Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for DOCN in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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DigitalOcean (DOCN) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$136.29−3.46 (−2.5%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryDigitalOcean this week centers on AI momentum and product news. The Q2 2026 earnings call transcript recirculated, highlighting 29% year-over-year revenue growth that exceeded guidance and a 40% adjusted EBITDA margin, with Inference Services up roughly 800% year-over-year and adopted by more than 6,000 customers. The company launched Managed Agents, combining agent execution, tool access, and inference on one cloud, and secured a $725 million equipment financing facility for AI infrastructure. DigitalOcean surged 10.4% in one session amid a sector-wide software infrastructure rally, and analysts issued a "Moderate Buy" consensus rating, with 12 buy recommendations, two strong buys, three holds, and an average price target cited at $152.81.
The stock closed at $136.29, down 2.5%, but remains above both its 50-day average of $124.36 and 200-day average of $103.64, with the shorter average above the longer one. The GekkoIndex reads 55.5, placing it in the Neutral zone, up 6.9 points over five sessions. Price sits 8.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $125.24.
Over the next 20 trading days, the next earnings report falls outside that window, on 4 November. Options activity shows 3 unusual signals in the last 30 days, with put premium of $1,292,850 exceeding call premium of $394,815. Seasonality over five years shows an average 20-day return of 4.9%, positive in 4 of those years. One billionaire holder and one trailblazer holder are noted, alongside a Form 144 insider filing dated 27 September.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
DigitalOcean price vs fair value
Close $136.29200-day averageGekko Fair Value $125.24
DigitalOcean quick facts
- Market cap
- $15.94B
- P/E ratio
- 63.8
- Forward P/E
- 76.3
- EPS, TTM
- $2.19
- Revenue, TTM
- $1.01B
- Profit margin
- 23.3%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 1.57
- Volume
- 1.84M avg 2.79M
- 1-year return
- +288.0%
- Typical daily move
- ±7.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±11.7%
- 50-day average
- $124.36
- 200-day average
- $103.64
- Next earnings
- Nov 4 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 116.9M
DigitalOcean swing-trade checklist
DigitalOcean scores 3 supportive, 1 mixed and 2 headwinds across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive1 mixed2 headwinds
- Trendsupportive
Above 50 and 200-day
Close $136.29 is above the 50-day ($124.36) and 200-day ($103.64) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
55.5, Neutral
Reading 55.5 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valueheadwind
8.8% above
Price is 8.8% above Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% above).
See fair value - Smart moneyheadwind
Leans bearish
Last 30 days: 3 unusual options signals.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 36 days
Next report Nov 4, 2026, 36 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+4.9% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +4.9% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
See seasonality
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DigitalOcean stock chart and price history
DigitalOcean closed at $136.29 on Sep 28, 2026, +288.0% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $33.69 to $187.50.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- +12.0%
- 3 months
- −9.1%
- 6 months
- +67.4%
- 1 year
- +288.0%
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About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean builds and runs a cloud computing platform that reaches users across North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions. It supplies on-demand infrastructure and developer tools aimed at individual coders, early-stage startups, and small to mid-sized businesses, and it is recognized for making cloud resources accessible to smaller and independent users rather than only large enterprises.
Its offerings cover core building blocks such as compute, storage, and networking, alongside managed services for applications, containers, and databases that let developers extend their projects without handling every layer themselves. The customer base spans software engineers, researchers, data scientists, system administrators, students, and hobbyists, who use the platform for tasks like building web and mobile apps, hosting websites, running e-commerce operations, supporting media and gaming projects, and managing personal or professional online work.
DigitalOcean was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Its shares trade on the NYSE under the ticker DOCN.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Website
- digitalocean.com
DigitalOcean GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
DigitalOcean’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 55.5, in the Neutral zone, up 6.9 points over five sessions.
