><li>Notably, Datadog marked the expansion of its key products with infrastructure monitoring contributing over $1.25 billion in ARR and both log management and end-to-end application performance management (APM) exceeding $750 million each.</li></ul>

Datadog reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024, revealing a strong performance characterized by a 25% year-over-year revenue increase to $738 million, surpassing the high end of its guidance range.The company highlighted robust growth in customer adoption, reporting a rise in its total customer base to approximately 30,000, with significant contributions from customers generating over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR).Notably, Datadog marked the expansion of its key products with infrastructure monitoring contributing over $1.25 billion in ARR and both log management and end-to-end application performance management (APM) exceeding $750 million each.

Datadog Inc.: Product Innovations For Sustained Expansion Across Diverse Deployment Scenarios!

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CMB International

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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>Datadog (DDOG US) released (13 Feb HKT) its 4Q24 financial results: total revenue was US$737.7mn, up 25% YoY (4Q23: 27%; 3Q24: 26%), 3% better than Bloomberg consensus forecast; non-GAAP net income after tax adjustment was US$177.5mn, up 14% YoY and 10% better than consensus, driven by better-than-expected operating leverage aided by solid revenue growth.</li><li>For 2024, total revenue grew 26% YoY to US$2.68bn, and non-GAAP net income grew 41% YoY to US$653.8mn.</li><li>With strong confidence in future business development, and an intent to invest for long-term growth opportunities, management guided to grow investment in both S&amp;M and R&amp;D in 2025, and guided for high-20s YoY growth in operating expenses (vs revenue growth guidance of 18-19% YoY). </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Datadog (DDOG US) released (13 Feb HKT) its 4Q24 financial results: total revenue was US$737.7mn, up 25% YoY (4Q23: 27%; 3Q24: 26%), 3% better than Bloomberg consensus forecast; non-GAAP net income after tax adjustment was US$177.5mn, up 14% YoY and 10% better than consensus, driven by better-than-expected operating leverage aided by solid revenue growth.For 2024, total revenue grew 26% YoY to US$2.68bn, and non-GAAP net income grew 41% YoY to US$653.8mn.With strong confidence in future business development, and an intent to invest for long-term growth opportunities, management guided to grow investment in both S&amp;M and R&amp;D in 2025, and guided for high-20s YoY growth in operating expenses (vs revenue growth guidance of 18-19% YoY). Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Datadog (DDOG US) - Entering an Investment Phase to Drive Growth in Next Stage

<ul><li>Datadog's third quarter 2024 financial results indicate continued growth and expansion in their operations, though there are a mix of positive and challenging elements to consider.</li><li>Revenue for the quarter was $690 million, representing a 26% increase year-over-year and surpassing the high end of the company's guidance.</li><li>The company added about 2,400 customers over the past year, reaching a total of approximately 29,200.</li></ul>

Datadog's third quarter 2024 financial results indicate continued growth and expansion in their operations, though there are a mix of positive and challenging elements to consider.Revenue for the quarter was $690 million, representing a 26% increase year-over-year and surpassing the high end of the company's guidance.The company added about 2,400 customers over the past year, reaching a total of approximately 29,200.

Datadog Inc.: Sales Capacity & Strategic Market Penetration Driving Our ‘Outperform’ Rating! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Datadog is a modern observability and security tools provider, starting with infrastructure monitoring and expanding to Application Performance Monitor (APM), Log Management, Network Performance Monitoring (NPM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), User Experience (UX), and cloud security on the unified platform.</li><li>Riding on the tide of cloud migration and leveraging its superior full observability capability, Datadog has sustained solid revenue growth and established a strong customer mindset.</li><li>Compared to some of the incumbent industry peers, Datadog’s product is cloud-native and has the fullest technology stack integration, which in our view better suits the modern hybrid multicloud/local environments. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Datadog is a modern observability and security tools provider, starting with infrastructure monitoring and expanding to Application Performance Monitor (APM), Log Management, Network Performance Monitoring (NPM), Real User Monitoring (RUM), User Experience (UX), and cloud security on the unified platform.Riding on the tide of cloud migration and leveraging its superior full observability capability, Datadog has sustained solid revenue growth and established a strong customer mindset.Compared to some of the incumbent industry peers, Datadog’s product is cloud-native and has the fullest technology stack integration, which in our view better suits the modern hybrid multicloud/local environments. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Datadog (DDOG US) - Observability Pioneer with Solid Revenue Growth Trajectory

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Sumeet Singh

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IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

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We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/avepoint-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:37131:1" rel="noopener">AvePoint (AVPT US)</a> , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.</li>
<li>As of FY24, AP had over 25,000 customers who rely on its Confidence Platform to prepare, secure, and optimize their critical data across environments.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.</li>
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AvePoint (AVPT US) , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.
As of FY24, AP had over 25,000 customers who rely on its Confidence Platform to prepare, secure, and optimize their critical data across environments.
In this note, we look at its past performance and other deal dynamics that might impact the listing.


AvePoint SGX Secondary Listing - Strong Growth and Large Client Base but Unclear Metrics

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Datadog, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform which integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management for real-time observability of customers. Datadog operates worldwide.

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Datadog (DDOG US)

Datadog Inc.: Product Innovations For Sustained Expansion Across Diverse Deployment Scenarios!

Datadog reported its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024, revealing a strong performance characterized by a 25% year-over-year...

Baptista Research

Datadog (DDOG US) - Entering an Investment Phase to Drive Growth in Next Stage

Our TP is US$156.4 (was US$154.3), based on 16.6x 2025E EV/sales (16.1x prior), inline with its two-year average plus one s.d. BUY

CMB International

Datadog Inc.: Sales Capacity & Strategic Market Penetration Driving Our ‘Outperform’ Rating! - Major Drivers

Datadog's third quarter 2024 financial results indicate continued growth and expansion in their operations, though there are a mix of positive and...

Baptista Research

Datadog (DDOG US) - Observability Pioneer with Solid Revenue Growth Trajectory

Riding on the tide of cloud migration and leveraging its superior full observability capability, Datadog has sustained solid revenue growth and...

CMB International

AvePoint SGX Secondary Listing - Strong Growth and Large Client Base but Unclear Metrics

AvePoint (AVPT US) , a global provider of data security, governance, and resilience, aims to raise around US$300m in its Singapore secondary listing.

Sumeet Singh

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