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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $105.37 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $650M 2% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $7.80B 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.

Hardware

Basis quarter$774M
Final quarter$650M
Implied CAGR−3%
Final revenue mix2%

Engineered systems, servers and storage — Exadata and its relatives, $3.1B in FY2026 and up 5%, the first growth in years as Exadata rides the database business into cloud. Small, seasonal, and profitable at a 65% segment margin, but structurally a supporting act.

Last four quarters
2026 Q2 $776M Reported
2026 Q3 $714M Reported
2026 Q4 $924M Reported
2027 Q1 $774M Reported
Engineered systems (Exadata)Servers and storageHardware support
Sequential growth +1.2%/qtr decaying toward +0.5% About 5% annually, matching FY2026; seasonality handles the recurring Q4-to-Q1 reset.
Hardware

Latest: $650M (2032Q1E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $655M
2025Q2 $728M
2025Q3 $703M
2025Q4 $850M
2026Q1 $670M
2026Q2 $776M
2026Q3 $714M
2026Q4 $924M
2027Q1 $774M
2027Q2E $875M
2027Q3E $820M
2027Q4E $1.02B
2028Q1E $758M
2028Q2E $852M
2028Q3E $796M
2028Q4E $986M
2029Q1E $732M
2029Q2E $822M
2029Q3E $767M
2029Q4E $949M
2030Q1E $704M
2030Q2E $791M
2030Q3E $737M
2030Q4E $912M
2031Q1E $677M
2031Q2E $759M
2031Q3E $708M
2031Q4E $876M
2032Q1E $650M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • This is one of only two verticals whose margin is disclosed rather than assumed: the 10-K reports hardware segment operating income of $2,017M on $3,084M of revenue, a 65.4% margin that has held within a point for three fiscal years.
  • The line turned positive in FY2026 after years of decline, growing 5%. Oracle attributes that to Exadata demand pulled along by the database business, which makes it a lagging read on the same thing the infrastructure line measures. Two years of trend-adjusted quarterly factors now carry the recurring Q4 peak without forcing a Q1 contraction into the growth rate.
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