Oracle cloud revenue more than doubles
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Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL | ORCL Price Prediction) stock is up 7% to $164.25 in Friday morning trading, following the company’s fiscal first-quarter earnings release after the close on Thursday. The reaction is Oracle’s sharpest single-session move to an earnings report in recent memory,
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ORCL Q3 deep dive: Cloud infrastructure and AI demand drive margin expansion
Enterprise software giant Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) announced in Q3 CY2026, with sales up 29.6% year on year to $19.35 billion. The company expects next quarter’s revenue to be around $21.2 billion, close to analysts’ estimates.
Oracle has underperformed the tech sector over the past year, but its fortunes can turnaround thanks to a robust revenue pipeline.
Micron (MU) stock gained 0.8% after Oracle's cloud revenue surged 121%. Memory chip prices expected to climb 20% amid supply constraints through 2027.
As for the ongoing infrastructure expansion program, Oracle added 850 megawatts of data center capacity in the quarter. Co-CEO Clay Magouyrk said delivery was almost 3x what had been seen in the previous quarter and 73% of the total for last year in Q1 alone:
In short, while Oracle stock remains a key ecosystem participant, he views the firm’s weaker credit rating due to debt burden and negative free cash flow ($5.4 billion in Q1) as reasons enough to put MSFT, GOOGL, and AMZN ahead of ORCL.