Oracle: Earnings Preview

Trefis submits: Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is expected to announce its fiscal year Q1 2012 earnings on Thursday (May 19th). We believe the main focus of the earnings will be how the company’s newer cloud-computing products are faring, and we will keep an eye on the company’s operating margins as expenses have been steadily outpacing revenue growth in the past couple of years.

Trefis submits: Sun’s hardware business has grown more profitable since Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) completed the Sun acquisition early this year, according to Oracle’s earnings report for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2011.

By Benzinga: The Grinch has arrived a few days early, at least for Oracle (ORCL) shareholders. Shares of the enterprise software giant were slammed after-hours Tuesday following a fiscal second-quarter earnings report that can only be described as disappointing.

Trefis submits: Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) is expected to announce its fiscal year Q1 2012 earnings on June 16th. RIM has been an interesting story and in the last quarter, RIM’s stock has taken a beating.

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By Trefis: Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB) will report earnings on Monday. In this announcement we will look for cost pressures from inflation that will weigh on gross margins with despite various cost cutting initiatives the company has started.

Trefis submits: Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is the leader in the database software market with a market share of more than 50%. IBM (NYSE:IBM) comes in a distant second with around 20% share.

Trefis submits: Oracle (ORCL) recently announced its fiscal year Q4 2011 earnings, which was the first full quarter for a year-to-year comparison of its hardware business that it picked up in the Sun acquisition last year. [1] As it turned out, the hardware sales declined by 6% for this quarter compared to the same quarter last year. This news caused as much as a 6% decline to Oracle's stock in after-hours trading.