Analysts continue to upgrade the tech giant following its earnings report last week.Shares of Oracle (ORCL 5.13%) were moving higher today as the tech giant continued to win acclaim from Wall Street analysts, a week after the company posted a strong fiscal first-quarter earnings report as the company's cloud infrastructure business continues to surge in the artificial intelligence (AI) era.As of 1:14 p.m. ET, the stock had jumped 6.3% on the news. Oracle still looks overlookedIn the aftermath of gains follo ...

Did you analyze how Oracle (ORCL) fared in its international operations for the quarter ending August 2024? Given the widespread global presence of this software maker, scrutinizing the trends in international revenues becomes imperative to assess its financial strength and future growth possibilities.The global economy today is deeply interlinked, making a company's engagement with international markets a critical factor in determining its financial success and growth path. It has become essential for inve ...

MongoDB has helped to fundamentally change databases, but will that unseat Oracle?Oracle (ORCL 0.40%) first introduced its relational database (the one that can be visualized in tables of rows and columns) in the late 1970s.While the Oracle database served user needs for decades, the nature of data has changed as computing capabilities have increased. That need prompted MongoDB (MDB -1.72%) to introduce Atlas, a non-relational database that can store unstructured data types.However, Oracle responded by intr ...

Oracle's best week on the stock market since 2021 has bolstered Chairman Larry Ellison's net worth, briefly edging him past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday to become the world's second-richest person.Ellison's net worth reached $208.4 billion shortly after the market open, then fell to $199 billion, according to Forbes' real-time billionaires list. Bezos, who has claimed the title of world's second-richest person on and off over the years, is worth $205 billion. Only Tesla CEO Elon Musk, at $252 billion ...

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ToplineAnother rally from software giant Oracle propelled its chairman Larry Ellison to the second spot on Forbes’ rankings of the wealthiest people on the planet briefly on Friday, joining his self-described “very close friend” Elon Musk at the top of the list. Larry Ellison smiles as he chats to Elon Musk last year.Getty Images Key FactsEllison’s net worth rose by $11 billion shortly after market open, jumping from $197 billion to as high as $208.4 billion amidst by far the largest daily jump in net worth ...

KEY TAKEAWAYSOracle shares surged in premarket trading Friday, a day after a senior executive told analysts its annual revenue will rise to at least $104 billion in fiscal 2029.Executive Vice President Doug Kehring's projections, which Citi analysts called "lofty," come just days after the software maker posted Wall Street-beating quarterly results.Oracle also raised its sales outlook for fiscal 2026 to at least $66 billion from a prior target of $65 billion, ahead of the $64.8 billion consensus estimate of ...

While Nvidia Corp and Meta Platforms Inc META have dominated the headlines with their AI advancements, Oracle Corp ORCL is making a quiet but impressive climb.The cloud and database giant has been one of the best performers in large-cap tech this year, trailing Nvidia, yet ahead of Meta. Oracle's recent earnings report sent its stock surging 11%, adding to the 49% gain for 2023. While Nvidia's AI dominance remains a major talking point, Oracle's stealthy cloud growth is starting to win over investors.Oracle ...

The database company has staged a comeback.Once considered the after-ran of the cloud computing industry behind the big three players in the industry, Oracle (ORCL 2.67%) showed with its fiscal first-quarter results that it, too, is benefiting from the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) spending.Let's take a close look at the company's most recent results and how it is benefiting from AI.Cloud revenue leads the wayOracle's overall fiscal Q1 revenue rose 7% to $13.3 billion, but it was the 21% jump in clou ...