GoDaddy (GDDY) reports 1st quarter loss

[garptrader]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/godaddy-reports-continued-growth-first-200500035.html

-more than 14 million customers
-domain revenue about half of total
-average revenue per user less than $125 (given that many domainers might spend this much every week or for some larger portfolios every day, the implication is many customers just register one domain for reg fee and maybe add a hosting service)

I have never liked EBITDA as a metric because the reality is...
- if you have debt, you have to pay interest
-if you have profits you have to pay taxes and if you don't have profits well you have issues
-depreciation is a non-cash expense but represents "the systematic allocation of the cost of the use of an asset over the accounting periods making up its estimated useful life" - In other words you acquired an asset at a cost whose cost was not immediately recognized as an expense but will be over time. Fixed assets such as computers, company cars, buildings, office furniture, etc. eventually have to be replaced. So you it is misleading to assume that depreciation is not a legitimate expense.
-amortization relates to intangibles - OK perhaps an argument could be made to report a metric which excludes amortization costs

 

[itsmeyall]

if they [godaddy.com] can build an easy virtual windows desktop solution and make it way way easier than amazon workspaces google cloud or azure, then they can laugh for a while. The thing is that major amounts of people are ditching the pc and using the google cloud drive and amazon drives to download stuff they just need a solution that lets them use the old programs they loved from microsoft and mac os pcs (because they cannot utilized said programs at all without thirdparty proxy on the chrome os). The chromebooks chromebox and chromebits make the hdtvs in to really fast internet machines that can fly through the internet way better than microsoft machines and the rest is done on the cellphone android. so far the bintami stacks are still pretty complicated and so is the amazon workspace azure and google cloud services; the only one that has a near easy enough solution is rollapp but they [rollapp] are too slow at adding the apps that matter most to people. If godaddy.com purchased rollapp or configured some windows desktop virtual machines that could serve android studio IDE along with its development device emulators and allowing for saving completed works to google or amazon drives they would own a major service for developers which would have the potential to be very profitable until the rest of the giants follow because android app development is a nightmare on the static consumer windows pc machine and practically every kid whos studying computers wants to build the apps for android phones.

trust me when i say that the first hosting provider that offers an outof the box android os developement IDE cloud solution (preferably android studio) thats truly plug and play is going to be the king of the cloud virtual desktop service model providers

 

[ZapNano]

Godaddy, might need to purchased my name; "ZapNano" when all technologies need to process fast!! Zap like lightning!

 

[itsmeyall]

Godaddy, might need to purchased my name; "ZapNano" when all technologies need to process fast!! Zap like lightning!

zap fast in nano seconds!!