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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

☒QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended February 28, 2021

☐TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from ____________ to ____________

Commission File Number: 001-35992

Oracle Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		54-2185193
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

2300 Oracle Way Austin, Texas		78741
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

(737) 867-1000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share

3.125% senior notes due July 2025

ORCL

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New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer ☒		Accelerated filer ☐
Non-accelerated filer ☐		Smaller reporting company ☐
Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

The number of shares of registrant’s common stock outstanding as of March 5, 2021 was: 2,883,535,000.

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ORACLE CORPORATION

FORM 10-Q QUARTERLY REPORT

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PART I.	FINANCIAL INFORMATION	3

Item 1.	Financial Statements (Unaudited)	3

	Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020	3

	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three and Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020	4

	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Three and Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020	5

	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Equity for the Three and Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020	6

	Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020	7

	Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements	8

Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	26

Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	43

Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	43

PART II.	OTHER INFORMATION	44

Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	44

Item 1A.	Risk Factors	44

Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	44

Item 6.	Exhibits	45

	Signatures	46

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Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements

For purposes of this Quarterly Report, the terms “Oracle,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Oracle Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries. This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains statements that are not historical in nature, are predictive in nature, or that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions or otherwise contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include, among other things, statements regarding:

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our expectations regarding the impacts on our business as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic;

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our expectation that we may acquire companies, products, services and technologies to further our corporate strategy as compelling opportunities become available;

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our expectation that, on a constant currency basis, our total cloud and license revenues generally will continue to increase due to expected growth in our cloud services and our license support offerings, and continued demand for our cloud license and on-premise license offerings;

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our belief that our Oracle Cloud Software-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (SaaS and IaaS, respectively, and collectively, Oracle Cloud Services) offerings are opportunities for us to expand our cloud and license business, and that demand for our Oracle Cloud Services will continue to increase;

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our expectation that substantially all of our customers will renew their license support contracts annually;

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our expectation that our hardware business will have lower operating margins as a percentage of revenues than our cloud and license business;

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our expectation that we will continue to make significant investments in research and development, and our belief that research and development efforts are essential to maintaining our competitive position;

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our expectation that our international operations will continue to provide a significant portion of our total revenues and expenses;

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the sufficiency of our sources of funding for working capital, capital expenditures, contractual obligations, acquisitions, dividends, stock repurchases, debt repayments and other matters;

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our belief that we have adequately provided under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles for outcomes related to our tax audits and that the final outcome of our tax related examinations, agreements or judicial proceedings will not have a material effect on our results of operations, and our belief that our net deferred tax assets will be realized in the foreseeable future;

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our belief that the outcome of certain legal proceedings and claims to which we are a party will not, individually or in the aggregate, result in losses that are materially in excess of amounts already recognized, if any;

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the possibility that certain legal proceedings to which we are a party could have a material impact on our future cash flows and results of operations;

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the timing and amount of expenses we expect to incur and the cost savings we expect to realize pursuant to our 2019 Restructuring Plan;

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the timing and amount of future cash dividend payments and stock repurchases, including our expectation that the levels of our future stock repurchase activity may be modified in comparison to past periods in order to use available cash for other purposes;

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our expectations regarding the impact of recent accounting pronouncements on our consolidated financial statements;

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our expectation that, to the extent customers renew support contracts or cloud SaaS and IaaS contracts from companies that we have acquired, we will recognize revenues for the full contracts’ values over the respective renewal periods;

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our ability to predict quarterly hardware revenues;

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the percentage of remaining performance obligations that we expect to recognize as revenues over the next twelve months;

as well as other statements regarding our future operations, financial condition and prospects, and business strategies. Forward-looking statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “strives,” “estimates,” “will,” “should,” “is designed to” and similar expressions. We claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 for all forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about our business that could affect our future results and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in “Risk Factors” included in documents we file from time to time with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended May 31, 2020 and our other Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q to be filed by us in our fiscal 2021, which runs from June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021.

We have no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or risks, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws. If we do update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that we will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. New information, future events or risks could cause the forward-looking events we discuss in this Quarterly Report not to occur. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect our expectations only as of the date of this Quarterly Report.

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1.

Financial Statements (Unaudited)

ORACLE CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

As of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020

(Unaudited)

(in millions, except per share data)	February 28, 2021			May 31, 2020
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	22,321		$	37,239
Marketable securities		13,543			5,818
Trade receivables, net of allowances for doubtful accounts of $485 and $409 as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, respectively		4,637			5,551
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		3,243			3,532
Total current assets		43,744			52,140
Non-current assets:
Property, plant and equipment, net		6,816			6,244
Intangible assets, net		2,754			3,738
Goodwill, net		43,954			43,769
Deferred tax assets		13,725			3,252
Other non-current assets		7,116			6,295
Total non-current assets		74,365			63,298
Total assets	$	118,109		$	115,438
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Notes payable, current	$	5,758		$	2,371
Accounts payable		812			637
Accrued compensation and related benefits		1,684			1,453
Deferred revenues		8,088			8,002
Other current liabilities		3,908			4,737
Total current liabilities		20,250			17,200
Non-current liabilities:
Notes payable and other borrowings, non-current		63,541			69,226
Income taxes payable		12,316			12,463
Deferred tax liabilities		7,892			41
Other non-current liabilities		4,473			3,791
Total non-current liabilities		88,222			85,521
Commitments and contingencies
Oracle Corporation stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value—authorized: 1.0 shares; outstanding: none		—			—
Common stock, $0.01 par value and additional paid in capital—authorized: 11,000 shares; outstanding: 2,895 shares and 3,067 shares as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, respectively		26,261			26,486
Accumulated deficit		(16,206	)		(12,696	)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss		(1,155	)		(1,716	)
Total Oracle Corporation stockholders’ equity		8,900			12,074
Noncontrolling interests		737			643
Total equity		9,637			12,717
Total liabilities and equity	$	118,109		$	115,438

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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ORACLE CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

For the Three and Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020

(Unaudited)

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
(in millions, except per share data)	February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020			February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020
Revenues:
Cloud services and license support	$	7,252		$	6,930		$	21,311		$	20,546
Cloud license and on-premise license		1,276			1,231			3,254			3,169
Hardware		820			857			2,478			2,542
Services		737			778			2,209			2,372
Total revenues		10,085			9,796			29,252			28,629
Operating expenses:
Cloud services and license support⁽¹⁾		1,064			991			3,139			2,994
Hardware⁽¹⁾		230			271			719			828
Services		621			702			1,875			2,147
Sales and marketing⁽¹⁾		1,915			2,049			5,605			6,135
Research and development		1,621			1,500			4,812			4,588
General and administrative		330			288			949			903
Amortization of intangible assets		347			400			1,037			1,221
Acquisition related and other		13			7			107			44
Restructuring		66			60			337			181
Total operating expenses		6,207			6,268			18,580			19,041
Operating income		3,878			3,528			10,672			9,588
Interest expense		(585	)		(456	)		(1,799	)		(1,416	)
Non-operating (expenses) income, net		(17	)		4			(30	)		195
Income before benefit from (provision for) income taxes		3,276			3,076			8,843			8,367
Benefit from (provision for) income taxes		1,745			(505	)		871			(1,348	)
Net income	$	5,021		$	2,571		$	9,714		$	7,019
Earnings per share:
Basic	$	1.72		$	0.81		$	3.26		$	2.16
Diluted	$	1.68		$	0.79		$	3.19		$	2.10
Weighted average common shares outstanding:
Basic		2,913			3,190			2,977			3,251
Diluted		2,994			3,271			3,049			3,337

⁽¹⁾	Exclusive of amortization of intangible assets, which is shown separately.

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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ORACLE CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

For the Three and Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020

(Unaudited)

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020			February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020
Net income	$	5,021		$	2,571		$	9,714		$	7,019
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Net foreign currency translation gains (losses)		132			(86	)		504			(178	)
Net unrealized gains on defined benefit plans		10			34			66			45
Net unrealized (losses) gains on marketable securities		(4	)		3			(1	)		91
Net unrealized (losses) gains on cash flow hedges		(7	)		7			(8	)		(9	)
Total other comprehensive income (loss), net		131			(42	)		561			(51	)
Comprehensive income	$	5,152		$	2,529		$	10,275		$	6,968

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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ORACLE CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY

For the Three and Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020

(Unaudited)

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
(in millions, except per share data)	February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020			February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020
Common stock and additional paid in capital
Balance, beginning of period	$	26,298		$	26,374		$	26,486		$	26,909
Common stock issued		143			615			915			1,232
Stock-based compensation		479			361			1,395			1,204
Repurchases of common stock		(567	)		(599	)		(1,922	)		(2,033	)
Other, net		(92	)		(66	)		(613	)		(627	)
Balance, end of period	$	26,261		$	26,685		$	26,261		$	26,685
Accumulated deficit
Balance, beginning of period	$	(17,095	)	$	(9,174	)	$	(12,696	)	$	(3,496	)
Repurchases of common stock		(3,433	)		(3,401	)		(11,078	)		(11,967	)
Cash dividends declared		(699	)		(768	)		(2,146	)		(2,330	)
Net income		5,021			2,571			9,714			7,019
Other, net		—			1			—			3
Balance, end of period	$	(16,206	)	$	(10,771	)	$	(16,206	)	$	(10,771	)
Other equity, net
Balance, beginning of period	$	(587	)	$	(1,015	)	$	(1,073	)	$	(1,050	)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net		131			(42	)		561			(51	)
Other, net		38			24			94			68
Balance, end of period	$	(418	)	$	(1,033	)	$	(418	)	$	(1,033	)
Total equity	$	9,637		$	14,881		$	9,637		$	14,881
Cash dividends declared per common share	$	0.24		$	0.24		$	0.72		$	0.72

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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ORACLE CORPORATION

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

For the Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020

(Unaudited)

	Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income	$	9,714		$	7,019
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation		1,127			1,025
Amortization of intangible assets		1,037			1,221
Deferred income taxes		(2,475	)		(398	)
Stock-based compensation		1,395			1,204
Other, net		227			167
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions:
Decrease in trade receivables, net		1,089			946
Decrease in prepaid expenses and other assets		609			718
Decrease in accounts payable and other liabilities		(247	)		(1,035	)
Decrease in income taxes payable		(1,181	)		(789	)
Decrease in deferred revenues		(250	)		(553	)
Net cash provided by operating activities		11,045			9,525
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of marketable securities and other investments		(26,775	)		(399	)
Proceeds from maturities of marketable securities and other investments		18,182			3,165
Proceeds from sales of marketable securities		853			12,575
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired		(29	)		(111	)
Capital expenditures		(1,418	)		(1,131	)
Net cash (used for) provided by investing activities		(9,187	)		14,099
Cash flows from financing activities:
Payments for repurchases of common stock		(12,958	)		(13,935	)
Proceeds from issuances of common stock		915			1,232
Shares repurchased for tax withholdings upon vesting of restricted stock-based awards		(597	)		(624	)
Payments of dividends to stockholders		(2,146	)		(2,330	)
Repayments of borrowings		(2,631	)		(4,500	)
Other, net		241			(108	)
Net cash used for financing activities		(17,176	)		(20,265	)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents		400			(44	)
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents		(14,918	)		3,315
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period		37,239			20,514
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	$	22,321		$	23,829
Non-cash financing activities:
Change in unsettled repurchases of common stock	$	42		$	65

See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

February 28, 2021

(Unaudited)

1.	BASIS OF PRESENTATION, RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS AND OTHER

Basis of Presentation

We have prepared the condensed consolidated financial statements included herein pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. However, we believe that the disclosures herein are adequate to ensure the information presented is not misleading. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020.

