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Oracle's Rank - WSJ - The 2026 Best Companies - For the Future

The Wall Street Journal evaluates how leading US corps stack up in 6 areas: AI readiness, innovation, talent readiness, financial fitness, resilience and agility.

Oracle ranks #91 overall with an Overall Score of 57.7, just below the Software & Services industry average of 58.1. Its standout attribute is extraordinary: Innovation Rank #7, one of the best scores in the entire dataset. Talent is respectable at #106, but the rest of the profile is less convincing.

Source:
https://www.wsj.com/rankings/best-companies-for-the-future/full-rankings-2026

The surprising weakness is AI Rank #262, especially given Oracle’s public positioning around cloud infrastructure, data, and enterprise software. Financial Fitness is also weak at #327, while Agility is only #230. The table appears to reward Oracle for durable innovation capacity, but not for being a fully balanced future-readiness leader. The analyst implication is that Oracle has strategic assets, but the ranking does not view the company as operating with the breadth of Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, or ServiceNow.

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LMAO. The WSJ just lost a lot of credibility.

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Post ID: @c4+1kttkheye

A ton of data centers so some guy can make a picture of himself at the renaissance faire. All the people with major problems are in mgmt positions at oracle. This is why it’s one of the worst companies to work for.

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Post ID: @bx+1kttkheye

What are they suggesting Oracle is innovating? The AI score is dead-on—they market the he-l out of gold but the reality is they’re just selling picks and shovels. In terms of innovation, though, what could that possibly be? They’ve acquired essentially all of their products, and even the autonomous DB is behind the competition.

Baffling.

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Post ID: @bb+1kttkheye

What a F'ing Joke.

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Post ID: @b5+1kttkheye

OP, Oracle's AI score is entirely appropriate. While infrastructure is critically important it will not create the innovation that the industry will deliver. Building a road doesn't make you a winning race car driver it only means you own the road. Lots of people can build roads but not everyone will build successful AI products.

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Post ID: @b4+1kttkheye

Fantastic. Congratulations on making the list!

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Post ID: @at+1kttkheye

Amazing, great news.

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