GoDaddy (GDDY) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and GoDaddy published the results on October 29, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison.

• GoDaddy reports no adjusted EPS. Its main non-GAAP measures are normalized EBITDA (NEBITDA) and free cash flow.
• Net income for the first nine months of 2025 included a one-time benefit of $34.6 million from the recognition of an uncertain tax position.

Source: GoDaddy Q3 2026 results, October 29, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How GoDaddy splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• GoDaddy's Applications and Commerce revenue was $524 million in Q3 2026, up 9% from $481 million in Q3 2025, 39% of total revenue.
• GoDaddy's Core Platform revenue was $818 million in Q3 2026, up 4% from $784 million in Q3 2025, 61% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

In its Q3 2026 release, GoDaddy said:

“For the full year ending December 31, 2026, GoDaddy expects to finish toward the higher end of its revenue range of $5.215 billion to $5.255 billion.”

“Within total revenue, GoDaddy expects full year A&C revenue growth of approximately 10% and Core revenue growth of approximately 4%.”

“For the full year ending December 31, 2026, GoDaddy reaffirms its NEBITDA margin target of over 33%.”

“For the full year ending December 31, 2026, GoDaddy reaffirms its free cash flow target of approximately $1.8 billion, versus the $1.6 billion of free cash flow generated in 2025.”

Source: GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 29, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the GDDY forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP total revenue and diluted net income per share of Class A common stock, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

We do not hold a confirmed date for GoDaddy's next report. Companies post the date on their investor relations site a few weeks ahead, usually with the time of the conference call.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 29, 2026

GoDaddy reports two segments. Core Platform, $817.5 million in Q3 2026, is mainly domain registrations and renewals, aftermarket domain sales, domain protection, website hosting and website security. Applications and Commerce (A&C), $524.3 million, is mainly subscription products containing GoDaddy's own software, notably website building, plus its commerce products and third-party email and productivity solutions. Total revenue was $1,341.8 million, up 6.0% on a reported and constant currency basis. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; GoDaddy Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

GoDaddy's A&C revenue rose $43.3 million, or 9.0%, which the 10-Q puts down to continued customer adoption of subscription-based products. Core revenue rose $33.2 million, or 4.2%, driven by $26.2 million of growth in domain registration and add-on revenues and $14.3 million in aftermarket revenue. (GoDaddy Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

GoDaddy collects payment when a customer signs and recognizes revenue over the contract term, which can run up to ten years, so bookings lead revenue. Total bookings were $1,431.7 million, up 5.7%, driven by domain registration and aftermarket, A&C adoption and pricing actions in productivity solutions, partly offset by customers renewing email accounts with fewer seats. Annualized recurring revenue was $4,513.9 million, up 5.1%. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; GoDaddy Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

GoDaddy had 20.5 million customers at September 30, 2026, up 40 thousand in the quarter, and average revenue per user rose 6.8% to $253. Domains under management were 82,435 thousand. International revenue was $435.5 million, up 3.1%. Airo, which GoDaddy calls its flagship website product, passed an annualized bookings run rate of $100 million, from $50 million a quarter earlier. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; GoDaddy Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

GoDaddy's diluted EPS rose 38% to $2.08 from $1.51, faster than net income, which rose 24.4% to $261.8 million, because diluted weighted-average shares fell to 125,696 thousand from 139,073 thousand. Year to date through October 26, 2026, GoDaddy repurchased 15.7 million shares for $1.4 billion, a 12% gross reduction in fully diluted shares since the start of the year. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

GoDaddy's operating income rose 22.2% to $362.5 million, a 27.0% margin. Part of the gain came from depreciation and amortization, which fell $15.7 million to $12.7 million, mainly because of a $13.7 million drop in amortization of intangible assets as some assets reached the end of their useful lives. Equity-based compensation was $67.3 million, down from $79.6 million. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; GoDaddy Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

GoDaddy does not publish adjusted EPS. Its normalized EBITDA, which excludes depreciation and amortization, equity-based compensation, interest, taxes and restructuring and other items, was $449.3 million, a 33.5% margin. The effective tax rate for the first nine months of 2026 was 23.1%. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; GoDaddy Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

GoDaddy gives a full-year outlook in its release. For 2026 it expects to finish toward the higher end of its revenue range of $5.215 billion to $5.255 billion, against $4.951 billion in 2025, with A&C growth of about 10% and Core growth of about 4%. It reaffirmed an NEBITDA margin target of over 33% and free cash flow of about $1.8 billion. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

GoDaddy plans an Investor Night on December 1, 2026, where it said it will refresh select financial targets. (GoDaddy Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover GoDaddy, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones GoDaddy's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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Every number on this page can be traced to a document GoDaddy published. Checking one takes a couple of minutes, and it is worth doing before you quote a figure anywhere.

• The results release is the document linked in the source line above. Companies publish it on their investor relations site at the moment results go out, and it carries the headline tables: revenue, operating income, net income and EPS for the quarter and the year-ago quarter.
• The same release is filed with the SEC as Exhibit 99.1 to a Form 8-K under Item 2.02, usually on the day of the report. The SEC copy does not change after the fact, which makes it the safer thing to link when you cite a number.
• The quarterly report (Form 10-Q) follows within a few weeks and carries the full financial statements, the segment note and management's discussion of what changed. The fourth quarter is covered by the annual report (Form 10-K) instead.
• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

A walk-through of every line in a release, with what each one tells you, is in how to read an earnings report.