Oracle surprises naysayers with ambitious projections for 202
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ORCL
announced quarterly revenue of $11.1 billion today, yielding earnings of $1.16 per share. Analysts were expecting the company to report revenue of $10.95 billion and earnings of $1.07 per share.During a very upbeat earnings call, CEO Safra Catz said she expects fiscal 2020 revenue to grow “faster” than in the previous year and projected “double-digit” earnings-per-share growth.
"Our high-margin Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications businesses are growing rapidly, while we downsize our low-margin legacy hardware business. The net result of this shift away from commodity hardware to cloud applications was a Q4 non-GAAP operating margin of 47%, the highest we've seen in five years," said CEO Safra Catz.
Technically the stock is setting up for a major breakout from a 2 year channel, afterhours the stock has moved above all MA'S and Ichimoku cloud is now support.
ORCL
announced quarterly revenue of $11.1 billion today, yielding earnings of $1.16 per share. Analysts were expecting the company to report revenue of $10.95 billion and earnings of $1.07 per share.During a very upbeat earnings call, CEO Safra Catz said she expects fiscal 2020 revenue to grow “faster” than in the previous year and projected “double-digit” earnings-per-share growth. "Our high-margin Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications businesses are growing rapidly, while we downsize our low-margin legacy hardware business. The net result of this shift away from commodity hardware to cloud applications was a Q4 non-GAAP operating margin of 47%, the highest we've seen in five years," said CEO Safra Catz.
Technically the stock is setting up for a major breakout from a 2 year channel, afterhours the stock has moved above all MA'S and Ichimoku cloud is now support.