Is Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) a buy in 2026?
Yes, on balance. The Compass leans toward accumulating Oracle Corporation at current levels.
Oracle's cloud infrastructure buildout is repricing the company, but the stock needs to digest a 45% drawdown before the thesis fully pays.
Where ORCL is headed
Oracle sits at $193 today, roughly 44% below its December 2025 high of $346. The drawdown looks dramatic but it obscures something important: the company underneath the stock is accelerating. Revenue grew 21.7% over the trailing twelve months, a pace that would have seemed absurd for Oracle three years ago. The next fiscal year calls for 27.5% top-line growth, driven almost entirely by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) winning hyperscaler-grade AI workloads from customers who can't get capacity from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud fast enough. By late 2027, Oracle should be running north of $80 billion in annual revenue, with OCI approaching $30 billion on its own as multi-cloud deployments and sovereign cloud mandates pull enterprise spend toward Oracle's differentiated database-aware infrastructure.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) a buy in 2026?
Yes, on balance. The Compass leans toward accumulating Oracle Corporation at current levels. Oracle's cloud infrastructure buildout is repricing the company, but the stock needs to digest a 45% drawdown before the thesis fully pays.
What is ORCL's Compass Score?
Oracle Corporation scores 83/100 on Alexandria's Compass, placing it in the "True North" tier. Scores blend eight factors and update weekly.
What is the price target for ORCL?
Alexandria's full Compass Direction includes bull, base, and bear price scenarios with the valuation math behind each. Read the full breakdown on the ORCL page.
Compass verdicts are AI-generated, forward-looking editorial research from publicly available data, not investment advice or a recommendation regarding any security. Scores and verdicts update as the data changes.