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Ellison Tops Musk as Oracle Soars on AI Deals, Nears $1 Trillion

The leap followed Oracle's disclosure of record AI‑cloud contracts alongside a $455 billion backlog.

Overview

  • Oracle shares jumped roughly 40% intraday, lifting its market value toward $940–$969 billion and marking one of its biggest single‑day gains since 1992.
  • Larry Ellison’s net worth rose by about $100 billion on the rally, and Bloomberg’s index showed him surpassing Elon Musk with the largest one‑day wealth increase it has recorded.
  • Oracle reported signing four multimillion‑dollar cloud and AI contracts and said key customers include OpenAI, xAI, Meta and Nvidia, with participation in the Stargate data‑center initiative with SoftBank and OpenAI.
  • Remaining performance obligations surged to $455 billion, and management projected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure revenue to grow 77% this fiscal year to $18 billion with a multi‑year path cited to $144 billion.
  • Analysts flagged risks from aggressive data‑center expansion, noting capex guidance raised to $35 billion and warning that GPU‑rental deals could carry single‑digit margins or even losses.