Oracle Corp. regaled Wall Street on Monday with talk about the future, enormous demand and some very large cloud-services contracts, but its stock continued a downward trend over concerns about growing costs associated with building out more data centers.

Database software and cloud services specialist Oracle ( ORCL -4.11%) reported fiscal 2025 third-quarter financial results on Monday, March 10, that fell short of analysts' consensus expectations. With an adjusted EPS of $1.47 and revenue of $14.13 billion, both figures were slightly below estimates of $1.49 and $14.38 billion, respectively.

Oracle Corp. reported disappointing quarterly results and gave a sales and profit forecast for the current quarter that fell short of analysts’ estimates.