DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) grows AI ARR to $170M but Q1 profit compresses
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DigitalOcean Holdings reported first-quarter 2026 results showing strong top-line growth but lower profitability. Revenue rose to $257.9 million from $210.7 million, driven by a 35% increase from Digital Native Enterprise customers and ARR reaching $1.03 billion. AI Customer ARR jumped to $170 million from $53 million, highlighting rapid uptake of its Gradient AI Agentic Cloud offerings.
Gross margin declined to 56% from 61% as data center expansions lifted depreciation and co-location costs. Net income fell to $15.8 million from $38.2 million, pressured by higher interest expense, a $2.7 million loss on extinguishment of debt and larger tax expense. Cash and cash equivalents expanded to $741.4 million, aided by a $887.9 million follow-on equity offering and full repayment of the $500 million term loan, while $937.3 million of convertible notes remain outstanding. Net dollar retention improved slightly to 101%, and management emphasized continued investment in AI infrastructure, long-term data center leases and product development.
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Insights
DigitalOcean shifts toward an equity-funded, AI-focused growth strategy while managing sizable convertibles.
DigitalOcean grew Q1 2026 revenue to $257.9 million, up 22% year over year, with ARR at $1.03 billion. AI Customer ARR climbed to $170 million from $53 million, showing rapid adoption of its Gradient AI Agentic Cloud and related AI/ML offerings.
Profitability compressed: gross margin fell to 56% from 61% as depreciation and co-location costs rose from data center expansions. Net income declined to $15.8 million from $38.2 million, driven by higher interest expense, a $2.7 million loss on extinguishment of the Term Loan Facility, increased foreign-exchange losses and a higher effective tax rate.
On the balance sheet, the company raised $887.9 million net in a follow-on equity offering at $77.00 per share and repaid $500.0 million of term debt, ending with $741.4 million in cash and cash equivalents. It still has $937.3 million of 2026 and 2030 Convertible Notes outstanding and expects to address the $312.3 million 2026 maturity using its Revolving Facility and cash. Significant new long-term colocation leases and finance leases increase fixed obligations, so future operating leverage will depend on sustaining ARR and AI ARR growth while absorbing these commitments.
Key Figures
Revenue: $257.9M
Net income: $15.8M
ARR: $1.03B
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8 metrics
Revenue
$257.9M
Three months ended March 31, 2026; up from $210.7M in 2025
Net income
$15.8M
Three months ended March 31, 2026; down from $38.2M in 2025
ARR
$1.03B
Annual run-rate revenue as of March 31, 2026; was $843M a year earlier
AI Customer ARR
$170M
AI Customer ARR as of March 31, 2026; up from $53M in 2025
Gross margin
56%
Q1 2026 gross profit as percentage of revenue; previously 61% in Q1 2025
Cash and cash equivalents
$741.4M
Balance as of March 31, 2026 on condensed consolidated balance sheet
Convertible notes outstanding
$937.3M
Aggregate principal of 2030 and 2026 Convertible Notes as of March 31, 2026
Net dollar retention rate
101%
Average net dollar retention for three months ended March 31, 2026
Key Terms
Digital Native Enterprise Customers, annual run-rate revenue, AI Customer ARR, 2030 Convertible Notes, +2 more
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Digital Native Enterprise Customers financial
"We refer to customers spending more than $500 in a given month collectively as our Digital Native Enterprise (“DNE”) Customers."
annual run-rate revenue financial
"Our annual run-rate revenue (“ARR”) as of March 31, 2026 was $1,032 million, up from $843 million as of March 31, 2025."
Annual run-rate revenue is an estimate of a company’s yearly sales obtained by taking recent revenue (for a month or quarter) and projecting it over a full year, like multiplying one month’s receipts by twelve. Investors use it as a quick snapshot of current business size and momentum — similar to measuring a car’s speed over a short stretch to guess its travel over an hour — but it can be misleading if recent results include one-time gains or seasonal swings.
AI Customer ARR financial
"Our AI Customer ARR as of March 31, 2026 was $170 million, up from $53 million as of March 31, 2025."
2030 Convertible Notes financial
"On August 14, 2025, the Company issued $625,000 aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 (“2030 Convertible Notes”) in a private offering."
Term Loan Facility financial
"On March 27, 2026, the Company repaid the $500,000 outstanding principal of its Term Loan Facility in cash from the proceeds of its follow-on offering."
A term loan facility is a type of loan provided by a lender that is repaid over a set period of time, usually with fixed payments. It functions like a large, upfront loan that a borrower agrees to pay back gradually, often used to fund major investments or projects. For investors, understanding a company's use of such loans helps assess its financial stability and risk level.
capped call transactions financial
"the Company entered into capped call transactions with one or more financial institutions, including an affiliate of an initial purchaser (“2030 Capped Calls”)."
Capped call transactions are agreements where investors buy options that give them the chance to benefit if a stock's price goes up, but with a limit on how much they can gain. This helps protect them from paying too much if the stock's price rises a lot, similar to having a maximum limit on a reward. They matter because they help investors manage risk while still allowing some upside potential.
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FORM 10-Q
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For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026
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| PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION | ||||||||
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| Item 1. | Financial Statements (unaudited) | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 | 2 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 | 3 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 | 4 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 | 5 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 | 6 | |||||||
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements | 8 | |||||||
Item 2. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 21 | ||||||
Item 3. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk | 34 | ||||||
Item 4. | Controls and Procedures | 34 | ||||||
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Item 1. | Legal Proceedings | 35 | ||||||
Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 35 | ||||||
Item 2. | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds | 35 | ||||||
Item 3. | Defaults Upon Senior Securities | 35 | ||||||
Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | 35 | ||||||
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Item 6. | Exhibits | 35 | ||||||
Signatures | 37 | |||||||
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DIGITALOCEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands, except share amounts)
(unaudited)
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| Total liabilities and stockholders' equity (deficit) | $ | $ | |||||||||
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
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DIGITALOCEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(unaudited)
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
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DIGITALOCEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
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| Net income attributable to common stockholders | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other comprehensive (loss) income | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comprehensive income | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
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DIGITALOCEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
(in thousands, except share amounts)
(unaudited)
| Common Stock | Additional Paid-In Capital | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | Accumulated Deficit | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Balance at December 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of common stock under equity incentive plan, net of taxes withheld | — | ( | — | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of common stock in connection with follow-on public offering, net of underwriter discounts and issuance costs | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive loss | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income attributable to common stockholders | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2026 | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Stock | Additional Paid-In Capital | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | Accumulated Deficit | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Balance at December 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of common stock under equity incentive plan, net of taxes withheld | — | ( | — | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Repurchase and retirement of common stock including related costs | ( | — | ( | — | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income attributable to common stockholders | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at March 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
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DIGITALOCEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
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| Loss on extinguishment of debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities, net | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-cash interest expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Capital expenditures - internal-use software | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Acquisition of equipment under financing arrangements | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Net cash used in investing activities | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Proceeds from follow-on public offering, net of underwriting discounts and issuance costs | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Principal repayment of Term Loan Facility | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Proceeds from drawdown of Term Loan Facility | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proceeds related to issuance of common stock under equity incentive plan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Employee payroll taxes paid related to net settlement of equity awards | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Proceeds from financing arrangements | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Principal repayments of finance leases and financing arrangements | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Repurchase and retirement of common stock including related costs | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
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DIGITALOCEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
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| 2026 | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Capitalized stock-based compensation | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Property and equipment received but not yet paid, included in accounts payable and accrued other expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finance right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for finance lease liabilities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
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DIGITALOCEAN HOLDINGS, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
Note 1. Nature of the Business
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, “the Company”, “we”, “our”, “us”) is an AI-Native Cloud, purpose-built for inference and agentic workloads that brings infrastructure, core cloud services, inference, data, and agents together in one integrated stack that is open throughout, giving builders the best of the AI ecosystem in one place. The Company’s platform is designed to be simple, scalable and approachable by providing a variety of product offerings that were built with the needs of growing technology companies in mind. The Company offers a comprehensive set of cloud platform capabilities which span across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“IaaS”), including Droplet virtual machines, storage and networking offerings; Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) and Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”), including Managed Hosting, Managed Database, Managed Kubernetes and Marketplace offerings. The Company also offers a comprehensive artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI/ML”) platform - DigitalOcean Gradient® AI Agentic Cloud, which includes Gradient AI Infrastructure with offerings such as GPU Droplets and Bare Metal GPUs; the Gradient AI Platform which offers various building block services including Large Language Models (“LLMs”); and Gradient AI Agents. The Company continues to invest in its platform to further penetrate the growing markets in which it operates.
The Company has adopted a holding company structure and the primary operations are performed globally through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries.
Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
Reclassifications
Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform with current period presentation.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of these condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make, on an ongoing basis, estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the amounts reported and disclosed in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Such estimates include, but are not limited to, those related to revenue recognition, accounts receivable and related reserves, useful lives and realizability of long-lived assets, capitalized internal-use software development costs, accounting for stock-based compensation including estimation of forfeiture rates and the probability of performance vesting conditions, the incremental borrowing rate used to determine lease liabilities, valuation allowances against deferred tax assets, fair value of financial instruments, and the fair value and useful lives of tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed resulting from business combinations. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions which management believes to be reasonable, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities. Estimates are periodically reviewed to consider changes in circumstances, facts and experience.
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Restricted Cash
The following table reconciles cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash per the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows:
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| Write-offs and other | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 31, 2026 | $ | ||||||||||||||||
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-05, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (“Topic 326”): Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets (“ASU 2025-05”), which amends Topic 326 to provide a practical expedient and an accounting policy election related to the estimation of expected credit losses for current accounts receivable and current contract assets that arise from transactions accounted for under ASC 606. Specifically, in developing reasonable and supportable forecasts as part of estimating expected credit losses, all entities may elect a practical expedient that assumes that current conditions as of the balance sheet date do not change for the remaining life of the asset. ASU 2025-05 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2025, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. The Company adopted the practical expedient of ASU 2025-05 on January 1, 2026 on a prospective basis. There was no impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements – Pending Adoption
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (“Subtopic 220-40”): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses (“ASU 2024-03”). In January 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-01, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (“Subtopic 220-40”): Clarifying the Effective Date. ASU 2024-03 requires that an entity breaks down expenses into specific categories, such as employee compensation and costs related to depreciation and amortization, as well as a qualitative description of the amounts remaining in relevant expense captions that are not separately disaggregated quantitatively. Further, ASU 2024-03 requires disclosure of the total amount of selling expenses and, in annual reporting periods, an entity’s definition of selling expenses. As clarified in ASU 2025-01, the amendments in ASU 2024-03 are required to be adopted for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim
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reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The amendments should be applied on a prospective basis for financial statements issued after the adoption date, although retrospective application is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adoption on its financial disclosures.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-06, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (“Subtopic 350-40”): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software ("ASU 2025-06"). ASU 2025-06 modernizes the accounting for internal-use software costs by increasing the operability of the recognition guidance considering different methods of software development. ASU 2025-06 is effective for the Company for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted. The amendment can be applied prospectively, retrospectively, or via a modified prospective transition method. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the new standard on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-11, Interim Reporting (“Topic 270”): Narrow-scope Improvements (“ASU 2025-11”). ASU 2025-11 enhances GAAP interim reporting by specifying required disclosures, establishing a disclosure principle for material post-year-end events, and clarifying the scope, types, and presentation of interim financial statements. ASU 2025-11 is effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, for public business entities and for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2028, for entities other than public business entities. Early adoption is permitted. The amendment can be applied prospectively or retrospectively for all prior periods presented in the financial statements. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the new standard; however, it does not expect that the standard will have a material impact on its condensed consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
Note 3. Revenue
Revenue Disaggregation
Based on the information provided to and reviewed by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), its chief operating decision maker, the Company believes that the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of its revenue and cash flows and how they are affected by economic factors is most appropriately depicted based on the category of its customers. Customers are classified in categories based on the amount of their spend in a given month and individual customers may fall within different categories within a reporting period.
The Company classifies its customers into the following annual run-rate revenue (“ARR”) categories (customer spend in a month in whole dollars):
•Digital Native Enterprise (“DNE”) Customers: users that spend more than $500 in a month. DNE Customers include the following categories:
◦Above $6 K and under $100 K Customers: users that spend more than $500 and less than or equal to $8,333 in a month.
◦Above $100 K and under $500 K Customers: users that spend more than $8,333 and less than or equal to $41,667 in a month.
◦Above $500 K and under $1 M Customers: users that spend more than $41,667 and less than or equal to $83,333 in a month.
◦Above $1 M Customers: users that spend more than $83,333 in a month.
•Developers: users that spend less than or equal to $500 in a month, except users that spend less than or equal to $50 in a month and have been on the Company’s platform for three months or less.
Revenue by customer ARR category, as determined based on the customers’ spend in a given month, was as follows:
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| 2026 | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Above $ | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Above $ | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Above $ | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Digital Native Enterprise Customers(2) | $ | % | $ | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developers and other(2) (3) | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | % | $ | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) May not recalculate due to rounding.
(2) Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Company revised its customer category naming and classification. Prior periods have been recast to reflect the effects of these changes.
(3) Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2025, Developers and other include revenue from users that spend less than or equal to $500 in a given month, revenue from certain legacy Bare Metal CPU offerings, miscellaneous revenue and other reserve adjustments. Prior periods have been recast to reflect the effect of this change.
Geographical Information
Revenue, as determined based on the Company’s customers’ billing address, was as follows:
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| 2026 | 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| North America | $ | % | $ | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Europe | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total | $ | % | $ | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revenue derived from customers in the United States was 38 % and 31 % of total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Deferred Revenue
Deferred revenue was $6,283 and $5,882 as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. Revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 was $2,000 and $2,235 , respectively, which was included in the deferred revenue balances at the beginning of each respective period.
Concentration of Credit Risk
The amounts reflected in the condensed consolidated balance sheets for cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, restricted cash, and trade accounts receivable are exposed to concentrations of credit risk. Although the Company maintains cash and cash equivalents with multiple financial institutions, the deposits, at times, may exceed federally insured limits. The Company believes that the financial institutions that hold its cash and cash equivalents are financially sound and, accordingly, minimal credit risk exists with respect to these balances. The Company’s customer base consists of a significant number of geographically dispersed customers.
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Remaining Performance Obligations
The Company has performance obligations associated with commitments in customer contracts for future services that have not yet been recognized in the condensed consolidated financial statements. As of March 31, 2026, the aggregate transaction price allocated to the remaining performance obligations, which includes contracts with expected term of one year or less, is $243,063 with a weighted-average life of 1.6 years. As of March 31, 2026, the Company expects to recognize $167,415 of its remaining performance obligations as revenue over the next 12 months, with the remainder recognized thereafter over the remaining life of the contracts.
Note 4. Fair Value Measurements
The fair value of the Company’s financial assets measured on a recurring basis was as follows:
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| Total Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
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| Cash | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
| Money market funds | |||||||||||||||||
| Total Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||
The Company classifies its highly liquid money market funds within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy because they are valued based on quoted market prices in active markets. The Company had no Level 2 or Level 3 financial assets as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025.
Interest income from investments was $2,878 , and $3,657 for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Financial Instruments Not Recorded at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
The Company reports financial instruments at fair value, with the exception of its convertible notes. Financial instruments that are not recorded at fair value on a recurring basis are measured at fair value on a quarterly basis for disclosure purposes. Refer to Note 6. Debt for the carrying values and estimated fair values of financial instruments not recorded at fair value.
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Note 5. Balance Sheet Details
Property and equipment, net
Property and equipment, net consisted of the following:
| March 31, 2026 | December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||
Servers and related equipment | $ | $ | |||||||||
Equipment under finance leases and financing obligations(1) | |||||||||||
| Internal-use software | |||||||||||
| Leasehold improvements | |||||||||||
| Furniture and fixtures | |||||||||||
| Property and equipment, gross | $ | $ | |||||||||
Less: accumulated depreciation(1) | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
Less: accumulated amortization | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Property and equipment, net | $ | $ | |||||||||
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Depreciation expense on property and equipment was $37,004 , and $21,759 for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Capitalized costs related to the development of computer software for internal use were $3,481 and $2,599 for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, which is included in internal-use software costs within property and equipment, net. Amortization expense related to internal-use and purchased software was $3,533 , and $2,254 for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Accrued Other Expenses
Accrued other expenses consisted of the following:
| March 31, 2026 | December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||
| Accrued capital expenditures | $ | $ | |||||||||
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Total accrued other expenses | $ | $ | |||||||||
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Note 6. Debt
Debt, Long-term
The net carrying amount of the Company’s debt consisted of the following:
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| March 31, 2026 | December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||
| 2030 Convertible Notes | $ | $ | |||||||||
| 2026 Convertible Notes | |||||||||||
| Term Loan Facility | |||||||||||
| Total obligations | |||||||||||
| Unamortized debt issuance costs | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Carrying value of debt | |||||||||||
| Less: Debt, current | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Debt, long-term | $ | $ | |||||||||
As of March 31, 2026, the total fair value of the 2030 Convertible Notes was $1,436,806 , and the fair value of the 2026 Convertible Notes was $305,963 . The fair value was determined based on the closing trading price as of the last day of trading for the period. The Company classifies the fair value to be a Level 2 valuation within the fair value measurement hierarchy due to the limited trading activity.
2030 Convertible Notes
On August 14, 2025, the Company issued $625,000 aggregate principal amount of 0.00 % Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 (“2030 Convertible Notes”) in a private offering, including the exercise in full of the option granted to the initial purchasers to purchase an additional $75,000 principal amount of the 2030 Convertible Notes. The 2030 Convertible Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company and do not bear regular interest, and the principal amount of the 2030 Convertible Notes does not accrete. The 2030 Convertible Notes will mature on August 15, 2030, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased.
