DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (DOCN) reported $229.63 million in revenue for the quarter ended September 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 15.7%. EPS of $0.54 for the same period compares to $0.52 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.37% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $226.53 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.50, the EPS surprise was +8%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how DigitalOcean performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Net Dollar Retention Rate: 99% versus 99.5% estimated by two analysts on average.
- Total Customers: 640,000 versus the two-analyst average estimate of 678,244.
- Annual Run-Rate Revenue (ARR): $919 million versus $906.38 million estimated by two analysts on average.
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Shares of DigitalOcean have returned +1.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +1% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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