Oracle (ORCL)

Will talk alot about AI next week. If you want AI exposure outside Nvidia this is the real deal with a good runway ahead, despite rallying far this year already.

Huge runup from October 2022. Slight pullback. Be cautious. Value 3/10, fundamental 5/10. She's not interested. If you hold, take profits. Risk/reward not there for the street's price target.

Up 40% this year. A cash flow monster. Has owned it for 5 years. It has the best database of information in the world.

Sold it but follows it. Would pick it up on the next break out, but first he expects some consolidation. Shares have made a high move to be one of the more expensive PEs. They've been executing well.

Company is a defensive name that is a safe investment.
Excellent share price performance grounded in fundamentals.
Not expensive compared to other tech companies.
Growth continues to remain strong.

Has done phenomenally well. Market share in the cloud is only 2-3%, but it's growing very quickly. Good company. He'd probably rather own MSFT, AMZN, or GOOG, which are the big cloud players. You won't get hurt owning it for the next little while.

He bought it a few months ago, because it hadn't made progress for 10 years. It was never a FAANG, but something was changing, indicated by rising stock-buying volumes. This was cheap for a long time. What changed was that they got very serious with the cloud. They operate generation 2 cloud--it's ready for AI and doesn't need to be retrofitted like other cloud computing. Oracle invested a ton into this and that is now paying off. ORCL is gaining market share in cloud. It's had a big run lately, but he's holding on.

Nice growth at a reasonable PE.