Tim Seymour: Oracle Sell-Off Presents Opportunity

Shares of Oracle dropped as much as 6% in the after market with the company spooking investors after it said revenue from computer hardware dropped.

Looking at the numbers, the hardware division - which it acquired with its purchase of Sun Microsystems - dropped 6 percent to $1.2 billion.

However Fast trader Tim Seymour thinks the Street is looking at the wrong part of Oracle’s business. “Software is their bread and butter,” he reminds, Oracle is the nation’s number 3 software company.

In fact, Oracle’s results showed its software sales rose 19 percent from a year earlier to $3.7 billion. That beat its own forecasts of 4 percent to 14 percent growth.

Tim Seymour says “I think the weakness is an opportunity. Buy the dip. I think the numbers are fine.”

Looking at the results a little more closely, Oracle reported profit, excluding items, of 75 cents per share for the quarter ended May 31. That beat Wall Street estimates of 71 cents per share by 5.6 percent, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. On average it has exceeded profit estimates by 10 percent over the past six quarters.

Trader Joe Terranova is a little more cautious of this stock. He wonders if the numbers are saying that Oracle is spending too much time in their battle with Hewlett Packard.

And he reminds that traditionally in the fourth quarter they usually beat by a huge margin. This time they just managed just to beat – and the next quarter is generally weaker.

If you’re looking to game the stock you might want to shoot against $31.14. “That’s the 200-day,” says Terranova. “That’s a level it hasn’t violated since September.

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