$ORCL Capex $5.7 billion higher than expected and plans to raise $40 billion of new equity and debt
Oracle Corp. $ORCL shares declined in extended trading after the company reported quarterly capital expenses that were higher than estimates, raising investor concerns about the profitability of the AI infrastructure business.
Capital expenditures, largely a measure of data center spending, were $15.9 billion in the period ended May 31, bringing the annual total to $55.7 billion — higher than Oracle’s projection for $50 billion in spending.
Oracle, long known for its database software, has refashioned itself as a provider of computing power for artificial intelligence work and is embarking on a massive build-out of data centers for OpenAI and other customers. To handle the capital requirements, the company said it raised $43 billion in debt financing and $5 billion in equity during the fiscal year just ended.
In fiscal 2027, the company plans to raise another $40 billion in equity and debt, including $20 billion in a previously announced at-the-market program.
The tech sector is facing fresh doubts about the returns on its unprecedented debt-fueled spending binge. Oracle has about $117 billion of debt in the Bloomberg US high-grade corporate bond index, making it the biggest issuer outside the financial sector.
The shares dropped about 6% in extended trading after closing at $201.26. The company’s stock had climbed 35% over the past three months, likely driven by better investor sentiment toward computing providers and OpenAI, Oracle’s most important customer, wrote Derrick Wood, an analyst at TD Cowen.
In the fiscal fourth quarter, revenue gained 21% to $19.2 billion, Oracle said Wednesday in a statement. Profit, excluding some items, was $2.11 per share. Analysts, on average, estimated adjusted earnings of $1.97 a share on revenue of $19.1 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Sales in the closely watched cloud infrastructure business gained 93% to $5.8 billion. That marked a slightly faster increase than the 91% anticipated by analysts.
Total cloud revenue, including software applications and infrastructure, will jump about 61% in the quarter ending in August. That projection was just shy of analysts’ average estimate of 62%.
Remaining performance obligations, a measure of bookings, were $638 billion at quarter’s end, compared with an average estimate of $589.5 billion. Oracle said most of the new bookings were for large-scale AI contracts, in which the customer prepaid for the expensive servers needed for the work.
“This substantially reduces the amount of capital Oracle must raise to build out our AI data centers,” the company said.
Oracle didn’t offer an outlook on its spending in the current fiscal year. Wall Street expects $61.7 billion in capital expenses for the year ending in May 2027.
Beginning in March, Oracle cut thousands of workers across the company. Several analysts noted that these moves were likely to boost margins and help offset the massive data center spending. The company reported it spent $1.8 billion on restructuring in the fiscal year, nearly five times more than it had a year earlier.
Oracle $ORCL more than doubled its infrastructure footprint in just 12 months.
Property & equipment: $43B → $100B
They are building at a pace with no precedent in their history.
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This is why we track the politicians✍️
Remember back on 5/18 when we flagged two Politicians for buying the same stock?
That stock was Marvell $MRVL
Well today it's up another 25% and both are now up 150% !! on their buys from early April
'Coincidentally', Rep Byron Donalds sits on the subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, which oversees AI regulation and technology policy
What a trade
@MoneySniperX@TheOneLanceB People who were short near the money 0-DTE $NVDA puts have probably been assigned today due to that massive drop in the last 10 minutes of trading.
BREAKING: Iran's IRGC releases a statement saying that it has retaliated to the US strike on an Iranian military position in the Strait of Hormuz by attacking a US airbase in Kuwait.
In their statement, the IRGC says "aggression will not go unanswered."
Oil prices are up nearly +5% on the news.