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Like most growth stocks riding the artificial intelligence (AI) wave, Datadog (DDOG) has come into the spotlight because it is rapidly growing, sticky, scalable, and capitalizing on strong industry trends in cloud and software. While the stock is down 2.4% year-to-date, it has soared 29.2% over the last six months. Datadog stock has even earned a “Strong Buy” rating on Wall Street. Let’s find out why.