GoDaddy Reports Third-Quarter Results, Keeps 2026 Revenue Outlook at $5.215–$5.255 Billion
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GoDaddy reported its third-quarter 2026 financial results on October 29, according to a company statement published via PR Newswire. Investors had been watching the announcement after the company set an annual revenue range of $5.215 billion to $5.255 billion in July. It said at the time that the midpoint represented annual growth of 6% compared with 2025 revenue of $4.951 billion. But the materials available here do not include details of the third-quarter results or any new change to the outlook, so it is not possible to confirm that the company expects to reach the top end of the range. They also do not include a new annual revenue figure to compare with July's guidance.
July guidance set revenue for the year ending December 31, 2026, at $5.215 billion to $5.255 billion, after the company narrowed its annual forecast range. The company tied the midpoint of that range to growth of 6% year over year, compared with 2025 revenue of $4.951 billion. At the same time, GoDaddy maintained its forecast for an adjusted EBITDA margin above 33%. It also reaffirmed a target of about $1.8 billion in free cash flow for the year. The available information does not include the third-quarter figures needed to assess the company's progress toward these targets.
Second-quarter results, which preceded July's guidance, showed mixed performance across the company's two segments. Applications and Commerce revenue rose 11% year over year to $514.8 million, while Core Platform revenue increased 4% to $783.2 million. Net income was $240.1 million, up 20% year over year, while free cash flow rose 13% to $443.5 million. The company said Airo's annual bookings run rate reached $50 million in the second quarter, five times the $10 million level it reported one quarter earlier. These figures provide an operating backdrop for the annual guidance, but do not on their own show whether third-quarter performance prompted the company to raise its outlook.
GoDaddy describes itself as the world's largest domain name registrar and presents Airo as an agentic operating system for small businesses. In July, an earlier EL7 article described the narrowing of the revenue outlook as coming amid slower AI adoption; that alone does not provide evidence of the reason for any subsequent outlook update. The company's stock, listed under the ticker GDDY, closed at $106.54 on October 28, compared with a close of $106.21 on October 27. This is a comparison of two consecutive daily closes and does not establish the stock's response to third-quarter results announced the following day. A live webcast to discuss the results was scheduled for 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 29.