Datadog (DDOG) Return on Capital Employed (2019 - 2026)

Datadog's (DDOG) quarterly Return on Capital Employed came in at 0.48% in Q1 2026, down 122.0% year-on-year from 2.18% in Q1 2025, and up 48.66% quarter-over-quarter from 0.93% in Q4 2025.

Datadog (DDOG) Return on Capital Employed (2019 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Datadog's Return on Capital Employed history runs 8 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 0.48% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 122.0% year-over-year to 0.48% in Q1 2026; TTM through Mar 2026 was 0.48%, a 122.0% decrease from a year earlier, with the FY2025 full-year figure at 0.96%, down 277.0% from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed advanced to 0.48% in Q1 2026 per DDOG's latest filing, from 0.93% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 2.65% in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 4.99% in Q2 2023.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 0.48% (2026), against an average of 0.74%.
  • Across the five-year window, Return on Capital Employed plunged 554 bps in 2023 and soared 692 bps in 2024, its largest moves.
  • Year by year, Return on Capital Employed stood at 2.74% in 2022, then jumped by 55 bps to 1.22% in 2023, then jumped by 233 bps to 1.62% in 2024, then plunged by 157 bps to 0.93% in 2025, then surged by 49 bps to 0.48% in 2026.
  • Per Business Quant, the three latest DDOG Return on Capital Employed figures stand at 0.48% (Q1 2026), 0.93% (Q4 2025), and 0.96% (Q3 2025).

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROCE (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 208.91 Bn 189.27 Bn 8.16 Bn 40.19%
2 Full Truck Alliance 188.77 Bn 186.13 Bn - 9.52%
3 Shopify 145.98 Bn 140.23 Bn 1.55 Bn 12.40%
4 Uber Technologies 141.48 Bn 140.44 Bn 5.95 Bn 12.81%
5 Salesforce 128.51 Bn 116.67 Bn 8.56 Bn 10.65%
6 ServiceNow 98.38 Bn 93.20 Bn 2.82 Bn 10.59%
7 Automatic Data Processing 97.56 Bn 94.34 Bn 2.87 Bn -7.29%
8 Snowflake 91.55 Bn 88.59 Bn 926.45 Mn -25.94%
9 Cadence Design Systems 89.91 Bn 88.50 Bn 1.41 Bn 17.43%
10 Datadog 86.34 Bn 81.58 Bn 797.20 Mn -0.48%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 -0.48%
Dec 31, 2025 -0.93%
Sep 30, 2025 -0.96%
Jun 30, 2025 -0.40%
Mar 31, 2025 0.74%
Dec 31, 2024 1.62%
Sep 30, 2024 2.65%
Jun 30, 2024 1.94%
Mar 31, 2024 0.44%
Dec 31, 2023 -1.22%
Sep 30, 2023 -3.71%
Jun 30, 2023 -4.99%
Mar 31, 2023 -4.53%
Dec 31, 2022 -2.74%
Sep 30, 2022 -0.76%
Jun 30, 2022 0.55%
Mar 31, 2022 0.22%
Dec 31, 2021 -1.09%
Sep 30, 2021 -2.16%
Jun 30, 2021 -2.51%