GoDaddy (GDDY)
Forward P/E is 12.69x against a peer median of 21.84x, a ratio of 0.58x, and GoDaddy is cheaper than each named peer individually (AKAM 15.05x, VRSN 28.62x) on a trailing P/E of 15.75x and a PEG of 0.71. Latest-quarter revenue grew 6.6% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR) — modest, but positive and slightly ahead of its group's median, so growth is not collapsing. Delivered demand check: the Internet services & infrastructure group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 5.7% year over year (SEC filings) — demand steady. A profitable, steadily growing business at roughly half the peer multiple meets the undervalued test, though the peer set behind the median is thin (see unverified).
What would change this label: Moves toward FAIRLY PRICED if revenue growth slows below +3% year over year or turns negative, since at that point a low-teens multiple would be earned rather than cheap, or if the price rises to a forward P/E near ~20x at unchanged estimates. The UNDERVALUED case strengthens if growth re-accelerates above +10% year over year while the forward P/E stays below ~14x.
GoDaddy's shares cost about 13 times next year's expected profit, while the two closest companies in its group cost about 15 and 29 times. Its sales are growing slowly, about 7% a year, but they are growing, and the company is solidly profitable. On these numbers the shares look cheap — though the comparison group here is only two companies, so treat the size of the bargain with some care.
Both lines start at 100 on 2020-09-01. Over the full window GoDaddy returned +26.08% and the S&P 500 +118.28% (price returns; dividends not reinvested). Worst peak-to-trough fall for GoDaddy: -65.0% (2025-01-28 to 2026-06-22). Source: Nasdaq official daily history.
What the label rests on
Forward P/E is 12.69x against a peer median of 21.84x, a ratio of 0.58x, and GoDaddy is cheaper than each named peer individually (AKAM 15.05x, VRSN 28.62x) on a trailing P/E of 15.75x and a PEG of 0.71. Latest-quarter revenue grew 6.6% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR) — modest, but positive and slightly ahead of its group's median, so growth is not collapsing. Delivered demand check: the Internet services & infrastructure group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 5.7% year over year (SEC filings) — demand steady. A profitable, steadily growing business at roughly half the peer multiple meets the undervalued test, though the peer set behind the median is thin (see unverified). The company’s forward P/E is 12.7× against a peer median of 21.8×. Its own history: UNVERIFIED — no sourced range available. Sector demand read: Delivered demand check: the Internet services & infrastructure group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 5.7% year over year (SEC filings) — demand steady. Latest-quarter sales growth was +6.6% versus a year earlier (SEC filings).
| Company | Price (Oct 28, 2026) | Forward P/E | Trailing P/E |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy (GDDY) | $106.08 | 12.7× | 15.8× |
| AKAM | $99.00 | 15.1× | 36.0× |
| VRSN | $302.28 | 28.6× | 32.5× |
| Peer median | 21.8× |
Multiples: stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026. Peer set chosen by sector; the median is the middle value of the set. The label and its numbers were recorded in the programme’s label registry on Oct 28, 2026 and will be scored at 6 and 12 months.
Sales, profit and cash
This company does not report a gross-profit line in its SEC facts (normal for banks, payment networks and some health insurers), so profit is shown as net income instead — gross margin is marked UNVERIFIED-absent rather than estimated.
Free cash flow = cash from operations minus spending on plant and equipment, both from the company’s SEC cash-flow statement. Gaps are quarters where that spending line is not separately tagged in the filings — shown as gaps, never estimated.
