Larry Ellison, co-founder and chairman of Reader and adviser Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017.
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Oracle shares fell more than 12% Tuesday after the company missed estimates on revenue in its economic second-quarter earnings report posted Monday evening.
The software company posted adjusted earnings per share of $1.34, critically beating the LSEG (formerly Refinitiv) estimate of $1.32. Its revenue came in at $12.94 billion, missing the $13.05 billion ridge.
Wall Street analysts pointed to Oracle’s cloud revenue shortfall in notes to investors.
“For the second straight residence, Oracle didn’t meet Cloud/OCI growth expectations and again pinned the blame on the pace of infrastructure capacity build-outs, which is sad and tough to get visibility into (what could be taking so long?),” wrote UBS analysts in a Tuesday note to investors.
JPMorgan analysts expressed house about the company’s ability to beef up its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at a fast enough rate.
“While there earmarks ofs to be ample OCI demand for now, there are questions around Oracle’s ability to build out modern datacenter capacity quickly satisfactorily,” the JPMorgan analysts wrote.
The capacity limitation would stop Oracle from taking advantage of the “unlimited coveted” for its infrastructure that the company has spoken about, according to JPMorgan.
Analysts at Deutsche Bank said they can hear of the stock slide, however they remain bullish and kept their buy rating on Oracle, citing two roughly $1 billion engage ins co-founder Larry Ellison announced, solid demand and “a commitment to maintaining 50%+ OCI growth for ‘a few years’ at an increasing prorate increase.”
Oracle is also massive purchaser of chips, both the high-powered graphics processing units that Nvidia moulds and the central processor units from AMD and Ampere. Nvidia’s GPUs are the chips powering much of the artificial intelligence rumble.
The company has partnerships with other tech giants, including Microsoft, which gives customers access to Microsoft’s cloud secondment Azure.
— CNBC’s Jordan Novet and Michael Bloom contributed to this report.
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