ORCL · Plain-English company overview
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In the company's own words, from Item 1 (Business) of its latest annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the SEC on 2026-06-22.
Oracle provides products and services that build, run and support enterprise information technology (IT) frameworks. Our products and services include enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings that incorporate and are enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including embedded AI-driven automation and analytics and generative AI capabilities. These offerings are delivered worldwide through a variety of flexible and interoperable IT deployment models. These models include cloud-based, on-premise and hybrid deployments, such as Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and multicloud options that enable customers to use Oracle cloud offerings in conjunction with other public clouds. We provide choice and flexibility to our customers as to when and how they deploy Oracle applications and infrastructure technologies. We believe that offering customers broad, comprehensive, flexible and interoperable deployment models for Oracle applications and infrastructure technologies is important to our growth strategy, an important element of our corporate strategy and better addresses customer needs relative to our competitors.
Oracle cloud offerings include Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI, and collectively with OCA, Oracle Cloud), which provide comprehensive and integrated applications and infrastructure services, enabling our customers to choose the best option that meets their specific business needs. Oracle Cloud integrates IT components in a cloud-based IT environment that Oracle deploys and manages for customers and is accessible by utilizing common web browsers via a broad spectrum of devices. AI technologies embedded in Oracle Cloud offerings are designed to support the improvement of our customers’ existing and new workflows and business processes, including automation and data analyses. Oracle Cloud is designed to be:
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An earnings release is a company's quarterly report of how much money it made. Analysts predict these numbers ahead of time, and the actual results are compared against those predictions.
In the most recent quarter (2026-06-30), Oracle reported earnings of $2.03 per share. Analysts expected $2.0018 per share, so the company beat expectations.
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