5 Reasons Oracle Stock Will Survive the Next Market Crash

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) isn't an exciting tech stock. The enterprise software company is over four decades old, and it generates anemic sales growth compared to bigger cloud leaders like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). It's also often criticized for "buying" earnings beats with aggressive buybacks instead of growing its core business.

Yet Oracle's stock price has still rallied 75% over the past five years, and it delivered a total return of about 90% after including reinvested dividends. That growth still pales against Microsoft and Amazon's triple-digit percentage gains during the same period, but Oracle has remained much more resilient than other aging tech giants like IBM (NYSE: IBM).

It should also easily survive the next market crash, for five simple reasons.

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Source Fool.com