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Automattic Stock Price, Valuation & IPO

Private company — Automattic is privately held. Its shares are not listed on any public exchange and can only be accessed through private secondary transactions.

Status source: AXEVIL investment team

$22.56 per share (AXEVIL consensus estimate)

Source: AXEVIL consensus of recent secondary transactions · as of 10 November 2026

Last round valuation: $7.5B

Source: Growth round (2021), February 2021, post-money

Total raised: $779M

Data last updated: 10 November 2026

About Automattic

The main developer of WordPress, which powers 39% of all websites: it sells hosting (WordPress.com), WooCommerce stores and turnkey enterprise websites. Revenue of about $500 million a year; $7.5 billion was the price of a share buyback from employees in August 2021.

Automattic is the company of Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, founded in 2005 in San Francisco. The engine itself is free and powers 39% of all websites on the internet, while Automattic earns from paid products built around it: WordPress.com hosting and the enterprise VIP platform, the WooCommerce store plugin, the Jetpack security service, the Tumblr social network, and the Day One and Pocket Casts apps. More than 4 million stores run on WooCommerce, and WordPress VIP has more than 700 enterprise clients, including The Times, Capgemini and Al Jazeera. Revenue is about $500 million a year; its 1,347 employees work remotely, and the company has no offices. Since March 2026 Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor have published to WordPress.com directly, and in November the company spun out Spacefast as a separate business: hosting for apps built by AI agents. It has raised $779 million in total, at a last valuation of $7.5 billion.

  • Sector: Enterprise Software
  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Founded: 2005

Key highlights

  1. The Times: 62% fewer clicks to publish. The British newspaper moved its site to WordPress VIP. According to Automattic, the newsroom now needs 62% fewer actions to publish an article, and time to publication has dropped by 34%.
  2. Adweek: three times as much content. The advertising trade publication moved to WordPress VIP and, according to Automattic, began publishing three times as much content. Site traffic grew 82% after the move.
  3. Pew Research Center: minutes instead of weeks. The research center builds interactive features with survey data on WordPress VIP. Preparing such a feature has gone from several weeks to minutes.

Frequently asked questions

How can I buy Automattic stock before the IPO?

Not on a public exchange — Automattic is privately held. Shares change hands only in private secondary transactions. AXEVIL structures those as dedicated US special purpose vehicles for accredited investors, subject to availability and to the rules of your jurisdiction.

What is the Automattic stock price?

A private company has no single official share price. AXEVIL's consensus estimate is $22.56 per share as of 10 November 2026. Its most recent round implied a post-money valuation of $7.5B (February 2021).

What is Automattic's valuation (net worth)?

Automattic's most recent funding round valued the company at $7.5B post-money (February 2021) — the latest primary-market measure of what the company is worth. Secondary trades can price its shares above or below that round.

When will Automattic IPO?

No listing has been announced. AXEVIL does not forecast IPO dates — this page states what has actually been filed or reported, with the date it was last checked.

Is Automattic publicly traded?

No. Automattic is a private company and its shares are not listed on any public exchange.

Does Automattic have a stock symbol?

No. Automattic has no ticker symbol because its shares are not listed on any exchange; a symbol is assigned only at an IPO or direct listing.

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Risk disclosure

Nothing on this page is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security, and it is not investment advice. Valuations and share prices shown here are AXEVIL estimates built from primary sources — filings, announced rounds and completed secondary transactions — not quoted market prices, and they can be revised. Private-company shares are illiquid, may be impossible to sell, and the entire amount invested can be lost. Availability depends on your jurisdiction and on accredited-investor status.

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