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Oracle Q1 Revenue Miss Estimate, Shares Fall

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Enterprise software maker, Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) said late on Wednesday that fiscal first quarter net income rose 8%, aided by higher revenue from cloud subscriptions and new software licensing. Earnings beat analysts’ expectation but revenue fell short of estimate. Shares fell in premarket trading on Thursday.

For the latest quarter, the Redwood City, California based company posted a net income of $2.19 billion or 47 cents a share compared to a profit of $2.03 billion or 41 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter.

Stripping out onetime items, adjusted earnings stood at 59 cents a share compared to 53 cents a share, in the same period of last year. Analysts’ consensus estimate was for earnings of 56 cents a share, according to a data compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Revenue for the quarter rose 2% to $8.37 billion. On adjusted basis, (taking into account deferred income) revenue rose to $8.38 billion from $8.21 billion, in the same period of last year. Analysts had forecasted revenue of $8.48 billion.

Revenue from the software division rose to $6.08 billion from $5.71 billion, in the same period of last year. Revenue from cloud subscriptions and software licensing increased to $1.65 billion from $1.57 billion, in the year earlier quarter.

However, revenue from hardware systems division fell to $1.26 billion from $1.35 billion, in the same period of last year. Corporate customers now prefer could-based systems as opposed to using their own servers, databases.

Separately, the Company declared a quarterly dividend of 12 cents a share, payable on Oct. 29 to shareholders that are on record as of Oct 8.








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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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