Jim Cramer on Oracle: "This is a Tough One"

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed. Cramer noted that there are “some increasingly glaring unresolved issues with Oracle,” as he commented:

“Last week turned brutal for the AI data center stocks when we got this pair of poorly received quarters from Oracle on Wednesday and then Broadcom on Thursday night. Oracle plunged 10.8% the next day. Broadcom dropped 11.4% on Friday. Dragged the whole group down with them… Oracle, I got to tell you, this is a tough one… You got two problems. You got the OpenAI. You got the Oracle balance sheet… What changed when Oracle reported last Wednesday?… Unlike Broadcom, Oracle legitimately disappointed… I trust Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder, chairman, chief technology officer, but I don’t necessarily trust his biggest client, OpenAI, and I worry about the scale of what he’s trying to build here…

Oracle… remains a pretty fraught situation, and the one-two punch of bad news last week only made matters worse. If you want to bet on the data center story, there are a lot of better ways to do it. So here’s the bottom line: Ultimately, I remain positive on the broader AI data center build-out, but there are some increasingly glaring unresolved issues with Oracle, their biggest customer OpenAI, and with the nuts and bolts of mass data [center] construction, they’re all construction, these are all, this is what’s fraught. OpenAI and Oracle. I think you need to be careful with some of these stocks, the ones that don’t have great balance sheets or great credit ratings.”

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) provides cloud and on-premise software, databases, and IT infrastructure to help businesses manage operations. The company also offers hardware, consulting, and support services.

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