Oracle has announced that 2014 Q3 total revenues were up 4% to $9,3-billion. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were up 4% to $2,4-billion. Software license updates and product support revenues were up 5% to $4,6-billion.
Hardware systems products revenues were up 8% to $725-million. GAAP operating income was up 7% to $3,6-billion and the GAAP operating margin was 38%. Non-GAAP operating income was up 5% to $4,4-billion, and the non-GAAP operating margin was 47%. GAAP net income was up 2% to $2,6-billion, while non-GAAP net income was unchanged at $3,1-billion.
GAAP earnings per share were up 8% to $0,56, while non-GAAP earnings per share were up 5% to $0,68. GAAP operating cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis was up 10% to $15-billion.
Without the impact of the US dollar strengthening compared to foreign currencies, Oracle’s reported Q3 GAAP earnings per share would have been up 10% and non-GAAP earnings per share would have been up 7%.
In addition, GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share both include a non-operating $0.02 per share loss this quarter as a result of exchange rate changes in Venezuela as compared to $0.01 last year.
Excluding the impact of the US dollar strengthening compared to foreign currencies and excluding Venezuela’s exchange loss impact on both reporting periods, Oracle’s reported Q3 GAAP earnings per share would have been $0,59, up 12%, and non-GAAP earnings per share would have been $0,71, up 8%. GAAP and non-GAAP total revenues also would have been up 6%.
GAAP new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues would have been up 6% and non-GAAP new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues would have been up 5%. Hardware systems product revenues would have been up 10%.
“In constant currency, our Cloud Software Subscriptions revenues grew 25% and our Engineered Systems revenue grew more than 30% in the quarter,” says Oracle president and CFO, Safra Catz.
“Oracle Cloud Applications and Engineered Systems are both rapidly growing, billion dollar run-rate businesses. Those two high-growth businesses helped us deliver record year-to-date operating cash flow, and a record $15-billion of operating cash flow over the past twelve months.”
“Sales of Oracle’s Cloud Applications accelerated sharply in the quarter with bookings growth of over 60%,” says Oracle president Mark Hurd. “Our quarterly Cloud Application revenue is now approaching $300-million. All of our strategic Cloud Application Suites, including Fusion Enterprise Resource Planning, Fusion Human Capital Management and Fusion Customer Experience, posted triple-digit revenue growth.”
“Oracle’s Engineered Server Systems, including Exadata and SPARC SuperClusters, achieved over a 30% constant currency growth rate in the quarter, while throughout the industry traditional high-end server product lines are in steep decline,” says Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison.
“Our Engineered Systems business is growing rapidly for the same fundamental reason that our Cloud Applications business is growing rapidly. In both cases, customers want us to integrate the hardware and software and make it work together, so they don’t have to.”
The board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0,12 per share of outstanding common stock. This dividend will be paid to stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 8, 2014, with a payment date of 29 April , 2014.
