Oracle stock fell 3% in early pre-trading on Monday after an analyst predicted the company was mulling layoffs to free up cash flow. The company announced on Sunday plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in the 2026 calendar year.
After issuing an $18 billion bond offering last fall, Oracle intends to tap the debt and equity markets anew in 2026.
Oracle said it expects to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure customers, the company said on Sunday.
Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has already been punished harshly by the market, thanks to its heavy debt load and OpenAI exposure.
Shares in technology company Oracle have fallen by more than 50% from last year's record. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Jan. 29), the decline is happening as investors shed the stock over fears about the artificial intelligence (AI) market and the company's ties to OpenAI.
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL ) looked like it was destined to be the next $1 trillion company last year before things made an abrupt turn.
Over the past decade, Oracle stock (NYSE: ORCL) has emerged as a premier capital-return engine, distributing a remarkable $158 billion to shareholders—the 9th highest total in corporate history.
In the latest trading session, Oracle (ORCL) closed at $172.8, marking a -1.2% move from the previous day.
Oracle is ramping cloud CapEx to nearly $50B, betting GPU infrastructure and AI demand will fuel faster revenue growth starting fiscal 2027.
Oracle said on Tuesday that issues faced by U.S. users of social media app TikTok are the result of a temporary weather-related power outage at an Oracle data center.
ORCL is ramping cloud CapEx to $50B as AI and enterprise demand surge, betting GPU-rich data centers can unlock faster revenue growth.
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