55.5Neutral
Up 6.9 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 26 | +4.9% | +13.9% | ||
| Accumulation | 194 | +1.0% | +3.7% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 403 | +2.0% | +6.5% | ||
| Distribution | 47 | −2.5% | −0.6% | ||
| Selling | 2 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average DOCN share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is DigitalOcean stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
DigitalOcean trades 8.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $125.24, so the shares are overvalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what DigitalOcean shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$125.24
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 29, 2026
8.8% Overvalued
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DigitalOcean insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for DigitalOcean, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in DOCN were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
DigitalOcean has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Dec 31, 2025
- $2.72M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.02%
- Trailing four quarters
- $84.84M
From company filings.
Unusual options activity last 30 days
3signals, 23% of the flagged premium in calls.
Latest: Bullish flow on Sep 18, $395K in unusual premium.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
2of the funds Gekko tracks hold DOCN.
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DigitalOcean earnings: next date and track record
DigitalOcean reports on Nov 4, 2026, before the open (36 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Nov 4, 2026
Expected before the open, 36 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.33
- Revenue estimate
- $306.7M
8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±18.7%average move across the report
5 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Aug 4, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- DigitalOcean reported an outstanding Q2 2026: revenue of $281 million, up 29% year-over-year and above guidance, driven by strong adoption from high-spending customers and rapid traction in AI/inference services. Inference services (launched late April) grew ~800% YoY with >6,000 customers; AI customer ARR reached $234 million, up 212%, and large multi-year customer commitments increased remaining performance obligations to $894 million with a 3.7-year average life. Management highlighted an emerging AI-native flywheel where inference is an entry point that increases attach rates to core cloud services, driving higher-margin and stickier revenue. They secured an incremental 20 MW of capacity, are deploying planned capacity on or ahead of schedule (15 MW remaining to come online H2 2026), and strengthened the balance sheet (pro forma net leverage ~0.7x). Adjusted free cash flow is guided to 11–13% for 2026 and the company expects to be free cash flow positive on any metric. Management raised 2026 outlook (exit growth rate now ~35% vs prior ~30%) but declined to give formal 2027 guidance because of capacity timing uncertainties. Key operational themes: forward-deployed engineering, go-to-market hires (new CRO and CMO), price increases on GPU generations (list prices up ~30%, modest impact to Q2), and software efforts (Model Synthesis, optimization layers) to be hardware-agnostic.
- Guidance
- Raised 2026 outlook: exit growth rate now expected around ~35% (previously ~30%); adjusted free cash flow 11–13% for 2026; company expects to be free-cash-flow positive on any metric for 2026; pricing increases on GPU list prices (~30%) are included in 2026 guide; pro forma net leverage ~0.7x after equitization; remaining performance obligations $894M with 3.7-year average life; incremental 20 MW secured with 15 MW remaining to come online in H2 2026. Management said 2027 could have upside but gave no formal numeric guidance due to data-center timing uncertainty.
- Risks flagged
- Supply-chain and capacity timing risks (data center implementation dates remain a material variable); RPO/backlog lumpiness (large multi-year commitments can create lumpy timing of revenue recognition); dependence on converting AI customer traction into durable, highly-attached revenue; competitive pressures from hyperscalers and other specialized AI infrastructure providers (implied); potential pricing and mix shifts (hardware costs and token economics).
