How Sustainable Is Oracle’s Cash Flow Without Customer Prepayments?

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) can collect cash before delivering the cloud services a customer bought. That financing helps build capacity, but it makes operating cash flow harder to use as a measure of repeatable earnings. Investors need to separate cash received today from the profit eventually earned by fulfilling the associated contract. Oracle ranks 8th on our list of Top 10 AI Stocks That Will Skyrocket. Check out our full list here.How Sustainable Is Oracle's Cash Flow Without Customer Prepayments? Photo from Oracle website Read the cash-flow statement before using the multiple Oracle's fiscal first quarter generated $23.10 billion of operating cash flow and required $28.