We believe that all necessary adjustments have been included in the accompanying financial statements to present fairly the results of the interim periods. The results of operations for the interim periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the operating results to be expected for any subsequent interim period or for our fiscal year ending May 31, 2021.

The comparability of our operating results during the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2021 compared to the corresponding prior year periods, and of our condensed consolidated balance sheets as of February 28, 2021 relative to May 31, 2020, was impacted by the income tax related effects of a partial realignment of our legal entity structure that resulted in the intra-group transfer of certain intellectual property rights. During the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2021, we recognized a benefit from income taxes primarily due to the result of a net discrete tax benefit of $2.3 billion that was recorded as a deferred tax asset of $11.3 billion and a non-current deferred tax liability of $9.1 billion. The deferred tax asset was recognized as a result of the book and tax basis difference on the intra-group transfer of certain intellectual property and the realignment of certain legal entities, partially offset by a Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI) non-current deferred tax liability. The tax amortization related to the intellectual property deferred tax asset will be recognized in future periods and any unused amortization in a particular year will carry forward indefinitely. The $11.3 billion deferred tax asset was measured based on the tax rate at which it is expected to reverse in the future. We expect to realize the net deferred tax asset recorded as a result of the intangible property transfer and will periodically assess the realizability of the net deferred tax asset. Refer to Note 9 below for additional information.

During the first nine months of fiscal 2021, we adopted Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments and subsequent amendments to the initial guidance; and ASU 2020-01, Investments—Equity Securities (Topic 321), Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323), and Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815), neither of which had a material impact to our current or historical condensed consolidated financial statements. There have been no changes to our significant accounting policies as disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020 that had a significant impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements or notes thereto as of and for the nine months ended February 28, 2021.

Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash

Restricted cash that was included within cash and cash equivalents as presented within our condensed consolidated balance sheets as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020 and our condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the nine months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020 was nominal.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

February 28, 2021

(Unaudited)

Remaining Performance Obligations from Contracts with Customers

Trade receivables, net of allowance for doubtful accounts, and deferred revenues are reported net of related uncollected deferred revenues in our condensed consolidated balance sheets as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020. The revenues recognized during the nine months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020, respectively, that were included in the opening deferred revenues balances as of May 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, were approximately $7.4 billion and $7.7 billion, respectively. Revenues recognized from performance obligations satisfied in prior periods and impairment losses recognized on our receivables were immaterial in each of the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020.

Remaining performance obligations, as defined in Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020, were $35.3 billion as of February 28, 2021, approximately 61% of which we expect to recognize as revenues over the next twelve months and the remainder thereafter.

Sales of Financing Receivables

We offer certain of our customers the option to acquire certain of our cloud and license, hardware and services offerings through separate long-term payment contracts. We generally sell these contracts that we have financed for our customers on a non-recourse basis to financial institutions within 90 days of the contracts’ dates of execution. We record the transfers of amounts due from customers to financial institutions as sales of financing receivables because we are considered to have surrendered control of these financing receivables. Financing receivables sold to financial institutions were $338 million and $1.3 billion for the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021, respectively, and $284 million and $1.2 billion for the three and nine months ended February 29, 2020, respectively.

Acquisition Related and Other Expenses

Acquisition related and other expenses primarily consist of personnel related costs for transitional and certain other employees, certain business combination adjustments including adjustments after the measurement period has ended, and certain other operating items, net.

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020		February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020
Transitional and other employee related costs	$	1	$	2	$	4	$	9
Business combination adjustments, net		2		2		3		4
Other, net		10		3		100		31
Total acquisition related and other expenses	$	13	$	7	$	107	$	44

Non-Operating (Expenses) Income, net

Non-operating (expenses) income, net consists primarily of interest income, net foreign currency exchange losses, the noncontrolling interests in the net profits of our majority-owned subsidiaries (primarily Oracle Financial Services Software Limited and Oracle Corporation Japan) and net other income and expenses, including net realized gains and losses related to all of our investments, net unrealized gains and losses related to the small portion of our investment portfolio related to our deferred compensation plan, net unrealized gains and losses related to equity securities and non-service net periodic pension income and losses.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

February 28, 2021

(Unaudited)

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020			February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020
Interest income	$	23		$	122		$	80		$	457
Foreign currency losses, net		(18	)		(47	)		(84	)		(127	)
Noncontrolling interests in income		(46	)		(28	)		(127	)		(115	)
Other, net		24			(43	)		101			(20	)
Total non-operating (expenses) income, net	$	(17	)	$	4		$	(30	)	$	195

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Financial Instruments: In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued ASU 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (ASU 2020-04) and also issued subsequent amendments to the initial guidance (collectively, Topic 848). Topic 848 provides optional guidance for contract modifications and certain hedging relationships associated with the transition from reference rates that are expected to be discontinued. We will adopt Topic 848 when our relevant contracts are modified upon transition to alternative reference rates. We do not expect our adoption of Topic 848 to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Income Taxes: In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (ASU 2019-12), which is intended to simplify various areas related to the accounting for income taxes and improve consistent application of Topic 740. ASU 2019-12 is effective for us beginning in fiscal 2022, and earlier adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of ASU 2019-12 on our consolidated financial statements.

2.	ACQUISITIONS

Fiscal 2021 and 2020 Acquisitions

During the first nine months of fiscal 2021 and full year of fiscal 2020, we acquired certain companies and purchased certain technology and development assets primarily to expand our products and services offerings. These acquisitions were not significant individually or in the aggregate to our condensed consolidated financial statements.

3.	FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

We perform fair value measurements in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 820, Fair Value Measurement. ASC 820 defines fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities required to be recorded at their fair values, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which we would transact and consider assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the assets or liabilities, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions and risk of nonperformance.

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

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ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy that requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. An asset’s or a liability’s categorization within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. ASC 820 establishes three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:

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Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

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Level 2: inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities; or

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Level 3: unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair values of the assets or liabilities.

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis

Our assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis consisted of the following (Level 1 and Level 2 inputs are defined above):

	February 28, 2021						May 31, 2020
	Fair Value Measurements Using Input Types						Fair Value Measurements Using Input Types
(in millions)	Level 1		Level 2		Total		Level 1		Level 2		Total
Assets:
Money market funds	$	4,702	$	—	$	4,702	$	18,587	$	—	$	18,587
Corporate debt securities and other		2,836		7,933		10,769		4,036		2,589		6,625
Commercial paper debt securities		—		7,604		7,604		—		5,640		5,640
Derivative financial instruments		—		71		71		—		29		29
Total assets	$	7,538	$	15,608	$	23,146	$	22,623	$	8,258	$	30,881
Liabilities:
Derivative financial instruments	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	268	$	268

We classify our marketable securities as available-for-sale debt securities at the time of purchase and reevaluate such classification as of each balance sheet date. Our marketable securities investments consist of money market funds, Tier 1 commercial paper debt securities, corporate debt securities and certain other securities. Marketable securities as presented per our condensed consolidated balance sheets included securities with original maturities at the time of purchase greater than three months and the remainder of the securities were included in cash and cash equivalents. As of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, substantially all of our marketable securities investments mature within one year. Our valuation techniques used to measure the fair values of our instruments that were classified as Level 1 in the table above were derived from quoted market prices and active markets for these instruments that exist. Our valuation techniques used to measure the fair values of Level 2 instruments listed in the table above were derived from the following: non-binding market consensus prices that were corroborated by observable market data, quoted market prices for similar instruments, or pricing models, such as discounted cash flow techniques, with all significant inputs derived from or corroborated by observable market data including LIBOR-based yield curves, among others.

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Based on the trading prices of the $69.3 billion and $71.6 billion of senior notes and the related fair value hedges that we had outstanding as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, respectively, the estimated fair values of the senior notes and the related fair value hedges using Level 2 inputs at February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020 were $76.3 billion and $80.9 billion, respectively.

4.	INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND GOODWILL

The changes in intangible assets for fiscal 2021 and the net book value of intangible assets as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020 were as follows:

	Intangible Assets, Gross						Accumulated Amortization									Intangible Assets, Net				Weighted Average Useful Life⁽²⁾
(Dollars in millions)	May 31, 2020		Additions & Adjustments, net⁽¹⁾		February 28, 2021		May 31, 2020			Expense			February 28, 2021			May 31, 2020		February 28, 2021		Weighted Average Useful Life⁽²⁾
Developed technology	$	4,471	$	36	$	4,507	$	(3,290	)	$	(477	)	$	(3,767	)	$	1,181	$	740		3
Cloud services and license support agreements and related relationships		5,589		16		5,605		(3,271	)		(493	)		(3,764	)		2,318		1,841		—
Other		1,341		1		1,342		(1,102	)		(67	)		(1,169	)		239		173		—
Total intangible assets, net	$	11,401	$	53	$	11,454	$	(7,663	)	$	(1,037	)	$	(8,700	)	$	3,738	$	2,754

⁽¹⁾	Amounts also include any changes in intangible asset balances for the periods presented that resulted from foreign currency translations.

⁽²⁾	Represents weighted-average useful lives (in years) of intangible assets acquired during fiscal 2021.

As of February 28, 2021, estimated future amortization expenses related to intangible assets were as follows (in millions):

Remainder of fiscal 2021	$	328
Fiscal 2022		1,120
Fiscal 2023		696
Fiscal 2024		450
Fiscal 2025		126
Fiscal 2026		24
Thereafter		10
Total intangible assets, net	$	2,754

The changes in the carrying amounts of goodwill, net, which is generally not deductible for tax purposes, for our operating segments for the nine months ended February 28, 2021 were as follows:

(in millions)	Cloud and License		Hardware		Services		Total Goodwill, net
Balances as of May 31, 2020	$	39,637	$	2,367	$	1,765	$	43,769
Goodwill adjustments, net⁽¹⁾		168		—		17		185
Balances as of February 28, 2021	$	39,805	$	2,367	$	1,782	$	43,954

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Pursuant to our business combinations accounting policy, we recorded goodwill adjustments for the effects on goodwill of changes to net assets acquired during the period that such a change is identified, provided that any such change is within the measurement period (up to one year from the date of the acquisition). Amounts also include any changes in goodwill balances for the period presented that resulted from foreign currency translations.