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2026 | $0.32 est $0.10 | $281.2M est $279.0M | −2.1% |
| May 5, 2026 | $0.44 est $0.26 | $257.9M est $249.8M | +48.0% |
| Feb 24, 2026 | $0.44 est $0.38 | $242.4M est $237.7M | +0.1% |
| Nov 5, 2025 | $0.33 est $0.31 | $229.6M est $237.7M | +21.3% |
| Aug 5, 2025 | $0.59 est $0.47 | $218.7M est $226.5M | +35.0% |
| May 6, 2025 | $0.56 est $0.44 | $210.7M est $217.1M | −12.6% |
| Feb 25, 2025 | $0.49 est $0.34 | $204.9M est $207.7M | +18.2% |
| Nov 4, 2024 | $0.52 est $0.40 | $198.5M est $200.4M | −12.2% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
DigitalOcean stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for DigitalOcean is $175.20, +28.5% from the last close, from 14 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$175.20consensus 12-month target, +28.5% from the last close
Now $136.29Avg $175.20
Low $140High $200
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 14 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18 | Truist Financial | — | — |
| Sep 11 | Truist Financial | — | — |
| Aug 27 | Truist Financial | $175 | +28.4% |
| Aug 5 | Barclays | $161 | +18.1% |
| Aug 5 | UBS | $140 | +2.7% |
+6.5%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
+4.9%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±7.1%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
DigitalOcean seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, DigitalOcean averaged +4.9% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +4.8% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +5.4% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +5.6% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +4.9% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +13.0% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, DOCN’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 11.7%.
DigitalOcean market cap and key statistics
DigitalOcean’s market cap is $15.94B, with a P/E ratio of 63.8 and revenue of $1.01B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $15.94B
- P/E ratio
- 63.8
- Forward P/E
- 76.3
- EPS, TTM
- $2.19
- Gekko Fair Value
- $125.24
Trading
- Volume
- 1.84M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 2.79M
- 52-week high
- $187.50
- 52-week low
- $33.69
- Shares outstanding
- 116.9M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $1.01B
- Profit margin
- 23.3%
- Return on equity
- 62.3%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- −24.5%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.57
- Typical daily move
- ±7.1%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±11.7%
DigitalOcean stock news this week
Coverage of DigitalOcean this week reads positive: 7 positive, 3 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
- Form 144 DigitalOcean Holdings For: 27 September By Investing.comInvesting.com Australia, Sep 28
- DigitalOcean Holdings Q2 2026 Earnings Call: Complete TranscriptBenzinga, Sep 25
- DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (DOCN) latest stock news and headlinesYahoo Finance Australia, Sep 23
- DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (DOCN) Latest Stock News & Headlines - Yahoo FinanceYahoo! Finance Canada, Sep 23
- DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN) Given Consensus Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" by AnalystsMarketBeat, Sep 23
- DigitalOcean Launches Managed Agents, Bringing Agent Execution, Tool Access, and Inference Together on One CloudGuruFocus, Sep 22
DigitalOcean peers
DigitalOcean’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| MSFTMicrosoft | Neutral | 17.3% above |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | Neutral | 15.7% above |
| ORCLOracle | Accumulation | 25.9% below |
| PANWPalo Alto Networks | Neutral | 16.1% above |
| CRWDCrowdStrike | Neutral | 27.2% above |
| CRMSalesforce | Neutral | 5.9% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
DigitalOcean stock FAQ
What is DigitalOcean’s market cap?
DigitalOcean’s market cap is $15.94B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $136.29, with 116.9M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 63.8.
What is the DigitalOcean stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for DigitalOcean is $175.20, +28.5% from the last close. Of the 14 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 12 rate it a buy, 2 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is DigitalOcean stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate DigitalOcean is overvalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $136.29 is 8.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $125.24. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does DigitalOcean report earnings next?
DigitalOcean is expected to report on Nov 4, 2026, before the market opens (36 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.33 per share on revenue of $306.7M. DigitalOcean beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 18.7% on average across the report.
What is DigitalOcean’s 52-week high and low?
DigitalOcean’s 52-week high is $187.50 and its 52-week low is $33.69; it closed at $136.29 on Sep 28, 2026, +288.0% over the past year.
Is DigitalOcean stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (trend, earnings risk and seasonality), 1 as mixed (gekkoindex) and 2 as headwinds (fair value and smart money). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
Is there unusual options activity in DigitalOcean?
Gekko flagged 3 unusual options signals in DigitalOcean over the last 30 days, with $395K of flagged premium in calls and $1.29M in puts. The latest, bullish flow, was on Sep 18, 2026 with $395K in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.
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