{"id":40522,"date":"2025-12-10T22:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/oracle-misses-on-quarterly-revenue-as-questions-about-ai-infrastructure-spending-and-debt-drive-stock-slide\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:51:37","slug":"oracle-misses-on-quarterly-revenue-as-questions-about-ai-infrastructure-spending-and-debt-drive-stock-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/oracle-misses-on-quarterly-revenue-as-questions-about-ai-infrastructure-spending-and-debt-drive-stock-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle misses on quarterly revenue as questions about AI infrastructure spending and debt drive stock slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6939e6ed04d0f0a114f1cd21?format=jpeg\" alt=\"racle&#039;s Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison works behind a computer during his keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco\"\/><figcaption>\n<p>REUTERS\/Robert Galbraith<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Oracle missed its quarterly revenue estimates, causing its shares to fall by more than 6% after hours.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the miss, Oracle still saw 14% year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter ending November 30.<\/li>\n<li>Oracle has leaned into AI, betting big on massive data center expansion to win more business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oracle missed its quarterly revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Oracle shares slid more than 6% on Wednesday in after-hours trading, after the software giant posted quarterly results that fell short of Wall Street&#039;s revenue expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#039;s how the numbers stacked up against estimates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adjusted EPS:<\/strong> $2.26 vs. $1.64 expected<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revenue:<\/strong> $16.06 billion vs. $16.21 billion expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the miss, Oracle still saw 14% year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter ending November 30. Net income jumped to $6.14 billion, or $2.14 per share, up sharply from $3.15 billion, or $1.13 per share, a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The results drop as Oracle leans heavily into the AI frenzy, betting big on massive data center expansion to win more business.<\/p>\n<p>In its September earnings report, Oracle stunned Wall Street with a surge in cloud bookings tied to AI workloads, a boom that sent the stock to a record high. But the rally didn&#039;t last. Shares have since tumbled roughly a third as investors grow skittish about the enormous capital required to keep building data centers and whether Oracle&#039;s biggest customer, OpenAI, can actually deliver on the multibillion-dollar cloud commitments it&#039;s making.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Capex &amp; financing needs have been the biggest investor<br \/>question over the last two months, weighing on the stock,&quot; wrote Derrick Wood, an analyst at TD Cowen.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story; please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS\/Robert Galbraith Oracle missed its quarterly revenue estimates, causing its shares to fall by more than 6% after hours. Despite the miss, Oracle still saw 14% year-over-year revenue growth in the quarter ending November 30. Oracle has leaned into AI, betting big on massive data center expansion to win more business. Oracle missed its quarterly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}