| Quarter | Sales | Gross margin | Net income | EPS (GAAP, diluted) | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q/E Jun 2026 2026-06-30 | $1.3B | — | $240M | 1.83 | $437M |
| Q/E Mar 2026 2026-03-31 | $1.3B | — | $215M | 1.60 | $467M |
| Q/E Dec 2025 2025-12-31 | $1.3B | — | $245M | — | $364M |
| Q/E Sep 2025 2025-09-30 | $1.3B | — | $210M | 1.51 | $435M |
| Q/E Jun 2025 2025-06-30 | $1.2B | — | $200M | 1.41 | $376M |
| Q/E Mar 2025 2025-03-31 | $1.2B | — | $220M | 1.51 | $401M |
| Q/E Dec 2024 2024-12-31 | $1.2B | — | $199M | — | $326M |
| Q/E Sep 2024 2024-09-30 | $1.1B | — | $190M | 1.32 | $350M |
| Q/E Jun 2024 2024-06-30 | $1.1B | — | $146M | 1.01 | $292M |
| Q/E Mar 2024 2024-03-31 | $1.1B | — | $402M | — | $293M |
| Q/E Dec 2023 2023-12-31 | $1.1B | — | $1.1B | — | $294M |
| Q/E Sep 2023 2023-09-30 | $1.1B | — | $131M | — | $272M |
The last twelve reported quarters. Full 24-quarter history sits in the data pack behind this page. A dash means the figure is not tagged as a standalone quarter in the company’s SEC facts (the usual case is the fourth quarter, which many companies only report inside the full-year filing) — it is missing, not zero.
Earnings: getting better or worse?
Each box is one quarter’s earnings per share (EPS). Green means EPS was higher than the same quarter a year earlier; red means lower; a dash means the figure is not tagged in the filings.
Basis: GAAP diluted EPS from SEC company facts, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Key facts
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Company (legal name in filings) | GoDaddy Inc. |
| Chief executive | Aman Bhutani (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy) |
| Sector | Technology — Internet Services & Infrastructure — sells domain registration, web hosting and online tools for small businesses |
| Share price (Oct 28, 2026) | $106.08 |
| Market value (market cap) | $13.5B — share price times shares outstanding of 126,647,704 (SEC filings; SEC EDGAR dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (latest)) |
| Sales, last twelve months | $5.1B |
| Net income, last twelve months | $910M |
| Free cash flow, last twelve months | $1.7B |
| Latest reported quarter | Q/E Jun 2026 (of 24 quarters in the data pack) |
| Six-year price return vs S&P 500 | +26.08% vs +118.28% |
| Worst peak-to-trough fall | -65.0% (2025-01-28 to 2026-06-22) |
What we could not verify
- Gross profit / gross margin: not tagged as a standalone line in this company's EDGAR company facts (common for banks, payment networks and some healthcare payers) — shown as UNVERIFIED-absent; the page charts revenue and net income instead.
- TTM GAAP diluted EPS could not be summed from company facts because at least one of the last four quarters (typically Q4) has no standalone tagged EPS; trailing P/E is therefore taken from the labelled secondary source in valuation_label.md.
- Own-history P/E range not yet compiled for this company in the Phase 1 batch run; the label rests on peer-median, growth and PEG evidence.
- The brief's peer set for this ticker contains only two peers (AKAM, VRSN) rather than the standard five, so the peer median of 21.84x rests on a thin comparison set; the label is supported by GoDaddy trading below each named peer individually, but the evidence base is thinner than for other names in this batch.
- Guidance record (each quarter scored against the guidance the company gave the quarter before) is not yet compiled for this company — it is a Phase 2 layer. The earnings strip below therefore uses reported EPS versus a year earlier, which is fully sourced from filings.
The IT factor — the most exciting thing the market is overlooking — is not assessed on an X-Ray page. It belongs to the Deep Dive (Phase 2), where it gets the evidence standard it needs. Leadership-era scoring (the six years split by chief executive) is likewise a Phase 2 layer; this page names the current chief executive only, from a sourced profile.
Sources
- SEC EDGAR submissions — Filing index; company legal name.
https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001609711.json - SEC EDGAR company facts — Quarterly financial spine: revenue, gross profit, net income, GAAP diluted EPS, operating cash flow, PP&E capex, buybacks, dividends, diluted shares.
https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001609711.json - Nasdaq official daily history — Daily closes for the company; SPY (assetclass=etf) saved as raw/nasdaq_spy_raw.json over identical dates.
https://api.nasdaq.com/api/quote/GDDY/historical?assetclass=stocks - Valuation multiples and peer figures — stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026; see valuation_label.md in the data pack.
Conventions: earliest-filed value per period, as first reported; cash-flow years-to-date differenced quarter by quarter; EPS never differenced; free cash flow = operating cash flow minus plant-and-equipment spending. This page is a dated snapshot — updates are new versions, never silent edits.