Here’s What Lifted Oracle (ORCL) in Q3

Impax Asset Management, an investment management company, released its “Impax US Sustainable Economy Fund” third-quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. In Q3 2025, the portfolio lagged behind the Russell 1000. Similar to the second quarter, the US equity markets favored a risk-on approach, benefiting high-risk, high-momentum, and lower-quality factors. Although the portfolio’s focus on relatively modest, lower-risk, and high-quality factors contributed to the underperformance, the fund (Institutional Class) returned 7.33% in Q3 compared to 7.99% for the Index. In addition, you can check the fund’s top 5 holdings to determine its best picks for 2025.

In its third-quarter 2025 investor letter, Impax US Sustainable Economy Fund highlighted stocks such as Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL). Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) offers products and services that address enterprise information technology environments. The one-month return of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) was -3.02%, and its shares gained 18.21% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On January 7, 2026, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) stock closed at $192.84 per share, with a market capitalization of $554.054 billion.

Impax US Sustainable Economy Fund stated the following regarding Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in its third quarter 2025 investor letter:

“Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) (Information Technology, Systems Software) performed strongly on the continued follow-through following strong quarterly results. Oracle‘s fast-growing cloud business has a large backlog after signing multi-billion dollar deals with the likes of OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Nvidia and AMD. The company has seen an almost four-fold increase in its order backlog in the past 12 months. Systems software offers several attractive secular growth tailwinds in areas like Education, Enhancing Skills & Innovation, Digital Infrastructure and Resource Efficiency.”

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Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 122 hedge fund portfolios held Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) at the end of the third quarter, which was 124 in the previous quarter. In the second quarter of fiscal 2026, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) reported total revenues of $16.1 billion, up 14% compared to last year’s comparable quarter. While we acknowledge the risk and potential of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) and that has 10,000% upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock.

In another article, we covered Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) and shared the list of stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q3 2025 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.

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