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S&P Global Ratings announced Thursday that it was downgrading the credit ratings of the software and AI cloud computing giant from BBB to BBB-, one notch above speculative grade, or junk-bond, ratings. Oracle’s “growing AI infrastructure business is diluting its strong business risk profile,” S&P analysts wrote. The extra yield, or spread, that investors are demanding to hold Oracle’s 5.7% bonds due in 2036 was recently 1.84 percentage points, according to MarketAxess, up from 1.75 percentage points Wednesday.

Investing.com — Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) shares managed to gain 2.7% on Thursday, defying a credit rating downgrade from S&P Global Ratings. While shares edged slightly lower from their midday highs, the tech giant still traded firmly in positive territory. Investors chose to focus on Oracle’s staggering $638 billion backlog of cloud contracts rather than the immediately apparent threat to its balance sheet: S&P downgraded Oracle’s long-term issuer credit rating to ’BBB-’ from ’BBB’, retaining a

Most people don't think about Oracle the way they think about Nvidia or Broadcom. It doesn't have the same flashy artificial intelligence (AI) narrative. It started as a CIA database project in 1977. For decades, it was the unglamorous but indispensable backbone of enterprise computing. Then the ...

Oracle (ORCL) stock closed the June 2 trading session down 1.44% at $244.58. Despite this slight drop, the stock is now up about 25.48% year to date, at the time of writing, Wednesday morning, June 3. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 Index (SPY) is up about 11.39% in the same period. Oracle has ...

Oracle's stock is sitting roughly 50% below its September 2025 peak. Its backlog has grown to $553 billion. And Dan Ives just raised his price target for the second time in three weeks. The gap between where Oracle trades and what Wedbush thinks it is worth is becoming one of the more striking ...