Is There Hope for Oracle After Plummeting 35% This Year? ‘Yes’ Says One Analyst Predicting 210% Gains From Here

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• Oracle’s $664 billion backlog fuels Wall Street’s bullish view, but negative free cash flow and heavy financing needs drove a 33% slide this year.

• Oracle faces dilution and debt: it priced $20 billion of stock and notes while interest expense jumped 55%.

• Microsoft and Amazon rose this year while Oracle fell alone, leaving Oracle with the largest analyst-implied upside but the weakest balance sheet.

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Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) is priced at $128.40, while Wall Street’s average price target sits at $235.77. That gap implies 83.6% upside.

Oracle has turned its database franchise into one of the most aggressive AI cloud buildouts in tech. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure revenue grew 121% last quarter. The biggest bull is Guggenheim Securities, whose Street-high $400.00 target implies roughly 211.5% upside.

Oracle’s backlog and its cash flow statement point in opposite directions, explaining the gap. The stock’s direction depends on which one wins.

Oracle’s AI Building Spree Became a Cash Burn Problem

Negative free cash flow drove this selloff. Oracle posted free cash flow of -$23.686 billion for fiscal 2026 on $55.663 billion of capex. Last quarter added another -$5.396 billion, and management expects full-year capex of $90 billion to $95 billion.

Funding that expansion means dilution and debt. Oracle earlier flagged raising about $40 billion this fiscal year, recently priced $20 billion of common stock and senior notes, and saw interest expense climb 55% to $1.4 billion. Fears about its ties to OpenAI added pressure.

Shares are down 33.25% year to date and 44.9% over a year. The slide began when a 4.99% revenue miss in the fiscal second quarter of 2026 sent shares down about 13%.

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