Oracle's AI buildout looks fundable as spending peaks and cash flow turns positive. Spending is forecast to peak in FY27-28, with free cash flow positive in 2H FY28 and above $30bn in FY29, a roughly $54bn swing. New capital raising is capped at $20bn through 2030, half equity and half debt. Revenue is projected to grow from $90bn next year to $225bn+ by FY30. Bullish Oracle. x.com 

Nebius' software efficiency and a possible end to heavy AI financing support a re-rating. Per @DrTomsLens, its engineers got about 43% more video output from the same GPUs, cutting compute cost per second by 30%; newer hardware alone is not enough without capable software teams. Oracle expects to fund growth from free cash flow in FY2029, suggesting capital-heavy AI providers may eventually outgrow debt and dilution. Google Cloud reported 103% revenue growth amid strong AI infrastructure demand. … Show more

Oracle is being repriced from a high-margin, low-capex software firm into a capital-heavy cloud infrastructure builder, and the market doubts shareholders will capture the profits. Q4 revenue of $19.18 billion, EPS of $2.11 versus $1.96 expected and $638 billion of RPO all beat, yet shares fell on plans to raise nearly $40 billion of debt and equity in FY2027, including a $20 billion ATM. Mid-chain, Oracle pays Nvidia and Broadcom first while bearing financing and execution risk. x.com 

Oracle's plan to fund its AI buildout from cash flow makes last week's financing fears look completely overdone. It expects capex to peak in FY27-28, free cash flow to turn positive in H2 FY28 and top $30B in FY29, funding growth from then. Oracle plans at most $20B in further capital raises through FY30, excluding refinancing, after an already completed $20B equity raise. Vendor financing, customer prepayments and customer-supplied hardware should reduce upfront cash needs. x.com  x.com 

Easing credit fears should make debt cheaper for neoclouds and other capital-heavy AI builders, allowing some of the hardest-hit infrastructure stocks to explode higher. Five-year CDS for CoreWeave, Oracle, Meta, Amazon and Nvidia peaked on October 26 and has since eased. Anthropic's S-1, AI infrastructure earnings and Oracle's investor day gave the debt market evidence of demand and returns. The risks should fade quickly so long as revenue and pricing power keep showing up. x.com 

OpenAI's funding strain makes Oracle's AI revenue less dependable because OpenAI pays its bills with money it must keep raising. Investors resisted Morgan Stanley's $1.4 trillion valuation pitch, forcing a cut to $1.25 trillion, and the next raise could come in below $30 billion; contracts funded by fundraising are worth less than contracts funded by cash flow. x.com 

Oracle looks mispriced because $11 of current consolidated earnings power puts it at 11x earnings without a breakup. It trades below its software business's value despite the highest gross retention in software; separating pre-AI OCI, AI operations and AI development makes it an obvious long. Future funding will cost more, but current leverage is no issue and all contracts are well below spot, leaving nowhere near neocloud risk. Fundamentals may not matter during panics. x.com  x.com  x.com 

Leasing data centers reduces Oracle's capital intensity and gets GPUs online faster, shortening the path to self-funding growth. Its FY29 free-cash-flow guide is $30B+, and Oracle and CoreWeave each have at least 1.5GW live while the next-largest neoclouds have only a few hundred MW at most despite claiming self-building can scale faster. Oracle's financial risks are declining: leverage is down about 0.75x from its peak earlier this year. x.com  x.com 

Oracle's reliance on OpenAI makes its backlog vulnerable. About $250B of backlog comes from OpenAI, which is not making money; that risk is no longer in Oracle's hands, and the stock is very likely to fall further. x.com  x.com 

AI product, networking, compute and power demand could reward patient owners of Meta, Nokia, Oracle, Broadcom, IREN and Vistra. Meta's Muse could unlock massive revenue; free cash flow could recover when AI spending slows. Nokia works with Nvidia on AI-RAN and 6G. Oracle has $664B in obligations and massive potential reward from OpenAI. Broadcom's AI chip revenue rose 221% to $16.7B; IREN has a $9.7B Microsoft contract and 5 GW of power. AI power bottlenecks favor Vistra. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  … Show more