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What has to happen in Software support

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ORCL forward model
Horizon
Consolidated fair value $105.37 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $3.23B 8% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $52.64B 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.

Software support

Basis quarter$4.89B
Final quarter$3.23B
Implied CAGR−8%
Final revenue mix8%

The annuity under the old Oracle: maintenance on the on-premise licence base, about $19.8B a year and essentially flat for three years. It funds everything else. It declines slowly as customers migrate to cloud, and the migration is visible in the licence line above it rather than here, because support attrition lags licence attrition by years.

Last four quarters
2026 Q2 $4.94B Reported
2026 Q3 $4.97B Reported
2026 Q4 $4.94B Reported
2027 Q1 $4.89B Reported
Maintenance and support on on-premise licences
Sequential growth 0.0%/qtr decaying toward −1.0% Support revenue moved between -0.5% and +0.7% sequentially in each of the last eight reported quarters.
Software support

Latest: $3.23B (2032Q1E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $4.90B
2025Q2 $4.87B
2025Q3 $4.80B
2025Q4 $4.96B
2026Q1 $4.96B
2026Q2 $4.94B
2026Q3 $4.97B
2026Q4 $4.94B
2027Q1 $4.89B
2027Q2E $4.82B
2027Q3E $4.74B
2027Q4E $4.66B
2028Q1E $4.58B
2028Q2E $4.50B
2028Q3E $4.41B
2028Q4E $4.33B
2029Q1E $4.24B
2029Q2E $4.15B
2029Q3E $4.06B
2029Q4E $3.98B
2030Q1E $3.89B
2030Q2E $3.80B
2030Q3E $3.72B
2030Q4E $3.64B
2031Q1E $3.55B
2031Q2E $3.47B
2031Q3E $3.39B
2031Q4E $3.31B
2032Q1E $3.23B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Flat is the finding, not an absence of one: $19.5B, $19.5B and $19.8B across FY2024 to FY2026 while licence revenue fell 9% in the last year. Support has not yet followed licence down, and when it does it takes roughly 85 cents of segment margin per dollar with it.
  • The margin assigned here is the single largest cost assumption in the brief. Oracle publishes one margin for all of cloud and software, so an 85% support margin and a 27% infrastructure margin are a judgement about mix, constrained only by having to average back to the disclosed blend.
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