Oracle

ORCL

Market cap $382B

Oracle and Microsoft have underperformed their peers, partly due to their exposure to OpenAI. Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI could affect Oracle and Microsoft because of their deep ties and working relationships with OpenAI.

This article was written by Doug Nathman, with research by his team at Trefis.

The stock is down, while Oracle's cloud infrastructure services nearly doubled last quarter. Oracle provides a differentiated level of data security in its cloud business, which is a key advantage.

Oracle (ORCL) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.

It's hard to believe, but shares of Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL | ORCL Price Prediction) have now lost more than 61% of their value from the peak hit last year when the firm pulled the curtain on a stunner of a quarterly earnings report.

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Oracle is transforming from a legacy software company into a deep value hyperscaler, powering AI growth with robust cloud infrastructure expansion. Despite execution risks, high debt, and customer concentration—especially with OpenAI—ORCL's accelerating cloud revenues and large backlog support a "Strong Buy" rating. Management guides for 34% YoY revenue growth to $90 billion, with high GPU utilization and expectations of high-20s ROIC at steady state.

Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) shares are trading slightly lower on Tuesday in sympathy with IBM Corp (NYSE:IBM ), which posted disappointing preliminary second-quarter earnings.

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) is set to pay its quarterly dividend next week, on Friday, July 24, rewarding investors with $0.5 per share.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) both posted AI-driven cloud numbers, yet the market rewarded one and punished the other.