The following table presents details of the 2030 Convertible Notes:
| Initial Conversion Rate per $1,000 Principal | Initial Conversion Price (In whole $) | Initial Number of Shares (In thousands) | |||||||||||||||
| 2030 Convertible Notes | 25.5317 | $ | |||||||||||||||
Holders may convert the 2030 Convertible Notes at their option only in the following circumstances:
(1) during any calendar quarter (and only during such calendar quarter) commencing after the calendar quarter ending on December 31, 2025, if the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock exceeds 130 % of the conversion price for each of at least 20 trading days, whether or not consecutive, during the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter;
(2) during the five consecutive business days immediately after any 10 consecutive trading day period (such 10 consecutive trading day period, the “measurement period”) if the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of 2030 Convertible Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98 % of the product of the last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock on such trading day and the conversion rate on such trading day;
(3) if the Company calls the 2030 Convertible Notes for redemption; and
(4) upon the occurrence of certain corporate events or distributions of the Company’s common stock, as described in the indenture governing the 2030 Convertible Notes.
During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the circumstances allowing holders to convert the 2030 Convertible Notes were met since the Company’s last reported sale price per share of the Company’s common stock exceeded 130 % of the conversion price of $39.17 for each of at least 20 trading days, whether or not consecutive, during
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the 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter. Therefore the 2030 Convertible Notes are currently convertible, in whole or in part, at the option of the holders between April 1, 2026 through June 30, 2026. Whether the 2030 Convertible Notes will be convertible following such period will depend on the continued satisfaction of this condition or another conversion condition in the future.
The Company has the election of settling any conversion of the 2030 Convertible Notes in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of both. The Company continues to classify the 2030 Convertible Notes as a long-term liability in its condensed consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2026 because the Company has the option to settle the 2030 Convertible Notes in shares and the maturity date exceeds one year from the balance sheet date.
2030 Capped Calls
In connection with the pricing and exercise in full by the initial purchasers of their option to purchase additional 2030 Convertible Notes, the Company entered into capped call transactions with one or more financial institutions, including an affiliate of an initial purchaser (“2030 Capped Calls”). The 2030 Capped Calls have an initial strike price of $39.17 per share, which corresponds to the initial conversion price of the 2030 Convertible Notes. The 2030 Capped Calls have an initial cap price of $66.51 per share. The 2030 Capped Calls are generally expected to reduce the potential dilution to the Company’s common stock upon any conversion of the 2030 Convertible Notes and/or offset any cash payments the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted 2030 Convertible Notes, with such reduction and/or offset subject to the cap price. The strike price, cap price and other terms of the 2030 Capped Calls are subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the capped call transactions. As of March 31, 2026, all of the 2030 Capped Calls remain outstanding.
2025 Credit Facility
On May 5, 2025, the Company entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) by and among the Company, its wholly owned subsidiary, DigitalOcean, LLC, as borrower (the “Borrower”), with Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as administrative agent for a $500,000 senior secured delayed draw term loan facility (“Term Loan Facility”, and any loans thereunder “Term Loans”) and a $300,000 senior secured revolving credit facility (“Revolving Facility”, and any loans thereunder “Revolving Loans”) which includes a $30,000 sublimit for the issuance of letters of credit (collectively the “2025 Credit Facility”). The Term Loan Facility and Revolving Facility mature on May 5, 2030, and are subject to a springing maturity date in the event certain conditions occur as described in the Credit Agreement. Revolving Loans may be borrowed, repaid and reborrowed, until their maturity date. Term Loans may be borrowed between May 5, 2025 and February 5, 2026 and once borrowed and repaid, cannot be reborrowed.
On February 3, 2026, the Company drew down the remaining $120,000 available principal under its Term Loan Facility resulting in a total outstanding principal amount of $500,000 . On March 27, 2026, the Company repaid the $500,000 outstanding principal of its Term Loan Facility in cash from the proceeds of its follow-on offering (see Note 9. Stockholders’ Equity ) and wrote-off $2,700 of related unamortized issuance costs. The repayment was accounted as an extinguishment, resulting in a loss on extinguishment of debt of $2,700 recorded in other (expense) income, net on the Company’s condensed consolidated statements of operations during the three months ended March 31, 2026.
The Credit Agreement includes customary representations, warranties, and affirmative and negative covenants, including financial covenants that require the Company to maintain certain levels of total net leverage ratio and interest coverage ratio. As of March 31, 2026, the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the 2025 Credit Facility. As of March 31, 2026, the Company has not made drawdowns on the Revolving Facility.
On May 4, 2026, the Company entered into an amendment to its Credit Agreement (the "First Amendment"). The First Amendment amends the Credit Agreement to, among other modifications, (i) provide for a $112,500 increase in the Revolving Facility thereunder, (ii) provide for a $50,000 increase in the letter of credit sublimit thereunder and (iii) amend the definition of “Indebtedness” therein to provide that capitalized leases shall be deemed to be an amount equal to 25 % of the capitalized amount thereof.
2026 Convertible Notes
In November 2021, the Company issued $1,500,000 aggregate principal amount of convertible notes (“2026 Convertible Notes”) in a private offering, including the exercise in full of the over-allotment option granted to the initial purchasers of $200,000 . The 2026 Convertible Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company and do not bear interest, and the principal amount of the 2026 Convertible Notes does not accrete.
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On August 14, 2025, the Company repurchased approximately $1,187,678 aggregate principal amount of the 2026 Convertible Notes. The outstanding principal of $312,322 of the 2026 Convertible Notes will mature on December 1, 2026 unless earlier converted, redeemed, or repurchased. Upon conversion of the 2026 Convertible Notes, the Company will pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at the Company’s election.
During the three months ended March 31, 2026, none of the circumstances allowing holders to convert the 2026 Convertible Notes were met.
Issuance Costs
Issuance costs are amortized to interest expense over the contractual term of the respective borrowing. Contractual interest expense consists of commitment fees and cash interest expense under the Company’s credit facilities. Interest expense related to the Company’s convertible notes and credit facilities consisted of the following:
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| Amortization of debt issuance costs | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Note 7. Commitments and Contingencies
Purchase Commitments
As of March 31, 2026, the Company had long-term commitments and purchase orders with various software license, bandwidth, network services and third-party license vendors. The Company’s purchase commitments have not materially changed since December 31, 2025.
Operating Leases
As of March 31, 2026, the Company had $668,444 of estimated undiscounted fixed payment obligations, mostly related to leases of co-location space at data center facilities, that have not yet commenced and were not included on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. These leases are expected to commence between April 2026 and May 2027, and have a weighted-average lease term of 9.8 years.
Subsequent to March 31, 2026, the Company entered into leases primarily for co-location space at data center facilities with total estimated undiscounted payments of $1,273,119 . These leases are expected to commence between April 2026 and June 2027, and have a weighted-average lease term of 11.0 years.
Finance Leases and Equipment Financing Obligations
During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company entered into finance leases for servers and related equipment resulting in the recognition of finance lease liabilities, current of $24,468 and finance lease liabilities, long-term of $108,071 on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Payments will be made monthly over a weighted-average term of 6.0 years, resulting in a weighted-average imputed interest rate of 6.4 %.
In March 2026, the Company entered into an arrangement with a third-party financial institution for $11,807 11,807 5.0 years, resulting in an imputed interest rate of 6.6 %. The Company did not enter into any such arrangements during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Legal Proceedings
The Company may be involved in various legal proceedings and litigation arising in the ordinary course of business. While it is not feasible to predict or determine the ultimate disposition of any such litigation matters, the Company believes that any such legal proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on its condensed consolidated financial position, results of operations, or liquidity.
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Note 8. Stockholders’ Equity
2026 Follow-on Offering
On March 26, 2026, the Company completed a follow-on public equity offering (“2026 Follow-on Offering”) of 11,948,052 shares of common stock, inclusive of the exercised over-allotment option, at a public offering price of $77.00 per share. The Company received net proceeds of $887,888 after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $31,050 and other issuance costs of $1,062 , which were paid and payable.
Share Buyback Program
On August 11, 2025, the Company adopted a new stock repurchase program authorizing the repurchase of up to $100,000 of its common stock (“2025 Share Buyback Program”). Pursuant to the 2025 Share Buyback Program, repurchases of the Company’s common stock will be made at prevailing market prices through open market purchases, in negotiated transactions off the market or otherwise, including through Rule 10b5-1 plans. The 2025 Share Buyback Program will expire on July 31, 2027; however, the Company is not obligated to acquire any particular amount of common stock and the program may be extended, modified, suspended or discontinued at any time at the Company’s discretion. During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company had no repurchases of shares under the 2025 Share Buyback program.
