The company isn’t as famous as other tech sector rock stars — but then again, it doesn’t need to be.
If you had to press a random person on the street to name five prominent American tech companies, he or she probably wouldn’t include Oracle (ORCL -1.22%). After all, it’s not as widely known among the public as, say, Microsoft or Apple.
Yet it’s one of the largest by market cap, at over $625 billion. Much of this has to do with sharp price appreciation in recent times, with the shares zooming more than 287% higher across the past five years.
Does the stock still have that kind of potential, however? Might it increase a $10,000 investment fivefold in the next few years? Here’s my take on that.
Unique among big peers
Oracle has a different strategy and approach than the famous tech industry stars in that it concentrates exclusively on the corporate market. It has no interest in selling smartphones, like Apple, or being another Microsoft supplying operating systems for everyone’s PC.
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It’s built on a foundation of database management, and in many ways it remains the go-to provider of such crucial services for business clients. Over the years, though, with admirable discipline, it branched out from this into associated offerings, such as cloud computing.
That determined adherence to a business model that works has produced outsized growth and high profit margins. Over the past five fiscal years alone, annual revenue has increased by 42% to more than $57 billion in 2025.
Meanwhile, Oracle just keeps booking high profits. In the latter year, it netted $12.6 billion, for a lofty margin of 22%.
Weed-like growth
As long as Oracle stays the course, I think those impressively growing fundamentals will continue heading north. Many analysts would agree; collectively, they’re anticipating 16% growth in annual revenue this fiscal year (to nearly $67 billion), and an even higher rise of 20% in the following frame. Per-share net income should also rise, by a respective 12% and (again) 20%.
Given all this, I think the price of Oracle stock could easily quintuple — and well before 2030 at that.
Eric Volkman has positions in Apple. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: long January 2026 $395 calls on Microsoft and short January 2026 $405 calls on Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.