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Software maker Oracle Corp (NYSE: ORCL) stock fell 12% on Tuesday, marking its biggest such dip since March 2002 when it recorded a percentage drop of 15%. The Tuesday drop, however, may be attributed to the company issuing relatively weak revenue guidance.
According to LSEG, Oracle reported a fiscal first-quarter revenue of $12.45 billion, which is slightly in variance from the $12.47 billion average analyst estimate. Also, for the current quarter, Oracle is projecting that revenue will increase by somewhere between 5% to 7%. However, the average analyst estimate for the revenue increase is pegged at 8%.
Like many other top firms across the tech industry, Oracle has been making big artificial intelligence AI moves. So much so that it recently added AI features in its Fusion Cloud and Human Capital Management Software. According to Oracle Chair Larry Ellison, it may appear that the AI tech is already doing well for Oracle’s business. In the earnings statement, Ellison said:
“As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of capacity in Oracle’s Gen2 Cloud.”
Interestingly, that is double the amount that the company had booked at the end of the previous quarter.
Similarly, revenue from Oracle’s cloud services and license support segment appreciated by 13% from last year’s figures. The revenue surpassed StreetAccount’s consensus of $9.44 billion. However, sales in the cloud license and on-premises license segment did not live up to expectations. It saw a 10% decline to $809 million, falling short of estimates.
Even with Tuesday’s stock drop, Oracle shares are up 34% year to date, beating the S&P 500, which is up 16%.
But despite the good fortune that AI appears to be bringing to the firm, Oracle CEO Safra Catz is still wary of some troubles with the company’s Cerner unit. Catz recalls how Oracle bought the electronic health record software company for $28.3 billion in June 2022. And though Cerner is now in an “accelerated transition” to the cloud, Catz insists that some issues remain. She said:
“This transition is resulting in some near-term headwinds to the Cerner growth rate as customers move from licensed purchases, which are recognized upfront, to cloud subscriptions which are recognized ratably.”
It might be worth mentioning that Tuesday’s stock drop has not affected the performance of Oracle shares in the overall sense. It is still up more than 38% year to date, winning against the S&P 500, which is 16.68% up as of press time.
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Oracle delivered robust numbers for its cloud infrastructure services and is also working on generative AI. ORCL stock shot up by more than 6% on Monday.
On Monday, June 12, software giant Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) reported the results for its fourth fiscal quarter while exceeding Wall Street expectations on both – the top line and the bottom line numbers. This news has had an impact on ORCL stock.
For the last quarter, the company reported earnings per share at $1.67 against the expected $1.58. Similarly, the company reported a revenue of $13.84 billion against the market expectations of $13.74 billion.
During the quarter ending May 31, Oracle’s revenue jumped by 17% year over year. The net income for Oracle stood at $3.32 billion, or $1.19 per share, against the $3.19 billion, or $1.16 per share, in the same quarter a year ago.
Speaking on the conference call on Monday, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said that she expects the first-fiscal quarter adjusted earnings of $1.12 to $1.16 per share and revenue growth of 8% to 10%. Refinitiv analysts are expecting $1.14 in adjusted earnings per share on $12.34 billion in revenue. This implies a 7.8% growth.
Oracle’s main revenue driver, cloud services and license support experienced a significant increase of 23% to reach $9.37 billion. However, revenue from cloud licenses and on-premises saw a decline of 15% to $2.15 billion.
The revenue from cloud infrastructure showed impressive growth, reaching $1.4 billion, a 76% increase compared to the previous quarter’s 55% growth. While Oracle’s cloud infrastructure is expanding at a faster rate than Microsoft and Google, it remains smaller in scale compared to its competitors.
Oracle’s Chief Financial Officer, Safra Catz, mentioned that the gross margin in the cloud infrastructure unit will continue to expand during a conference call. She further added:
“Our infrastructure growth rate has been accelerating – with 63% growth for the full year, and 77% growth in the fourth quarter. Our cloud applications growth rate also accelerated in FY23. So, both of our two strategic cloud businesses are getting bigger – and growing faster. That bodes well for another strong year in FY24.”
Oracle’s chair and technology chief Larry Ellison said that the company is planning to introduce a generative AI cloud service in partnership with startup Cohere. Microsoft also has a similar partnership with OpenAI, and offers the Azure OpenAI Service. It allows big organizations to deploy large language models (LLMs) for generating human-like responses and taking human input.
Ellison, however, said that Oracle has been using its tool internally. He added:
“This new service protects the privacy of our enterprise customers’ training data, enabling those customers to safely use their own private data to train their own private specialized large-language models.”
Oracle (ORCL) stock gained by 6% on Monday, June 12, and is already up by another 5% in the pre-market hours of Tuesday. Since the beginning of 2023, the ORCL stock has gained by a total of 40%.
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