Oracle Corp. regaled Wall Street on Monday with talk about the future, enormous demand and some very large cloud-services contracts, but its stock continued a downward trend over concerns about growing costs associated with building out more data centers.

Database software and cloud services specialist Oracle ( ORCL -4.11%) reported fiscal 2025 third-quarter financial results on Monday, March 10, that fell short of analysts' consensus expectations. With an adjusted EPS of $1.47 and revenue of $14.13 billion, both figures were slightly below estimates of $1.49 and $14.38 billion, respectively.

We are on schedule to double our data center capacity this calendar year,” Oracle Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said in the earnings release. “Customer demand is a

Oracle Corp. shares fell in after-hours trading Monday, shaking off an initial gain as investors digested the software giant’s disappointing quarterly revenue, much of it from a cloud-services miss, rather than focusing on the large number of big cloud-computing contracts in the future.