Setting Sail on the Digital Ocean - 17K options YOLO on DOCN
Ahoy Mateys, it be time to set sail on the DIGITAL OCEAN $DOCN
Hello you paint huffing crayon eating idiots. I was browsing some DDs on here and noticed a lot of you discussing “FuNdAmEnTaLs” and “PrIcE tO EaRnInGs RaTiOs.” Maybe some of you need to switch over to r/investing or r/dividends. Since when is this place full of a bunch of value investors? Anyways, here’s an AI play with fundamentals so strong that your mom, dad, grandma and grandpa can buy. Maybe they’ll love you if you can make them some money. I present: DOCN.
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You’ll notice it has a very similar chart to a recent WSB favorite, PATH, which took off explosively last week on breakout of multi-year range… guess what DOCN is about to do?
What the fuck does DOCN do? Digital Ocean is a cloud computing company that owns and operates the equipment to run data centers globally. That's right, THEY RUN DATA CENTERS. Oh, just the little old things that are required by every single AI developer and crypto miner to do… fucking everything. THINK MARK, THINK.
They’re selling SHOVELS IN A GOLD RUSH
Now, as if just being a data center isn’t enough to send a stock flying in this market… *cough cough*… APLD, GLXY, CRWV, NBIS, INOD… *cough cough* DOCN has something that few emerging AI/data/cloud companies bring to the table…EARNINGS. This company actually makes money. They have a 30 p/e and reported an adjusted EPS of $.92 on September 4, 2025.
DOCN IS ALSO A DIRECT VENDOR OF AMD CLOUD COMPUTING GPUS.
The numbers: Go ahead, take a look. Find me another data/AI company with a $3b market cap boasting numbers like this:
These guys are printing money for their size. They BIGLY beat earnings expectations eight times in a row. Last earnings they pumped 30%. For comparison, APLD has a market cap 3x larger with only ~60m in quarterly revenue. (thats like one third of the quarterly revenue DOCN makes.) Jensen Huangs speech last week emphasized the importance of data centers. And that’s not where the NVDA connection stops…
New Partnerships: ever heard of NVDA? Ever heard of AMD? Ever heard of openAI? Well… DOCN has deals with ALL THREE. The openAI deal is brand new as of October 2025. AS IF this company isn’t a powerhouse on its own… they stand to be a DIRECT BENEFICIARY to the AMD/openAI deal… You know, the one that caused AMD to pump almost 50% this week???
Why? I’ll repeat it again you dense motherfucker. DOCN IS A DIRECT VENDOR FOR AMD GPUS.
Now of course this is WSB and who cares about fundamentals when the market runs on crushing those not long and exploiting gamma ramps, and this is where things start to get really spicy…
IV / TA / Short interest:
Let me be clear. This is a 30x p/e company with excellent cash flow. The thesis of this play is NOT a short play, but a realization of value… That said, they have painted themselves into a corner. DOCN went public in 2021 and pumped to an ATH of $133 within months… then, stock suffered a large drawdown in the 2021/2022 bear market but stabilized around 30 to 40, where it’s been sideways for three years despite growing their revenue and EPS.
Per fintel, the stock has 15.57% shorting interest… That’s not all… check out the insane gamma ramp for the November option expiration.
This can gamma ramp in a hurry with a breakout over $40-45, and IV is still very very low, sitting around 80% across most contracts.
And because there’s no weekly options, market makers cannot easily hedge upwards momentum, so there’s absolutely nothing to stand in the way of this gamma ramp a month out if things pick up speed. Monthly options carry much greater gamma risk for market makers. You’re gonna want to hurry into this before they stack this with weeklies to try to stop the fucking train!
Now check out that chart! It JUST completed a golden cross
Volume profile looks just like PATH if you saw that DD. Heavy accumulation between $35 and $40. Trendline going back to August 2023 indicates a breakout here would be huge, and at a meager market cap of 3.6B, this can easily double from here through the end of the year. Once eyes are on this and it finally gets the attention it deserves, it’s going to absolutely fly in this frothy market that is salivating for any AI play it can sink its teeth into.
Analysts upgrades: turns out, im not the only idiot who has found this company…
- Canaccord raised their price target from 49 to 55 10/10/2025
- UBS raised price target to 40 from 32
- Market Edge rates it as “Long” (their maximum rating)
- LSEG rates this stock as “out-perform”
Position: Currently holding these calls post dating earnings. I plan to buy more shares and calls as soon as CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS stops holding my unsettled cash.
TLDR; DOCN is SELLING SHOVELS IN A GOLD RUSH, they’re a data center company that makes a lot of fucking money. They have a 30x p/e, a $3b market cap, established partnerships with AMD, NVDA, and a brand new October 2025 deal with OPENAI. They also stand to be a direct beneficiary of the AMD/openAI deal. Other data centers such as APLD, GLXY, CRWV, NBIS, INOD have pumped to the moon, while DOCN has been sleeping despite the fact that it has incredibly strong numbers. Also, 15% of the float is shorted and the stock is breaking out of a 3 year consolidation. Previous ATH was 133. PT 75+.
Posted Oct 14, 2025, 12:48 PM UTC