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5.	RESTRUCTURING ACTIVITIES

Fiscal 2019 Oracle Restructuring Plan

During fiscal 2019, our management approved, committed to and initiated plans to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations due to our acquisitions and certain other operational activities (2019 Restructuring Plan). In the first nine months of fiscal 2021, our management supplemented the 2019 Restructuring Plan to reflect additional actions that we expected to take. Restructuring costs associated with the 2019 Restructuring Plan were recorded to the restructuring expense line item within our condensed consolidated statements of operations as they were incurred. We recorded $335 million and $186 million of restructuring expenses in connection with the 2019 Restructuring Plan in the first nine months of fiscal 2021 and 2020, respectively. Any changes to the estimates or timing of executing the 2019 Restructuring Plan will be reflected in our future results of operations.

Summary of All Plans

	Accrued May 31, 2020⁽²⁾		Nine Months Ended February 28, 2021											Accrued February 28, 2021⁽²⁾		Total Costs Accrued to Date		Total Expected Program Costs
(in millions)	Accrued May 31, 2020⁽²⁾		Initial Costs⁽³⁾		Adj. to Cost⁽⁴⁾			Cash Payments			Others⁽⁵⁾			Accrued February 28, 2021⁽²⁾		Total Costs Accrued to Date		Total Expected Program Costs
2019 Restructuring Plan⁽¹⁾
Cloud and license	$	75	$	168	$	(18	)	$	(148	)	$	11		$	88	$	453	$	470
Hardware		14		32		(2	)		(26	)		(1	)		17		110		115
Services		27		45		(3	)		(45	)		3			27		133		156
Other⁽⁶⁾		22		114		(1	)		(95	)		4			44		376		376
Total 2019 Restructuring Plan	$	138	$	359	$	(24	)	$	(314	)	$	17		$	176	$	1,072	$	1,117
Total other restructuring plans⁽⁷⁾	$	13	$	2	$	—		$	(4	)	$	(1	)	$	10
Total restructuring plans	$	151	$	361	$	(24	)	$	(318	)	$	16		$	186

⁽¹⁾	Restructuring costs recorded for individual line items primarily related to employee severance costs.

⁽²⁾	As of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, substantially all restructuring liabilities have been recorded in other current liabilities within our condensed consolidated balance sheets.

⁽³⁾	Costs recorded for the respective restructuring plans during the current period presented.

⁽⁴⁾	All plan adjustments were changes in estimates whereby increases and decreases in costs were generally recorded to operating expenses in the period of adjustments.

⁽⁵⁾	Represents foreign currency translation and certain other adjustments.

⁽⁶⁾	Represents employee related severance costs for functions that are not included within our operating segments and certain other restructuring costs.

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Other restructuring plans presented in the table above included condensed information for other Oracle based plans and other plans associated with certain of our acquisitions whereby we continued to make cash outlays to settle obligations under these plans during the period presented but for which the periodic impact to our condensed consolidated statements of operations was not significant.

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6.	DEFERRED REVENUES

Deferred revenues consisted of the following:

(in millions)	February 28, 2021		May 31, 2020
Cloud services and license support	$	7,075	$	6,996
Hardware		556		613
Services		425		365
Cloud license and on-premise license		32		28
Deferred revenues, current		8,088		8,002
Deferred revenues, non-current (in other non-current liabilities)		670		597
Total deferred revenues	$	8,758	$	8,599

Deferred cloud services and license support revenues and deferred hardware revenues substantially represent customer payments made in advance for cloud or support contracts that are typically billed in advance with corresponding revenues generally being recognized ratably over the contractual periods. Deferred services revenues include prepayments for our services business and revenues for these services are generally recognized as the services are performed. Deferred cloud license and on-premise license revenues typically resulted from customer payments that related to undelivered products and services or specified enhancements.

In connection with our acquisitions, we have estimated the fair values of the cloud services and license support performance obligations assumed from our acquired companies. Refer to Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020 for further explanation of these estimates.

7.	DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

We held the following derivative instruments that were designated and accounted for as hedging instruments pursuant to ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging (ASC 815):

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interest rate swap agreements, which are used to protect us against changes in the fair values of certain of our fixed-rate borrowings attributable to the movements in benchmark interest rates. We have designated these swap agreements as qualifying hedging instruments and are accounting for them as fair value hedges pursuant to ASC 815;

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cross-currency interest rate swap agreements, which are used to protect us against changes in the fair values of certain of our fixed-rate Euro-denominated borrowings attributable to the movements in benchmark interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates by effectively converting the fixed-rate, Euro-denominated borrowings, including the annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to variable-rate, U.S. Dollar-denominated debt based on LIBOR. We have designated these swap agreements as qualifying hedging instruments and are accounting for them as fair value hedges pursuant to ASC 815; and

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cross-currency swap agreements, which were used to manage foreign currency exchange risk by converting certain of our fixed-rate Euro-denominated borrowings including periodic interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity to fixed-rate U.S. Dollar-denominated debt and were accounted for as cash flow hedges pursuant to ASC 815. In the third quarter of fiscal 2021, these cross-currency swap agreements and the related senior notes were settled in cash upon their maturity.

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international currencies was $4.2 billion as of both February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020. The notional amounts of forward contracts we held to sell U.S. Dollars in exchange for other major international currencies were $4.4 billion and $3.9 billion as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, respectively. The fair values of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts were nominal as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020. Net gains or losses related to these forward contracts are included in non-operating income, net.

See Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020 for additional information regarding the purpose, accounting and classification of our derivative instruments. None of our derivative instruments are used for trading purposes. The effects of derivative instruments designated as hedges on certain of our condensed consolidated financial statements were as follows as of or for each of the respective periods presented below (amounts presented exclude any income tax effects):

Fair Values of Derivative Instruments Designated as Hedges in Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

		Fair Value as of
(in millions)	Balance Sheet Location	February 28, 2021		May 31, 2020
Derivative assets:
Interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges	Other current assets	$	10	$	—
Cross-currency interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges	Other non-current assets		61		—
Interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges	Other non-current assets		—		29
Total derivative assets		$	71	$	29
Derivative liabilities:
Cross-currency swap agreements designated as cash flow hedges	Other current liabilities	$	—	$	251
Cross-currency interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges	Other non-current liabilities		—		17
Total derivative liabilities		$	—	$	268

Effects of Fair Value Hedging Relationships on Hedged Items in Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in millions)	February 28, 2021		May 31, 2020
Notes payable, current:
Carrying amount of hedged item	$	1,510	$	—
Cumulative hedging adjustment included in the carrying amount	$	10	$	—
Notes payable and other borrowings, non-current:
Carrying amounts of hedged items	$	2,220	$	3,680
Cumulative hedging adjustments included in the carrying amount	$	108	$	75

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Effects of Derivative Instruments Designated as Hedges on Income

	Three Months Ended
	February 28, 2021						February 29, 2020
(in millions)	Non-operating (expenses) income, net			Interest expense			Non-operating (expenses) income, net			Interest expense
Condensed consolidated statements of operations line amounts in which the hedge effects were recorded	$	(17	)	$	(585	)	$	4		$	(456	)
Gain (loss) on hedges recognized in income:
Interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges:
Derivative instruments	$	—		$	(7	)	$	—		$	10
Hedged items		—			7			—			(10	)
Cross-currency interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges:
Derivative instruments		16			(8	)		—			6
Hedged items		(11	)		8			(1	)		(6	)
Cross-currency swap agreements designated as cash flow hedges:
Amount of gain (loss) reclassified from accumulated OCI		22			—			(18	)		—
Total gain (loss) on hedges recognized in income	$	27		$	—		$	(19	)	$	—

	Nine Months Ended
	February 28, 2021						February 29, 2020
(in millions)	Non-operating (expenses) income, net			Interest expense			Non-operating (expenses) income, net			Interest expense
Condensed consolidated statements of operations line amounts in which the hedge effects were recorded	$	(30	)	$	(1,799	)	$	195		$	(1,416	)
Gain (loss) on hedges recognized in income:
Interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges:
Derivative instruments	$	—		$	(19	)	$	—		$	22
Hedged items		—			19			—			(22	)
Cross-currency interest rate swap agreements designated as fair value hedges:
Derivative instruments		86			(4	)		(13	)		13
Hedged items		(73	)		4			11			(13	)
Cross-currency swap agreements designated as cash flow hedges:
Amount of gain (loss) reclassified from accumulated OCI		137			—			(36	)		—
Total gain (loss) on hedges recognized in income	$	150		$	—		$	(38	)	$	—

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8.	STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Common Stock Repurchases

Our Board of Directors has approved a program for us to repurchase shares of our common stock. On March 10, 2021, we announced that our Board of Directors approved an expansion of our stock repurchase program by an additional $20.0 billion. As of February 28, 2021, approximately $3.6 billion remained available for stock repurchases pursuant to our stock repurchase program. We repurchased 222.2 million shares for $13.0 billion during the nine months ended February 28, 2021 (including 0.6 million shares for $42 million that were repurchased but not settled) and 254.4 million shares for $14.0 billion during the nine months ended February 29, 2020 under the stock repurchase program.

Our stock repurchase authorization does not have an expiration date and the pace of our repurchase activity will depend on factors such as our working capital needs, our cash requirements for acquisitions and dividend payments, our debt repayment obligations or repurchases of our debt, our stock price, and economic and market conditions. Our stock repurchases may be effected from time to time through open market purchases or pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan. Our stock repurchase program may be accelerated, suspended, delayed or discontinued at any time.

Dividends on Common Stock

In March 2021, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.32 per share of our outstanding common stock, an increase of $0.08 per share over the dividend declared in December 2020. The dividend is payable on April 22, 2021 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 8, 2021. Future declarations of dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to the final determination of our Board of Directors.

Fiscal 2021 Stock‑Based Awards Activity and Compensation Expense

During the first nine months of fiscal 2021, we issued 50 million restricted stock-based units (RSUs), substantially all of which were issued as a part of our annual stock-based award process and are subject to service‑based vesting restrictions. These fiscal 2021 stock-based awards issuances were partially offset by stock-based award forfeitures and cancellations of 26 million shares during the first nine months of fiscal 2021.

The RSUs that were granted during the nine months ended February 28, 2021 have vesting restrictions, valuations and contractual lives of a similar nature to those described in Note 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020.

