Oracle Corporation · ORCL · FY2026 Q1 · Calendar Q3 2025

Oracle raises FY2026 outlook as AI demand accelerates cloud growth

Oracle's Q1 FY2026 analysis supports a constructive growth case: management linked accelerating OCI and cloud demand to AI workloads, highlighted a large RPO backlog, and raised guidance. The counterweight is execution risk from rapid capacity expansion, high CapEx, supply constraints, pricing pressure, and potential commoditization.

Reported After market closeNYSETechnology $410.61B market cap
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Earnings scorecard

Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $1.47 Consensus $1.48
EPS surprise -0.7% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $14.93B Consensus $15.04B
Revenue surprise -0.8% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

event-close to next-session close
Stock move +35.9% Event window
SPY move +0.3% Same window
Abnormal move +35.7% Stock minus SPY
Volume 10.5× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift -12.1% Up to 20 sessions
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Why did ORCL rise 35.9% after missing EPS estimates in FY2026 Q1?What changed in ORCL's guidance and outlook in FY2026 Q1?Give me the bull and bear case for ORCL after FY2026 Q1 earnings.

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What changed

Compared with the prior-quarter analysis, the AI-growth narrative strengthened: management reported a much larger RPO backlog, emphasized AI training and inferencing, raised FY2026 guidance, and increased projected FY2026 CapEx to $35 billion. The analysis also identified multi-cloud database adoption and a new private-cloud offering as additional areas of focus.

Guidance delta

Management raised FY2026 revenue growth guidance to 16% constant currency and expects cloud infrastructure revenue to grow 77% to $18 billion.

Key takeaways

  • Management said cloud revenue and OCI are accelerating, driven by AI training and inferencing workloads.
  • RPO grew 359% year over year to $455 billion, providing substantial future-revenue visibility according to the transcript analysis.
  • Management highlighted an AI-optimized database, multi-cloud adoption, and private-cloud offerings as growth areas.
  • FY2026 CapEx is projected at $35 billion, focused on data-center equipment.

Management priorities

  • Scale Oracle AI Database adoption across enterprise customers.
  • Expand data-center capacity toward 71 multi-cloud regions.
  • Develop AI application-generation capabilities and demonstrate AI products at Oracle AI World.
  • Roll out the butterfly private-cloud solution to large enterprises.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
ORCL EPS earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 10 reported fiscal quarters and 4 future estimate-only quarters. Q4 '24 estimate $1.65 Q4 '24 actual $1.63, miss Q1 '25 estimate $1.33 Q1 '25 actual $1.39, beat Q4 '25 estimate $1.64 Q4 '25 actual $1.70, beat Q1 '26 estimate $1.48 Q1 '26 actual $1.47, match Q2 '26 estimate $1.64 Q2 '26 actual $2.26, beat Q3 '26 estimate $1.70 Q3 '26 actual $1.79, beat Q4 '26 estimate $1.96 Q4 '26 actual $2.11, beat Q1 '27 estimate $1.74 Q1 '27 actual $1.92, beat Q2 '27 estimate $1.89 Q3 '27 estimate $2.02 Q4 '27 estimate $2.29 Q1 '28 estimate $2.31
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusBuy85 ratings
Bullish5665.9%
Neutral2529.4%
Bearish44.7%

1 unmapped firm rating excluded from the percentages.

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$142.48Current
$80Low
$240.71Average
$400High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted current price from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 6, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

FMP grade actions identify the grading firm, not a named analyst.

FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Citizens Market Outperform Market OutperformMaintainOct 2, 2026
Freedom Broker Buy BuyMaintainSep 14, 2026
Argus Research Buy BuyMaintainSep 14, 2026
UBS Buy BuyMaintainSep 11, 2026
TD Cowen Buy BuyMaintainSep 11, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $142.48. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
BMO CapitalKeith Bachman$195$155.88 +36.9%Sep 11, 2026
Stifel NicolausBrad Reback$200$153.17 +40.4%Sep 11, 2026
BarclaysAnalyst unavailable$252$153.17 +76.9%Sep 11, 2026
KeyBancAnalyst unavailable$285$153.17 +100.0%Sep 11, 2026
Morgan StanleySanjit Singh$210$154.04 +47.4%Sep 4, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Oracle Corporation, a global technology giant, provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise information technology solutions worldwide. A core part of its portfolio comprises cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, including the Oracle Fusion Cloud suite covering enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), supply chain and manufacturing management (SCM), and human capital management (HCM). This also extends to specialized offerings like Oracle Advertising, the NetSuite application suite, and Oracle Fusion solutions for Sales, Service, and Marketing. Beyond these, Oracle develops cloud solutions tailored for various specific industries, alongside traditional application licenses and comprehensive license support services. Furthermore, the company's robust cloud and licensing business is underpinned by its infrastructure technologies.…

Historical context

All ORCL earnings
-1.7%FY2027 Q1 · Calendar Q3 2026-8.5%FY2026 Q4 · Calendar Q2 2026+9.2%FY2026 Q3 · Calendar Q1 2026

Technology peers this season

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ACN Accenture plc FY2026 Q4 · Calendar Q4 2026 +3.5% +15.8% Accenture: AI demand supports strong Q4, while pricing and geopolitics remain risks
JBL Jabil Inc. FY2026 Q4 · Calendar Q3 2026 +8.1% -10.0% Jabil enters FY2027 with AI-led growth and capacity risks
MU Micron Technology, Inc. FY2026 Q4 · Calendar Q3 2026 +5.4% +0.0% Micron: Strong AI Memory Demand, Higher Capex, and HBM4E Ahead
SNX TD Synnex Corp FY2026 Q3 · Calendar Q3 2026 +20.9% -9.9% TD SYNNEX: AI-led growth accelerates, but mix and cash flow matter
ADBE Adobe Inc. FY2026 Q3 · Calendar Q3 2026 +0.8% +1.4% Adobe raises FY26 outlook as AI strategy broadens
SAIL SailPoint, Inc. FY2027 Q2 · Calendar Q3 2026 +13.8% -1.2% SailPoint pairs 25% ARR growth with accelerating AI-driven adoption

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