GoDaddy (GDDY) stock jumped over 4% in after-hours trading on April 30 after the company reported Q1 results that beat earnings expectations and matched revenue forecasts.
Adjusted EPS came in at $1.60, ahead of the $1.52 analyst consensus. Revenue hit $1.27 billion, in line with the $1.26 billion–$1.27 billion expected by analysts.
Net profit fell 2% year-over-year to $214.6 million, though the company’s adjusted profitability metrics told a different story.
GoDaddy $GDDY Q1 Earnings
Earnings Beat
Adj. EPS: $1.60
YoY: ↑ 6% (from $1.51)
Sales: $1.267B
YoY: ↑ 6% (from $1.194B)GDDY with the classic boring-but-effective double beat. Domain and website gang still collecting their rent money like…
— CHItrader (@CHItrader) April 30, 2026
Normalized EBITDA came in at $413.5 million, up 13% year-over-year, representing a 33% margin. Free cash flow grew 15% to $473.6 million for the quarter.
GoDaddy repurchased 3.0 million of its own stock for $279.7 million during the quarter. The company reaffirmed its full-year free cash flow target of approximately $1.8 billion.
For Q2, GoDaddy projected revenue of $1.285 billion to $1.305 billion. The midpoint of $1.295 billion edges out the analyst consensus of $1.29 billion.
Full-year 2026 revenue guidance came in at $5.195 billion to $5.275 billion. The midpoint of $5.235 billion is essentially flat with the $5.236 billion consensus.
CFO Mark McCaffrey highlighted “disciplined execution and driving compounding free cash flow” as the company’s core focus heading into the rest of the year.
GoDaddy’s Airo AI platform is quickly becoming a talking point. The product, which launched in beta last year with five AI agents, has since expanded to over two dozen.
Those agents now handle tasks ranging from logo creation to marketing campaigns, all aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses build and manage their digital presence.
Airo AI Builder hit a multi-million dollar annualized bookings run rate within weeks of its beta launch, which the company called out as early evidence of traction.
CEO Aman Bhutani said GoDaddy is “moving quickly to lead in this next phase of AI-driven innovation, focusing on helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into real businesses faster and more easily.”
The company’s AI push is central to its strategy for attracting more small businesses to its platform, with GoDaddy positioning Airo as a one-stop-shop for microbusiness customers.
The stock was up over 4% after the bell following the earnings release.
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