Oracle is a buy here if it gets paid. A drop of more than 60% from a 52-week high has happened only once before, and passing on this level looks like a mistake that will be obvious in four years. x.comÂ
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Partner at Aion Analytics, Quantitative Markets Research
Oracle's non-AI revenue and scale could help it outlast debt-starved neoclouds. Elon Musk says debt markets have largely shut out firms lacking substantial non-AI revenue. Oracle raised $20B through an ATM without significant dilution; unlike other major hyperscalers, it is not building Nvidia alternatives, giving Nvidia reason to prioritize it. If Musk is right, consolidation could lift Oracle's pricing power; at 19x earnings, it is without a doubt one of AI infrastructure's best buys. x.comÂ
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.comÂ
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.comÂ
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.comÂ
Oracle's OpenAI contracts are valued at very little because the market expects them never to happen, so they should reprice as OpenAI proves fine. OpenAI is the only lab running both AI revenue engines: enterprise subscriptions and API fees, which carried Anthropic past it in ARR, plus over a billion mostly free ChatGPT users now being monetized through ads, a business that hit a $1 billion run rate six months after launch. Both labs will also need far more compute. x.comÂ
Oracle's OpenAI exposure makes buying its shares here a bet too big to take. x.com x.comÂ
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.comÂ
Oracle could work as a trade above its recent swing low, backed by its heavy ties to OpenAI, a new deal with Tencent and insider buying. The chart shows a potential failed breakdown of a key zone; below the swing low, the idea should be revisited. x.comÂ
Oracle's infrastructure backlog carries a financing risk: a reported ~$300B OpenAI deal accounts for much of its $664B backlog, raising a real question about OpenAI's ability to pay. The reported ~$50B versus ~$70B OpenAI run-rate gap is mostly a difference in how cloud-partner sales are counted, not by itself evidence that physical AI demand has fallen. x.com x.comÂ
Oracle's free-cash-flow forecast suggests today's capital intensity may have an expiration date. Oracle now expects free cash flow to turn positive in the second half of FY28 and reach at least $30 billion in FY29, a possible easing of the financing risk in its AI-compute buildout. x.com x.comÂ