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Stock‑based compensation expense is included in the following operating expense line items in our condensed consolidated statements of operations:

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020		February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020
Cloud services and license support	$	33	$	22	$	99	$	83
Hardware		2		3		8		8
Services		15		14		41		42
Sales and marketing		82		67		233		192
Research and development		307		238		897		781
General and administrative		40		17		117		98
Total stock-based compensation	$	479	$	361	$	1,395	$	1,204

9.	INCOME TAXES

Our effective income tax rates for each of the periods presented are the result of the mix of income earned in various tax jurisdictions that apply a broad range of income tax rates. For the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021, our provision for income taxes varied from the tax computed at the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to a total net deferred tax benefit of $2.3 billion as a result of a partial realignment of our legal entity structure that resulted in the intra-group transfer of certain intellectual property rights, earnings in foreign operations, state taxes, the U.S. research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation, the Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction and the tax effect of GILTI. For the three and nine months ended February 29, 2020, our provision for income taxes varied from the tax computed at the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to earnings in foreign operations, state taxes, the U.S. research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation, the Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction and the tax effect of GILTI. Our effective tax rates were (53.3%) and (9.8%) for the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021, respectively, and our effective tax rates were 16.4% and 16.1% for the three and nine months ended February 29, 2020, respectively.

Our net deferred tax assets were $5.8 billion (refer to Note 1 under “Basis of Presentation” for additional information) and $3.2 billion as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, respectively. We believe that it is more likely than not that the net deferred tax assets will be realized in the foreseeable future. Realization of our net deferred tax assets is dependent upon our generation of sufficient taxable income in future years in appropriate tax jurisdictions to obtain benefit from the reversal of temporary differences, net operating loss carryforwards and tax credit carryforwards. The amount of net deferred tax assets considered realizable is subject to adjustment in future periods if estimates of future taxable income change.

Domestically, U.S. federal and state taxing authorities are currently examining income tax returns of Oracle and various acquired entities for years through fiscal 2019. Our U.S. federal income tax returns have been examined for all years prior to fiscal 2010, and we are no longer subject to audit for those periods. Our U.S. state income tax returns, with some exceptions, have been examined for all years prior to fiscal 2007, and we are no longer subject to audit for those periods.

Internationally, tax authorities for numerous non-U.S. jurisdictions are also examining returns affecting our unrecognized tax benefits. With some exceptions, we are generally no longer subject to tax examinations in non-U.S. jurisdictions for years prior to fiscal 2001.

We are under audit by the IRS and various other domestic and foreign tax authorities with regards to income tax and indirect tax matters and are involved in various challenges and litigation in a number of countries, including, in

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particular, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Spain, where the amounts under controversy are significant. In some, although not all, cases, we have reserved for potential adjustments to our provision for income taxes and accrual of indirect taxes that may result from examinations by, or any negotiated agreements with, these tax authorities or final outcomes in judicial proceedings, and we believe that the final outcome of these examinations, agreements or judicial proceedings will not have a material effect on our results of operations. If events occur which indicate payment of these amounts is unnecessary, the reversal of the liabilities would result in the recognition of benefits in the period we determine the liabilities are no longer necessary. If our estimates of the federal, state, and foreign income tax liabilities and indirect tax liabilities are less than the ultimate assessment, it could result in a further charge to expense.

We believe that we have adequately provided under GAAP for outcomes related to our tax audits. However, there can be no assurances as to the possible outcomes or any related financial statement effect thereof.

10.	SEGMENT INFORMATION

ASC 280, Segment Reporting, establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker, or decision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. Our chief operating decision makers (CODMs) are our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer. We are organized by line of business and geographically. While our CODMs evaluate results in a number of different ways, the line of business management structure is the primary basis for which the allocation of resources and financial results are assessed. The tabular information below presents the financial information provided to our CODMs for their review and assists our CODMs with evaluating the company’s performance and allocating company resources.

We have three businesses—cloud and license, hardware and services—each of which is comprised of a single operating segment. All three of our businesses market and sell our offerings globally to businesses of many sizes, government agencies, educational institutions and resellers with a worldwide sales force positioned to offer the combinations that best meet customer needs.

Our cloud and license business engages in the sale, marketing and delivery of our enterprise applications and infrastructure technologies through cloud and on-premise deployment models including our cloud services and license support offerings; and our cloud license and on-premise license offerings. Cloud services and license support revenues are generated from offerings that are typically contracted with customers directly, billed to customers in advance, delivered to customers over time with our revenue recognition occurring over the contractual terms, and renewed by customers upon completion of the contractual terms. Cloud services and license support contracts provide customers with access to the latest updates to the applications and infrastructure technologies as they become available and for which the customer contracted and also include related technical support services over the contractual term. Cloud license and on-premise license revenues represent fees earned from granting customers licenses, generally on a perpetual basis, to use our database and middleware and our applications software products within cloud and on-premise IT environments. We generally recognize revenues at the point in time the software is made available to the customer to download and use, which typically is immediate upon signature of the license contract. In each fiscal year, our cloud and license business’ contractual activities are typically highest in our fourth fiscal quarter and the related cash flows are typically highest in the following quarter (i.e., in the first fiscal quarter of the next fiscal year) as we receive payments from these contracts.

Our hardware business provides Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware, operating systems, virtualization, management and other hardware-related software to support diverse IT environments. Our hardware business also offers hardware support, which provides customers with software updates for the software components that are essential to the functionality of their hardware products, such as

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Oracle Solaris and certain other software, and can also include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services.

Our services business provides services to customers and partners to help maximize the performance of their investments in Oracle applications and infrastructure technologies.

We do not track our assets for each business. Consequently, it is not practical to show assets by operating segment.

The following table presents summary results for each of our three businesses:

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020		February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020
Cloud and license:
Revenues⁽¹⁾	$	8,529	$	8,162	$	24,567	$	23,718
Cloud services and license support expenses		1,011		943		2,977		2,844
Sales and marketing expenses		1,694		1,816		4,947		5,428
Margin⁽²⁾	$	5,824	$	5,403	$	16,643	$	15,446
Hardware:
Revenues	$	820	$	857	$	2,478	$	2,542
Hardware products and support expenses		223		262		698		803
Sales and marketing expenses		95		107		287		338
Margin⁽²⁾	$	502	$	488	$	1,493	$	1,401
Services:
Revenues	$	737	$	778	$	2,209	$	2,372
Services expenses		587		660		1,767		2,025
Margin⁽²⁾	$	150	$	118	$	442	$	347
Totals:
Revenues⁽¹⁾	$	10,086	$	9,797	$	29,254	$	28,632
Expenses		3,610		3,788		10,676		11,438
Margin⁽²⁾	$	6,476	$	6,009	$	18,578	$	17,194

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Cloud and license revenues presented for management reporting included revenues related to cloud and license obligations that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in our condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to business combination accounting requirements. See Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended May 31, 2020 for an explanation of these adjustments and the table below for a reconciliation of our total operating segment revenues to our total revenues as reported in our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

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The margins reported reflect only the direct controllable costs of each line of business and do not include allocations of research and development, general and administrative and certain other allocable expenses, net. Additionally, the margins reported above do not reflect amortization of intangible assets, acquisition related and other expenses, restructuring expenses, stock-based compensation, interest expense or certain other non-operating income, net.

The following table reconciles total operating segment revenues to total revenues as well as total operating segment margin to income before provision for income taxes:

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020			February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020
Total revenues for operating segments	$	10,086		$	9,797		$	29,254		$	28,632
Cloud and license revenues⁽¹⁾		(1	)		(1	)		(2	)		(3	)
Total revenues	$	10,085		$	9,796		$	29,252		$	28,629

Total margin for operating segments	$	6,476		$	6,009		$	18,578		$	17,194
Cloud and license revenues⁽¹⁾		(1	)		(1	)		(2	)		(3	)
Research and development		(1,621	)		(1,500	)		(4,812	)		(4,588	)
General and administrative		(330	)		(288	)		(949	)		(903	)
Amortization of intangible assets		(347	)		(400	)		(1,037	)		(1,221	)
Acquisition related and other		(13	)		(7	)		(107	)		(44	)
Restructuring		(66	)		(60	)		(337	)		(181	)
Stock-based compensation for operating segments		(132	)		(106	)		(381	)		(325	)
Expense allocations and other, net		(88	)		(119	)		(281	)		(341	)
Interest expense		(585	)		(456	)		(1,799	)		(1,416	)
Non-operating (expenses) income, net		(17	)		4			(30	)		195
Income before benefit from (provision for) income taxes	$	3,276		$	3,076		$	8,843		$	8,367

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Cloud and license revenues presented for management reporting included revenues related to cloud and license obligations that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in our condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to business combination accounting requirements. See Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended May 31, 2020 for an explanation of these adjustments and this table for a reconciliation of our total operating segment revenues to our total revenues as reported in our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

Disaggregation of Revenues

We have considered information that is regularly reviewed by our CODMs in evaluating financial performance, and disclosures presented outside of our financial statements in our earnings releases and used in investor presentations to disaggregate revenues to depict how the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenues and cash flows are affected by economic factors. The principal category we use to disaggregate revenues is the nature of our products and services as presented in our condensed consolidated statements of operations, the total of which is reconciled to revenues from our reportable segments as per the preceding tables of this footnote.

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The following table is a summary of our total revenues by geographic region. The relative proportion of our total revenues between each geographic region as presented in the table below was materially consistent across each of our operating segments’ revenues for the periods presented.

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020		February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020
Americas	$	5,424	$	5,363	$	15,751	$	15,817
EMEA⁽¹⁾		2,981		2,835		8,571		8,083
Asia Pacific		1,680		1,598		4,930		4,729
Total revenues	$	10,085	$	9,796	$	29,252	$	28,629

⁽¹⁾	Comprised of Europe, the Middle East and Africa

The following table presents our cloud services and license support revenues by applications and infrastructure ecosystems.

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020		February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020
Applications cloud services and license support	$	2,952	$	2,809	$	8,669	$	8,265
Infrastructure cloud services and license support		4,300		4,121		12,642		12,281
Total cloud services and license support revenues	$	7,252	$	6,930	$	21,311	$	20,546

11.	EARNINGS PER SHARE

Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income for the period by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share is computed by dividing net income for the period by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period, plus the dilutive effect of outstanding restricted stock-based awards, stock options, and shares issuable under the employee stock purchase plan as applicable pursuant to the treasury stock method. The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
(in millions, except per share data)	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020		February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020
Net income	$	5,021	$	2,571	$	9,714	$	7,019
Weighted average common shares outstanding		2,913		3,190		2,977		3,251
Dilutive effect of employee stock plans		81		81		72		86
Dilutive weighted average common shares outstanding		2,994		3,271		3,049		3,337
Basic earnings per share	$	1.72	$	0.81	$	3.26	$	2.16
Diluted earnings per share	$	1.68	$	0.79	$	3.19	$	2.10
Shares subject to anti-dilutive restricted stock-based awards and stock options excluded from calculation⁽¹⁾		36		55		36		55

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These weighted shares relate to anti-dilutive restricted stock-based awards and stock options, both of which were service-based, as calculated using the treasury stock method and contingently issuable shares, substantially all of which were related to performance based stock option (PSO) arrangements. Such shares could be dilutive in the future.

