Growth Metrics

Datadog (DDOG) Return on Capital Employed (2019 - 2025)

Datadog has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 7 years, most recently at 0.01% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.01% for Q4 2025, down 3.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.01% (down 3.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.01%, down 3.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.01% at Datadog, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for DDOG hit a ceiling of 0.03% in Q3 2024 and a floor of 0.05% in Q2 2023.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.01% (2025), compared with a mean of 0.01%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: dropped -6bps in 2023 and later grew 7bps in 2024.
  • Datadog's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.01% in 2021, then plummeted by -152bps to 0.03% in 2022, then surged by 55bps to 0.01% in 2023, then surged by 233bps to 0.02% in 2024, then crashed by -157bps to 0.01% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.01% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.0% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.