💼 Oracle under pressure: The cloud battle for dominance continues! ☁️Oracle $ORCL is finding itself in an intensely competitive environment, which was clearly evident in its second quarter results.

Although revenues reached $14.06 billion, up $14.06 billion year-over-year, the 9 %, it fell short of Wall Street analysts' expectations of $14.11 billion. The company's stock responded by falling more than 8%. 📉

Cloud business: Despite healthy growth in the cloud segment, Oracle faces stiff competition from giants like Microsoft (Azure) and Amazon (AWS), who dominate the market. These companies benefit significantly from extensive infrastructure and higher investments in technology.

Financial performance:
Adjusted earnings per share were$1.47, just a penny below market expectations ($1,48).

The outlook for the next quarter calls for earnings in the range of $1,50-$1,54 per share, while analysts were predicting $1,57.

Strategic Investments:
Oracle is spending billions to upgrade its cloud infrastructure. This includes buying hardware from chip leader Nvidia and setting up new cloud facilities to keep up with competitors. The company is also developing partnerships with Microsoft and Amazon, integrating its database architecture into their cloud platforms, allowing customers to efficiently connect data across applications.

🌟 Future Outlook:
Safra Catz,Oracle's CEO , expects cloud services revenue to exceed $25 billion in fiscal year 2025. She also said that the company's capital expenditures will double that year. Still, analysts warn that Oracle will remain a distant fourth in the hyperscaler space behind Microsoft, Amazon and Google.

An analyst at DA Davidson commented, saying : "The cloud business remains strong but requires exponential growth in capital expenditure, which puts pressure on margins."

The stock is still rising: Despite short-term problems, Oracleshares have gained more than 70 %. That shows the market believes in its long-term potential, especially in artificial intelligence and cloud.

Collaboration instead of competition: Strategic partnerships with market leaders such as Microsoft and Amazon could help Oracle strengthen its position and offer more options to customers.

Artificial intelligence: Oracle is benefiting from the trend of implementing AI technologies into its services, which is attracting customer attention.

Oracle however, faces significant margin pressure due to high capital expenditure. The question remains whether these investments will deliver the expected results in terms of market share growth.

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