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2 Top Tech Stocks to Buy in January
DDOGDatadog(DDOG) The Motley Fool·2025-01-14 10:25

TSMC - TSMC plans to build 10 new facilities globally in 2025, primarily for advanced chip manufacturing, driving a projected 26% revenue increase and 29% earnings growth to $9.05 per share [1] - TSMC's revenue grew 34% in 2024, rebounding from a 4.5% decline in 2023, with Q4 revenue reaching $26.3 billion, a 39% YoY increase [9] - TSMC benefits from increased IT hardware spending, including cloud infrastructure, smartphones, and PCs, as it manufactures chips for companies like AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple [10] - TSMC is a key supplier for data center companies like Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron, and Marvell, with Nvidia's revenue expected to grow 52% in fiscal 2026 and Broadcom's AI chip market projected to reach $60-90 billion in three years [11][12] Datadog - Datadog's revenue grew 27% in the first nine months of 2024 to $1.95 billion, with Q4 guidance of $711 million, projecting full-year revenue of $2.66 billion, a 25% increase over 2023 [13][15] - Datadog's customer base grew 9% YoY to over 29,000 in Q3 2024, with an 11.5% increase in customers generating over $100,000 in annual recurring revenue [14] - The company saw a 4 percentage point increase in customers using eight or more products and a 5 percentage point increase in customers using six or more products in Q3 2024 [16] - Datadog introduced AI-powered observability products, with 3,000 customers using its AI integrations by the end of Q3 2024, positioning the company to capitalize on the growing AI cloud market [17] Industry Trends - Global IT spending is forecast to grow 9.3% in 2025 to $5.74 trillion, with software spending expected to increase 14% to $1.23 trillion due to AI-focused investments [6] - Data center spending is projected to grow 15.5% in 2025, while device spending is expected to accelerate to 9.5% from 6.2% in 2024, driven by AI server and device investments [7] - Public cloud spending is forecast to grow 21.5% in 2025, up from 19.2% in 2024, benefiting companies like Datadog [13] - The cloud observability market, estimated at $51 billion, is expected to grow at an 11% CAGR through 2027, while the cloud security market, valued at $21 billion, is projected to grow at a 16% CAGR [4]