DigitalOcean’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than GoDaddy’s. What Five Public Multiples Say About Hosting Valuations.

We selected five publicly traded companies that span the hosting, cloud and domain economy, and right now the market prices a dollar of their EBITDA, the operating-earnings measure most larger deals are priced on, at anything from under 8 times to almost 40. The spread is the story. GoDaddy, with $5.1 billion in trailing revenue, is worth less today, by market value, than DigitalOcean…