Oracle Announces 45% Stake in US TikTok JV, Shares Jump 3%

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Oracle will hold 45% of TikTok’s newly formed USDS Joint Venture alongside Silver Lake and MGX, with ByteDance retaining 20%. The confirmation of the deal triggered a 3% intraday rally in Oracle shares as markets anticipate enhanced cloud and data collaboration opportunities.

1. Oracle Scales Cloud Capital Expenditure for AI-Led Growth

Oracle plans to increase its cloud infrastructure capital expenditure to nearly $50 billion over the next few years, positioning the company to support growing demand for GPU-optimized data centers and generative AI services. Management has signaled that this investment will underpin a shift toward higher-growth cloud revenue beginning in fiscal 2027, with AI workloads expected to contribute a double-digit percentage of new bookings by that time. The company’s latest quarterly report showed cloud-infrastructure-as-a-service revenue up 28 percent year-over-year, while overall cloud application and platform revenue rose 21 percent. Executives have highlighted that the expanded data-center footprint and specialized hardware will lower per-unit costs and enable faster customer onboarding, forecasting cloud revenue growth acceleration from the current mid-20 percent range.

2. Institutional Adjustments and Insider Activity Signal Shareholder Shifts

In the third quarter, Belpointe Asset Management reduced its stake in Oracle by 18.2 percent, selling roughly 5,300 shares and exiting to a holding of 23,993 shares, according to its SEC filing. This follows modest position increases earlier in the year by Vanguard Group (up 2.1 percent) and State Street (up 1.7 percent), underscoring divergent views among large funds. On the insider front, CFO Mark Hura sold 15,000 shares and CEO Clayton Magouyrk disposed of 10,000 shares in December, a combined reduction of over 6 percent in their holdings. These insider sales, representing roughly $4.9 million in proceeds, come shortly after Oracle reported a 14.2 percent year-over-year revenue increase and a 38 percent rise in operating income for the prior quarter, suggesting executives are balancing portfolio diversification against confidence in long-term cloud investments.

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