Oracle Q2 earnings: ‘not immune to macro backdrop’

December 11, 2023 02:21 PM PST | By Invezz

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Why is Oracle stock down in after-hours?

The stock is being punished primarily because the quarterly revenue came in shy of Street estimates.

Oracle said its revenue from cloud and on-premise licenses, cloud services and license support, and services – all fell short of experts’ forecast in Q2. John DiFucci – a Guggenheim analyst recently told clients in a research note:

Oracle is not immune to the macro backdrop – no one is – but partner checks indicated a surprising resiliency in this business relative to others.

He sees upside in the tech stock to $150 which suggests close to a 45% upside from here.

"Oracle's behind there's no question. They're behind in the cloud which makes them behind in AI," Jefferies analyst Brent Thill$ORCL $NOW #AI $MSFT $AMZN @JonFortt pic.twitter.com/pavGeqMfaU
— CNBCOvertime (@CNBCOvertime) December 11, 2023

Notable figures in Oracle Q2 earnings release

Earned $2.5 billion versus the year-ago $1.74 billion
Per-share earnings also climbed from 63 cents to 89 cents
Adjusted EPS printed at $1.34 as per the press release
Revenue jumped 5.0% year-over-year to $12.94 billion
Consensus was $1.32 a share on $13.05 billion revenue

Oracle expanded its cloud collaboration with Microsoft Corp in its fiscal Q2. Its cloud infrastructure revenue popped 52% year-on-year to $1.60 billion in the recently concluded quarter. In his recent interview with CNBC, Sarat Sethi – Managing Director of DCLA said:

Cloud acceleration and [then] acquisition of Cerner will be another leg of growth. Stock trades at high teens multiple. People think of it as an old-time stock, but it does have growth and it’s fairly priced.

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