Financial profile · Q2 FY2026

Profitable cloud growth is increasingly paired with infrastructure-heavy reinvestment

DigitalOcean’s history shows a growing cloud-services base that moved from operating losses to profitability as scale increased, while data-center investment absorbs much of the resulting operating cash. Its financial model combines improving operating leverage with meaningful infrastructure intensity and variable free-cash-flow conversion.

What is developing

Q2 revenue was 28.6% higher year over year, while TTM free cash flow slipped slightly below zero as capital spending edged above operating cash flow. This signals greater reinvestment intensity, but the small trailing deficit alongside positive quarterly free cash flow does not yet establish a change in the underlying profitable model.

What matters next

Whether customer usage growth lets TTM operating cash flow sustainably exceed infrastructure spending.

USD
Metric FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025
203.1m 254.8m 318.4m 428.6m 576.3m 692.9m 780.6m 901.4m
(97m) (122.3m) (145.5m) (170.6m) (211.9m) (284m) (314.7m) (361.8m)
106.1m 132.6m 172.8m 258m 364.4m 408.9m 465.9m 539.6m
(133.4m) (162.5m) (188.6m) (269.2m) (390.1m) (376.1m) (374.9m) (382.6m)
(88.5m) (102.5m) (113.7m) (153.5m) (246.2m) (235.8m) (232.4m) (221m)
R&D
(44.9m) (60m) (75m) (115.7m) (143.9m) (140.4m) (142.5m) (161.6m)
(27.3m) (29.9m) (15.8m) (11.2m) (25.7m) 32.8m 91m 157m
(6.3m) (9.4m) (13.6m) (3.7m) (8.4m) (8.9m) 2.8m (14m)
6.3m 9.4m 13.6m 3.1m 16.3m 16.9m 17.1m 17.9m
(550k) 0 (259k) (3.4m) (407k) (20.9m) 0 48.1m
(622k) (336k) (13m) 164k 10.6m 23.8m 3.9m 15.6m
(34.8m) (39.6m) (42.7m) (18.2m) (23.9m) 26.8m 97.7m 206.7m
(1.2m) (793k) (911k) (1.3m) (3.9m) (7.4m) (13.2m) 52.6m
(36m) (40.4m) (43.6m) (19.5m) (27.8m) 19.4m 84.5m 259.3m
(36m) (40.4m) (43.6m) (19.5m) (27.8m) 19.4m 84.5m 259.3m
(0.41) (0.45) (0.49) (0.21) (0.28) 0.20 0.89 2.46