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Company snapshot — DigitalOcean Holdings Inc

DOCN in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
DigitalOcean runs cloud infrastructure built for developers and smaller technology firms, covering compute, storage, networking, managed databases, Kubernetes and serverless functions. It also rents GPU instances so smaller teams can build and run AI applications without owning hardware. Customers include gaming, fintech and cybersecurity firms building websites, apps and AI products. It is based in Broomfield, Colorado, and listed in the United States.
Where it sits in the stack
In our Agentic Winners 40 index, DigitalOcean sits in the Agentic Ecosystem sleeve, under Runtime & API Gateways — the layer that hosts and serves live agents rather than trains them. It is a customer of the GPU and chip layers above it, reselling that capacity as smaller, metered instances to startups building agent-based products.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with Twilio and BlackBerry under the Agentic Ecosystem, Runtime & API Gateways reason; the market also names Amazon Web Services as the larger cloud it competes against for the same developer workloads.
Why Closelook tracks it
It holds a seat in the Agentic Winners 40 index and carries a Closelook score, strongest on quality and weakest on valuation. A dossier named it as where agent hosting for startups and small businesses will concentrate, a midday note tracked a sharp round trip in its shares, and a daily pulse listed it among the metered consumption-infrastructure names that scale with agent activity.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether smaller developers keep buying metered GPU and compute capacity as agent workloads grow, and whether revenue growth starts to match the run of earnings beats the company has posted.

DigitalOcean Holdings Inc (DOCN) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology. Constituent of Agentic Winners 40.

The Closelook company score reads 43/100 composite (momentum 55, quality 65, valuation 15) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for DOCN, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Agentic Ecosystem · Runtime & API Gateways · 2 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Agentic Ecosystem · Runtime & API Gateways

  • TWLOTwilio Inc
    day
    +3.1%
    vs 50d
    +12.0%
    off high
    −4.7%
    score
    62

    flow: getting stronger

  • BBBlackBerry Ltd
    day
    +3.9%
    vs 50d
    −7.5%
    off high
    −41.6%
    score
    49

    flow: losing force

Compared against DOCN on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Versus its index Agentic Ecosystem Index — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Agentic Ecosystem Index · as of 2026-09-17

DayWeekMonth3 months
DOCN+7.4%+1.5%+6.2%−25.2%
Runtime & API Gateways+4.6%+4.6%+2.6%—
Agentic Ecosystem Index+2.5%+7.0%+3.9%—

Against the index: 5.5 pts behind on the week, 2.3 pts ahead on the month; against its Runtime & API Gateways sleeve 3.6 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sector × region Technology in US: −2.1% week · −3.4% month · −1.2% quarter · +32.1% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-16
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is DigitalOcean Holdings Inc (DOCN)?

DigitalOcean Holdings Inc trades as DOCN on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is DOCN in a Closelook index?

Yes — DigitalOcean Holdings Inc is a constituent of Agentic Winners 40, as of 2026-09-18.

What is DigitalOcean Holdings Inc's Closelook composite score?

43 out of 100, with momentum 55, quality 65 and valuation 15 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-18. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is DigitalOcean Holdings Inc's earnings print record?

Across the 10 prints Closelook covers, DigitalOcean Holdings Inc beat EPS estimates 10 times and revenue estimates 5 times; the three-day reactions split 7 up, 1 flat and 2 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-08-03 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does DOCN trade against its moving averages?

Up 7.4% at the close: Above both trend lines; one of the day's strongest moves. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is DOCN doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month DigitalOcean Holdings Inc is +6.2% against +3.9% for the Agentic Ecosystem Index — 2.3 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-09-17. Its Runtime & API Gateways sleeve is +2.6% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does DigitalOcean Holdings Inc do?

DigitalOcean runs cloud infrastructure built for developers and smaller technology firms, covering compute, storage, networking, managed databases, Kubernetes and serverless functions. It also rents GPU instances so smaller teams can build and run AI applications without owning hardware. Customers include gaming, fintech and cybersecurity firms building websites, apps and AI products. Closelook's peer group places it with Twilio and BlackBerry under the Agentic Ecosystem, Runtime & API Gateways reason; the market also names Amazon Web Services as the larger cloud it competes against for the same developer workloads.

Where does DigitalOcean Holdings Inc sit in the AI build-out?

In our Agentic Winners 40 index, DigitalOcean sits in the Agentic Ecosystem sleeve, under Runtime & API Gateways — the layer that hosts and serves live agents rather than trains them. It is a customer of the GPU and chip layers above it, reselling that capacity as smaller, metered instances to startups building agent-based products. It holds a seat in the Agentic Winners 40 index and carries a Closelook score, strongest on quality and weakest on valuation. A dossier named it as where agent hosting for startups and small businesses will concentrate, a midday note tracked a sharp round trip in its shares, and a daily pulse listed it among the metered consumption-infrastructure names that scale with agent activity.

Where has Closelook written about DigitalOcean Holdings Inc?

DigitalOcean Holdings Inc appears in 4 Closelook pieces, most recently Midday 10: Palantir +27%, and the market buys back the exact corner it sold (2026-08-04); Daily Pulse: The Opex Handover — Why the AI Trade Is Rotating, Not Rolling Over (2026-06-30); Dossier: The Agentic Winners 25 (2026-03-31). What Closelook said most recently: DigitalOcean — an eighteen-point round trip to nowhere (Midday 10, 2026-08-04). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for DOCN, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 4 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “Palantir +27%, and the market buys back the exact corner it sold” (2026-08-04)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where DOCN appears in the diary — 4 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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Long reads

  • The Agentic Winners 25Dossier · $49 · 31 Mar 2026DigitalOcean serves the developer-cloud segment where agent hosting for startups and SMBs will concentrate.

Dailies

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