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Oracle’s insane cloud infrastructure forecast is giving shades of Nvidia’s data center business

But it’s just a forecast, of course.

Yesterday, Oracle posted arguably the most remarkable quarter of any tech giant this year, sending the stock up as much as 30% in after-hours trading. Actually, the quarter itself was unremarkable — it was the forecast for what’s to come that completely blew analysts away.

Not a household name like Google, Apple, or Amazon, Oracle has a swath of different specialties, providing software, servers, and cloud services to global businesses.

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That cloud portion — historically not a major driver of the company’s bottom line — is where Oracle is seeing growth explode, with the company expecting its “Cloud Infrastructure” revenue to rise to an eye-watering $144 billion in its fiscal year 2030. That’s up more than 14x on last year’s ~$10 billion haul.

As hockey-stick revenue projections go, that’s about as bold as they come in terms of sheer scale. If — and it is an if — the company hits that forecast, it will give shades of another AI enabler’s meteoric rise: Nvidia’s data center business, which saw its revenue increase from $6.7 billion in FY 2021 to $115 billion in FY 2025, with analysts anticipating more than $184 billion in data center revenue this fiscal year.

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For now, the insane revenue backlog that Oracle revealed, which was up 359% to $455 billion, is enough to be lifting the entire AI space.

At the time of writing, Oracle’s shares are 32% higher in premarket trading, putting the company’s market cap just shy of $900 billion. That’s making Larry Ellison, Oracle’s cofounder, worth an extra $70 billion or so — putting him within spitting distance of unseating Elon Musk as the world’s richest person.

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Bumble soars on better-than-expected Q4 and strong first-quarter profit outlook

Bumble surged more than 20% in premarket trading on Thursday after the dating app operator posted better-than-expected Q4 results and provided Q1 profit guidance that also beat estimates, powered by its ongoing turnaround efforts.

For the quarter ending December 31, 2025, the company reported:

  • Revenue of $224.2 million — down 14% year on year, but above the Wall Street consensus of $221 million (per data compiled by Bloomberg).

  • Adjusted EBITDA of $71.6 million, beating analyst estimates of $63.5 million.

For the first quarter of fiscal 2026, Bumble forecasts:

  • Adjusted EBITDA of $76 million to $80 million, well ahead of analysts’ consensus of $57.7 million.

  • Revenue in the range of $209 million to $213 million, roughly meeting Wall Street estimates of $210 million.

Since founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returned to the top job around a year ago, Bumble has been undergoing a broad turnaround plan, featuring the introduction of new AI-enabled features to compete with stiff competition in the dating app market.

In the company’s press release, Wolfe Herd commented on its strategic overhaul: “With the heavy lift of our quality reset behind us, we are accelerating product innovation and prioritizing member experience enhancements. We are building from a stronger base and positioning Bumble for its next chapter of product-led growth.”

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UiPath dips despite revenue beat, as guidance fails to excite analysts about longer-term growth

UiPath is down 5% in premarket trading on Thursday after the software and agentic automation company’s guidance failed to fully address investors’ growth concerns, despite posting upbeat results for the quarter and full-year ending January 31, 2026.

For the final quarter of FY2026, UiPath posted revenue of $481 million, just above analyst consensus of $465 million (compiled by Bloomberg) and adjusted EPS of $0.30, topping Wall Street estimates by 18%. The company’s annualized recurring revenue, grew 11% year-over-year to $1.853 billion, and the quarter also rounded out the company’s first profitable full year, with a GAAP operating income of $57 million for fiscal 2026.

Despite the better-than-expected results, shares slumped seemingly on the company’s conservative growth guidance. UiPath expects the following for the full year ending January 31, 2027:

  • Revenue between $1.754 billion and $1.759 billion, which would signal a slowdown in year-over-year growth to at least 9%, compared with 13% in the latest full year results.

  • ARR in the range of $2.051 billion to $2.056 billion as of January 31, 2027.

  • Non-GAAP operating income of approximately $415 million.

In the wake of the results, a number of analysts have cut their price targets, suggesting that Wall Street was implicitly hoping for more exciting guidance. Morgan Stanley's analyst cut their price target to $17 (from $19), Canaccord dropped theirs to $15 (from $19), and UBS lowered it to $13 (from $17).

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