ORCL - Oracle Shakes Off The Dust
2024-06-26 14:44:27 ET
Summary
- Oracle is like two different companies under one roof.
- Fast growing cloud apps and infrastructure look to take over the operating statement in fiscal 2025-2026.
- But it has put a dent in the free-cash-flow machine that is their legacy software.
- Big bumps in backlog the last 2 quarters made investors ignore a bit of a mediocre quarter.
Oracle Is Like Two Different Companies
Oracle ( ORCL ) is similar to Amazon ( AMZN ) in the sense that they have a very good cloud business, and then there’s the rest of the company. Oracle Cloud grew at 20% YoY in the quarter, but the rest of the company shrank by 5%. All that works out to revenue up 3% YoY for the quarter, and up 6% in the Q1 guidance shown at the right of the chart....
Oracle Shakes Off The Dust