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Oracle had a good quarter. The market still flinched.
Oracle came in with a solid Q4 beat: revenue of about $19.18 billion and adjusted EPS of $2.11, both ahead of expectations. The company also said the big jump in remaining performance obligations and revenue is being driven by demand for cloud infrastructure tied to AI training and inferencing — basically, the phrase every investor wants to hear right now if they own anything with the words “cloud” or “data center” attached.
Then Wall Street started fiddling with the dials
After the report, analysts rushed in to update their models and price targets. Piper Sandler went with an Overweight and lifted its target to $225. BMO Capital raised its target to $220. DA Davidson nudged its target up to $225. Barclays also raised its target to $250, while Scotiabank and Wedbush trimmed theirs even as they kept constructive ratings.
That’s the kind of mixed tape that tells you the Street likes the business, but doesn’t exactly know how to price the next chapter yet. Oracle is suddenly less “stable old enterprise software” and more “how much AI infrastructure can one company actually finance?”
The part that made investors sweat
Oracle also said it expects to raise around $40 billion through a mix of debt and equity financing. That’s not a casual little tune-up — that’s a very expensive grocery run.
And while the quarter itself looked strong, shares still fell 11.5% to $179.03, which is your reminder that investors don’t just buy the headline beat. They buy the story underneath it. Right now, the story is:
- cloud demand is booming
- AI infrastructure is expensive
- Oracle is leaning hard into both
Big picture
Oracle is still looking like one of the bigger beneficiaries of the AI buildout, but the market is clearly saying: great, now show me the margin math. The business may be humming, but the financing bill is very real — and Wall Street hates surprises almost as much as it loves AI buzzwords.