Note 9. Stock-Based Compensation
Equity Incentive Plan
In March 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and the stockholders approved, the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (“2021 Plan”). The 2021 Plan is a successor to and continuation of the 2013 Stock Plan. The 2021 Plan became effective on the date of the IPO with no further grants being made under the 2013 Stock Plan, however, awards outstanding under the 2013 Stock Plan will continue to be governed by their existing terms. The 2021 Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonstatutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, RSUs, PRSUs, MRSUs and other awards to employees, directors, and consultants. Shares issued pursuant to the exercise of these awards are transferable by the holder. There were 30,054,726 shares available for grant under the 2021 Plan as of March 31, 2026.
RSUs and PRSUs
RSUs granted typically vest over four years. The Company has issued PRSUs which vest based on the achievement of each award’s established performance targets. Depending on the actual financial metrics achieved relative to the target financial metrics throughout the defined performance period of the award, the number of LTIP PRSUs that vest could range from 0 % to 200 % of the target amount and are subject to the Compensation Committee’s approval of the level of achievement against the approved performance targets.
Assuming the minimum performance level is achieved, one-third of the aggregate number of the achieved LTIP PRSUs shall vest on the later of (i) March 1 of the year after grant or (ii) two trading days following the public release of the Company’s financial results for the year of grant, and the remainder shall vest over the following two years in eight equal quarterly installments subject, in each case, to the individual’s continuous service through the applicable vesting date.
On April 25, 2025, the Company granted an LTIP PRSU award (“2025 LTIP PRSU”). The financial performance level under the PRSUs was equal to the sum of the attainment of certain ARR targets weighted at 75 % and adjusted free cash flow margin targets weighted at 25 %. On February 13, 2026, the Company determined that the 2025 LTIP PRSU was achieved at 89.0 % of the target amount. This resulted in a performance factor reduction of 154,488 shares from the original maximum shares achievable of 278,356 , net of forfeiture. The target shares granted under the 2025 LTIP PRSU were 139,178 , net of forfeiture.
On March 10, 2026, the Company granted LTIP PRSU awards (“2026 LTIP PRSUs”). The financial performance level under the 2026 LTIP PRSUs can be attained based on the achievement of certain ARR and adjusted free cash flow margin targets. Under the 2026 LTIP PRSUs, 75 % of the awards can be achieved based on the ARR targets and 25 % of the awards can be achieved based on the adjusted free cash flow margin targets. The target shares granted under the 2026 LTIP PRSUs were 417,215 . The actual number of shares that are received under the 2026 LTIP PRSUs may be higher or lower than the target shares based on the actual financial metrics achieved relative to the target financial metrics for fiscal year 2026.
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As of March 31, 2026, there was $158,746 of unrecognized stock-based compensation, net of estimated forfeitures, related to outstanding RSUs, that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.9 years. As of March 31, 2026, there was $26,004 of unrecognized stock-based compensation, net of estimated forfeitures, related to outstanding PRSUs that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.9 years.
MRSU
On February 12, 2024, Padmanabhan Srinivasan joined the Company in the role of CEO. As part of his compensation package, Mr. Srinivasan received an MRSU with an estimated grant date fair value of approximately $8,000 , which vests upon the satisfaction of certain service conditions and the achievement of certain Company stock price goals during a five-year performance period. A cumulative percentage of the MRSU target is earned based on the achievement of stock price goals, measured based on the average of the Company’s closing stock price over a consecutive 60 trading day period during the performance period as set forth in the table below:
| Tranche | Company Stock Price Target | Total Payout | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 3 | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
Subsequent to March 31, 2026, the conditions related to the Company Stock Price Target applicable to Tranche 1 of the MRSUs were met. Subject to Mr. Srinivasan's continued service through the applicable vesting dates, 50 % of the Tranche 1 MRSUs will vest upon the Compensation Committee’s certification of Company Stock Price Target performance achievement in the first quarter of 2027, and the remaining 50 % will vest upon the Compensation Committee's certification in the first quarter of 2029.
As of March 31, 2026, there was $3,457 of unrecognized stock-based compensation related to the MRSU award that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.9 years.
ESPP
In March 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted, and the stockholders approved, the 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”). Eligible employees enroll in the offering period at the start of each purchase period, whereby they may purchase a number of shares at a price per share equal to 85 % of the lesser of (1) the stock price at the employee’s first participation in the offering period or (2) the fair market value of the Company’s common stock on the purchase date. The Company’s current offering period began on May 21, 2025 and is expected to end on May 20, 2026. There were 6,040,104 shares available for grant under the ESPP as of March 31, 2026.
Stock-Based Compensation
Stock-based compensation is included in the condensed consolidated statements of operations as follows:
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Note 10. Net Income per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders
The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net income per share:
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We calculate the potential dilutive effect of the convertible senior notes under the if-converted method. Under this method, diluted earnings per share are determined by assuming that outstanding convertible senior notes were converted into shares of our common stock at the beginning of the reporting period.
In connection with the issuance of the convertible senior notes, we entered into the capped call transactions, which were not included for purpose of calculating number of diluted shares outstanding, as their effect would have been anti-dilutive. The capped call transactions are expected to partially offset the potential dilution to our common stock upon any conversion of the convertible senior notes.
Potentially dilutive securities that were not included in the diluted per share calculations because they would be anti-dilutive were as follows:
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Note 11. Income Taxes
The computation of the provision for, or benefit from, income taxes for an interim period is determined using an estimated annual effective tax rate, adjusted for discrete items, if any. Each quarter, the Company updates the estimated annual effective tax rate and records a year-to-date adjustment to the tax provision, as necessary.
For the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company recorded tax expense of $8,725 . The effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2026 was 35.6 %. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate primarily due to the mix of income in the foreign jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business, 162(m) limitation and excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recorded tax expense of $3,176 . The effective tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was 7.7 %. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate primarily as a result of having a full valuation allowance in the U.S. and the mix of income in the foreign jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business, and excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation and utilization of research and development credits.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Pillar Two guidelines published to date include transition and safe harbor rules around the implementation of the Pillar Two global minimum tax of 15%. Based on current enacted legislation, the Company is not subject to Pillar Two tax since the Company’s revenue is currently below the threshold. The Company is monitoring developments and evaluating the impacts these new rules will have on its future income tax provision and effective income tax rate.
On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) was enacted in the U.S. The OBBBA includes significant provisions, such as the permanent extension of certain expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, modifications to the international tax framework and the restoration of favorable tax treatment for certain business provisions. The legislation has multiple effective dates, with certain provisions effective in 2025 and others implemented through 2027. The Company adopted the provisions related to the international tax framework that became effective in 2026 during the three months ended March 31, 2026. The adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.
Note 12. Segment and Geographical Information
Segment Information
The Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) is the CEO. The CODM assesses performance on a monthly basis by reviewing consolidated results against the annual operating plan and ongoing forecasts. Accordingly, the Company has one operating and reporting segment.
The measure of segment profitability used by the CODM is net income, as reported in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. The significant segment expenses reviewed by the CODM on a consolidated basis include cost of revenue, research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative as reported in the condensed consolidated statements of operations on a consolidated basis. Other segment expense categories include other (expense) income, net and income tax expense as reported in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. Refer to Note 3. Revenue, for revenue by geography.
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The measure of segment assets is total assets, which is reported in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Refer to condensed consolidated statements of cash flows and within Note 5. Balance Sheet Details, for details of capital expenditures and depreciation and amortization, respectively.
Long-lived assets include property and equipment, net and operating lease right-of-use assets, net. The geographic locations of the Company’s long-lived assets, net, based on physical location of the assets, are as follows:
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be considered together with our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q our audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes and the discussion under the heading “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. This discussion, particularly information with respect to our outlook, key trends and uncertainties, our plans and strategy for our business, and our performance and future success, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties as described under the heading “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Actual results could differ materially from those discussed below.
Overview
DigitalOcean is an AI-Native Cloud, purpose-built for inference and agentic workloads that brings infrastructure, core cloud services, inference, data, and agents together in one integrated stack that is open throughout, giving builders the best of the AI ecosystem in one place. The platform combines production-ready GPU infrastructure, a full-stack cloud, model-first inference workflows, and an agentic experience layer to reduce operational complexity and accelerate time to production. Our customers include growing technology companies across numerous industry verticals ranging from online gaming to fintech to cybersecurity, among many others, and leverage our platform for a wide variety of use cases, such as building and hosting websites, developing new web and mobile applications, integrating AI into their businesses, and building AI products and applications, among many others. We believe that being simple, scalable and approachable, while offering a comprehensive range of integrated cloud and AI products, are our key differentiators, driving a broad range of customers around the world whose needs are not being fully met by larger cloud providers to build and grow their businesses on our platform.
We offer a comprehensive set of cloud platform capabilities which span across Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“IaaS”), including Droplet virtual machines, storage and networking offerings; Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) and Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”), including Managed Hosting, Managed Database, Managed Kubernetes and Marketplace offerings. We also offer a comprehensive artificial intelligence and machine learning (“AI/ML”) platform - DigitalOcean Gradient® AI Agentic Cloud which includes Gradient AI Infrastructure with offerings such as GPU Droplets and Bare Metal GPUs; the Gradient AI Platform which offers various building block services including Large Language Models (“LLMs”); and Gradient AI Agents. We continue to invest in our platform to further penetrate the growing markets in which we operate.
