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Wall Street Breakfast

Oracle surges as future contracts pile up

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Oracle (ORCL) jumps as surge in remaining performance obligations overshadows Q1 miss. (00:23) Klarna (KLAR) prices IPO above range at $40 a share, valuing it at $15B. (01:37) Federal judge rules Fed Governor Lisa Cook can stay -- for now. (02:36) 

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:08.0

It's so good to be with you on this Wednesday, September 10th. I'm Julie Morgan.

0:13.6

An earnings miss doesn't seem to matter for Oracle, a big IPO debut for Clarna, and a federal judge says Lisa Cook can stay.

0:23.7

Let's start off with Oracle.

0:25.7

Oracle is 29% higher in pre-market trading.

0:29.7

The IT giant reported a massive surge in remaining performance obligations that overshadowed,

0:35.7

weaker than expected fiscal first quarter results.

0:38.7

For the period ending August 31st, Oracle earned and adjusted $1.47 cents per share on $14.93 billion

0:46.7

in revenue. Analysts expected the company to earn $1.48 cents per share on $15.03 billion in revenue. But overshadowing those results

0:57.3

was a massive 359% surge in total remaining performance obligations during the period

1:04.4

to $455 billion. Oracle CEO said they signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers in Q1.

1:14.0

He went on to say that over the next few months, they expect to sign up several additional multi-billion-dollar customers,

1:20.8

an RPO is likely to exceed half a trillion dollars.

1:24.6

Oracle's chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said multi-cloud database revenue from

1:29.8

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft grew at 1,529% in the period. Clarna has priced its initial public

1:39.4

offering at $40 per share, well above his expected range of $35 to $37 a share.

1:46.2

This values the buy-now pay later financing firm at $15.1 billion.

1:51.3

However, $15.1 billion is still well below Klarna's peak valuation of over $45 billion back in 2021,

1:59.4

when the service grew in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2:03.6

The company and some of its existing investors sold around 34.3 million shares raising

2:09.3

$1.37 billion in its U.S. IPO. Its shares are expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange

2:17.0

today under the ticker KLAR.

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