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7. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 115

Wall Street appears somewhat cautious heading into Oracle’s 4Q print. On June 2, Scotiabank analyst Pat Colville raised the price target on the stock to $290 from $215, reiterating a Sector Outperform rating.

Following a 71% rally in ORCL shares over the past 3 months, we are a bit cautious heading into Oracle’s 4Q print.

Analysts at Scotiabank believe that Oracle’s FY27 capital expenditure guidance may approach $100 billion, significantly higher than the Street. While these higher costs may eventually be passed on to customers, analysts are not yet raising their FY27 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure revenue target due to a lack of certainty on contract specifics.

Apart from this concern, analysts at the firm are otherwise confident about their FY27 OCI estimate due to comments coming from the management that data center development is “on schedule or ahead of expectations.”

We update our model to reflect gross margin pressure from cost inflation, offset by the ~$800M annualized opex savings from Oracle’s ~11k headcount reduction. Our F27 EPS estimate increases 1% vs. our prior forecast.

Analysts forecast the stock to likely remain volatile over the next few weeks. However, they believe that the longer risk-reward seems favorable for investors who remain patient as management executes its vision.

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) is a database management and cloud services provider.