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title: "Oracle: Aggressive AI Infrastructure Expansion and Clarifying Cash-Flow Path Support Favorable 3–6 Month Risk/Reward, Justifying Buy Rating"
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# Oracle: Aggressive AI Infrastructure Expansion and Clarifying Cash-Flow Path Support Favorable 3–6 Month Risk/Reward, Justifying Buy Rating

Evercore ISI analyst Kirk Materne has maintained their bullish stance on ORCL stock, giving a Buy rating today.

Kirk Materne has given his Buy rating due to a combination of factors tied to Oracle’s expanding AI infrastructure strategy and financial positioning. He interprets the latest 10-Q as confirming that Oracle is aggressively scaling its cloud and AI data center footprint, with customers effectively sharing in the funding through sizable prepayments, which supports the company’s growth runway despite near-term margin pressure.

At the same time, Materne views the current concerns around higher depreciation, evolving purchase commitments, and the path to free-cash-flow breakeven as manageable and likely to be clarified at the upcoming analyst day. He believes that, once investors gain better visibility on funding needs, long-term guidance under a more inflationary environment, and Oracle’s ability to leverage its software portfolio to differentiate AI offerings, the stock’s risk/reward over the next three to six months is skewed favorably, justifying an Outperform/Buy stance.

In another report released today, Mizuho Securities also reiterated a Buy rating on the stock with a $320.00 price target.

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