Oracle stock suffers its worst weekly slump since 2001 dot-com bust

Oracle just had a week that made Wall Street nervous. The software giant's stock fell 19% in a single week ending June 27, its steepest weekly drop in 25 years, according to CNBC.

The last time Oracle (ORCL) shed this much ground in a week was August 2001, right in the depths of the dot-com collapse.

So, what's driving the sell-off in ORCL stock?

A growing pile of debt, rising questions about its all-in bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure, and a market that is starting to ask whether the payoff is worth the risk.

Oracle is not tiptoeing into artificial intelligence. It is sprinting in, building massive data centers, and signing long-term contracts with AI customers like OpenAI.

Oracle's remaining performance obligations, basically committed future revenue, finished the most recent quarter at $638 billion, up 363% year over year. But locking in that demand has come at an enormous cost.

Capital expenditures surged roughly 162% to nearly $56 billion in fiscal year 2026.

Free cash flow turned deeply negative, coming in at almost negative $24 billion for the year.

And Oracle ended May sitting on around $122 billion in long-term debt.

To keep this buildout going, Oracl

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