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Oracle Corp

ORCL · NYSE · Software

Oracle Corporation is one of the world’s largest enterprise technology companies, best known for its database software, cloud infrastructure, and business applications.

Current price

$130.55

▼ −$12.65 (8.83%) today

Share price

Live market data
▼ -177.46 (-57.62%)2025-10-13 — 2026-10-14
$324.88$280.53$236.17$191.82$147.46$103.112025-10-132026-10-14

ET&A View

Buy

ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.

Fair Value
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12M Price Target
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Preferred Entry
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ET&A Score
8.6/ 10Strong overall

Oracle is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in large-cap technology, evolving from a mature database and enterprise-software company into a rapidly growing global AI infrastructure platform.

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Why we like it

  • Profits are growing fast (+37%).
  • Very profitable — keeps about 36% of its sales as profit.
  • Sales are growing quickly (+17% a year).

What worries us

  • Spends more cash than it brings in.
  • Carries a lot of debt — about 3.8 years of earnings to repay.
  • The share price has been weak recently.

Business Health

Is the business financially healthy?

Mostly healthy

Revenue, earnings and margins stand out. Watch cash generation and the balance sheet.

Overall

Good
  • Revenue

    $71.8bn · ↑ +17% last year

    Growth Strong
  • Earnings

    $18.7bn · ↑ +37% last year

    Growth Excellent
  • Margins

    Keeps 36% of sales as operating profit

    Excellent
  • Cash generation

    Uses more cash than it brings in

    Weak
  • Balance sheet

    Debt ≈ 3.8 years of earnings

    Below Average
  • Dividend

    1.4% yield · Pays out 31% of earnings · covered 3.2×

    Yield Below Average

Investor View

More on Oracle Corp

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Our full viewET&A's complete thesis — why we hold the view we do.

Oracle is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in large-cap technology, evolving from a mature database and enterprise-software company into a rapidly growing global AI infrastructure platform. Q1 FY27…

Insight

The complete ET&A view

See our full reasoning, what could drive the shares higher or go wrong, our Fair Value and Preferred Entry, and how our view has changed.

  • Our View in full
  • What could drive it higher / go wrong
  • Fair Value & Preferred Entry
  • How our view has changed
Explore Insight →Included with Insight
What could drive it higher — and what could go wrongThe catalysts and risks we are watching.
Valuation discussionWhere today's price sits, and how it compares with the company's own history and its peers.
Who it suitsStrategy suitability and investment style.

Long-term growth investors

Also suits: Investors who want a mix of growth and stability

Investment styleQualityGrowthValueET&A strategies: Balanced, Growth · what these mean
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What the company doesThe full company profile.

Oracle Corporation is one of the world’s largest enterprise technology companies, best known for its database software, cloud infrastructure, and business applications. The company provides critical technology used by corporations, governments, and institutions to manage data, run operations, process transactions, and support complex IT systems across finance, human resources, supply chains, customer management, and industry-specific workflows.

Oracle has increasingly repositioned itself as a cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure company through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, while still benefiting from its deep position in enterprise databases and software. Its platform combines cloud computing, database management, enterprise applications, analytics, security, and AI services, making Oracle a key technology provider for organisations modernising their operations and moving more workloads into the cloud.

Software · USA

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Financial statementsEvery published figure with its source, the market snapshot and connected sheets.

Income

Revenue
$71.8bn
Gross profit
$45.9bn
EBITDA
$34.4bn
Operating profit (EBIT)
$22.4bn
Net income
$18.7bn
Earnings per share (EPS)
$6.38

Growth

Revenue growth, latest year
17.3%
Revenue growth, 3-year average
10.5%
Earnings growth, latest year
37.3%
Earnings growth, 3-year average
26.2%
Revenue growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
29.6%
Earnings growth, latest quarter vs a year earlier
54.5%

Margins & returns

Gross margin
64.0%
EBITDA margin
48.0%
Operating margin
35.6%
Net margin
26.4%
Return on equity (ROE)
41.2%
Return on assets (ROA)
6.4%

