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

Datadog (DDOG) recorded quarterly Return on Capital Employed of 0.48% in Q1 2026, up 48.66% quarter-over-quarter from 0.93% in Q4 2025, and down 122.0% on a YoY basis from 2.18% in Q1 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.

  • In Q1 2026, Return on Capital Employed fell 122.0% year-over-year to 0.48%; the TTM figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.48% (down 122.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 0.96%, down 277.0% from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed was 0.48% for Q1 2026 at Datadog, up from 0.93% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 2.65% in Q3 2024 to a low of 4.99% in Q2 2023.
  • Historically, Return on Capital Employed has averaged 0.74% across 5 years, with a median of 0.48% in 2026.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2023 and 2024: Return on Capital Employed plunged 554 bps in 2023, then jumped 692 bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it 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 slumped by 157 bps to 0.93% in 2025, then surged by 49 bps to 0.48% in 2026.
  • The last three Return on Capital Employed figures came in at 0.48% (Q1 2026), 0.93% (Q4 2025), and 0.96% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROCE (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 238.14 Bn 220.17 Bn 8.16 Bn 40.19%
2 Full Truck Alliance 166.83 Bn 164.28 Bn - 9.54%
3 Uber Technologies 150.36 Bn 149.32 Bn 11.88 Bn 12.81%
4 Shopify 147.75 Bn 142.01 Bn 1.55 Bn 12.40%
5 Salesforce 140.39 Bn 128.55 Bn 8.56 Bn 10.65%
6 Cadence Design Systems 105.73 Bn 104.32 Bn 1.26 Bn 17.43%
7 ServiceNow 105.42 Bn 100.24 Bn 2.83 Bn 12.32%
8 Automatic Data Processing 89.57 Bn 86.34 Bn 2.87 Bn -20.99%
9 Adobe 85.05 Bn 78.16 Bn 5.90 Bn 51.24%
10 Datadog 81.57 Bn 76.81 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%