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. 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.

We are on schedule to double our data center capacity this calendar year,” Oracle Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison said in the earnings release. “Customer demand is a