ORCL's Q4 AI growth is impressive but premium valuation suggests holding existing positions while new investors await better fiscal 2026 entry points.
The recommendations of Wall Street analysts are often relied on by investors when deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock. Media reports about these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts changing their ratings often affect a stock's price.
Examine the evolution of Oracle's (ORCL) overseas revenue trends and their effects on Wall Street's forecasts and the stock's prospects.
Oracle's cloud and AI infrastructure demand is surging, with RPOs up 41% and management projecting even steeper growth ahead. Our thesis: Oracle's unique position as the data and infrastructure enabler for enterprise AI makes it the key beneficiary of the AI boom. Capex is set to rise sharply to meet unprecedented demand, likely requiring more debt, but revenue growth and valuation multiples remain compelling.
Major U.S. equities indexes moved lower after Israel conducted attacks targeting Iran's nuclear program and military leadership, prompting a retaliation from Tehran and exacerbating the tense geopolitical environment in the Middle East and across the globe.
Oracle appears to have appointed two new presidents. Internally, the people are considered part of a succession plan for Larry Ellison, one insider said.
Oracle shares popped 24% this week, their best performance since 2001, after the company's earnings report pointed to momentum in its cloud business. The stock has outperformed all of tech's megacaps so far this year.
$104 billion. That's how much market capitalization Oracle has gained over the last two trading sessions.
From an underdog priced at a heavy discount, Oracle is now emerging as a leader in the cloud with a stock that is priced accordingly. I show why many investors were falling victims to recency bias and how this created the massive opportunity behind the ORCL stock. The stock, however, is now increasingly trading on momentum and returns rely on the company continuing to deliver better-than-expected results.
Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL, ETR:ORC)'s shares jumped in US trading overnight after the company released impressive results for the fourth quarter and full financial year, with total quarterly revenues up 11% year-over-year to $15.9 billion. The strong performance was driven by robust demand for Oracle's cloud infrastructure and applications, with cloud revenues climbing 27% to $6.7 billion, marking a major growth area for the company.
Oracle investors are on cloud nine today as the stock reached record heights. The company's fourth-quarter earnings results beat expectations yesterday and projected even more gains in cloud infrastructure.
Oracle will be among the first hyperscalers to offer an AI supercomputer with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs OCI to deploy new zettascale AI cluster with up to 131,072 MI355X GPUs to enable customers to build, train, and inference AI at scale AUSTIN, Texas and SANTA CLARA, Calif. , June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle and AMD today announced that AMD Instinctâ„¢ MI355X GPUs will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to give customers more choice and more than 2X better price-performance for large-scale AI training and inference workloads compared to the previous generation.