GitLab Inc.

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GitLab Inc.

Quarterly revenue, EPS, free cash flow, valuation, and Rule of 40 scores for GitLab Inc..

R40: 20 · 2027 Q2 $7.91B
$46.54
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GitLab Inc. provides a DevSecOps platform that covers the software-development lifecycle in a single application, including source control, CI/CD, planning, security scanning, and deployment. The product is offered as a cloud-hosted SaaS and as self-managed software, sold primarily by subscription to enterprises and developers.

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Open GTLB Rule of 40 details
Median 44.1 Above 40 0–40 Below 0
-60
Q3
58
2025 Q4
76
Q1
49
Q2
36
Q3
39
2026 Q4
79
Q1
20
2027 Q2 40 0 Mix
ANALYST RATINGS
Hold $39
Consensus as of Aug 31, 2026
GTLB
Cantor Fitzgerald Neutral $50
Reiterates
2026-08-31
BTIG Buy $52
Reiterates
2026-08-31
D.A. Davidson Neutral $45
Maintains
2026-08-31
TD Cowen Hold $42
Maintains
2026-08-27
J.P. Morgan Neutral $44
Maintains
2026-08-26

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GTLB FORWARD MODEL $44.57 -4%
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Background

Company History

Exchange
NASDAQ
IPO Date
Oct 14, 2021
IPO Price
$77.00
as issued; not split-adjusted, so not comparable to the current price
Shares Outstanding
169.9M
2011
GitLab starts as an open-source project

Dmitriy Zaporozhets publishes GitLab as open-source software for self-hosted Git repository management.

2014
Incorporated in Delaware

GitLab Inc. is incorporated on 12 September 2014 with Sytse Sijbrandij as chief executive, operating on an all-remote model from the start.

2021
NASDAQ IPO at $77.00

Lists Class A stock on 14 October 2021 under GTLB, selling 8.42 million shares at $77.00 for about $759 million of net proceeds before expenses.

2024
A quarter of negative operating cash flow from the tax settlement

The quarter ended 31 October 2024 consumed $177.0 million of free cash flow as GitLab paid out income tax accrued under its bilateral advance pricing agreement, which had built up as a $245.9 million accrual the year before.

2024
Sijbrandij hands over to Bill Staples

On 3 December 2024 the co-founder resigns as chief executive effective the 5th and becomes executive chair; former New Relic chief executive Bill Staples takes the job and a board seat.

2025
A year of finance and engineering turnover

CFO Brian Robins resigns in September 2025 and CTO Sabrina Farmer at the end of December; Jessica Ross and Sivaprasad Padisetty fill both seats in mid-January 2026.

2026
"GitLab Act 2" and a 14% workforce cut

Staples publishes an open restructuring letter on 11 May; the 2 June results confirm roughly 350 roles cut, an exit from 22 countries and $30-35 million of pre-tax restructuring charges.

2026
Duo Agent Platform and the first buyback

The agent platform ships in January 2026 and the board authorises a $400 million repurchase programme, under which GitLab bought 2,378,892 Class A shares for $50.0 million at an average $21.04 during the April quarter.

Leadership

Key Players

Bill Staples
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Appointed chief executive on 5 December 2024, when co-founder Sytse Sijbrandij moved to executive chair. Ran New Relic as chief executive from July 2021 to December 2023, and before that led Adobe's Experience Cloud engineering and Microsoft's Azure application platform. In May 2026 he published a letter titled "GitLab Act 2" that reset the strategy around agentic AI and announced an open restructuring; the June results confirmed a 14% workforce reduction and an exit from 22 countries.

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Jessica Ross
Chief Financial Officer
Became CFO on or about 15 January 2026, ending a four-month interim under VP Finance James Shen after Brian Robins resigned in September 2025. Came from Frontdoor, where she was CFO from December 2022, and before that spent three years at Salesforce in enterprise strategy and finance transformation roles.
Sytse "Sid" Sijbrandij
Co-founder & Executive Chair
Co-founded GitLab in 2014 and ran it as chief executive until 5 December 2024, including through the October 2021 IPO. Remains executive chair and the largest individual holder; on 14 May 2026 he converted all 15,134,451 of his Class B shares, which carry ten votes each, into ordinary Class A stock.
Sivaprasad Padisetty
Chief Technology Officer
Appointed CTO in mid-January 2026, replacing Sabrina Farmer, who resigned that month. Was CTO of New Relic from September 2022 — reuniting him with Staples — after eight years at Amazon running EC2 Windows and the management-tools organisation.
Godfrey Sullivan
Lead Independent Director Board
Former Splunk chief executive and chairman; lead independent director at GitLab and, since April 2026, also on the compensation and leadership development committee after Merline Saintil left the board and it shrank from nine seats to eight.
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