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12.	LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Hewlett-Packard Company Litigation

On June 15, 2011, Hewlett-Packard Company, now Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HP), filed a complaint in the California Superior Court, County of Santa Clara against Oracle Corporation alleging numerous causes of action including breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, defamation, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, and violation of the California Unfair Business Practices Act. The complaint alleged that when Oracle announced on March 22 and 23, 2011 that it would no longer develop future versions of its software to run on HP’s Itanium-based servers, it breached a settlement agreement signed on September 20, 2010 (the HP Settlement Agreement), resolving litigation between HP and one of Oracle’s former CEOs who had previously acted as HP’s chief executive officer and chairman of HP’s board of directors. HP sought a judicial declaration of the parties’ rights and obligations under the HP Settlement Agreement and other equitable and monetary relief. Oracle answered the complaint and filed cross-claims.

After a bench trial on the meaning of the HP Settlement Agreement, the court found that the HP Settlement Agreement required Oracle to continue to develop certain of its software products for use on HP’s Itanium-based servers at no cost to HP. The case proceeded to a jury trial in May 2016. On June 30, 2016, the jury returned a verdict in favor of HP on its claims for breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and against Oracle on its cross-claims. The jury awarded HP $3.0 billion in damages. Under the court’s rulings, HP is entitled to post-judgment interest, but not pre-judgment interest, on this award.

After the trial court denied Oracle’s motion for a new trial, Oracle filed a notice of appeal on January 17, 2017. On February 2, 2017, HP filed a notice of appeal of the trial court’s denial of pre-judgment interest.

Oracle has posted a mandated surety bond with the trial court for the amounts owing. No amounts have been paid or recorded to our results of operations. We continue to believe that we have meritorious defenses against HP’s claims, and we intend to present these defenses to the appellate court. Oracle filed its opening brief on March 7, 2019. Briefing on the appeal was completed November 1, 2019, and the appellate court has not scheduled a date for oral argument. We cannot currently estimate a reasonably possible range of loss for this action due to the complexities and uncertainty surrounding the appeal process and the nature of the claims. Litigation is inherently unpredictable, and the outcome of the appeal process related to this action is uncertain. It is possible that the resolution of this action could have a material impact on our future cash flows and results of operations.

Derivative Litigation Concerning Oracle’s NetSuite Acquisition

On May 3 and July 18, 2017, two alleged stockholders filed separate derivative lawsuits in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, purportedly on Oracle’s behalf. Thereafter, the court consolidated the two derivative cases and designated the July 18, 2017 complaint as the operative complaint. The consolidated lawsuit was brought against all the then-current members and one former member of our Board of Directors, and Oracle as a nominal defendant. Plaintiff alleged that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by causing Oracle to agree to purchase NetSuite Inc. (NetSuite) at an excessive price. The complaint sought (and the operative complaint continues to seek) declaratory relief, unspecified monetary damages (including interest), and attorneys’ fees and costs. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss, which the court denied on March 19, 2018.

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On May 4, 2018, our Board of Directors established a Special Litigation Committee (the SLC) to investigate the allegations in this derivative action. Three non-employee directors served on the SLC. On August 15, 2019, the SLC filed a letter with the court, stating that the SLC believed that plaintiff should be allowed to proceed with the derivative litigation on behalf of Oracle. After the SLC advised the Board that it had fulfilled its duties and obligations, the Board withdrew the SLC’s authority, except that the SLC maintained certain authority to respond to discovery requests in the litigation.

After plaintiff filed the July 18, 2017 complaint, an additional plaintiff joined the case. Plaintiffs filed several amended complaints, and filed their most recent amended complaint on December 11, 2020. The operative complaint asserts claims for breach of fiduciary duty against our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Technology Officer, the estate of Mark Hurd (our former Chief Executive Officer who passed away on October 18, 2019), and two other members of our Board of Directors. Oracle is named as a nominal defendant. On December 11, 2020, the estate of Mark Hurd and the two other members of our Board of Directors moved to dismiss this complaint, and a hearing on this motion was held on February 16, 2021. The court has not yet ruled on this motion. On December 28, 2020, our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Technology Officer, and Oracle as a nominal defendant filed answers to the operative complaint.

The parties are conducting discovery. Trial is scheduled to commence on July 18, 2022.

While Oracle continues to evaluate these claims, we do not believe this litigation will have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.

Securities Class Action and Derivative Litigation Concerning Oracle’s Cloud Business

On August 10, 2018, a putative class action, brought by an alleged stockholder of Oracle, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against us, our Chief Technology Officer, our then-two Chief Executive Officers, two other Oracle executives, and one former Oracle executive. As noted above, Mr. Hurd, one of our then-two Chief Executive Officers, passed away on October 18, 2019. On March 8, 2019, plaintiff filed an amended complaint. Plaintiff alleges that the defendants made or are responsible for false and misleading statements regarding Oracle’s cloud business. Plaintiff further alleges that the former Oracle executive engaged in insider trading. Plaintiff seeks a ruling that this case may proceed as a class action, and seeks damages, attorneys’ fees and costs, and unspecified declaratory/injunctive relief. On April 19, 2019, defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff’s amended complaint. On December 17, 2019, the court granted this motion, giving plaintiffs an opportunity to file an amended complaint, which plaintiff filed on February 17, 2020. On April 23, 2020, defendants filed a motion to dismiss, and the court held a hearing on this motion on September 24, 2020. The court has not yet ruled on this motion. We believe that we have meritorious defenses against this action, and we will continue to vigorously defend it.

On February 12, 2019, a stockholder derivative lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The derivative suit is brought by two alleged stockholders of Oracle, purportedly on Oracle’s behalf, against all members of our Board of Directors, and Oracle as a nominal defendant. Plaintiffs claim that the alleged actions described in the August 10, 2018 class action discussed above caused harm to Oracle, and that Oracle’s Board members violated their fiduciary duties of care, loyalty, reasonable inquiry, and good faith by failing to prevent this alleged harm. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants’ actions constitute gross mismanagement, waste, and securities fraud. Plaintiffs seek a ruling that this case may proceed as a derivative action, a finding that defendants are liable for breaching their fiduciary duties, an order directing defendants to enact corporate reforms, attorneys’ fees and costs, and unspecified equitable relief. On April 26, 2019, the court approved a stay of this action, which will be lifted if the class action discussed above is dismissed, if the motion to dismiss the class action is denied, or if either party voluntarily chooses to lift the stay.

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On May 8, 2019, a second derivative action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The derivative suit is brought by an alleged stockholder of Oracle, purportedly on Oracle’s behalf, against our Chief Technology Officer, our then‑two Chief Executive Officers, one former Oracle executive, and Oracle as a nominal defendant. Plaintiff claims that the alleged actions described in the August 10, 2018 class action discussed above caused harm to Oracle, and plaintiff raises further allegations of impropriety relating to Oracle’s stock buybacks and acquisition of NetSuite. Plaintiff asserts claims for violation of securities laws, violation of fiduciary duties, contribution and indemnification. Plaintiff seeks a ruling that the case may proceed as a derivative action, and seeks damages, declaratory and other equitable relief, attorneys’ and expert fees and costs. On June 4, 2019, the court issued an order finding that this case was related to the derivative case above and staying the case under the court’s prior stay order. On July 8, 2019, plaintiffs in the two derivative actions filed a consolidated complaint. The actions remain stayed.

While Oracle continues to evaluate these claims, we do not believe this litigation will have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.

Derivative Litigation Concerning Oracle’s Board Composition and Hiring Practices

On July 2 and 10, 2020, two alleged stockholders filed derivative lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, purportedly on Oracle’s behalf, and thereafter, filed a consolidated complaint on August 21, 2020. On July 30, 2020, a third alleged stockholder filed a derivative lawsuit in the same court. On October 16, 2020, defendants moved to consolidate all these actions, and the court granted this motion on November 30, 2020.

On December 7, 2020, plaintiffs filed a consolidated derivative complaint against all members of our Board of Directors, and Oracle as a nominal defendant, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, monetary damages, interest, corporate governance changes, disgorgement, restitution, punitive damages, and an award of attorneys’ fees, expert fees, and costs. Plaintiffs allege that: (a) defendants breached their fiduciary duties by permitting Oracle to violate anti-discrimination laws and Oracle’s own policies, failing to ensure sufficient diversity on the board, failing to ensure an independent board chairman, rehiring Ernst & Young LLP as Oracle’s auditors, and by breaching the HP Settlement Agreement (discussed above); (b) defendants made false and misleading statements in Oracle’s proxy statements; (c) defendants received unjust compensation and were unjustly enriched; (d) defendants aided and abetted this conduct; and (e) our Chief Technology Officer and our Chief Executive Officer are liable for abuse of control. On January 6, 2021, defendants moved to dismiss the complaint. Plaintiffs filed an opposition on March 1, and defendants’ reply is due by March 22, 2021. A hearing on this motion is scheduled for April 8, 2021.

While Oracle continues to evaluate these claims, we do not believe this litigation will have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.

Other Litigation

We are party to various other legal proceedings and claims, either asserted or unasserted, which arise in the ordinary course of business, including proceedings and claims that relate to acquisitions we have completed or to companies we have acquired or are attempting to acquire. While the outcome of these matters cannot be predicted with certainty, we do not believe that the outcome of any of these matters, individually or in the aggregate, will result in losses that are materially in excess of amounts already recognized, if any.

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Item 2.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

We begin Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations with an overview of our businesses and significant trends. This overview is followed by a summary of our critical accounting policies and estimates that we believe are important to understanding the assumptions and judgments incorporated in our reported financial results. We then provide a more detailed analysis of our results of operations and financial condition.

Business Overview

Oracle provides products and services that address enterprise information technology (IT) environments. Our products and services include enterprise applications and infrastructure offerings that are delivered worldwide through a variety of flexible and interoperable IT deployment models. These models include on‑premise deployments, cloud‑based deployments, and hybrid deployments (an approach that combines both on-premise and cloud‑based deployment) such as our Oracle Cloud at Customer offering (an instance of Oracle Cloud in a customer’s own data center). Accordingly, we offer choice and flexibility to our customers and facilitate the product, service and deployment combinations that best suit our customers’ needs. Through our worldwide sales force and Oracle Partner Network, we sell to customers all over the world including businesses of many sizes, government agencies, educational institutions and resellers.

We have three businesses: cloud and license; hardware; and services; each of which comprises a single operating segment. The descriptions set forth below as a part of Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the information contained within Note 10 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report provide additional information related to our businesses and operating segments and align to how our chief operating decision makers (CODMs), which include our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, view our operating results and allocate resources.

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oracle’s Business

For a discussion of the impacts on and risks to our business from COVID-19, please refer to “Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oracle’s Business” included in Item 1 Business and certain risk factors included in Item 1A Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020; and the information presented below in Results of Operations as a part of this Item 2 of this Quarterly Report.

Cloud and License Business

Our cloud and license business, which represented 84% of our total revenues on a trailing 4-quarter basis, markets, sells and delivers a broad spectrum of enterprise applications and infrastructure technologies through our cloud and license offerings.

