Oracle’s cloud revenues up 58% to $1.4 b, total revenue up 3% to $10.9 b

Redwood Shores, Calif.: Oracle Corporation last week announced fiscal 2017 Q4 results and fiscal 2017 full year results. Comparing Q4 2017 to Q4 last year, SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud revenues were up 67% to $964 million, and non-GAAP SaaS revenues were up 75% to $1.0 billion. 

Cloud PaaS (Platform as a Service) plus IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) revenues were up 40% to $397 million, and non-GAAP PaaS plus IaaS revenues were up 42% to $403 million. Total cloud revenues were up 58% to $1.4 billion, and non-GAAP total cloud revenues were up 64% to $1.4 billion. Cloud plus on-premise software revenues were up 5% to $8.9 billion, and non-GAAP cloud and on-premise software revenues were up 6% to $8.9 billion. Total revenues were up 3% to $10.9 billion.

Operating Income was up 3% to $4.1 billion, and the operating margin was 37%. Non-GAAP Operating Income was up 5% to $5.0 billion, and the non-GAAP operating margin was 46%. Net Income was $3.2 billion, and non-GAAP Net Income was $3.8 billion. Earnings Per Share was $0.76, while non-GAAP Earnings Per Share was $0.89. Without the impact of the U.S. dollar strengthening compared to foreign currencies, Oracle’s reported GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been two cents higher, and non-GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been one cent higher.

Short-term deferred revenues were up 8% to $8.2 billion compared with a year ago. Operating cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis was up 3% to $14.1 billion.

For fiscal 2017, Cloud SaaS revenues were up 61% to $3.2 billion compared to fiscal 2016. Non-GAAP SaaS revenues were up 68% to $3.4 billion. Cloud PaaS and IaaS revenues were up 60% to $1.4 billion for both GAAP and Non-GAAP. Total cloud revenues were up 60% to $4.6 billion. Non-GAAP cloud revenues were up 66% to $4.7 billion. Cloud and on-premise software revenues were up 4% to $30.2 billion. Non-GAAP cloud and on-premise software revenues were up 5% to $30.4 billion. Total Revenues were up 2% to $37.7 billion. Non-GAAP Total Revenues were up 2% to $37.9 billion.

Operating Income was $12.7 billion, and operating margin was 34%. Non-GAAP Operating Income was $16.2 billion and non-GAAP operating margin was 43%. Net Income was $9.3 billion while non-GAAP Net Income was $11.6 billion. Earnings Per Share was $2.21, while Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share was $2.74. Without the impact of the U.S. dollar strengthening compared to foreign currencies, Oracle’s reported GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been 4 cents higher and non-GAAP Earnings Per Share would have been 3 cents higher.

“Our fourth quarter results were very strong as revenue growth and earnings per share both substantially exceeded the high end of guidance,” said Oracle CEO, SafraCatz. “We continue to experience rapid adoption of the Oracle Cloud led by the 75% growth in our SaaS business in Q4.   This cloud hyper-growth is expanding our operating margins, and we expect earnings per share growth to accelerate in fiscal 2018.”

“We sold $855 million of new annually recurring cloud revenue (ARR) in Q4, putting us over our $2 billion ARR bookings goal for fiscal year 2017,” said Oracle CEO, Mark Hurd. “We also delivered over $1 billion in quarterly SaaS revenue for the first time. Next year is going to be even better. We expect to sell a lot more than $2 billion in new cloud ARR in fiscal year 2018.”

“AT&T has agreed to migrate thousands of existing Oracle databases containing petabytes of data plus their associated applications workloads to the Oracle Cloud,” said Oracle Chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison. 

“In the coming year, I expect more of our big customers to migrate their Oracle databases and database applications to the Oracle Cloud. These large-scale migrations will dramatically increase the size of both our PaaS and IaaS cloud businesses,” he added.

The Board of Directors also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per share of outstanding common stock. This dividend will be paid to stockholders of record as of the close of business on 19 July, with a payment date of 2 August.