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What has to happen in Cloud applications (SaaS)

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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $105.37 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $4.64B 11% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $34.68B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Recognition follows datacenter delivery, and Oracle has already told the market FY2027 gross margin steps down while sites ramp. This case runs the build a quarter or two late against a book that is 88% beyond the next twelve months, and prices the cost of getting there: about $40B a year of new debt and equity against free cash flow that was negative $23.7B in FY2026. The RPO does not disappear here — it arrives later and costs more to serve.

Cloud applications (SaaS)

Basis quarter$4.22B
Final quarter$4.64B
Implied CAGR+2%
Final revenue mix11%

Fusion and NetSuite-class ERP, HCM, CX and industry suites — the business Oracle spent a decade building before AI arrived. It grew 11% in FY2026 to $15.9B and has grown between 9% and 13% in every quarter of the last two years, which is the point: it is the stable half of cloud and the reason total cloud growth is not a pure function of GPU deliveries.

Last four quarters
2026 Q2 $3.90B Reported
2026 Q3 $4.03B Reported
2026 Q4 $4.13B Reported
2027 Q1 $4.22B Reported
Fusion ERP, HCM and CXNetSuiteIndustry applications
Sequential growth +2.5%/qtr decaying toward +1.5% Q4 FY26 grew 2.5% sequentially and 10% year over year; the eight-quarter sequential average is close to 2.5%.
Cloud applications (SaaS)

Latest: $4.64B (2032Q1E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $3.47B
2025Q2 $3.50B
2025Q3 $3.56B
2025Q4 $3.74B
2026Q1 $3.84B
2026Q2 $3.90B
2026Q3 $4.03B
2026Q4 $4.13B
2027Q1 $4.22B
2027Q2E $4.26B
2027Q3E $4.30B
2027Q4E $4.33B
2028Q1E $4.36B
2028Q2E $4.39B
2028Q3E $4.42B
2028Q4E $4.45B
2029Q1E $4.47B
2029Q2E $4.49B
2029Q3E $4.51B
2029Q4E $4.53B
2030Q1E $4.55B
2030Q2E $4.56B
2030Q3E $4.58B
2030Q4E $4.59B
2031Q1E $4.60B
2031Q2E $4.61B
2031Q3E $4.62B
2031Q4E $4.63B
2032Q1E $4.64B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • This line is remarkably steady — 10%, 10%, 9%, 12%, 11%, 11%, 13%, 10% year over year across the eight reported quarters — which is why a growth driver costs almost nothing in fidelity here and why it anchors the non-AI half of the story.
  • Oracle gave one piece of forward colour that is not modellable: SaaS deferred revenue grew 16% in Q4, faster than the 10% revenue growth. That is a leading indicator with no disclosed conversion rate, so it is noted rather than used.
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