Oracle net up 25 percent
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Oracle Corp , the world&#39;s  third-largest software maker, reported a 25 percent rise in  quarterly profit on Thursday, but forecast slower growth in  sales of new software in the current quarter.
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Business software maker Oracle  Corp.  said on Thursday its fourth-quarter profit would  beat company forecasts as new software license revenue rose a  better-than-expected 32 percent.
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Business software maker Oracle   Corp. ORCL.O posted a quarterly profit on Tuesday that topped   Wall Street forecasts as strong sales of new licenses for   applications helped boost revenue, sending its shares up 5   percent.
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NEW YORK, September 15 (New Ratings) - Oracle Corporation (ORCL.NAS) reported its 1Q FY05 earnings ahead of expectations, despite a 36% year-over-year decline in the company&#39;s enterprise application software sales during the quarter.
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Oracle Corp.'s quarterly profit surged 21 percent as the business software maker reaped the latest returns from a two-year shopping spree that has eliminated several major rivals and shored up its product line.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle reported another strong financial quarter on Monday, posting $4.2 billion in revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2007, results that beat analysts estimates by 1 percent. However, there were signs in its software revenue results that the company's growth spurt on the strength of acquisitions of PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems could be coming to a halt. The company's revenue in the same period of last year was $3.39 billion. While Oracle's most recent quarterly revenue was slightly higher than the $4.15 billion analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected the vendor to earn, earnings per share, which were $0.22, met their expectations. Net income was $1.17 billion, a 20 percent growth over the $972 million reported in the same quarter of last year. Analysts were keeping a keen eye on software license revenue during the quarter, and results show that their concern that Oracle's revenue surge is the result of acquisitions, and not strength in its own core software business, could be valid. Oracle's software revenue, which was $3.21 billion, grew 19 percent year over year, coming in on the low end of the company's growth expectations of 19 percent to 21 percent. Moreover, new software license revenue for the quarter was $1.21 billion, an increase of only 14 percent over the same period last year when the company had predicted an increase of 15 percent to 20 percent. Software license update and product support revenue came in stronger, at $2.01 billion, an increase of 25 percent over the same period last year. Still, analysts likely will see Oracle's software license revenue results as a sign of weakness for the vendor. In a statement, Oracle maintained its customary bravado, attributing its results to strong sales in all three of its core software areas -- applications, middleware and database. A statement from Oracle President Charles Phillips on second quarter results made claims that Oracle continues to steal market share from rivals in these areas. On a conference call to discuss results on Monday, Oracle President and Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz acknowledged that Oracle missed its objective for software revenue growth in the quarter. She attributed this misstep to the company failing to execute on key deals that should have closed in the quarter but did not. She said to alleviate the execution problem going forward, Oracle will focus on letting salespeople work in the field rather than spend time engaged in sales meetings and other activities that don't lend themselves to deal-closing. "We think additional focus ... and better pipeline management should mean better results," Catz said. Overall, executives on the call seemed to have a lot of faith in Oracle's backlog of unfinished sales deals, which Catz said is very big, to contribute to Oracle's success in the remainder of 2007. Larry Ellison, Oracle's chief executive officer, noted that a good portion of the deals in the pipeline are wins in vertical markets where Oracle has not traditionally played. He said retail has been a key growth area for the company, claiming that eight of the 10 largest retailers in North America now use Oracle's retail applications, whereas only one uses rival SAP AG's. Ellison said growth in the retail sector will begin to have a noticeable effect on Oracle's software revenue. "Retail will actually move the needle," he said. Ellison also said Oracle plans to continue its "dual strategy" of growing the company through both internal development and acquisition, a comment that may hint the company is eyeing more purchases to build out its massive software and applications portfolio. Â
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Oracle&#39;s stock price rose on Wednesday after the software maker reported that its first-quarter profit surged 16 percent compared to last year, reaching $509 million.
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PeopleSoft&#39;s shares were up 10.6 percent at $22.98 late into Monday&#39;s trading session. Oracle shares rose 10 cents to $12.
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Fresh off a surprising legal victory in its bid to acquire PeopleSoft, Oracle reported a 16 percent jump in profit Tuesday, beating Wall Street&#39;s estimate by a penny.
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And slaps $1.3bn on Q2 bottom line Database giant Oracle said yesterday that it saw earnings jump by 35 per cent in its second quarter buoyed by strong sales of software licenses.â¦
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Strong Q2 software sales pushed Oracle's total revenue up 28 percent to $5.3 billion.
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Business software maker Oracle   Corp. ORCL.O posted a profit on Tuesday that topped Wall   Street estimates and forecast solid growth this quarter, and   its shares rose 9 percent to their highest level in four years.
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Oracle Corp. , the world's third-largest software maker, reported on Tuesday higher quarterly profit as sales of products it acquired over the past year helped boost earnings.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Business software maker Oracle Corp.'s quarterly earnings exceeded analyst expectations, overcoming sluggish sales in a product line that the company hopes to bolster by completing a long-sought takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc.    The Redwood Shores-based company said Tuesday it earned $509 million, or 10 cents per share, during the three months ended in August, a 16 percent improvement from $440 million, or 8 cents per share, at the same time last year...
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US software company Oracle reports a jump in profits after acquisitions boosted its sales of business products.
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The economy may be sputtering, but Oracle Corp. is still hitting on all cylinders. Brushing aside worries about a possible slowdown in the technology sector, Oracle soared well beyond analyst expectations in its fiscal second quarter and raised hopes for a strong start in 2008 with an upbeat forecast.
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Oracle Corp  said on Wednesday  that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales  soared, beating expectations at a time when investors are  nervous that IT spending is slowing, and its shares climbed 4  percent.