Top 5 Cheap Stocks To Invest In 2015

Top 5 Cheap Stocks To Invest In 2015: Oracle Corporation(ORCL)

Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and services database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems worldwide. It licenses of database and middleware software, including database management software, application server software, service-oriented architecture and business process management software, data integration software, business intelligence software, identity and access management software, content management software, portals and user interaction software, development tools, and Java; and applications software comprising enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, business intelligence applications, enterprise portfolio project management, Web commerce, and industry-specific applications software. The company also offers customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases; Internet access to technical content; and Internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. In addition, its hardware systems products consist of computer server and hardware-related software, including the Oracle Solaris Operating System; and storage products, such as tape, disk and networking solutions for open systems and mainframe server environments. Its hardware systems support solutions include software updates for the software components. Further, the company offers consulting solutions in business and IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial product implementation and integration, and ongoing product enhancements and upgrades; cloud services, including Oracle Cloud Services and Advanced Customer Services; and education solutions comprising instructor-led, media-based, and Internet-based training in the use of its! software and hardware products. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Redwood Ci ty, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  The promise of an easy Fed sure has investors excited. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 421.28 points, or 2.4%, to 17.778.15 today, while the S&P 500 rose 2.4% to 4,748.40. Every stock in the Dow finished up today, with Microsoft (MSFT) and International Business Machines (IBM) and Goldman Sachs (GS) leading the way. Perhaps more frightening: By my count, just 21 S&P 500 stocks finished in the red today, as Oracle (ORCL) and First Solar (FSLR) led the benchmark higher.

• [By Mike Deane]

  Oracle Corp (ORCL) reported its fiscal 2015 second quarter results after the closing bell on Wednesday, posting higher revenues and flat net income compared to last year’s same quarter.

  ORCL’s Earnings in Brief

  Oracle reported second quarter revenues of $9.6 billion, which is up from last year’s Q2 revenues of $9.3 billion. Net income for the quarter came in at $2.5 billion, or 56 cents per diluted share, which is is essentially flat with last year’s Q2 net income of $2.55 billion, or 56 cents per diluted share. On an adjusted basis, ORCL’s EPS came in at 69 cents, which is flat with last year’s EPS figure. ORCL met analysts’ EPS expectations of 69 cents, while revenues came in slightly above the $9.5 billion expectations.

  CEO Commentary

  Oracle CEO Safra Catz had the following comments: “We continue to deliver industry-leading operating margins and cash flow even after adding the thousands of specialized sales people and engineers necessary to accelerate the growth of our new cloud businesses.”

  Co-founder, chairman and CTO of Oracle Larry Ellison had the following comments: “By Q4 of this year we expect our new cloud bookings to exceed $250 million. Next fiscal year our new cloud bookings will be ! well over! the billion dollars mark.”

  ORCL Declares Dividend Dividend

  Oracle declared a quarterly dividend of 12 cents, which will be paid on January 28 to shareholders on record as of January 7.

  Stock Performance

  ORCL stock was up $1.41, or 3.43%, in after hours trading. YTD, the stock is up 7.58%.

  ORCL Dividend Snapshot

  As of Market Close on December 17, 2014

  Click here to see the complete history of ORCL dividends.

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) reported better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results. Oracle shares surged 5.08% to $43.25 in the after-hours trading session.

• [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]

  AP file/Eric RisbergMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft (MSFT) sales soared 25 percent in the last quarter, largely from cloud computing. But sales of the Xbox, tablets, and Nokia smartphones also contributed to the strong performance, which handily beat Wall Street expectations as the company maintained profit margins. Microsoft's business of selling cloud services to other businesses -- in which companies store their data run their major software on remote Microsoft servers -- doubled, and is now the primary focus of the company, according to the new CEO Satya Nadella. This earnings release follows the earnings announcements from the following peers of Microsoft: Adobe Systems (ADBE), Oracle Corporation (ORCL), International Business Machines (IBM), Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Nokia (NOK) and Yahoo! (YHOO). Microsoft stood out from peers IBM and SAP who recently reported negative earnings results after strong warnings about operating profits while they move into cloud-related businesses, which generally yields lower margins than technology companies are used to. Highlights Summary numbers: Revenues of $23.201 billion, Net Earnings of $4.540 billion and Earnings per Share (EPS) of $0.54. Revenue rose, helped by outstanding performance in the cloud segment and the phone bus! iness it ! bought from Nokia, beating analysts' estimates. Gross margins narrowed to 70.5 percent from 77.5 percent from same period last year. At the same time, Microsoft reported gross margin improvements in its cloud business, despite the cost of building and operating new data centers. Performance focus was more on revenue than the bottom-line: increase of revenue of 25.3 percent vs. decline in earnings of -13.4 percent from same period last year. Ability to declare a higher earnings number? Rise in operating cash flow of 1.8 percent versus same period last year--better than change in earnings. The table below shows the preliminary results and recent trends for key metrics such as

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