😻 Oracle Turns Into Wall Street's Teacher's Pet

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Oracle stock just staged the kind of performance usually reserved for fairy tales — or at least Silicon Valley pitch decks. Shares rocketed more than 36% this week, after the company revealed cloud and AI businesses growing fast enough to make even its most skeptical investors blink twice. With remaining performance obligations — those future contracts Wall Street loves to count — hitting roughly $455 billion, Oracle suddenly looks less like the staid database giant of the 1990s and more like the cool kid handing out AI homework answers in the lunchroom.

For decades, Oracle was the reliable classmate who always turned in work on time but never got invited to sit at the "growth stock" table. That reputation crumbled when the company showed how aggressively it has shifted into AI-driven cloud services, winning major deals with companies desperate to rent computing power. Investors, who once muttered "legacy software" under their breath, are now scribbling gold stars across their portfolios.

The move is unprecedented: MarketWatch pointed out this was Oracle's largest one-day percentage gain in history, and the biggest boost of its market value in a single session. For a company with a $400-plus billion market cap, that's no small pop quiz. Analysts called it a "historic move" — though Oracle's shareholders might prefer "historic windfall."

Whether the momentum lasts or not, Oracle's transformation has already rewritten its image. No longer the forgotten kid in the back row, Oracle has been bumped up to honor roll status — and now it's teaching a masterclass in how to reinvent yourself with a timely AI push. Competitors should probably sharpen their pencils.

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