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Oracle Q3 Earnings Beat Expectations as Cloud Revenue Surges 44%
Image: Primary Oracle reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $17.19 billion, up 22% year-over-year and ahead of the $16.91 billion analyst consensus. Cloud revenue led the results, climbing 44% to $8.9 billion and narrowly beating the $8.85 billion estimate.
Shares of Oracle jumped more than 8% in after-hours trading following the report.
The results reflect Oracle's ongoing transformation from a legacy database vendor into a cloud infrastructure competitor. The company has been aggressively expanding its cloud capacity to meet demand from enterprises deploying AI workloads, and its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) business has emerged as a credible alternative to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for AI training and inference.
Oracle's cloud growth rate now outpaces its larger rivals, though from a smaller base. The company's remaining performance obligations. a measure of contracted future revenue. have been a closely watched metric as investors gauge the durability of its cloud transition.
The earnings beat comes at a time when enterprise cloud spending remains strong despite broader economic uncertainty, with AI-related infrastructure investment continuing to drive demand across the sector.
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