We generate revenue primarily from the usage of our agentic inference cloud platform by our customers. We recognize revenue largely based on the customer utilization of our offerings. While our pricing is primarily consumption-based and the majority of our customers use our platform on a month-to-month basis, a growing number of customers are using our platform for larger workloads and some of these customers are opting to enter into committed contracts, committing to a minimum spend on our platform.
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We serve a large number of customers that range in size from growing or scaled businesses that generate millions of dollars in revenue and serve millions of their own customers to individual developers testing or learning new technology for their own development. Thousands of new users come to DigitalOcean every month with some users intending only to utilize our platform for a discrete task, and other users are part of new or existing businesses that intend to operate their production and test workloads on our platform to support their business. Given the wide range of users and their associated spend, we classify customers based on their spend in a given month, which we have found to be a good proxy that distinguishes between casual users and substantial enterprise customers.
Our total customer count is represented by the number of Digital Native Enterprise (“DNE”) Customers, which are users that spend more than $500 in a month. We further disaggregate our DNE customers into the following categories - $100K+ Customers, $500K+ Customers and $1M+ Customers. See further discussion in “Digital Native Enterprise Customers” below.
Growing our DNE Customers is a critical focus for us, and we have successfully increased the number of these customers and their percentage of our total revenue. Revenue from our DNE Customers as a percentage of total revenue was 64% in the three months ended March 31, 2026, up from approximately 57% in the three months ended March 31, 2025. As of March 31, 2026, we had approximately 22,000 DNE Customers using our platform to build, deploy and scale applications. The number of DNE Customers increased from approximately 20,000 as of March 31, 2025 to 22,000 as of March 31, 2026.
We had no material customer concentration as our top 25 customers made up approximately 16% and 9% of our revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Our annual run-rate revenue (“ARR”) as of March 31, 2026 was $1,032 million, up from $843 million as of March 31, 2025. Our AI Customer ARR as of March 31, 2026 was $170 million, up from $53 million as of March 31, 2025. See further discussion in “ARR and AI Customer ARR” below.
We have a highly efficient self-service customer acquisition model, which we complement with a sales force focused on inside sales, targeted outside sales and partnership opportunities to drive revenue growth. The efficiency of our go-to-market model and our focus on the needs of growing technology enterprises have enabled us to drive organic growth and establish a truly global customer base across a broad range of industries. For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, our sales and marketing expense was approximately 8% of our revenue.
Our customers are spread across approximately 190 countries and around two-thirds of our revenue has historically come from customers located outside the United States. For the three months ended March 31, 2026, 44% of our revenue was generated from North America, 24% from Europe, 22% from Asia and 10% from the rest of the world.
Key Factors Affecting Our Performance
Increasing Usage by Our Existing Customers
Our existing customer base represents a significant opportunity for further sales expansion through increased usage of our platform and adoption of additional product offerings. We are highly focused on gaining a better understanding of the needs and growth plans of our existing customers, increasing our feature velocity and shaping our product roadmap around the needs of DNE Customers, and leveraging our account management function to provide more direct coverage of our top spending accounts. This deeper relationship with our customers is helping us to identify opportunities to educate our customer base on ways to utilize the platform more effectively for their individual use cases, as well as provide a feedback loop to inform our product roadmap, in order to build trust with customers and encourage them to run more of their critical cloud workloads on our platform. We closely monitor our net dollar retention (“NDR”), which reflects our ability to retain and grow revenue from our existing customers. NDR increased from 100% during the three months ended March 31, 2025 to 101% during the three months ended March 31, 2026 driven by improved net expansion. We expect to increase our revenue in the future from existing customers through the introduction of new products and features tailored to our DNE Customers through expanded customer outreach, and targeted services to support our customers in migrating additional workloads from other cloud providers to DigitalOcean.
Growing Our Base of AI-Native and Cloud-Native DNE Customers
We believe there is a substantial opportunity to further expand our customer base. We are investing in strategies that we believe will drive adoption by new AI-Native and Cloud-Native DNE Customers, a dedicated AI sales team with deep AI expertise to help prospective customers understand our offerings and the process to onboard onto our platform, marketing initiatives that further optimize our self-service revenue funnel to identify potential DNE Customers, enhanced
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research and development to build our product roadmap around the needs of DNE Customers, and the expansion of our migration services team to support additional migrations to our platform from other cloud providers.
Investing in Our Platform and Product Offerings
We have a history of, and will continue to invest significantly in, delivering innovative products, features and functionality for our DNE Customers. Our product strategy is anchored in addressing the needs of our DNE Customers and other digital native enterprises and on continuously innovating to meet those needs in a simple, scalable and approachable way. We have accelerated the pace of product innovation and made disciplined investments to expand our offerings for our IaaS and PaaS offerings, as well as our newer AI/ML offerings.
The market opportunity for our services continues to expand and we expect to make additional investments to offer an enhanced and tailored suite of IaaS, PaaS/SaaS and AI/ML offerings that address the changing needs of our customers.
Driving Increased Adoption Through Our Community Ecosystem
We attract a large number of developers to our website and platform, and we are committed to supporting and expanding this community of innovators and technologists by continuing to produce high-quality educational content and hosting developer-focused programs and events around the world. Supporting and educating the developer community is not only one of our values, but it also fosters brand loyalty, expands our customer base and drives increased adoption of our products.
Augmenting our Platform through Strategic Partnerships and Acquisitions
In addition to organic growth, we believe that strategic partnerships and acquisitions will allow us to accelerate our key platform, product and marketing initiatives. In recent years, we completed acquisitions of Paperspace, which launched our AI/ML offerings, and Cloudways, which added our Managed Hosting offering to our platform. In addition, we have entered into partnerships to augment our product offerings. We intend to actively pursue both strategic partnerships and acquisitions that we believe will be complementary to our business, accelerate customer acquisition, increase usage of our platform and/or expand our product offerings in our core markets.
Macroeconomic Conditions
Unfavorable conditions in the economy both in the United States and abroad, including conditions resulting from trade tension and/or the imposition and enforceability of trade restrictions or other changes in trade policies and related uncertainties (including recent U.S. tariffs imposed and/or threatened to be imposed, any retaliatory actions taken by other countries, and uncertainties regarding the ability to obtain refunds for previously paid tariffs that have subsequently been invalidated), changes in gross domestic product growth, supply chain disruptions, inflationary pressures, high interest rates, financial and credit market fluctuations, volatility in the capital markets, liquidity concerns at, and failures of, banks and other financial institutions, geopolitical tensions, political turmoil, political instability and transitions of power in regions where we operate, natural catastrophes, outbreaks of contagious diseases, warfare and terrorist attacks on the United States, Europe or elsewhere, including military actions affecting Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East or elsewhere, could cause a decrease in business investments in information technology and negatively affect the growth of our business and our results of operations.
We will continue to monitor the direct and indirect impacts of these or similar circumstances on our business and our results of operations. The implications of macroeconomic conditions on our business, results of operations, and overall financial position remain uncertain.
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Key Business Metrics
We utilize the key metrics set forth below to help us evaluate our business and growth, identify trends, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions. We are not aware of any uniform standards for calculating these key metrics, and other companies may not calculate similarly titled metrics in a consistent manner, which may hinder comparability.
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Digital Native Enterprise Customers(1) | 21,577 | 19,580 | |||||||||||||||||||||
$100K+ Customers(1) | 626 | 558 | |||||||||||||||||||||
$500K+ Customers(1) | 97 | 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||
$1M+ Customers(1) | 41 | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ARR (in millions) | $ | 1,032 | $ | 843 | |||||||||||||||||||
AI Customer ARR (in millions) | $ | 170 | $ | 53 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net dollar retention rate | 101 | % | 100 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
(1)Customer count. Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2025, we redefined our total customer count, customer categories naming and disaggregation, and excluded the number of customers using certain legacy Bare Metal CPU offerings. Prior periods have been recast to reflect the effects of such changes.
Digital Native Enterprise Customers
We refer to customers spending more than $500 in a given month collectively as our Digital Native Enterprise (“DNE”) Customers. We believe the total number of our DNE Customers is an important indicator of the growth of our business and future revenue opportunity, and the trends relating to our $100K+ Customers, $500K+ Customers and $1M+ Customers are of particular importance to us as these customers comprise a significant majority of our revenue and revenue growth, and are representative of the Cloud-Native and AI-Native DNEs that have scaled on our platform.
We calculate customer count as the average number of customers as of the last day of the month for each month in the most recent quarter. Customers are classified in the following categories based on the amount of their spend in a given month and individual customers may fall within different categories within a reporting period (customer spend in a month in whole dollars):
•DNE Customers: users that spend more than $500 in a month.
•$100K+ Customers: users that spend more than $8,333 in a month.
•$500K+ Customers: users that spend more than $41,667 in a month.
•$1M+ Customers: users that spend more than $83,333 in a month.
