We recently published a list of Top 10 AI Stocks to Watch In February. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) stands against other top AI stocks to watch in February.
Barry Bannister, Stifel’s chief equity strategist, said in a latest program on CNBC that the macroeconomic factors are finally catching up to the AI-led bull market. He expects inflation to remain sticky and no further rate cuts from the Federal Reserve in the short term. The analyst also rejected the notion that the massive tech selloff after the launch of DeepSeek was a buying opportunity.
“Over 30 years ago, we used to joke about how technology was such a displacement event business where new competitors would come in and destroy the entrenched stocks, that it deserved a lower multiple because of that. It’s a short life cycle business that’s got a very short competitive advantage period. But investors forgot about that. They bid up the stocks. The growth relative to value large-cap total return, one divided by the other on a 10-year compound basis, reached the absolute outer limits of the past 90 years. And that exact limit line is exactly where it peaked—the price earnings multiple and the outperformance of growth. So, for us, it’s just a very bubbly market that’s just gotta take some air out of it.”
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Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL)
Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 91
Eric Lynch, managing director of Scharf Investments, recently made the case for Oracle in a latest program on Schwab Network. The analyst believes Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL)’s benfetting from AI and talked about the company’s “mind-boggling” guidance.
“It has this really great superior kind of vertical technology stack uh that you know AI was the use case that it needed. So you know it started with the TikTok signing and the last several quarters their Cloud infrastructure business has been growing at 55% roughly multiples of AWS and Microsoft so this is a business uh oracles one there’s other ones out there that are benefiting from AI the AI trade should continue to uh transfer to new companies the real question is how fast and how much and whether or not that’s baked into valuations correctly in Oracle’s case you know they kind of gave a mindboggling five-year guidance at Oracle World last September that they were going to grow revenues 16% annually until then this for a company that was growing only five or 6% the last decade so AI is clearly helping.”
Parnassus Value Equity Fund stated the following regarding Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in its Q3 2024 investor letter:
“Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) announced second-quarter results that exceeded consensus expectations, driven by growth in its cloud infrastructure business, which is benefiting from demand for AI applications. Investor sentiment was further bolstered by the company’s announcement of a new partnership with Amazon.”
Overall, ORCL ranks 8th on our list of top AI stocks to watch in February. While we acknowledge the potential of ORCL, our conviction lies in the belief that under the radar AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than ORCL but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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