Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) and Great Elm Group (NASDAQ:GEG) Head to Head Survey

Great Elm Group (NASDAQ:GEG) and Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Great Elm Group and Datadog, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Great Elm Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Datadog	1	7	21	2	2.77

Datadog has a consensus target price of $158.70, indicating a potential upside of 51.10%. Given Datadog’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Datadog is more favorable than Great Elm Group.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Great Elm Group and Datadog”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Great Elm Group	$19.20 million	2.95	-$1.39 million	$0.00	-200,000.00
Datadog	$2.68 billion	13.41	$183.75 million	$0.51	205.94

Datadog has higher revenue and earnings than Great Elm Group. Great Elm Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Datadog, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

52.8% of Great Elm Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Datadog shares are held by institutional investors. 51.8% of Great Elm Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Datadog shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Great Elm Group and Datadog’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Great Elm Group	0.71%	0.19%	0.10%
Datadog	6.85%	8.28%	4.55%

Risk and Volatility

Great Elm Group has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Datadog has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Datadog beats Great Elm Group on 14 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Great Elm Group

Great Elm Group, Inc. operates as a asset management company. The company engages in credit, real estate, and finance businesses. It is also involved in business development related activities and offers investment management services. The company was formerly known as Great Elm Capital Group, Inc. and changed its name to Great Elm Group, Inc. in December 2020. Great Elm Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

About Datadog

Datadog, Inc. operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in North America and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data streams and universal service monitoring, network monitoring, incident management, workflow automation, observability pipelines, cloud cost and cloud security management, application security management, cloud SIEM, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility. Datadog, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, New York.