2 Main Reasons Why Oracle Declared 24.36 Percent Drop In Profits

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Oracle Corporation ORCL reported worse than expected fourth-quarter earnings post the market closing on Wednesday, following which the company’s shares dropped down heavily on Thursday and continue to trade down more than 6.5percent at the time of writing.


Charles Phillips, former Oracle president and currently CEO of Infor, was on CNBC recently to discuss the main reasons for Oracle declaring a 24.36 percent drop in profit.


Reason 1: Cloud


“There’s a structural change in the company happening where the economics are just going to be different,” Philips began. “A lot of what we all used to sell, be it Oracle, HP, Dell, you don’t need any more. Companies don’t buy servers and databases any more. That was the profitable part of the business. The cloud provider has that now.”


“ So, the analogy I give people, if we all decide we don’t want to make our meals any more , we are going to eat at restaurants, you are going to sell [fewer of the] kitchen appliances for a long time. The restaurant buys that, but they buy less of it and at better prices.”


He continued, “That’s what’s happening, as you don’t need all these individual infrastructure devices anymore. And so, no matter how fast the cloud grows, you got this other business that’s going to shrink for many, many years to come.”


Reason 2: Currency


Phillips was asked what the Street is missing in Oracle’s latest earning and does he sees relief coming in the near-term. He replied, “It’s been playing for us as well, the currency changes and there’s nothing you can do. We try to explain it over and over again, but currency is currency and [it’s] bigger than we anticipated this quarter year-over-year. So, hopefully it’s stabilizing now and the strength of the dollar kind of fades a little bit, but it’s painful.”

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