Q2 26 EPS
$2.26
BEAT +32.43%
Est. $1.71
Q2 26 Revenue
$16.06B
MISS 4.99%
Est. $16.90B
vs S&P Since Q2 26
-17.2%
TRAILING MARKET
ORCL -12.7% vs S&P +4.6%
Market Reaction
Did ORCL Beat Earnings? Q2 2026 Results
Oracle delivered a sharply split fiscal Q2 2026 report, posting earnings of $2.26 per share, well ahead of the $1.71 consensus estimate by 32.43%, while revenue of $16.06 billion came in 4.99% below expectations despite growing 13.6% year-over-year. … Read more Oracle delivered a sharply split fiscal Q2 2026 report, posting earnings of $2.26 per share, well ahead of the $1.71 consensus estimate by 32.43%, while revenue of $16.06 billion came in 4.99% below expectations despite growing 13.6% year-over-year. The earnings outperformance was heavily influenced by a $2.70 billion pre-tax gain from Oracle's divestiture of its stake in Ampere, its custom chip subsidiary, a strategic move Chairman Larry Ellison framed as a pivot to "chip neutrality," committing Oracle to deploy whatever hardware customers demand rather than proprietary silicon. Beneath the headline noise, Oracle's cloud infrastructure business continued its structural acceleration, with IaaS revenue surging 68% year-over-year to $4.08 billion and total cloud revenue reaching $7.98 billion, now exactly 50% of total revenue. Perhaps the most forward-looking signal came from Remaining Performance Obligations, which exploded 438% year-over-year to $523 billion, underscoring a deepening pipeline of committed cloud contracts. Markets responded sharply, with shares sliding 13% as investors weighed the revenue miss against elevated capital expenditures of $20.54 billion in the first half alone.
Key Takeaways
- • Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) revenue grew 68% YoY driven by AI demand
- • RPO surged 438% YoY to $523 billion with new commitments from Meta, NVIDIA and others
- • Multicloud database business grew 817% in Q2
- • $2.7 billion pre-tax gain from sale of Ampere chip company boosted GAAP and non-GAAP EPS
- • Fusion Cloud ERP revenue grew 18% YoY
- • Total cloud revenue now represents 50% of total revenue
ORCL YoY Financials
Q2 2026 vs Q2 2025, source: SEC Filings
ORCL Revenue by Segment
With YoY comparisons, source: SEC Filings
ORCL Revenue by Geography
With YoY comparisons, source: SEC Filings
“Oracle is very good at building and running high-performance and cost-efficient cloud datacenters. For years Oracle has been investing in AI and building autonomous cloud software. Oracle's Autonomous Database and Autonomous Linux have been key to reducing human labor and human error in our datacenters. Because our datacenters are highly automated, we can build and run more of them. Oracle has over 211 live and planned regions worldwide—more than any of our cloud competitors. We are more than halfway through building 72 Oracle Multicloud datacenters to be embedded throughout the Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds. We are committed to Cloud Neutrality because we believe that our customers should be able to run their Oracle databases in any cloud they choose. That strategy is definitely paying off. Our Multicloud database business is our fastest growing business—up 817% in Q2.”
— Clay Magouyrk, Q2 2026 Earnings Press Release
ORCL Earnings Trends
ORCL vs Market 30 Day Price Reactions
30-day stock return vs benchmark after each earnings
ORCL EPS Trend
Earnings per share: estimate vs actual
ORCL Revenue Trend
Quarterly revenue: estimate vs actual
ORCL Quarterly Results
5 quarters of earnings data
| Quarter | EPS Est. | EPS Act. | Surprise | Revenue | Rev. Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 26 | — | $1.79 | — | $17.19B | — |
| Q2 26 BEAT | $1.71 | $2.26 | +32.43% | $16.06B | -4.99% |
| Q1 26 MISS | $1.48 | $1.47 | -0.63% | $14.93B | -0.76% |
| Q4 25 BEAT FY | $1.64 | $1.70 | +3.66% | $15.90B | — |
| FY Full Year | $6.00 | $6.03 | +0.52% | $57.40B | +0.32% |
| Q3 25 MISS | $1.49 | $1.47 | -1.34% | $14.13B | -1.81% |