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Oracle$ORCL · filed: grew revenue 17.3% in FY2026 to $67.4BSound shipTrillion Score 524Fall Risk MediumNext year $68.3B–$80.6B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Oracle filed
Grew revenue 17.3% in FY2026 to $67.4 billion, operating margin 30.6% against a 0.9% median for prepackaged software, equity 16.2% of assets, and dividend per share up 18 years running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Oracle’s card. Sound ship: one warning sign. Trillion Score 524, #109 of 311 in its field; Fall Risk Medium (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2026-05-31 between $68.3B and $80.6B, an 80% range sealed on 24 Sept 2026 · receipt #d4afc6 · graded in public by the revenue in Oracle’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
Oracle's **$66B** wealth erosion reflects margin compression from AI infrastructure spend outpacing revenue conversion—watch March guidance and co-financing moves.
$66 billion
from its September 2024 peak as Oracle's stock shed
21 percent
in four months
340 basis points
sequentially as capital expenditure on GPU clusters
$25 billion
in new cloud contracts that will not convert to…
Larry Ellison's net worth declined $66 billion from its September 2024 peak as Oracle's stock shed 21 percent in four months. The trigger was not a product failure. It was the market recognizing that Oracle is running an arms race it cannot fund at the same tempo as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—each of whom carry revenue bases four times larger.
Oracle reported December-quarter cloud infrastructure revenue growth of 52 percent year-over-year, the fastest in its segment. But operating margin compressed 340 basis points sequentially as capital expenditure on GPU clusters, data center leases, and intercontinental fiber ran ahead of billable utilization. The company guided fiscal Q3 revenue below consensus and disclosed it had signed $25 billion in new cloud contracts that will not convert to recognized revenue until infrastructure is online—a gap the CFO said could persist into early fiscal 2026. Ellison himself acknowledged Oracle is building capacity for future demand, not current bookings. That is a bet. The equity market repriced it as such.
What matters is the structural mismatch. Oracle's trailing-twelve-month revenue sits near $53 billion. Microsoft's is $245 billion. When all four hyperscalers bid on the same sovereign AI deals or the same generative-model training contracts, Oracle must allocate a far higher percentage of free cash flow per dollar of competitive capture. The company spent $6.9 billion on property and equipment in the first half of fiscal 2025, up 89 percent year-over-year, while free cash flow fell 11 percent. Incremental revenue from that spend will lag by twelve to eighteen months. In the interim, Oracle is financing growth with balance-sheet leverage and equity dilution—$10 billion in new unsecured notes issued in September, another $4 billion shelf filed in November. Ellison's personal fortune, 82 percent of which remains Oracle equity, moves in lockstep with this trade-off between present margin and future dominance.
Allocators should watch three datapoints. First, Oracle's fiscal Q3 earnings in March will show whether remaining performance obligations convert to revenue faster than guided—if so, the infrastructure bet tightens. Second, any announced partnerships with sovereign wealth funds or development banks to co-finance data centers, which would shift capital intensity off Oracle's balance sheet. Third, the timeline for Oracle's third and fourth cloud regions in Saudi Arabia and the EU, where signed contracts await physical commissioning. If those slip past mid-2025, the revenue gap widens and the margin pressure extends into fiscal 2026.
Ellison still holds $146 billion in Oracle shares. The drawdown is a mark-to-market event, not a liquidity crisis. But it surfaces a fact: Oracle is now a subscale infrastructure play competing with hyperscale balance sheets, and the cost of staying in the race is compressing returns faster than new contracts can recover them.
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For the principal
Track Oracle's debt issuance calendar and any asset-backed financing structures—this is a capital-intensity story, not a technology story.
For the operator
Oracle's RPO conversion timeline is the signal—if March guidance tightens the gap, the multiple recovers; if it widens, rotate capital.
For the house
Huang Goodman reduced Oracle weighting in Tech Yield strategy by 40 basis points, reallocating to Microsoft within cloud infrastructure bucket.
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