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☆ Oracle stock suffers steepest drop since 2002 on weak revenue guidance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Ari Levy | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Oracle shares plummeted 12% on Tuesday, their steepest drop in over two decades, after the software maker reported disappointing revenue and issued weaker-than-expected guidance. For the current quarter, Oracle said revenue will increase 5% to 7%, falling short of the 8% average analyst estimate. Revenue in Oracle's cloud services and license support segment rose 13% from a year earlier, topping StreetAccount's consensus of $9.44 billion. But sales in the cloud license and on-premises license segment fell 10% to $809 million, missing estimates. Even with Tuesday's stock drop, Oracle shares are up 34% year to date, beating the S&P 500, which is up 16%.

Persons: Larry Ellison, Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Stifel, Safra Catz, Catz, — CNBC's Jordan Novet Organizations: Oracle, Forbes, Amazon, Human Capital Management Software, Revenue

☆ Oracle comes up short on revenue but touts AI cloud contracts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman and technology chief, speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on September 16, 2019. Here's how the company did:Earnings: $1.19 per share, adjusted, vs. $1.15 per share as expected by analysts, according to LSEG. Oracle's revenue grew 9% year over year in the fiscal first quarter that ended Aug. 31, according to a statement. "As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of capacity in Oracle's Gen2 Cloud. During the quarter, Oracle announced new database hardware, Micros point-of-sale workstations and artificial intelligence features in its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management software.

Persons: Larry Ellison, LSEG, Safra, StreetAccount, Ellison, Elon Musk's, Jefferies, Brent Thill Organizations: Oracle, Cerner, Google, Microsoft, Human Capital Management Locations: San Francisco, LSEG

As earnings season continues, Wall Street analysts are raising their outlook for certain names set to report earnings next week. Against this backdrop, CNBC Pro used FactSet data to screen for companies reporting next week that analysts have been getting more bullish on. Overall, analyst earnings estimates for Incyte are up 48% over the past three months and nearly 13% over the past six months. On average, analysts have hiked their earnings per share estimates on the company by 46% over the past six months and 27% in the past three months. The cloud software company's earnings estimates have gone up 32% over the past six months.

☆ These are the tech jobs most threatened by ChatGPT and A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Mikaela Cohen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

A recent Goldman Sachs report found 300 million jobs around the world stand to be impacted by AI and automation. Just like similar trends in history, creative jobs will be in demand after the widespread inclusion of generative AI and other AI tech in the workplace. But even though these jobs will still exist, their tasks and responsibilities could likely be diminished by GPT and generative AI. But other forms of generative AI can go further, reconstructing different outcomes based on patterns and learnings, and almost mirroring a human brain, he said. In this broader set of tasks, generative AI can mimic what an engineer would do through the development cycle.

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