Oracle’s Cerner Purchase Trio of Debt-Downgrade Warnings

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-cerner-purchase-prompts-trio-192133677.html

But Oracle’s “aggressive use of cash” to fund shareholder returns and acquisitions is pushing the company to the cusp of junk, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Robert Schiffman and Suborna Panja, and that may require the tech giant to make a “dedicated commitment” to decrease debt over the next two years.

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Ship is going down! May capsize at any moment due to the top-heavy VP/director royalty on board!

I'm betting this is the turning point for the stock.

Wow $73 billion in debt!

Should Oracle fall to junk, it would become the largest component in the high-yield index, which would shrink its debt investor base, dramatically increase borrowing costs and meaningfully enhance refinancing risk, Schiffman said separately. Its bonds had weakened Monday, and were among the most actively traded today.

Buyer beware!

“The Doomsday Machine”. Classic ep!

Computer Associates 2.0

I may be dating myself, but I compare present day (going back 12 or so years) Oracle to that old Star Trek episode where they encounter the giant machine that destroys planets, consumes them and then moves to another, then moving to another solar system to consume more planets.

Oracle stopped being a tech company years ago. It is just an M&A holding company.

What would Larry do?
Huh-wah-yee as they say in senile.

ORCL is Titanic!

ORCL is a BIG ship, but any ship can sink...

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