ORCL is trading up 8.7% following its FQ3 earnings surpassing expectations and robust guidance, thanks to a substantial surge in demand for its cloud infrastructure tailored for AI workloads. The crucial question is whether the company can transform its unprecedented backlog into steady, profitable growth.
Oracle's (NYSE: ORCL) third-quarter (Q3) earnings report, published on March 10, unleashed a deluge of positive rating and price target updates from some of Wall Street's biggest analyst firms.
Oracle (ORCL) delivered strong Q3 results, with adjusted EPS of $1.79 and revenue up 22% to $17.19B, both above estimates. Nintendo (NTDOY) soared 10.5% in Tokyo as Pokémon Pokopia sold out and anticipation builds for the Super Mario movie.
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Oracle shares surged about 10% before the bell on Wednesday after the software giant's upbeat revenue forecast calmed worries over faster returns from its hefty spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.
D.A. Davidson's senior analyst Gil Luria continues to see Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) as exceptionally cheap at about 25x forward earnings, despite an 8% rally after Q3 earnings late on Tuesday. Oracle came in handily above Street estimates in its third financial quarter and cited solid artificial intelligence (AI) tailwinds as it guided for a better-than-expected $1.94 a share of earnings in Q4.
Oracle is no longer just a SaaS and database company. It is becoming a large-scale AI infrastructure provider, and that shift is already reaccelerating overall growth. The market's biggest concern is debt, but Oracle's large AI contracts are often backed by customer prepayments or customer-funded GPUs, which should reduce financing risk. At today's valuation, ORCL stock already prices in a lot of fear around debt, dilution, and execution, while giving too little credit for Oracle's long-term AI revenue opportunity.
Oracle Corporation (ORCL) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
On Oracle's earnings call, CEO Clay Magouyrk named Cerebras as an important maker of artificial intelligence hardware, alongside Nvidia and AMD. Landing Oracle as a customer could be a big boon for Cerebras, which is trying to go public after pulling its initial IPO filing last year.
Oracle turned in a strong quarter and raised its long-term outlook on strong AI demand. Will it be enough to bring its stock out of its slump?
The headline numbers for Oracle (ORCL) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended February 2026, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.
Oracle (ORCL) came out with quarterly earnings of $1.79 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.7 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.47 per share a year ago.