By Rishabh Mishra
Publication Date: 2025-12-29 09:51:00
Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) The company is on track for its worst financial quarter since 2001, with shares down over 30% in the last three months, according to Jefferies analysts Brent Thill warns that the tech giant’s immediate future is now linked to financial health his primary but obscure partner: OpenAI.
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From hype to “show me”
Thill noted in a conversation with CNBC that the market has quickly shifted from an era of “AI hype” to an “AI show me” era in which investors demand tangible revenue to justify rising costs.
“That’s the number one overhang,” Thill said, emphasizing that Oracle’s margins are currently shrinking Capital expenditure (CapEx) increase.
The decline reflects broader concerns about whether large-scale debt issuance – as recently highlighted by Apollo global economist Torsten Slok – is sustainable for companies financing massive AI expansion.
In the current quarter, the stock, which closed at $288.51 per share on October 1, has fallen by…