Oracle Corporation
ORCLHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITYOracle Corporation reads as an High Velocity (composite 70/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $28B across 0 disclosed transactions, up 10092% vs the prior cycle · primary market Software & IT, ranked #2 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$27.7B
vs $272M in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
N/A
1/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Transformational Buyer
Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.
Composite score
70
High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $80.9B disclosed buyer spend
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 50d
- 16 acquisition-history signals
- 207 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
- 16 activism filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
- 16 activism filings
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
- 16 activism filings
- Latest activism 8.3y ago; heavily discounted
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
- 16 activism filings
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 207 8-Ks
- 5 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $687.2B
- 10-Q 76d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $27,721M · Peak count: 2
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | $27.7B | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $148M | $148M | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | $124M | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Bolt On25%
- Platform25%
- Technology Acquisition25%
- Geographic Expansion25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- bolt_on
- technology_acquisition
- platform
- horizontal_consolidation
- geographic_expansion
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), which is designed to analyze financial performance, drive accurate and agile financial plans, optimize the financial close and consolidation process, streamline account reconciliation and satisfy an organization’s reporting requirements;”
“We believe that our acquisitions enhance the products and services that we can offer to customers, expand our customer base, provide greater scale to accelerate innovation, grow our revenues and earnings, and increase stockholder value.”
“we have extended our product offerings and intellectual property through acquisitions of businesses and technologies”
“We expect to continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies to further our corporate strategy.”
“Our selective and active acquisition program is another important element of our corporate strategy. We believe that our acquisitions enhance the products and services that we can offer to customers, expand our customer base, provide greater scale to accelerate innovation, grow our revenues and earnings and increase stockholder value. We have invested billions of dollars over time to acquire a number of companies, products, services and technologies that add to, are complementary to, or have otherwise enhanced our existing offerings. We expect to continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies to further our corporate strategy.”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Software & IT
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $217.7B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $197.1B
- Recent vs prior
- +10%
- Issuer rank in market
- #2 of 379
- Share of market capital
- 11.2%
Valuation positioning
ORCL trades at a +8.5-turn premium to the Software & IT peer median of 14.9×.
- EV / Revenue
- 10.7×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.2×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 14.9×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23.8× | 6.8× | 0.9× | $59.1B | $26.6B | |
Oracle CorporationORCL | 23.4× | 10.7× | 0.2× | $64.1B | $27.7B |
| 15.5× | 9.8× | 0.0× | $318.3B | $75.4B | |
| 14.3× | 4.4× | 0.6× | $41.5B | $12.1B | |
Adobe Inc.ADBE | 10.4× | 4.2× | -0.1× | $24.5B | N/A |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Software & IT. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)202025-06-18
- 10-Q (quarterly)622026-03-11
- 8-K (event)2072026-04-06
- Proxy / DEF 14A622025-09-26
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)162018-01-23
Signals on file
- elevated
Activism on file
2018-01-2316 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).
- info
Signal
Disclosed acquisition spend
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.