04:57 AM EDT, 06/12/2024 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with the stock move in the headline and the first paragraph.)
Oracle (ORCL) shares were up 9% in premarket activity Wednesday after the company reported overnight an increase in fiscal Q4 sales and unveiled partnerships with Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google ( GOOG ).
The company reported fiscal Q4 non-GAAP earnings late Tuesday of $1.63 per diluted share, down from $1.67 a year earlier.
Analysts polled by Capital IQ expected $1.65.
Revenue for the quarter ended May 31 was $14.29 billion, up from $13.84 billion a year earlier.
Analysts surveyed by Capital IQ expected $14.57 billion.
The company maintained its quarterly dividend at $0.40 per share, payable July 25 to shareholders of record on July 11.
Additionally, Oracle said it entered into a partnership under which Microsoft's ( MSFT ) Azure Al platform will be extended to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to provide additional capacity for Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed OpenAl.
Oracle also said it partnered with Google ( GOOG ) to offer customers an option to combine Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud technologies to help accelerate their application migrations and modernization.
Financial terms of both deals weren't disclosed.
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