ARR and AI Customer ARR
Given the recurring nature of our business, we view annual run-rate revenue as an important indicator of our current progress towards meeting our revenue targets and projected growth rate going forward. We calculate ARR by multiplying total revenue for the most recent quarter by four.
We view AI Customer ARR as an important indicator of our growth in customers using AI-related products across our AI-Native Cloud and a key driver of our revenue targets and projected growth rate going forward.
We calculate AI Customer ARR by multiplying total AI Customer Revenue for the most recent quarter by four. AI Customer Revenue is defined as the total revenue generated from customers who utilize one or more of our AI/ML offerings, inclusive of their revenue from our IaaS and PaaS/SaaS offerings during the period.
Net Dollar Retention Rate
Our ability to maintain long-term revenue growth and achieve profitability is dependent on our ability to retain and grow revenue from our existing customers. We have a history of retaining customers for multiple years and in many cases increasing their spend with us over time. To help us measure our performance in this area, we monitor our net dollar retention rate. We calculate net dollar retention rate monthly by starting with total revenue for our IaaS and PaaS/SaaS
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offerings during the corresponding month 12 months prior, or the Prior Period Revenue. We then calculate the revenue from these same customers as of the current month, or the Current Period Revenue, including any expansion and net of any contraction or attrition from these customers over the last 12 months. The calculation also includes revenue from customers that generated revenue before, but not in, the corresponding month 12 months prior, but subsequently generated revenue in the current month and are therefore reflected in the Current Period Revenue. We include this group of re-engaged customers in this calculation because some of our customers use our platform for projects that stop and start over time. We then divide the total Current Period Revenue by the total Prior Period Revenue to arrive at the net dollar retention rate for the relevant month. For a quarterly or annual period, the net dollar retention rate is determined as the average monthly net dollar retention rates over such three or 12-month period.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
We offer a comprehensive set of cloud platform capabilities which span across IaaS, including Droplet virtual machines, storage and networking offerings; PaaS and SaaS, including Managed Hosting, Managed Database, Managed Kubernetes and Marketplace offerings. We also offer a comprehensive AI/ML platform - DigitalOcean Gradient® AI Agentic Cloud, which includes Gradient AI Infrastructure with offerings such as GPU Droplets and Bare Metal GPUs; the Gradient AI Platform which offers various building block services including LLMs; and Gradient AI Agents. We continue to invest in our platform to further penetrate the growing markets in which we operate.
We may offer sales incentives in the form of promotional and referral credits and grant credits to encourage customers to use our services. These types of promotional and referral credits typically expire in two months or less if not used. For credits earned with a purchase, they are recorded as contract liabilities when earned and recognized at the earlier of redemption or expiration. The majority of credits are redeemed in the month they are earned.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of revenue consists primarily of fees related to operating our data center facilities, personnel costs of our employees providing customer support or operating our facilities, and partnership expenses. Cost of revenue includes depreciation of our data center equipment and amortization of acquired technology and capitalized internal-use software development costs. Data center facility fees include data center rental fees, power costs, maintenance fees, network, bandwidth and ancillary equipment. Personnel costs include salaries, bonuses, benefits, and stock-based compensation.
We intend to continue to invest additional resources in our infrastructure to support our product portfolio and the scalability of our customer base. The level, timing and relative investment in our infrastructure could affect our cost of revenue in the future.
Operating Expenses
Research and Development Expenses
Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs including salaries, bonuses, benefits and stock-based compensation. Research and development expenses also include amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs, which are amortized over three years, professional services, software, as well as costs related to our efforts to add new features to our existing offerings, develop new offerings, and ensure the security, performance, and reliability of our global cloud platform. We expect research and development expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in our platform and product offerings.
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs of our sales and marketing and customer success employees, including salaries, bonuses, benefits, commissions and stock-based compensation. Sales and marketing expenses also include costs for marketing programs, advertising, amortization of acquired customer relationships and purchased software used for sales and marketing purposes, professional services and software. We expect sales and marketing expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we enhance our product offerings and implement new marketing and sales strategies.
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General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs of our human resources, legal, finance and other administrative functions, including salaries, bonuses, benefits, and stock-based compensation. General and administrative expenses also include payment processing fees, provision for expected credit losses, professional services, software, business insurance, depreciation and amortization, rent and facilities costs, acquisition-related compensation, and other administrative costs. General and administrative expenses may increase in absolute dollars as we continue to grow our business.
Other (Expense) Income, net
Other (expense) income, net consists primarily of loss on extinguishment of our Term Loan Facility, cash interest expense on our Term Loan Facility, credit facilities, finance leases and equipment financing obligations, amortization of debt issuance costs, interest income on our money market funds, and gains or losses on foreign currency exchange.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense consists primarily of income taxes in foreign jurisdictions and U.S. federal and state income taxes.
Results of Operations
The following table sets forth our results of operations for the periods presented:
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| Revenue | $ | 257,905 | $ | 210,703 | |||||||||||||||||||
Cost of revenue(1) | 113,195 | 81,259 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Gross profit | 144,710 | 129,444 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Research and development(1) | 48,830 | 39,594 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sales and marketing(1) | 21,669 | 19,401 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 37,640 | 32,807 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 108,139 | 91,802 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | 36,571 | 37,642 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Other (expense) income, net | (12,075) | 3,738 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | 24,496 | 41,380 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense | (8,725) | (3,176) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income attributable to common stockholders | $ | 15,771 | $ | 38,204 | |||||||||||||||||||
(1) Includes stock-based compensation as follows:
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| Cost of revenue | $ | 1,424 | $ | 1,395 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | 10,358 | 8,269 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 2,767 | 2,546 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 7,958 | 7,222 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total stock-based compensation | $ | 22,507 | $ | 19,432 | |||||||||||||||||||
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The following table sets forth our results of operations as a percentage of revenue for the periods presented:
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| Revenue | 100 | % | 100 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenue | 44 | 39 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Gross profit | 56 | 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Research and development | 19 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 8 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 15 | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Total operating expenses(1) | 42 | 44 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income(1) | 14 | 18 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Other (expense) income, net | (5) | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Income before income taxes(1) | 9 | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Income tax expense | (3) | (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net income attributable to common stockholders(1) | 6 | % | 18 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
(1) May not foot due to rounding.
Comparison of the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 and 2025
Revenue
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| Revenue | $ | 257,905 | $ | 210,703 | $ | 47,202 | 22 | % | |||||||||||||||
Revenue increased $47.2 million, or 22%, for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025. The increase was driven by a 35% increase in revenue from our DNE Customers primarily attributable to the addition of new customers and the continued adoption of our products by our existing customers leading to higher average usage on our platform.
Cost of Revenue
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| Cost of revenue | $ | 113,195 | $ | 81,259 | $ | 31,936 | 39 | % | |||||||||||||||
Cost of revenue increased for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to 2025 primarily due to data center expansions which drove increases of $15.6 million in depreciation and amortization related to data center infrastructure additions, $9.0 million in co-location costs, $3.6 million in ancillary equipment costs and $3.7 million in other costs, net. Gross profit decreased to 56% for the three months ended March 31, 2026 from 61% for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The decline in gross margin resulted from incurrence of costs for data center expansions in advance of the ramp in revenue from new data centers.
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Operating Expenses
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| Research and development | $ | 48,830 | $ | 39,594 | $ | 9,236 | 23 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 21,669 | 19,401 | 2,268 | 12 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
| General and administrative | 37,640 | 32,807 | 4,833 | 15 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | $ | 108,139 | $ | 91,802 | $ | 16,337 | 18 | % | |||||||||||||||
Research and development expenses increased for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to 2025 due to an increase of $9.2 million in personnel costs driven by higher headcount and annual merit-based salary raises.
Sales and marketing expenses increased for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to 2025 due to an increase of $1.9 million in personnel costs driven by higher headcount and annual merit-based salary raises, and an increase of $0.3 million in other costs, net.
General and administrative expenses increased for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to 2025 due to increases of $3.2 million in professional services costs and $1.6 million in personnel costs driven by higher headcount and annual merit-based salary raises.
Other (Expense) Income, net
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| Other (expense) income, net | $ | (12,075) | $ | 3,738 | $ | (15,813) | (423 | %) | |||||||||||||||
Other expense, net was $12.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to other income, net of $3.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The change is primarily due to an $8.3 million increase in interest expense mostly driven by interest on our Term Loan Facility and equipment financing arrangements, a $4.1 million increase in unrealized losses related to foreign currency fluctuations from our operations, a $2.7 million loss incurred on extinguishment of our Term Loan Facility, and a $0.8 million decrease in interest income resulting from lower average interest rates.