Cloud services and license support revenues include:

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license support revenues, which are earned by providing Oracle license support services to customers that have elected to purchase support services in connection with the purchase of Oracle applications and infrastructure software licenses for use in cloud, on-premise and other IT environments. Substantially all license support customers renew their support contracts with us upon expiration in order to continue to benefit from technical support services and the periodic issuance of unspecified updates and enhancements, which current license support customers are entitled to receive. License support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net fees paid by the customer to purchase a cloud license and/or on-premise license; are generally billed in advance of the support services being performed; are generally renewed at the customer’s option; and are generally recognized as revenues ratably over the contractual period that the support services are provided, which is generally one year; and

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cloud services revenues, which provide customers access to Oracle Cloud applications and infrastructure technologies via cloud-based deployment models that Oracle develops, provides unspecified updates and enhancements for, hosts, manages and supports and that customers access by entering into a subscription agreement with us for a stated period. Oracle Cloud Services arrangements are generally

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billed in advance of the cloud services being performed; have durations of one to three years; are generally renewed at the customer’s option; and are generally recognized as revenues ratably over the contractual period of the cloud contract or, in the case of usage model contracts, as the cloud services are consumed over time.

Cloud license and on-premise license revenues include revenues from the licensing of our software products including Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware and Java, among others, which our customers deploy within cloud‑based, on‑premise and other IT environments. Our cloud license and on‑premise license transactions are generally perpetual in nature and are generally recognized as revenues up front at the point in time when the software is made available to the customer to download and use. Revenues from usage‑based royalty arrangements for distinct cloud licenses and on-premise licenses are recognized at the point in time when the software end user usage occurs. The timing of a few large license transactions can substantially affect our quarterly license revenues due to the point-in-time nature of revenue recognition for license transactions, which is different than the typical revenue recognition pattern for our cloud services and license support revenues in which revenues are generally recognized ratably over the contractual terms. Cloud license and on-premise license customers have the option to purchase and renew license support contracts, as further described above.

Providing choice and flexibility to our customers as to when and how they deploy Oracle applications and infrastructure technologies are important elements of our corporate strategy. In recent periods, customer demand for our applications and infrastructure technologies delivered through our Oracle Cloud Services has increased. To address customer demand and enable customer choice, we have introduced certain programs for customers to pivot their applications and infrastructure licenses and the related license support to the Oracle Cloud for new deployments and to migrate to and expand with the Oracle Cloud for their existing workloads. We expect these trends to continue.

Our cloud and license business’ revenue growth is affected by many factors, including the strength of general economic and business conditions; governmental budgetary constraints; the strategy for and competitive position of our offerings; the continued renewal of our cloud services and license support customer contracts by the customer contract base; substantially all customers continuing to purchase license support contracts in connection with their license purchases; the pricing of license support contracts sold in connection with the sales of licenses; the pricing, amounts and volumes of licenses and cloud services sold; and foreign currency rate fluctuations.

On a constant currency basis, we expect that our total cloud and license revenues generally will continue to increase due to:

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expected growth in our cloud services and license support offerings; and

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continued demand for our cloud license and on-premise license offerings.

We believe these factors should contribute to future growth in our cloud and license business’ total revenues, which should enable us to continue to make investments in research and development to develop and improve our cloud and license products and services.

Our cloud and license business’ margin has historically trended upward over the course of the four quarters within a particular fiscal year due to the historical upward trend of our cloud and license business’ revenues over those quarterly periods and because the majority of our costs for this business are generally fixed in the short term. The historical upward trend of our cloud and license business’ revenues over the course of the four quarters within a particular fiscal year is primarily due to the addition of new cloud services and license support contracts to the customer contract base that we generally recognize as revenues ratably; the renewal of existing customers’ cloud services and license support contracts over the course of each fiscal year that we generally recognize as revenues ratably; and the historical upward trend of our cloud license and on-premise license revenues, which we generally recognize at a point in time upon delivery; in each case over those four quarterly periods.

Hardware Business

Our hardware business, which represented 9% of our total revenues on a trailing 4-quarter basis, provides a broad selection of enterprise hardware products and hardware-related software products, including Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware offerings, operating systems, virtualization, management and

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other hardware related software, and related hardware support. Each hardware product and its related software, such as an operating system or firmware, are highly interdependent and interrelated and are accounted for as a combined performance obligation. The revenues for this combined performance obligation are generally recognized at the point in time that the hardware product and its related software are delivered to the customer and ownership is transferred to the customer. We expect to make investments in research and development to improve existing hardware products and services and to develop new hardware products and services. The majority of our hardware products are sold through indirect channels, including independent distributors and value-added resellers. Our hardware support offerings provide customers with unspecified software updates for software components that are essential to the functionality of our hardware products and associated software products such as Oracle Solaris. Our hardware support offerings can also include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services. Hardware support contracts are entered into and renewed at the option of the customer, are generally priced as a percentage of the net hardware products fees and are generally recognized as revenues ratably as the hardware support services are delivered over the contractual terms.

We generally expect our hardware business to have lower operating margins as a percentage of revenues than our cloud and license business due to the incremental costs we incur to produce and distribute these products and to provide support services, including direct materials and labor costs.

Our quarterly hardware revenues are difficult to predict. Our hardware revenues, cost of hardware and hardware operating margins that we report are affected by many factors, including our ability to timely manufacture or deliver a few large hardware transactions; our strategy for and the position of our hardware products relative to competitor offerings; customer demand for competing offerings, including cloud infrastructure offerings; the strength of general economic and business conditions; governmental budgetary constraints; whether customers decide to purchase hardware support contracts at or in close proximity to the time of hardware product sale; the percentage of our hardware support contract customer base that renews its support contracts and the close association between hardware products, which have a finite life, and customer demand for related hardware support as hardware products age; customer decisions to either maintain or upgrade their existing hardware infrastructure to newly developed technologies that are available; and foreign currency rate fluctuations.

Services Business

Our services business, which represented 7% of our total revenues on a trailing 4-quarter basis, helps customers and partners maximize the performance of their investments in Oracle applications and infrastructure technologies. We believe that our services are differentiated based on our focus on Oracle technologies, extensive experience, broad sets of intellectual property and best practices. Our services offerings include consulting services, advanced customer services and education services. Our services business has lower margins than our cloud and license and hardware businesses. Our services revenues are affected by many factors including our strategy for, and the competitive position of, our services; customer demand for our cloud and license and hardware offerings and the associated services for these offerings; general economic conditions; governmental budgetary constraints; personnel reductions in our customers’ IT departments; and tighter controls over customer discretionary spending.

Acquisitions

Our selective and active acquisition program is another important element of our corporate strategy. Historically, we have invested billions of dollars to acquire a number of complementary companies, products, services and technologies. The pace of our acquisitions has slowed in recent years, but as compelling opportunities become available, we may acquire companies, products, services and technologies in furtherance of our corporate strategy. Note 2 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report provides additional information related to our recent acquisitions.

We believe that we can fund our future acquisitions with our internally available cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, cash generated from operations, additional borrowings or from the issuance of additional securities. We estimate the financial impact of any potential acquisition with regard to earnings, operating margin, cash flows and return on invested capital targets before deciding to move forward with an acquisition.

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) as set forth in the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), and we consider the various staff accounting bulletins and other applicable guidance issued by the SEC. GAAP, as set forth within the ASC, requires us to make certain estimates, judgments and assumptions. We believe that the estimates, judgments and assumptions upon which we rely are reasonable based upon information available to us at the time that these estimates, judgments and assumptions are made. These estimates, judgments and assumptions can affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements as well as the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the periods presented. To the extent that there are differences between these estimates, judgments or assumptions and actual results, our financial statements will be affected. The accounting policies that reflect our more significant estimates, judgments and assumptions and which we believe are the most critical to aid in fully understanding and evaluating our reported financial results include:

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Revenue Recognition;

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Business Combinations;

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Goodwill and Intangible Assets—Impairment Assessments;

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Accounting for Income Taxes; and

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Legal and Other Contingencies.

During the first nine months of fiscal 2021, there were no significant changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contained in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended May 31, 2020 provides a more complete discussion of our critical accounting policies and estimates.

Results of Operations

Presentation of Operating Segment Results and Other Financial Information

In our results of operations discussion below, we provide an overview of our total consolidated revenues, total consolidated operating expenses and total consolidated operating margin, all of which are presented on a GAAP basis. We also present a GAAP-based discussion below for substantially all of the other expense items as presented in our condensed consolidated statements of operations that are not directly attributable to our three businesses.

In addition, we discuss below the results of each of our three businesses—cloud and license, hardware and services—which are our operating segments as defined pursuant to ASC 280, Segment Reporting. The financial reporting for our three businesses that is presented below is presented in a manner that is consistent with that used by our CODMs. Our operating segment presentation below reflects revenues, direct costs and sales and marketing expenses that correspond to and are directly attributable to each of our three businesses. We also utilize these inputs to calculate and present a segment margin for each of our three businesses in the discussion below.

Consistent with our internal management reporting processes, the below operating segment presentation is noted to include any revenues adjustments related to cloud services and license support contracts that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in our condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to business combination accounting requirements. Refer to “Supplemental Disclosure Related to Certain Charges” below for additional discussion of these items and Note 10 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report for a reconciliation of the summations of our total operating segment revenues as presented in the discussion below to total revenues as presented per our condensed consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented.

In addition, research and development expenses, general and administrative expenses, stock-based compensation expenses, amortization of intangible assets, certain other expense allocations, acquisition related and other expenses, restructuring expenses, interest expense, non-operating expenses or income, net and provision for

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income taxes are not attributed to our three operating segments because our management does not view the performance of our three businesses including such items and/or it is impractical to do so. Refer to “Supplemental Disclosure Related to Certain Charges” below for additional discussion of certain of these items and Note 10 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report for a reconciliation of the summations of total segment margin as presented in the discussion below to total income before provision for income taxes as presented per our condensed consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented.

Separately, as described further below and in Notes 1 and 9 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, we recorded a $2.3 billion one-time net deferred tax benefit during the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2021 that related to a partial realignment of our legal entity structure that resulted in the intra-group transfer of certain intellectual property rights.

Constant Currency Presentation

Our international operations have provided and are expected to continue to provide a significant portion of each of our businesses’ revenues and expenses. As a result, each of our businesses’ revenues and expenses and our total revenues and expenses will continue to be affected by changes in the U.S. Dollar against major international currencies. In order to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying businesses performed, excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, we compare the percent change in the results from one period to another period in this Quarterly Report using constant currency disclosure. To present this information, current and comparative prior period results for entities reporting in currencies other than U.S. Dollars are converted into U.S. Dollars at constant exchange rates (i.e., the rates in effect on May 31, 2020, which was the last day of our prior fiscal year) rather than the actual exchange rates in effect during the respective periods. For example, if an entity reporting in Euros had revenues of 1.0 million Euros from products sold on February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020, our financial statements would reflect reported revenues of $1.18 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2021 (using 1.18 as the month-end average exchange rate for the period) and $1.09 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2020 (using 1.09 as the month-end average exchange rate for the period). The constant currency presentation, however, would translate the results for the first nine months of fiscal 2021 and 2020 using the May 31, 2020 exchange rate and indicate, in this example, no change in revenues during the period. In each of the tables below, we present the percent change based on actual, unrounded results in reported currency and in constant currency.

