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Oracle Shares Skyrocket as Software Giant Scores Massive AI Deals

Larry Ellison’s fortune rises by $100 billion as multibillion-dollar contracts send shares surging

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, seen here in 2019.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, seen here in 2019. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Oracle shares surged by as much as 43% Wednesday after the software company said it won several billion-dollar contracts in its latest quarter. The wins revealed a bigger foothold in the booming artificial-intelligence race than was previously understood.

The database-software company has $455 billion in outstanding contract revenue that it expects to collect for the latest quarter that ended in Aug. 31. Those performance obligations were up more than fourfold from the same quarter last year.

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