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Is Oracle Corporation (ORCL) overvalued or undervalued?

Updated Nov 10, 2026 · hand-researched model · educational, not advice

Fair value
$81.05
Market price
$119.79
Downside to fair value
32.3%
Verdict
48% above fair value

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The DCF value below is a real engine result at each WACC (not a re-estimate). Drag to see how sensitive ORCL's DCF is to the discount rate.

Market price: $119.79

At a recent price of $119.79, Oracle Corporation (ORCL) trades 48% above TickerWorth's blended fair value of $81.05 per share — a discounted-cash-flow model cross-checked against peer multiples and asset value — meaning the market currently prices ORCL overvalued vs our estimate of what the business is intrinsically worth. Our fair value sits below the market, an implied -32.3% move to close the gap if the business performs in line with our assumptions. This is an educational model, not a price target or a recommendation — the value moves with the inputs, which you can test yourself using the WACC slider below.

One of the lenses behind that blended figure is a discounted-cash-flow model, which on its own values ORCL at about $64.88 per share. The rest of this page walks through that DCF — its assumptions, reverse-DCF and discount-rate sensitivity — because it is the auditable anchor of the blend.

The valuation discounts Oracle Corporation's projected free cash flows at a weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) of 11.9%, with a long-run terminal growth rate of 2.5%. About 84% of the enterprise value comes from the terminal value — the portion beyond the explicit forecast window — which is typical for a stable, cash-generative business and a reminder that small changes in the discount rate or terminal growth assumption swing the intrinsic value meaningfully.

Running the DCF in reverse — solving for the growth the current price already assumes — ORCL would need sustained revenue growth of more than 25%/yr to justify today's price. We don't quote a precise figure here, because past about 25% a year the reverse-DCF stops being informative: it solves for revenue growth alone, holding margins, capital intensity and the forecast horizon fixed, so a price well above our fair value has nowhere to go but growth. The honest reading is that the price implies growth this model can't reconcile — not that we forecast it.

Sensitivity matters more than any single number. Across a reasonable band of discount-rate assumptions, ORCL's modeled DCF value ranges from about $40.19 to $107.57 per share. If that range still sits below today's price, the market is optimistic relative to the model across the whole band; if it brackets the price, the stock is roughly fairly valued on our assumptions. Use the interactive slider to see exactly where your own cost-of-capital view lands.

How to read this page: the DCF fair value is what Oracle Corporation would be worth if its cash flows grow as modeled and are discounted at the stated WACC. The assumptions table shows every input and its source; the reverse-DCF shows what the market believes; the sensitivity band shows how fragile the answer is. None of this is investment advice — it is a transparent, auditable framework for forming your own view of ORCL's intrinsic value. Figures update as new filings and prices come in.

The assumptions behind ORCL's DCF

InputValueSource
Base-year revenue$67,357,000,000Oracle FY2026 10-K (accession 0001193125-26-277521, filed 2026-06-22): us-gaap:Revenues, FY2026 (June 2025 - May 2026) = $67,357M, +17.3% on FY2025's $57,399M. Ties to the Q4 FY2026 release ($67.4B; Cloud $33,989M of which Cloud Infrastructure $18,101M, Software $24,541M, Hardware $3,084M, Services $5,743M). UNCHANGED as the base - the new quarter belongs in the forecast. CROSS-CHECK: TTM revenue through 2026-08-31 is $71,777M (16,058 + 17,190 + 19,184 + 19,345), and Q1 FY2027 alone grew 30% to $19,345M with Cloud Infrastructure +121% to $7,388M.
Base EBIT margin30.6%Oracle FY2026 10-K (accession 0001193125-26-277521, filed 2026-06-22): GAAP operating income $20,606M / revenue $67,357M = 30.59% (us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss). This is AFTER $4,811M of stock-based compensation, $1,671M of intangible amortization and restructuring charges - i.e. GAAP, not Oracle's non-GAAP 42%-style figure. Reference only; cash flows use forecast.ebit_margin. CROSS-CHECK: Q1 FY2027 GAAP margin was 34.8% ($6,728M / $19,345M), helped by S&M -12% and amortization -52% YoY; TTM GAAP margin is 32.1% ($23,057M / $71,777M).
Forecast revenue growth34% → 40% → 27% → 18% → 10%Assumption — TickerWorth's 5-year explicit forecast
Risk-free rate5.2%US 10Y Treasury constant maturity (FRED DGS10): 5.24% on 2026-10-01, the latest published observation. House input shared by every model.
Beta1.73yfinance / Yahoo Finance beta (5Y monthly): Published 5Y-monthly beta 1.732, used UNNORMALIZED. Considered normalizing and decided against it, in both directions: (a) downward, toward Oracle's old ~1.0 software beta - rejected, because the business has genuinely changed into a levered, capex-heavy AI landlord with net debt rising and a BBB- rating, and the stock fell roughly 60% from its high; (b) upward - the 60-month window still includes 2021-24, when Oracle was a sleepy software stock, so the forward beta may be HIGHER than 1.73. Neither adjustment is evidenced well enough to override the published figure. Sensitivity: every 0.1 of beta moves the value about $5-6/share; at a beta of 1.2 the value is ~$101 and at 1.0 ~$121 (nearly double), and it takes a beta of ~0.83 (WACC ~8.4%) to reach today's price - the cleanest single statement of how much of this answer is the discount rate.
Terminal growth2.5%Assumption — house default: House default 2.5% (roughly long-run nominal GDP), kept for comparability. For Oracle it is a statement about what a mature AI-infrastructure-plus-software business does after FY2031: a growing installed base of contracted compute, offset by a legacy license/support base that is shrinking ~1-3% a year in constant currency. Must stay well below the 11.86% WACC; it does.
Diluted shares3,058MOracle Q1 FY2027 10-Q (accession 0001193125-26-389274, filed 2026-09-11): DELIBERATE DEPARTURE FROM THE HOUSE RULE, in the conservative direction. The house uses the quarter's weighted-average diluted count, which for Q1 FY2027 is 3,000M. But Oracle sold ~141M new shares through its $20B at-the-market program DURING the quarter, so the weighted average only partly counts them while ALL $19.9B of the proceeds sits in the 2026-08-31 cash balance used in net debt. Pairing year-end cash with a mid-quarter share count would overstate value per share. Used instead: 3,023.7M shares outstanding at 2026-09-07 (10-Q cover) + 34M dilutive employee awards (the Q1 treasury-method increment) = 3,057.7M. The mandatory convertible preferred is NOT added here (its $5.0B liquidation value is deducted in net debt instead - one or the other, never both). Effect vs 3,000M: about -$1.25/share.
Market price$119.79Delayed quote · as of 2026-11-10 04:59 UTC

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