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Total Revenues and Operating Expenses

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Total Revenues by Geography:
Americas	$	5,424	1%	2%	$	5,363	$	15,751	0%	0%	$	15,817
EMEA⁽¹⁾		2,981	5%	-1%		2,835		8,571	6%	2%		8,083
Asia Pacific		1,680	5%	0%		1,598		4,930	4%	1%		4,729
Total revenues		10,085	3%	0%		9,796		29,252	2%	1%		28,629
Total Operating Expenses		6,207	-1%	-2%		6,268		18,580	-2%	-3%		19,041
Total Operating Margin	$	3,878	10%	5%	$	3,528	$	10,672	11%	9%	$	9,588
Total Operating Margin %	38%				36%		36%				33%
% Revenues by Geography:
Americas	54%				55%		54%				55%
EMEA	29%				29%		29%				28%
Asia Pacific	17%				16%		17%				17%
Total Revenues by Business:
Cloud and license	$	8,528	4%	2%	$	8,161	$	24,565	4%	2%	$	23,715
Hardware		820	-4%	-6%		857		2,478	-3%	-3%		2,542
Services		737	-5%	-8%		778		2,209	-7%	-8%		2,372
Total revenues	$	10,085	3%	0%	$	9,796	$	29,252	2%	1%	$	28,629
% Revenues by Business:
Cloud and license	85%				83%		84%				83%
Hardware	8%				9%		8%				9%
Services	7%				8%		8%				8%

⁽¹⁾	Comprised of Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, our total revenues increased modestly in the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, due to growth in our cloud and license business’ revenues, which were partially offset by declines in our hardware business’ revenues and services business’ revenues. The constant currency increases in our cloud and license business’ revenues during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, were attributable to growth in our cloud services and license support revenues and, to a lesser extent, growth in our cloud license and on-premise license revenues as customers purchased our applications and infrastructure technologies via cloud and license deployment models and renewed their related cloud contracts and license support contracts to continue to gain access to the latest versions of our technologies and to receive support services. The constant currency decreases in our hardware business’ revenues during the fiscal 2021 periods presented were due to the emphasis we placed on the marketing and sale of our growing cloud-based infrastructure technologies and strategic hardware offerings and the de-emphasis of our sales and marketing efforts for certain of our non-strategic hardware products and related support services. The constant currency decreases in our services business’ revenues during the fiscal 2021 periods presented were substantially attributable to declines in our consulting revenues. Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, all three of our businesses’ revenues were adversely impacted during the fiscal 2021 periods presented relative to the corresponding prior year periods. While we expect these effects to be temporary, the impacts of COVID-19 for the remainder of fiscal 2021 and future periods are unknown. In constant currency, total revenue growth during the third quarter of fiscal 2021 in the Americas region was partially offset by a decline in total revenues in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. In constant currency, the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions contributed 26%, 53% and 21%, respectively, to the growth in our total revenues during the first nine months of fiscal 2021.

Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, our total operating expenses decreased in the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to lower sales and marketing expenses, lower hardware expenses and lower services expenses, all of which were primarily attributable to lower headcount and a reduction in certain variable expenditures as further described below. In addition, we also incurred lower amortization of intangible assets during the fiscal 2021 periods presented. These

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constant currency expense decreases were partially offset by certain constant currency expense increases during the fiscal 2021 periods presented including: higher cloud services and license support expenses, which increased primarily due to higher infrastructure investments that were made to support the increase in our cloud and license business’ revenues; higher research and development and general and administrative expenses, each of which increased primarily due to higher employee related expenses; higher acquisition related and other expenses, which increased primarily due to certain right-of-use assets and other assets that were abandoned in connection with plans to improve our cost structure and operations; and higher restructuring expenses, which increased due to actions taken during the fiscal 2021 periods presented pursuant to the Fiscal 2019 Oracle Restructuring Plan (2019 Restructuring Plan). During the fiscal 2021 periods presented, we curtailed a number of variable expenditures across all of our lines of businesses and functions including employee travel expenses and marketing expenses, among others, in response to COVID-19. We expect that certain of these expenses may normalize in future periods provided global economic conditions improve.

In constant currency, our total operating margin and total operating margin as a percentage of total revenues increased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented due to higher total revenues and lower total operating expenses.

Supplemental Disclosure Related to Certain Charges

To supplement our condensed consolidated financial information, we believe that the following information is helpful to an overall understanding of our past financial performance and prospects for the future.

Our operating results reported pursuant to GAAP included the following business combination accounting adjustments and expenses related to acquisitions and certain other expense and income items that affected our GAAP net income:

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
(in millions)	February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020			February 28, 2021			February 29, 2020
Cloud services and license support deferred revenues⁽¹⁾	$	1		$	1		$	2		$	3
Amortization of intangible assets⁽²⁾		347			400			1,037			1,221
Acquisition related and other⁽³⁾		13			7			107			44
Restructuring⁽⁴⁾		66			60			337			181
Stock-based compensation, operating segments⁽⁵⁾		132			106			381			325
Stock-based compensation, R&D and G&A⁽⁵⁾		347			255			1,014			879
Income tax effects⁽⁶⁾		(2,442	)		(240	)		(2,990	)		(769	)
	$	(1,536	)	$	589		$	(112	)	$	1,884

⁽¹⁾

In connection with our acquisitions, we have estimated the fair values of the cloud services and license support contracts assumed. Due to our application of business combination accounting rules, we did not recognize the cloud services and license support revenue amounts as presented in the above table that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities upon delivery of the contractual obligations. To the extent customers for which these contractual obligations pertain renew these contracts with us, we expect to recognize revenues for the full contracts’ values over the respective contracts’ renewal periods.

⁽²⁾	Represents the amortization of intangible assets, substantially all of which were acquired in connection with our acquisitions. As of February 28, 2021, estimated future amortization related to intangible assets was as follows (in millions):

Remainder of fiscal 2021	$	328
Fiscal 2022		1,120
Fiscal 2023		696
Fiscal 2024		450
Fiscal 2025		126
Fiscal 2026		24
Thereafter		10
Total intangible assets, net	$	2,754

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Acquisition related and other expenses primarily consist of personnel related costs for transitional and certain other employees, integration related professional services, certain business combination adjustments including certain adjustments after the measurement period has ended and certain other operating items, net.

⁽⁴⁾

Restructuring expenses during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 and 2020 primarily related to employee severance in connection with our 2019 Restructuring Plan. Additional information regarding certain of our restructuring plans is provided in management’s discussion below under “Restructuring Expenses”, in Note 5 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, and in Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020.

⁽⁵⁾	Stock-based compensation was included in the following operating expense line items of our condensed consolidated statements of operations (in millions):

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020		February 28, 2021		February 29, 2020
Cloud services and license support	$	33	$	22	$	99	$	83
Hardware		2		3		8		8
Services		15		14		41		42
Sales and marketing		82		67		233		192
Stock-based compensation, operating segments		132		106		381		325
Research and development		307		238		897		781
General and administrative		40		17		117		98
Total stock-based compensation	$	479	$	361	$	1,395	$	1,204

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For the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2021, the applicable jurisdictional tax rates applied to our income before provision for income taxes after excluding the tax effects of items within the table above such as for stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, restructuring, and certain other acquisition related items, and after excluding a $2.3 billion tax benefit arising from the increase of a deferred tax asset associated with a partial realignment of our legal entity structure and any related deferred tax expense (refer to Notes 1 and 9 in our condensed consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report for additional information), resulted in effective tax rates of 16.7% and 18.1%, respectively, instead of (53.3%) and (9.8%), respectively, which represented our effective tax rates as derived per our condensed consolidated statements of operations. For the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 2020, the applicable jurisdictional tax rates applied to our income before provision for income taxes after adjusting for the effects of items within the table above, such as for stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, restructuring, and certain other acquisition related items, resulted in effective tax rates of 19.1% and 19.2%, respectively, instead of 16.4% and 16.1%, respectively, as derived per our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

Cloud and License Business

Our cloud and license business engages in the sale and marketing of our applications and infrastructure technologies that are delivered through various deployment models and include: Oracle license support offerings; Oracle Cloud Services offerings; and Oracle cloud license and on-premise license offerings. License support revenues are typically generated through the sale of license support contracts related to cloud licenses and on-premise licenses; are purchased by our customers at their option; and are generally recognized as revenues ratably over the contractual term, which is generally one year. Our cloud services deliver applications and infrastructure technologies on a subscription basis via cloud-based deployment models that we develop, provide unspecified updates and enhancements for, host, manage and support. Revenues for our cloud services are generally recognized over the contractual term, which is generally one to three years, or in the case of usage model contracts, as the cloud services are consumed. Cloud license and on-premise license revenues represent fees earned from granting customers licenses, generally on a perpetual basis, to use our database and middleware and our applications software products within cloud and on-premise IT environments and are generally recognized up front at the point in time when the software is made available to the customer to download and use. We continue to place significant emphasis, both domestically and internationally, on direct sales through our own sales force. We also continue to market certain of our offerings through indirect channels. Costs associated with our cloud and license business are included in cloud services and license support expenses, and sales and marketing expenses. These costs are largely personnel and infrastructure related including the cost of providing our cloud services and license support offerings, salaries and commissions earned by our sales force for the sale of our cloud and license offerings, and marketing program costs.

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	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Cloud and License Revenues:
Americas⁽¹⁾	$	4,698	3%	3%	$	4,569	$	13,513	1%	2%	$	13,396
EMEA⁽¹⁾		2,482	7%	0%		2,320		7,144	8%	4%		6,591
Asia Pacific⁽¹⁾		1,349	6%	0%		1,273		3,910	5%	2%		3,731
Total revenues⁽¹⁾		8,529	4%	2%		8,162		24,567	4%	2%		23,718
Expenses:
Cloud services and license support⁽²⁾		1,011	7%	5%		943		2,977	5%	4%		2,844
Sales and marketing⁽²⁾		1,694	-7%	-9%		1,816		4,947	-9%	-10%		5,428
Total expenses⁽²⁾		2,705	-2%	-4%		2,759		7,924	-4%	-5%		8,272
Total Margin	$	5,824	8%	5%	$	5,403	$	16,643	8%	6%	$	15,446
Total Margin %	68%				66%		68%				65%
% Revenues by Geography:
Americas	55%				56%		55%				56%
EMEA	29%				28%		29%				28%
Asia Pacific	16%				16%		16%				16%
Revenues by Offerings:
Cloud services and license support⁽¹⁾	$	7,253	5%	2%	$	6,931	$	21,313	4%	3%	$	20,549
Cloud license and on-premise license		1,276	4%	0%		1,231		3,254	3%	1%		3,169
Total revenues⁽¹⁾	$	8,529	4%	2%	$	8,162	$	24,567	4%	2%	$	23,718
Cloud Services and License Support Revenues by Ecosystem:
Applications cloud services and license support⁽¹⁾	$	2,952	5%	3%	$	2,809	$	8,670	5%	4%	$	8,268
Infrastructure cloud services and license support⁽¹⁾		4,301	4%	2%		4,122		12,643	3%	2%		12,281
Total cloud services and license support revenues⁽¹⁾	$	7,253	5%	2%	$	6,931	$	21,313	4%	3%	$	20,549

⁽¹⁾

Includes cloud services and license support revenue adjustments related to certain cloud services and license support contracts that would have otherwise been recorded as revenues by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in our GAAP-based condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented due to business combination accounting requirements. Such revenue adjustments were included in our operating segment results for purposes of reporting to and review by our CODMs. See “Presentation of Operating Segment Results and Other Financial Information” above for additional information.

