{"id":363,"date":"2015-02-25T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2015-02-25T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:27:34","slug":"godaddy-filing-a-sign-of-potential-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/godaddy-filing-a-sign-of-potential-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy Filing a Sign of Potential IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s getting giddy about $GDDY?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/cgi\/info\/GoDaddyInc-GDDY-info.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GoDaddy<\/strong> <\/a>filed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1609711\/000119312515060244\/d728713ds1a.htm\" target=\"_blank\">an updated S-1<\/a> <\/strong>adding a co-manager, Piper Jaffray, as well as informing the public they will be listed on the NYSE under the symbol &#8216;GDDY&#8217;.\u00a0 GoDaddy, a domain-hosting service, is known for its brilliant marketing strategies&#8230;especially their main-stream television commercials.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of our favorites:<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9L9Y4VPVZes\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the killer marketing creates brand awareness, it does not discount the fact that GoDaddy is in a crowded space.\u00a0 Looking at their financials for the year ended 2014, &#8216;GDDY&#8217; experienced 23% year-over-year growth from 2013 to 2014 and net losses went from -$200 million to -$143 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the Graphic to Expand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GoDaddy.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GoDaddy-300x90.jpg\" alt=\"GoDaddy\" width=\"543\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GoDaddy-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GoDaddy-600x181.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GoDaddy-1024x308.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/GoDaddy.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GoDaddy has a name brand because of their funky commericals,&#8221; senior managing partner of IPOBoutique.Com Scott Sweet said.\u00a0 &#8220;But they have had four straight years of $100+ million losses. The market will have to weigh growth and sales against net losses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>USA Today wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/americasmarkets.usatoday.com\/2015\/02\/24\/godaddy-takes-another-step-to-ipo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>brief article throwing a little bit of cold water<\/strong><\/a> on the potential IPO:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But some, worry too, it\u2019s its part of rising speculation in technology stocks \u2013 coming eerily as the Nasdaq nears its peak level of 5000 of the boom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Checking in on the general sentiment on Twitter, the sentiment was generally positive with a few jokes mixed in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TwitteronGDDY2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TwitteronGDDY2-300x132.png\" alt=\"TwitteronGDDY2\" width=\"450\" height=\"198\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TwitteronGDDY1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TwitteronGDDY1-300x121.png\" alt=\"TwitteronGDDY1\" width=\"437\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TwitteronGDDY1-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TwitteronGDDY1-600x242.png 600w, https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TwitteronGDDY1.png 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, its early&#8230;but GoDaddy appears to be on track for a 2015 IPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s getting giddy about $GDDY?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"zakra_general_container_width":0,"zakra_general_content_width":0,"zakra_general_sidebar_width":0,"zakra_sticky_header":"customizer","zakra_header_main_area":true,"zakra_site_logo_width":0,"zakra_header_top_enabled":"customizer","zakra_header_top_style":"customizer","zakra_primary_menu_item_style":"customizer","zakra_page_header_text_color":"","zakra_page_header_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_image":0,"zakra_page_title_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_enabled":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_text_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_hover_color":"","zakra_page_title_bg_image":0,"zakra_footer_widgets_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_column_layout_1_style":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_style":"customizer","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipo","tag-gddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}