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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Closed at All-Time Highs, and the AI Software Stock Nobody Talks About Jumped 31% in a Single Day.
By The Numbers
- +2.3% — S&P 500 weekly gain, closing at a new all-time high of 7,398.93
- +4.5% — Nasdaq Composite weekly gain, closing at a new record of 26,247.08
- 115,000 — April nonfarm payrolls added; unemployment held steady at 4.3%
- $1.006 billion — Datadog Q1 2026 revenue, the company's first $1 billion quarter, up 32% year-over-year
- 31% — Datadog's single-day stock gain on May 7 after the earnings report dropped
Markets closed at record highs Friday as corporate earnings held strong and the April jobs report came in better than expected. The S&P 500 gained 2.3% for the week to close at 7,398.93, a new all-time high. The Nasdaq climbed 4.5% to a fresh record of 26,247.08. The jobs market added 115,000 nonfarm payrolls in April, with unemployment steady at 4.3%. The week's biggest single-stock story was Datadog. The AI monitoring company crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, Q1 revenue hitting $1.006 billion, up 32% year-over-year. The stock jumped 31% in a single session after those numbers landed. This week's Stock of the Week digs into why Datadog's momentum has more room to run.
Stock of the Week Datadog (DDOG) Datadog just had its first $1 billion quarter. Revenue up 32% year-over-year, EPS beat by 18%, full-year guidance raised by $240 million at the midpoint. The AI monitoring story comes down to this: every company deploying AI needs someone watching what those systems do in real time. Datadog does that. Its 3,540 enterprise customers just got a stronger reason to expand their contracts, and the AI deployment wave is still accelerating.
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