Oracle (ORCL) Q1 2027 (USD): Adj. EPS 1.92 (exp. 1.73), Revenue 19.3bln (exp. 19.13bln)
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- Adj. operating income 8.15bln (exp. 7.81bln)
- Adj. operating margin 42% (exp. 40.8%)
- Cloud infrastructure revenue (IaaS) 7.39bln (exp. 7.19bln)
- Software revenue 5.55bln (exp. 5.67bln)
- Software support revenue 4.90bln (exp. 4.88bln)
- Software license revenue 655mln (exp. 718.8mln)
- Q2 cloud revenue expected to grow between 64% and 70% in constant currency, between 65% and 71% in USD
- Booked more than 30bln of additional AI Cloud contracts in Q1, increasing RPO to 664bln
- There is no incremental impact on plans to raise capital
- Delivered 850MW of additional datacenter capacity in Q1
Outlook
- FY adj. EPS 8.10 (exp. 8.07).
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- FY revenue minimum 90bln (exp. 89.7bln).
- Q2 adj. EPS 1.83-1.91 (exp. 1.89).
- Outlook Q2 total revenue growth between 30% and 34%
What it means
The pattern here is one that has recurred in the large-cap AI infrastructure names: headline beats on EPS and revenue, but the market's anchor has shifted away from the current quarter toward the backlog and capacity metrics that validate the capex cycle. The split that matters in this print is IaaS strength against a software license miss, a composition in which the growth engine is winning while the legacy base erodes; episodes of this kind have tended to trade on the cloud segment and RPO rather than on the aggregate revenue line. The magnitude of the RPO figure relative to current revenue implies multi-year commitments, and precedent in this name shows the initial reaction on a big backlog print can fade once attention turns to the financing and margin cost of delivering it, particularly given the stated capital raising plans and the rapid capacity additions. The forward tells are conversion of RPO into recognized revenue against delivery timelines, cloud margin trajectory as depreciation from the datacenter build ramps, and any disclosure on customer concentration behind the large AI contracts. The modest FY guidance raise against a bigger quarterly beat is a familiar posture for management teams absorbing heavy capex, and the follow-ons are the call commentary on funding mix and free cash flow. Prior form in this peer set is that a beat-and-raise paired with accelerating capex gets rewarded only when utilization evidence keeps pace.
Sources
- Microsoft (MSFT) to offer buyouts to 60k workers in latest cost-cut, reports Bloomberg TV
- Anthropic files for IPO; applied to list Class A common stock on Nasdaq Global select market under the symbol 'ANT'
- Anthropic will drop its S-1 at AM ET and that while market conditions have shifted, the plan for a mid November IPO, Fox reports, citing a source; possibly Nov. 19th or 20th is, for the moment, still on track
- Verizon (VZ) Q3 2026 (USD): Adj. EPS 1.31 (exp. 1.27), Revenue 34.3bln (exp. 34.77bln); signs AI infrastructure deal valued at over USD 2bln with AWS
- Meta (META) announces) launches USD 22.5bln Class A common stock offering and 250mln depositary shares offering
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