Cash flow

Operating cash flow
$46.9bn
Free cash flow
−$23.7bn
Free-cash-flow margin
−33.0%
Free cash flow ÷ net income
−1.3×

Balance sheet

Cash
$37.1bn
Total debt
$169.1bn
Net debt
$132.1bn
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
3.8×
Debt ÷ equity
2.5×
Current ratio
1.2×

Shares & dividends

Shares outstanding
3.03bn
Market capitalisation
$395.8bn
Dividend per share
$2.00
Dividend yield
1.4%
Payout ratio
31.4%
  • Market data — the live feed (Yahoo Finance)
  • Calculated — worked out by ET&A from the figures shown, using the formulas in our methodology

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Market data

Live
Price$130.55
Day−$12.65 (−8.83%)
52-week range$114.99 – $313.00
vs 52-week low+13.53%
vs 52-week high−58.29%

As of 14 October 2026

P/E Ratio
20.46x
Valuation multiplesP/E, forward P/E, EV/EBITDA, Price/Sales and FCF yield — today and at Fair Value.

Standard ways of comparing the share price with the company’s earnings, sales and cash. Tap the “i” for what each one means.

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Other published measures

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Historical dataValuation history, how our view has changed, and the share-price history.

Share-price history

Use the 5Y and Max ranges on the price chart at the top of the page.

ForecastsWhat analysts expect — market consensus, not ET&A estimates.

Forecasts

Forward EPS (next year, consensus)
$11.00
Expected EPS growth, next year
6.7%
Expected revenue growth, next year
34.3%

Forecasts are market consensus or calculated from forward EPS — not ET&A estimates, and they can be wrong.

MethodologyHow ET&A values a company and reaches a view.

How we value Oracle Corp

  1. 1. The right method for the business. Each business is valued on the method that suits its economics — earnings for most companies, book value and returns for banks and insurers, cash flows or dividends where earnings mislead.
  2. 2. What the business deserves. ET&A builds a fair multiple from the company's own quality, sustainable growth, earnings predictability and risk. History, peers and the market are checked against it, but they don't set it.
  3. 3. Fair Value. The earnings (or other basis) per share multiplied by that fair multiple, cross-checked against independent methods.
  4. 4. Preferred Entry. A price below Fair Value that leaves room for the return ET&A requires for the company's risk.
  5. 5. Is it expensive? Today’s price is placed on ET&A’s Valuation Attractiveness scale — the same measure the ET&A Score uses. Cheap is the Preferred Entry; above Fair Value the shares are Expensive, and Very Expensive once they are more than 25% above it.

How we reach a view

The ET&A View combines our assessment of the business with where today’s price sits against our Preferred Entry and Fair Value. It is a considered judgement, not a mechanical score.

  • Business quality
  • Financial performance
  • Growth outlook
  • Debt and financial strength
  • Valuation
  • Risk
  • What could drive it higher
Buy
ET&A sees significant upside from the current price with an attractive risk/reward profile.
Accumulate
ET&A likes the company but would prefer investors to build exposure gradually.
Hold
ET&A sees limited reason to buy aggressively or sell at the current price.
Reduce
ET&A believes the current valuation or risk profile makes a smaller position more appropriate.
Sell
ET&A believes the downside risk materially outweighs the potential return at the current price.

ET&A Score: ET&A's overall assessment of business quality, valuation, growth and risk, out of 10. It weighs business quality, financial strength, growth, valuation, risk, future prospects.

Powered by the ET&A Company Assessment FrameworkSee the full framework →

Scoring calculationsBehind the ET&A Score and the Business Health ratings.

Behind the ET&A Score

The automatic, rules-based scores that feed our research. The ET&A Score blends these with our own analysis of the business and its value. How the framework works →

ET&A Quant Score

5.3/ 10Mixed

Highly profitable · Highly levered · Weak

Profitability & margins · Highly profitable10.0
Balance sheet · Highly levered2.7
Price momentum · Weak0.0

Context — not part of the score

  • Valuation multiplesPriced on the high side
  • Share-price steadinessVery high volatility
  • IncomeLow yield

Valuation and share-price swings describe the shares, not the company, so they are judged in the ET&A Score and View instead.

