Oracle’s Struggle is Real
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🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Oracle shares fall despite strong 3rd-quarter profits. Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes Oracle’s struggle to diversify its revenue streams. Plus, we discuss Uber suspending its autonomous driving testing, and last week’s listener meet-up in Austin, Texas. (Tangents include focus groups, a weekly magazine called “Newsweek”, and the relative appeal of lip balm.)
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| 0:13.4 | It's Tuesday March 20th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Ellen joining me in |
| 0:19.5 | studio for Motley Fool Asset Management, Bill Barker. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:24.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:26.0 | We've got some pretty big news in the world of autonomous driving that we will get to. |
| 0:32.0 | We have to revisit... striving that we will get to. |
| 0:33.7 | We have to revisit, because the last time you were in the studio, one of the things we talked |
| 0:39.3 | about was you loading me up, not unlike a pack mule with lots of Motley Full Asset Management |
| 0:45.6 | Swag to take down to Austin, Texas. |
| 0:47.9 | And boy, was that a big hit? |
| 0:49.2 | And we'll get to that. |
| 0:50.6 | But we've got to start with Oracle because third quarter profits for Oracle came in higher than expected. |
| 0:56.8 | I would say significantly higher than expected, but the forecast for Oracle's current quarter was lower than expected and shares of Oracle are down about |
| 1:04.8 | 9% this morning. |
| 1:07.2 | How much lower than expected are we talking about here? |
| 1:10.8 | This seems like a pretty big dip considering the numbers they just put up in Q3. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, the numbers for Q3 weren't bad, but it's just not, it's not compounding. |
| 1:22.3 | The company has really not grown in the past five, six years, |
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