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Oracle

What Oracle is up to now

A capital-and-infrastructure play — its Stargate stake and OCI put it inside the biggest AI buildout, financed partly through the $35B Apollo/Broadcom SPV. Also holds the clinical-records substrate (Cerner), which quietly ties it to the health lens.

as of 2026-07-24

Sphere us
Pocket Hyperscalers

Kingdom by capital + Stargate position; also the clinical-records substrate (Cerner) — surfaces in the MH lens.

The metrics — click any for its citations + threads

Posture high
expanding 2 src →
Capital · available high
~$31.9B cash+STI (Q4 FY26, May-2026) — thin against ~$156B debt 1 src →
Capital · operating high
~$32B/yr operating cash flow (FY26, +53.6% YoY) 1 src →
Capital · deployed high
~$55.7B/yr capex in-flight (FY26) + reported ~$450B+ RPO backlog post-Stargate 2 src →
Capital · in high
~$67.4B FY26 revenue (Cloud ~$34B, ~50% of total; +17.4% YoY) + debt-financed inflows 1 src →
Capital · out high
~$61.7B/yr out: ~$55.7B capex + ~$5.8B dividends + ~$0.2B buybacks (FY26) 1 src →
Optionality high
constrained/locked — negative FCF (-$23.7B), high leverage (debt $156B, D/E ~3.6x), cash pre-committed to the buildout; Ellison ~40%+ founder control is the one free lever 3 src →
Gravity high
GROSS ~$67.4B/yr FY26 revenue (Cloud ~$34B) + reported ~$450B+ RPO backlog post-Stargate (LOW confidence, unverified) — undeflated per board policy 3 src →

Holdings

OciStargate stakeCerner

This week — what changed

Projects & threads

· Circular Financing capital flow — developing · last seen 2026-07-28 · 9 entries
· Nuclear for AI resource move ↳ Power Buildout — open · last seen 2026-07-25 · 7 entries
· Stargate coalition ↳ Datacenter Sites — developing · last seen 2026-07-28 · 6 entries
Datacenter Sites buildout race ↳ Where the Capex Lands — open · last seen 2026-07-28 · 4 entries
Power Buildout resource move ↳ Where the Capex Lands — open · last seen · 3 entries

Full item history for Oracle →

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