Annualised volatility
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Max drawdown (1y)
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12-month return
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3-month return
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P/E
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Price / Sales
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EV / EBITDA
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EBITDA margin
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Net debt / EBITDA
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Dividend yield
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The detailed figures behind these scores — price swings, past falls, returns, valuation and margins — are part of ET&A membership. View plans

Based on the factors that could be measured (45% of the model).

Business Health ratings

Each area is scored from 0 to 10 on ET&A’s methodology scales — the same ones our research uses — then given a word: Excellent from 8.5, Strong from 7, Good from 5.5, Average from 4.5, Below Average from 3, Weak below 3. The overall answer is the average of the areas we could rate (at least three); the dividend isn’t part of it.

AreaBased onScoreRating
Revenue
  • Revenue growth, 3-year average 10.5% → 7.1

Rated on 3-year average revenue growth, on ET&A's growth scale.

7.1 / 10Strong
Earnings
  • Earnings growth, 3-year average 26.2% → 9.6

Rated on 3-year average earnings growth, on ET&A's growth scale.

9.6 / 10Excellent
Margins
  • Operating margin 35.6% → 9.5
  • Net margin 26.4% → 9.0

The average of operating and net margin, each scored on ET&A's margin scales. A negative margin scores 1 (Weak).

9.3 / 10Excellent
Cash generation
  • Free-cash-flow margin −33.0% → 2.0

Free cash flow as a share of sales, on ET&A's cash-generation scale.

2.0 / 10Weak
Balance sheet
  • Net debt ÷ EBITDA 3.8× → 4.2

Net debt ÷ EBITDA — roughly how many years of operating earnings would repay the debt — on ET&A's leverage scale.

4.2 / 10Below Average
Dividend
  • Dividend yield 1.4% → 3.8

Dividend yield on ET&A's income scale. Not part of the overall health rating.

3.8 / 10Below Average
OverallAverage of the 5 rated areas6.4 / 10Good

ET&A's scales

Where each band starts on the scales above. They are fixed and identical for every company we cover; they come straight from ET&A’s methodology, so a company is judged the same way here as in our research.

MeasureExcellentStrongGoodAverageBelow AverageWeak
GrowthStructural Growth (Fundamental Conviction)18%+10%+5.0%+1.7%+−2.5%+below −2.5%
Operating marginCompetitive Position (Fundamental Conviction)29%+20%+13%+7.5%+0%+below 0% (loss)
Net marginEarnings Durability (Fundamental Conviction)23%+15%+9.8%+6.0%+0%+below 0% (loss)
Free-cash-flow marginCapital Allocation (Fundamental Conviction)15%+8.5%+3.8%+1.3%+−2.5%+below −2.5%
Net debt ÷ EBITDAStructural Risk (Fundamental Conviction)net cash≤ 1.5×≤ 2.8×≤ 3.6×≤ 5.0×above 5.0×
Return on equity (banks & insurers)Bank and insurer quality16%+12%+9.0%+6.7%+2.7%+below 2.7%
Equity ÷ assetsBank capital7.5%+6.0%+4.7%+4.0%+any—
Dividend yieldIncome factor (ET&A Quant Score)5.8%+4.0%+2.5%+1.8%+1.0%+below 1.0%

Band floors: Excellent 8.5 · Strong 7 · Good 5.5 · Average 4.5 · Below Average 3 (scores out of 10). Utilities and property companies’ structural debt is scored 6.5, as in ET&A’s risk model.

Valuation model outputsFair Value, the 12-Month Price Target, Preferred Entry and the expected return — and how each was calculated.
Peer calculationsThe comparable companies the valuation model used, with their multiples and returns.
Detailed assumptionsEvery input the valuation model used, with its source.
Research notesNo research notes published yet.

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