Income Tax Expense
| Three Months Ended March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | $ Change | % Change | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (in thousands) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax expense | $ | 8,725 | $ | 3,176 | $ | 5,549 | 175 | % | |||||||||||||||
Income tax expense increased $5.5 million, or 175%, for the three months ended March 31, 2026 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2025. The Company’s current quarter provision reflects a normalized statutory rate applied to our pre-tax income, plus permanent items, whereas the prior period provision was characterized by a much lower effective tax rate due to the valuation allowance.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We have funded our operations since inception primarily with cash flow generated by operations, offerings of our equity and debt securities, borrowings under our credit facilities, equipment financing arrangements and finance leases. Cash provided from these sources is used primarily for operating expenses, such as personnel and co-location costs, and capital expenditures, including our investments in AI/ML and other core product offerings. From time to time, we may also use excess cash and/or debt for share repurchases and investments in marketable securities and cash equivalents.
In February 2026, we borrowed an additional $120.0 million under our Term Loan Facility.
In March 2026, we completed a public equity offering in which we issued and sold 11,948,052 shares of common stock, inclusive of the exercised over-allotment option, at a public offering price of $77.00 per share (“2026 Follow-on
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Offering”). We received net proceeds of $887.9 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $31.1 million and other issuance costs of $1.1 million paid and payable.
We used the proceeds from our 2026 Follow-on Offering to repay $500.0 million of principal outstanding of our Term Loan Facility. For further information refer to Note 6. Debt in our condensed consolidated financial statements.
As of March 31, 2026, we had $937.3 million aggregate principal amount outstanding under our 2030 Convertible Notes and 2026 Convertible Notes, with $300.0 million of borrowing capacity available under our Revolving Facility. As of March 31, 2026, the circumstances allowing holders to convert the 2030 Convertible Notes were met (see Note 6. Debt).
As of March 31, 2026, we had $312.3 million of our 2026 Convertible Notes maturing within the next 12 months. We plan to repurchase, repay, acquire or otherwise settle the remaining outstanding principal of our 2026 Convertible Notes by drawing on the remaining capacity under our Revolving Facility, in whole or in part, and using cash on hand or generated from our operations.
On May 4, 2026, the Company entered into an amendment to our Credit Agreement (the "First Amendment"). The First Amendment amends the Credit Agreement to, among other modifications, (i) provide for a $112.5 million increase in the Revolving Facility thereunder, (ii) provide for a $50.0 million increase in the letter of credit sublimit thereunder and (iii) amend the definition of “Indebtedness” therein to provide that capitalized leases shall be deemed to be an amount equal to 25% of the capitalized amount thereof.
We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents, cash flow from operations and availability under our Revolving Facility will be sufficient to support our requirements for working capital and capital expenditures, outstanding contractual commitments, debt and finance lease liabilities and equipment financing obligations for at least the next 12 months and in the long term.
We have historically repurchased our common stock pursuant to repurchase programs approved by our Board of Directors. In August 2025, we adopted the 2025 Share Buyback Program which authorizes the repurchase of up to $100.0 million of our common stock. The 2025 Share Buyback Program will expire on July 31, 2027. No shares have been repurchased during the three months ended March 31, 2026.
As of March 31, 2026, the Company had $668.4 million of estimated undiscounted fixed payment obligations, mostly related to leases of co-location space at data center facilities, that have not yet commenced and were not included on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. These leases are expected to commence between April 2026 and May 2027, and have a weighted-average lease term of 9.8 years.
Subsequent to March 31, 2026, the Company entered into leases primarily for co-location space at data center facilities with total estimated undiscounted payments of $1,273.1 million. These leases are expected to commence between April 2026 and June 2027, and have a weighted-average lease term of 11.0 years.
As of March 31, 2026, we had $741.4 million in cash and cash equivalents. Our cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of cash and money market funds.
From time to time, we may seek to retire or purchase our outstanding equity or debt, including the repurchase of our common stock or outstanding convertible notes, through cash purchases and/or exchanges for equity securities, in open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise. Such repurchases or exchanges, if any, will depend on prevailing market conditions, our liquidity requirements, contractual restrictions, and other factors. The amounts involved in any such transactions, individually or in the aggregate, may be material. Further, any such purchases or exchanges may result in us acquiring and retiring a substantial amount of such indebtedness, which could impact the trading liquidity of such indebtedness.
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods presented:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
(In thousands) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 46,921 | $ | 64,090 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | (60,581) | (64,975) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | 500,617 | (67,179) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash | 486,887 | (68,025) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Operating Activities
Our largest source of operating cash is cash collections from sales to our customers. Our primary uses of cash from operating activities are for personnel costs, data center co-location costs, payment processing fees, bandwidth and connectivity, server maintenance, software licensing fees, and taxes.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $46.9 million and $64.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The change was primarily driven by higher co-location costs resulting from data center expansions, higher personnel costs due to increased headcount and annual merit-based salary raises, partially offset by increased cash collections from higher revenues.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities was $60.6 million and $65.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The change was primarily driven by $19.3 million decrease in cash payments for capital expenditures, partially offset by an increase of $11.8 million in cash payments for the acquisition of equipment under financing arrangements (for which we received an equivalent amount of proceeds discussed below in “Financing Activities”), and a $4.0 million payment for acquisition of an AI-related business.
Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities was $500.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, compared to net cash used in financing activities of $67.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The change was primarily driven by proceeds of $888.8 million from our equity follow-on offering, $120.0 million drawdown on our Term Loan Facility and $11.8 million from equipment financing arrangements, partially offset by a $500.0 million repayment of our Term Loan Facility, $11.1 million payments of employee payroll taxes related to net share settlement of equity awards and $9.9 million of principal repayments for finance leases and financing arrangements for data center equipment.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
There have been no material changes to our contractual obligations and commitments as compared to those disclosed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 other than that disclosed under Note 6. Debt and Note 7. Commitments and Contingencies, in our condensed consolidated financial statements.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these condensed consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs and expenses, and related disclosures. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies as compared to those disclosed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.
Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
For information on recently issued and adopted accounting pronouncements see Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, in our notes to condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1. “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” included in this Form 10-Q.
Non‑GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP, we provide investors with non-GAAP financial measures including: (i) adjusted operating income and adjusted operating income margin, (ii) adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin and (iii) non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted net income per share. These measures are presented for supplemental informational purposes only, have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with GAAP.
Adjusted operating income is a new non-GAAP financial measure used for the first time in this Form 10-Q. We are introducing this new non-GAAP financial measure because we believe that adjusted operating income margin and adjusted EBITDA, when taken together with our GAAP financial results, provide meaningful supplemental information regarding
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our operating performance (including our long-term performance in the case of adjusted operating income) and facilitate internal comparisons of our historical operating performance on a more consistent basis by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of our business, results of operations or outlook. In particular, we believe that the use of adjusted operating income and adjusted EBITDA is helpful to our investors as they are measures used by management in assessing the health of our business, evaluating our operating performance, and for internal planning and forecasting purposes.
We believe non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted net income per share provides our management and investors consistency and comparability with our past financial performance and facilitates period-to-period comparisons of operations, as this metric generally eliminates the effects of unusual or non-recurring items from period to period for reasons unrelated to overall operating performance.
Our calculations of each of these measures may differ from the calculations of measures with the same or similar titles by other companies and therefore comparability may be limited. Because of these limitations, when evaluating our performance, you should consider each of these non-GAAP financial measures alongside other financial performance measures, including the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP and our other GAAP results. A reconciliation of each of our non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated in accordance with GAAP is set forth below.
Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted Operating Income Margin
We define adjusted operating income as operating income, adjusted to exclude stock-based compensation, amortization of acquired intangible assets, acquisition related compensation, acquisition and integration related costs, restructuring and other charges, restructuring related charges, impairment of certain long-lived assets and other charges. We define adjusted operating income margin as adjusted operating income as a percentage of revenue.
The following table presents a reconciliation of operating income, the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP, to adjusted operating income for each of the periods presented:
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income | $ | 36,571 | $ | 37,642 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjustments: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | 22,507 | 19,432 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of acquired intangible assets | 4,938 | 5,197 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted operating income | $ | 64,016 | $ | 62,271 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As a percentage of revenue: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating income margin | 14 | % | 18 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted operating income margin | 25 | % | 30 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin
We define adjusted EBITDA as net income attributable to common stockholders, adjusted to exclude depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation, interest expense, acquisition related compensation, acquisition and integration related costs, income tax expense (benefit), restructuring and other charges, restructuring related charges, impairment of certain long-lived assets, interest income and other income, net, (gain) loss on extinguishment of debt, net, and other charges. We define adjusted EBITDA margin as adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue.
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The following table presents a reconciliation of net income attributable to common stockholders, the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP, to adjusted EBITDA for each of the periods presented:
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (In thousands) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GAAP Net income attributable to common stockholders | $ | 15,771 | $ | 38,204 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjustments: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 45,475 | 29,210 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | 22,507 | 19,432 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense | 10,553 | 2,208 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax expense | 8,725 | 3,176 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment of debt | 2,700 | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest income and other income, net(1) | (1,178) | (5,946) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 104,553 | $ | 86,284 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As a percentage of revenue: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income margin | 6 | % | 18 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA margin | 41 | % | 41 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(1)For the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, primarily consists of interest income from our cash and cash equivalents.
