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Oracle's booked future revenue reached $664 billion, as it sold $20 billion of shares to fund data centres

Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled in the quarter to August. Free cash flow was negative $5 billion as Oracle kept building.

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$664bn

of revenue Oracle has under contract but not yet earned, up $209bn in a year

Grade 3 · Filed record

Source: Oracle, via SEC EDGAR

What changed
Oracle said its remaining performance obligations, revenue under contract not yet earned, rose to $664 billion, up $209 billion on a year earlier.
Who it counts
Oracle's worldwide contracts and results for the quarter to 31 August 2026, as filed with the SEC.
What it does not tell you
When the $664 billion will be earned, or which customers owe it. Contracts can run for years, and the release does not break them down.

The full story Check the source

Oracle's remaining performance obligations, revenue it has under contract but has not yet earned, rose to $664 billion, up $209 billion on a year earlier, it reported on 10 September [1].

The company said it booked more than $30 billion of new AI cloud contracts in the quarter to 31 August [1].

Revenue rose 30% to $19.3 billion. Cloud infrastructure revenue grew 121% to $7.4 billion, while revenue from software licences and support fell 3% [1].

What it measures

Oracle's results for its first financial quarter of 2027, as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission [1].

Operating cash flow was $23 billion, but free cash flow was negative $5 billion, as spending on data centres ran ahead of it [1].

In the quarter Oracle sold $20 billion of new shares through an at-the-market programme, part of what it calls its capital investment programme [1].

It says it delivered more than 300,000 GPUs to AI cloud customers since the end of the previous quarter [1].

What it does not tell you

When the $664 billion will turn into revenue, or how much depends on a few large customers. The release gives no schedule and names no customers [1].

The GPU count and the contracts figure are the company's own statements, not lines in the financial tables [1].

Sources and their grades

  1. Oracle, via SEC EDGAR, Oracle Announces Q1 Results Driven by Triple Digit Growth in Cloud Infrastructure Revenues (Exhibit 99.1 to Form 8-K). Read 29 September 2026. Grade 3 · Filed record Filed 10 September 2026. Revenue and income are from the statement of operations; the contracts booked, GPUs delivered and guidance are the company's statements.

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