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Oracle Drops 9% in Tech Rout Despite Continued Wall Street Optimism

Oracle shares plunged nearly 10% on Friday, closing at $213.41 as investors aggressively sold technology stocks following stronger-than-expected U.S. employment data and rising Treasury yields. The decline came despite a series of bullish analyst updates that underscore Wall Street's confidence in Oracle's long-term AI and cloud computing opportunities.

Several firms reaffirmed positive views on the company during the week. Guggenheim analyst John DiFucci maintained a Buy rating, while BTIG Research also reiterated its Buy recommendation with a notably bullish $400 price target. Meanwhile, Cantor Fitzgerald raised its price target from $229 to $284 and maintained an Overweight rating, signaling growing confidence in Oracle's growth trajectory.

The contrast between Friday's sharp decline and the optimistic analyst commentary highlights the market's current focus on macroeconomic factors rather than company-specific fundamentals. Higher interest rates tend to weigh on technology valuations, particularly among companies expected to generate a significant portion of their growth in future years.
Oracle Extends Rally as Citigroup Reiterates Buy Rating

Oracle (ORCL) shares gained about 1.9% today after Citigroup reiterated its Buy rating, adding to growing optimism surrounding the software giant's position in the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure market.

The analyst reaffirmation comes as Oracle continues to attract investor attention for its cloud business and increasing role in supporting AI workloads. The company has emerged as one of the key beneficiaries of surging demand for data center capacity, cloud computing resources, and AI training infrastructure.

Oracle's cloud division has been growing at a strong pace, supported by enterprise customers seeking alternatives to larger cloud providers and by AI companies requiring large-scale computing power. Investors have become increasingly optimistic that Oracle's cloud infrastructure business could deliver sustained growth as artificial intelligence adoption accelerates across industries.

Citigroup's decision to maintain a Buy rating suggests continued confidence in Oracle's ability to capitalize on these trends. Analysts remain encouraged by the company's expanding cloud footprint, strong backlog of future business, and strategic positioning within the AI ecosystem.

With shares already among the stronger performers in the technology sector this year, today's gain reflects ongoing investor belief that Oracle remains well positioned to benefit from the multi-year wave of AI and cloud infrastructure spending. The latest analyst endorsement reinforces Wall Street's increasingly positive view of the company's long-term growth prospects.
Oracle reported strong fiscal third-quarter 2026 results, with revenue rising 22% year over year to $17.2 billion and cloud revenue increasing 44% to $8.9 billion. The company’s cloud infrastructure (IaaS) segment grew 84% to $4.9 billion, driven by demand for AI computing, while cloud applications (SaaS) revenue reached $4.0 billion.

GAAP net income totaled $3.7 billion and earnings per share rose 24% to $1.27, while non-GAAP EPS increased 21% to $1.79. Remaining performance obligations surged 325% year over year to $553 billion, largely reflecting major AI-related cloud contracts.

Oracle said demand for AI cloud capacity continues to outpace supply and expects strong growth to continue, guiding fourth-quarter revenue growth of about 19%–21% and non-GAAP EPS of roughly $1.96–$2.00.

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Oracle Corporation announced plans to raise $45–$50 billion in gross proceeds during calendar year 2026 to fund the expansion of its rapidly growing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business, as it builds capacity to meet rising demand from major customers including AMD, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, TikTok, and xAI.

Oracle said it will use a balanced mix of equity and debt financing to maintain an investment-grade balance sheet. Roughly half of the funding will come from equity, including mandatory convertible preferred securities and a newly authorized at-the-market equity program of up to $20 billion, while the remaining portion will be financed through a single issuance of investment-grade senior unsecured bonds early in 2026.
Oracle (ORCL) posts strong Q2 with surging cloud demand and sharp earnings growth

Oracle (ORCL) reported robust fiscal 2026 second-quarter results, highlighted by a massive increase in Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO) and continued acceleration in cloud revenue. RPO jumped 438 percent year-over-year to 523 billion dollars, supported by major new commitments from customers including Meta and NVIDIA.

Quarterly revenue rose 14 percent to 16.1 billion dollars, driven by cloud revenue of 8.0 billion dollars, up 34 percent from the prior year. Infrastructure-as-a-Service revenue surged 68 percent, while Software-as-a-Service grew 11 percent. Oracle’s Fusion Cloud ERP and NetSuite ERP businesses expanded 18 percent and 13 percent, respectively.

GAAP earnings per share climbed 91 percent to 2.10 dollars, boosted in part by a 2.7 billion dollar pre-tax gain from the sale of Oracle’s stake in chipmaker Ampere. Non-GAAP earnings per share increased 54 percent to 2.26 dollars.

Oracle executives emphasized a strategic pivot toward chip neutrality and continued investment in AI-enabled cloud infrastructure. The company now operates or is building 211 cloud regions globally and is more than halfway through constructing 72 multicloud data centers embedded in AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

AI-related demand remains a key driver, with Oracle noting that its multicloud database business grew 817 percent in the quarter and that all top five AI models run on Oracle Cloud.

The board declared a quarterly dividend of 0.50 dollars per share, payable January 23, 2026, to shareholders of record on January 9.
Oracle Corporation today announced that its second quarter fiscal year 2026 results will be released on Wednesday, December 10th, after the close of the market.
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) today announced that it will hold its Financial Analyst Meeting at Oracle CloudWorld, Thursday, October 16, 2025. Oracle's Financial Analyst Meeting will be live at 11:45 a.m. Central Time via the Investor Relations homepage.

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Oracle Issues $18 Billion in Multi-Tranche Notes Offering

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) has completed an $18 billion debt offering across six tranches, including $3.0 billion of 4.450% notes due 2030, $3.0 billion of 4.800% notes due 2032, $4.0 billion of 5.200% notes due 2035, $2.5 billion of 5.875% notes due 2045, $3.5 billion of 5.950% notes due 2055, and $2.0 billion of 6.100% notes due 2065.

The offering was made under Oracle’s shelf registration, with proceeds earmarked for general corporate purposes such as capital expenditures, debt repayment, acquisitions, dividends, or share repurchases.

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