Non-GAAP Net Income and Non-GAAP Diluted Net Income Per Share
We define non-GAAP net income as net income attributable to common stockholders, excluding stock-based compensation, acquisition related compensation, amortization of acquired intangibles, acquisition and integration related costs, restructuring and other charges, restructuring related charges, impairment of certain long-lived assets, (gain) loss on extinguishment of debt, net, and other charges. In addition to these exclusions, we subtract an assumed non-GAAP provision for income taxes to calculate non-GAAP net income that excludes the current period income tax benefit (expense). We utilize a fixed long-term projected tax rate in our computation of the non-GAAP income tax provision in order to provide better consistency across reporting periods. We define non-GAAP diluted net income per share as non-GAAP net income divided by the weighted-average diluted shares outstanding, which includes the potentially dilutive effect of our stock options, RSUs, PRSUs, and Convertible Notes and, beginning in the first quarter of 2026, excludes the in-the-money portion of our 2030 Convertible Notes as they are covered by our capped call transactions, which are expected to mitigate the dilutive effect of our 2030 Convertible Notes.
The following table presents a reconciliation of net income attributable to common stockholders, the most directly comparable financial measure stated in accordance with GAAP, to non-GAAP net income for each of the periods presented:
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| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| March 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (In thousands, except per share amounts) | 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GAAP Net income attributable to common stockholders | $ | 15,771 | $ | 38,204 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | 22,507 | 19,432 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of acquired intangible assets | 4,938 | 5,197 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Loss on extinguishment of debt(1) | 2,700 | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-GAAP income tax adjustment(2) | (17) | (7,384) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP Net income | $ | 45,899 | $ | 55,449 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-cash charges related to convertible notes(3) | $ | 1,072 | $ | 1,594 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-GAAP Net income used to compute net income per share, diluted | $ | 46,971 | $ | 57,043 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
GAAP Net income per share attributable to common stockholders, diluted(6) | $ | 0.15 | $ | 0.39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation | 0.21 | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of acquired intangible assets | 0.05 | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Loss on extinguishment of debt(1) | 0.03 | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-cash charges related to convertible notes(3) | 0.01 | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-GAAP income tax adjustment(2) | (0.01) | (0.08) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-GAAP Net income per share, diluted(4) | $ | 0.44 | $ | 0.56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GAAP Weighted-average shares used to compute net income per share, diluted | 111,915 | 102,322 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Add: Weighted-average dilutive effect of potentially dilutive securities | 1,750 | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Less: Anti-dilutive impact of capped call transaction(5) | (6,044) | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-GAAP Weighted-average shares used to compute net income per share, diluted(6) | 107,621 | 102,322 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1)For the three months ended March 31, 2026, excludes tax impact which is presented in Non-GAAP income tax adjustment.
(2)For the periods in fiscal year 2026 and 2025, we used a tax rate of 16%, which we believe is a reasonable estimate of our long-term effective tax rate applicable to non-GAAP pre-tax income for each respective year.
(3)Consists of non-cash interest expense for amortization of debt issuance costs related to our Convertible Notes.
(4)May not foot due to rounding.
(5)Excludes the in-the-money portion of our 2030 Convertible Notes for non-GAAP weighted-average diluted shares as they are covered by our capped call transactions. Our outstanding capped call transactions are antidilutive under GAAP, but are expected to mitigate the dilutive effect of our 2030 Convertible Notes, and therefore are included in the calculation of non-GAAP diluted shares outstanding. The capped calls have an antidilutive impact when the average stock price of our common stock in a given period is higher than their exercise price.
(6)Includes 15,957 of potentially dilutive securities related to our 2030 Convertible Notes as if the entire principal amount outstanding were converted into shares for the three months ended March 31, 2026. Includes 8,403 of potentially dilutive securities related to our 2026 Convertible Notes as if the entire principal amount outstanding were converted into shares for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The Company has the election of settling any conversion in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of both. For further information refer to Note 10. Net Income per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders in our condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
There have been no material changes in market risk from the information provided in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and our Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and Rule 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”)) as of March 31, 2026. Based on such evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that, as of March 31, 2026, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level that information we are required to disclose in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with management’s evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act during the quarter ended March 31, 2026 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.
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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
From time to time, we are involved in various legal proceedings arising from the normal course of business activities. We are not presently a party to any litigation the outcome of which, if determined adversely to us, would in our estimation, have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, cash flows or financial condition. Defending such proceedings can be costly and can impose a significant burden on management and employees. The results of any current or future litigation cannot be predicted with certainty, and regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Please refer to Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 for a description of certain significant risks and uncertainties to which our business, financial condition and results of operations are subject. There have been no material changes to the risk factors discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
(c) Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
None.
On August 11, 2025, the Company adopted the 2025 Share Buyback Program authorizing the repurchase of up to $100 million of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the 2025 Share Buyback Program, repurchases of the Company’s common stock will be made at prevailing market prices through open market purchases, in negotiated transactions off the market or otherwise, including through Rule 10b5-1 plans. The 2025 Share Buyback Program will expire on July 31, 2027.
As of March 31, 2026, $100 million remained available for future repurchases under the 2025 Share Buyback Program.
ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
Not applicable.
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION
Trading Arrangements
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
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Incorporated by Reference | ||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibit No. | Exhibit Description | Form | File No. | Exhibit | Filing Date | Filed Herewith | ||||||||||||||
| 3.1 | Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | 10-K | 001-40252 | 3.1 | 2/24/2026 | |||||||||||||||
| 3.2 | Amended and Restated Bylaws of DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | 10-Q | 001-40252 | 3.1 | 11/2/2023 | |||||||||||||||
| 31.1 | Certification of Padmanabhan Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 31.2 | Certification of W. Matthew Steinfort, Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 32.1* | Certifications of Padmanabhan Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer, and W. Matthew Steinfort, Chief Financial Officer, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 101.INS | Inline XBRL Instance Document | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 101.SCH | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extensions Schema | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 101.CAL | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 101.DEF | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 101.LAB | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 101.PRE | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) | X | ||||||||||||||||||
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* Furnished herewith and not deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.
The agreements and other documents filed as exhibits to this report are not intended to provide factual information or other disclosure other than with respect to the terms of the agreements or other documents themselves, and you should not rely on them for that purpose. In particular, any representations and warranties made by us in these agreements or other documents were made solely within the specific context of the relevant agreement or document and may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | |||||||||||||||||
| Date: | May 5, 2026 | By: | /s/ Padmanabhan Srinivasan | ||||||||||||||
| Padmanabhan Srinivasan | |||||||||||||||||
| Chief Executive Officer | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date: | May 5, 2026 | By: | /s/ W. Matthew Steinfort | ||||||||||||||
| W. Matthew Steinfort | |||||||||||||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | |||||||||||||||||
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FAQ
How did DigitalOcean (DOCN) perform financially in Q1 2026?
DigitalOcean generated revenue of $257.9 million in Q1 2026, up from $210.7 million a year earlier. Net income was $15.8 million versus $38.2 million, as higher data center costs, interest expense, foreign-exchange losses and taxes offset strong revenue growth.
What were DigitalOcean (DOCN)’s ARR and AI Customer ARR as of March 31, 2026?
As of March 31, 2026, DigitalOcean’s annual run-rate revenue (ARR) was $1.03 billion, up from $843 million. AI Customer ARR reached $170 million, compared with $53 million a year earlier, reflecting expanding usage of its Gradient AI Infrastructure, Platform and Agents.
How are DigitalOcean’s (DOCN) margins and profitability trending?
DigitalOcean’s gross margin declined to 56% in Q1 2026 from 61% a year earlier, mainly due to data center expansion costs. Net income fell to $15.8 million from $38.2 million, impacted by higher interest expense, a debt extinguishment loss, foreign-exchange losses and higher taxes.
What changes did DigitalOcean (DOCN) make to its capital structure in early 2026?
In March 2026, DigitalOcean completed a follow-on offering of 11,948,052 shares at $77.00, raising $887.9 million net. It used the proceeds to repay $500.0 million of its Term Loan Facility, while retaining $937.3 million of outstanding 2026 and 2030 Convertible Notes.
How strong is DigitalOcean’s (DOCN) balance sheet and liquidity position?
DigitalOcean ended March 31, 2026 with $741.4 million in cash and cash equivalents and access to a $300.0 million Revolving Facility. Management believes cash, operating cash flow and revolver capacity will cover working capital, capital expenditures, contractual commitments and debt obligations.
What customer trends are driving DigitalOcean (DOCN)’s growth?
Growth is led by Digital Native Enterprise Customers, whose revenue share rose to 64% of total. DNE Customers increased from about 20,000 to 22,000 year over year. Net dollar retention improved slightly to 101%, and AI-focused customers significantly boosted AI Customer ARR.
Where does DigitalOcean (DOCN) generate most of its revenue geographically?
In Q1 2026, North America accounted for 44% of revenue, Europe 24%, Asia 22%, and the rest of the world 10%. Revenue from customers in the United States represented 38% of total revenue, up from 31% in the same quarter of 2025.