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Last Update2025-09-09
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Event Overview
The event highlights the market's optimism towards a company's future growth potential, even when current financial results fall short of expectations. It underscores the significant impact of cloud services and AI integration on corporate valuation and investor sentiment.
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Oracle's Stock Surges on Strong Cloud Growth and AI Integration
Oracle's stock (ORCL) surged 27% in after-hours trading on Tuesday, driven by strong growth prospects from new cloud contracts, despite missing earnings and revenue estimates. For the quarter ending August 31, Oracle reported a 12% increase in revenue to $13.3 billion, while net income remained flat at $2.93 billion, or $1.01 per share. The company's remaining performance obligations, a measure of contracted but not yet recognized revenue, surged to $45.5 billion, a 359% increase year-over-year. Oracle secured four multi-billion dollar contracts with three customers in the recent quarter. The company also announced an agreement with OpenAI to develop 4.5 gigawatts of U.S. data center capacity and the integration of OpenAI's new GPT-5 AI model into its cloud applications. Oracle's market cap surpassed $800 billion, and CEO Larry Ellison predicted AI-driven cloud revenue would reach $144 billion.