⁽²⁾

Excludes stock-based compensation and certain expense allocations. Also excludes amortization of intangible assets and certain other GAAP-based expenses, which were not allocated to our operating segment results for purposes of reporting to and review by our CODMs, as further described under “Presentation of Operating Segment Results and Other Financial Information” above.

Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, our cloud and license business’ total revenues increased in the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, due to growth in our cloud services and license support revenues and, to a lesser extent, growth in our cloud license and on-premise license revenues as customers purchased our applications and infrastructure technologies via cloud and license deployment models and renewed their related cloud contracts and license support contracts to continue to gain access to the latest versions of our technologies and to receive support for which we delivered such cloud and support services during the fiscal 2021 periods presented. The growth in our cloud and license business’ revenues was adversely impacted during the fiscal 2021 periods presented due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impacts of COVID-19 for the rest of fiscal 2021 and future periods are unknown. In constant currency, the Americas region contributed 95% and 41%, respectively, the EMEA region contributed 2% and 47%, respectively, and the Asia Pacific region contributed 3% and 12%, respectively, to the revenues growth for this business during the third quarter and the first nine months of fiscal 2021, respectively.

In constant currency, our total cloud and license business’ expenses decreased in the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, due to lower sales and marketing expenses, which decreased primarily due to lower headcount related expenses and our curtailment of variable expenditures, including lower employee travel expenses and lower marketing expenses in response to COVID-19. These constant

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currency expense decreases were partially offset by higher cloud services and license support expenses during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, which were primarily attributable to higher technology infrastructure expenses to support the increase in our cloud and license business’ revenues.

Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, our cloud and license business’ total margin and total margin as a percentage of revenues increased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, due to the fiscal 2021 increases in total revenues and the decreases in total expenses for this business.

Hardware Business

Our hardware business’ revenues are generated from the sales of our Oracle Engineered Systems, server, storage, and industry-specific hardware offerings. The hardware product and related software, such as an operating system or firmware, are highly interdependent and interrelated and are accounted for as a combined performance obligation. The revenues for this combined performance obligation are generally recognized at the point in time that the hardware product is delivered to the customer and ownership is transferred to the customer. Our hardware business also earns revenues from the sale of hardware support contracts purchased by our customers at their option and are generally recognized as revenues ratably as the hardware support services are delivered over the contractual term, which is generally one year. The majority of our hardware products are sold through indirect channels such as independent distributors and value-added resellers and we also market and sell our hardware products through our direct sales force. Operating expenses associated with our hardware business include the cost of hardware products, which consists of expenses for materials and labor used to produce these products by our internal manufacturing operations or by third-party manufacturers, warranty expenses and the impact of periodic changes in inventory valuation, including the impact of inventory determined to be excess and obsolete; the cost of materials used to repair customer products; the cost of labor and infrastructure to provide support services; and sales and marketing expenses, which are largely personnel related and include variable compensation earned by our sales force for the sales of our hardware offerings.

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Hardware Revenues:
Americas	$	395	-7%	-6%	$	425	$	1,223	-4%	-3%	$	1,275
EMEA		256	-3%	-8%		265		717	-4%	-7%		749
Asia Pacific		169	1%	-4%		167		538	4%	1%		518
Total revenues		820	-4%	-6%		857		2,478	-3%	-3%		2,542
Expenses:
Hardware products and support⁽¹⁾		223	-15%	-16%		262		698	-13%	-13%		803
Sales and marketing⁽¹⁾		95	-11%	-13%		107		287	-15%	-16%		338
Total expenses⁽¹⁾		318	-14%	-15%		369		985	-14%	-14%		1,141
Total Margin	$	502	3%	0%	$	488	$	1,493	7%	5%	$	1,401
Total Margin %	61%				57%		60%				55%
% Revenues by Geography:
Americas	48%				50%		49%				50%
EMEA	31%				31%		29%				30%
Asia Pacific	21%				19%		22%				20%

⁽¹⁾

Excludes stock-based compensation and certain expense allocations. Also excludes amortization of intangible assets and certain other GAAP‑based expenses, which were not allocated to our operating segment results for purposes of reporting to and review by our CODMs, as further described under “Presentation of Operating Segments and Other Financial Information” above.

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Our constant currency hardware revenues declined in the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to our continued emphasis on the marketing and sale of our growing cloud-based infrastructure technologies and strategic hardware offerings, and the de-emphasis of our sales and marketing efforts for certain of our non-strategic hardware products and related support services, the net impact of which resulted in reduced sales volumes of certain of our hardware product lines and also impacted the volume of hardware support contracts sold in recent periods. Our hardware business’ revenues were also adversely impacted during the fiscal 2021 periods presented by the unfavorable economic effects caused by COVID-19. Geographically, we experienced constant currency revenue declines in all regions during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, other than Asia Pacific where revenues increased during the first nine months of fiscal 2021.

Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, total hardware expenses decreased in the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to lower hardware product expenses, lower hardware support costs and lower sales and marketing costs, all of which aligned to lower hardware revenues.

In constant currency, our hardware business’ total margin and total margin as a percentage of revenues increased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented due to lower total expenses for this business.

Services Business

We offer services to customers and partners to help to maximize the performance of their investments in Oracle applications and infrastructure technologies. Services revenues are generally recognized over time as the services are performed. The cost of providing our services consists primarily of personnel related expenses, technology infrastructure expenditures, facilities expenses and external contractor expenses.

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Services Revenues:
Americas	$	332	-10%	-10%	$	370	$	1,018	-11%	-10%	$	1,150
EMEA		243	-2%	-8%		249		709	-4%	-8%		743
Asia Pacific		162	2%	-3%		159		482	1%	-2%		479
Total revenues		737	-5%	-8%		778		2,209	-7%	-8%		2,372
Total Expenses⁽¹⁾		587	-11%	-14%		660		1,767	-13%	-14%		2,025
Total Margin	$	150	27%	23%	$	118	$	442	28%	26%	$	347
Total Margin %	20%				15%		20%				15%
% Revenues by Geography:
Americas	45%				48%		46%				49%
EMEA	33%				32%		32%				31%
Asia Pacific	22%				20%		22%				20%

⁽¹⁾

Excludes stock-based compensation and certain allocations. Also excludes certain other GAAP-based expenses, which were not allocated to our operating segment results for purposes of reporting to and review by our CODMs, as further described under “Presentation of Operating Segments and Other Financial Information” above.

Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, our total services revenues decreased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, substantially due to declines in our consulting revenues. Our services business revenues were also adversely impacted during the fiscal 2021 periods presented by the impacts of COVID-19, including the impacts of consulting project delays due to customer resource constraints and in-person meeting restrictions imposed by certain jurisdictions. In addition, we incurred lower billable travel expenses and lower billable sub-contractor expenses for which we would have been reimbursed by our customers, which reduced the amounts of revenues and expenses we reported for our services business during the fiscal 2021 periods presented. Geographically, we experienced constant currency revenue declines in all regions during the fiscal 2021 periods presented.

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In constant currency, total services expenses decreased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to lower employee related costs caused by lower headcount in addition to lower travel and sub-contractor expenses as described above.

In constant currency, total margin and total margin as a percentage of total services revenues increased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, due to lower total expenses for this business.

Research and Development Expenses: Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel related expenditures. We intend to continue to invest significantly in our research and development efforts because, in our judgment, they are essential to maintaining our competitive position.

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Research and development⁽¹⁾	$	1,314	4%	4%	$	1,262	$	3,915	3%	3%	$	3,807
Stock-based compensation		307	29%	29%		238		897	15%	15%		781
Total expenses	$	1,621	8%	8%	$	1,500	$	4,812	5%	5%	$	4,588
% of Total Revenues	16%				15%		17%				16%

⁽¹⁾	Excluding stock-based compensation

On a constant currency basis, total research and development expenses increased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to higher fiscal 2021 employee related expenses including higher salary expenses due to increased headcount, higher variable compensation expenses, and higher stock-based compensation expenses. These constant currency expense increases were partially offset by lower travel expenses during the fiscal 2021 periods presented due to the impacts of COVID-19.

General and Administrative Expenses: General and administrative expenses primarily consist of personnel related expenditures for IT, finance, legal and human resources support functions.

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
General and administrative⁽¹⁾	$	290	7%	6%	$	271	$	832	3%	3%	$	805
Stock-based compensation		40	129%	129%		17		117	20%	20%		98
Total expenses	$	330	15%	14%	$	288	$	949	5%	5%	$	903
% of Total Revenues	3%				3%		3%				3%

⁽¹⁾	Excluding stock-based compensation

Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, total general and administrative expenses increased in the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to certain higher employee related expenses including higher variable compensation expenses and higher stock-based compensation expenses, and due to higher professional services expenses. These fiscal 2021 constant currency expense increases were offset by lower salary expenses due to lower headcount, and by lower travel expenses and certain other variable expense reductions that we implemented during the fiscal 2021 periods presented due to the impacts of COVID-19. In addition, general and administrative expenses during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 were unfavorably affected in comparison to the corresponding prior year period due to a $29 million litigation related benefit that reduced our expenses during the first nine months of fiscal 2020.

Amortization of Intangible Assets: Substantially all of our intangible assets were acquired through our business combinations. We amortize our intangible assets over, and monitor the appropriateness of, the estimated useful lives of these assets. We also periodically review these intangible assets for potential impairment based upon relevant facts and circumstances. Note 4 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report has additional information regarding our intangible assets and related amortization.

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	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Developed technology	$	161	-19%	-19%	$	200	$	477	-22%	-23%	$	615
Cloud services and license support agreements and related relationships		164	-3%	-3%		169		493	-4%	-4%		511
Other		22	-29%	-29%		31		67	-29%	-29%		95
Total amortization of intangible assets	$	347	-13%	-14%	$	400	$	1,037	-15%	-15%	$	1,221

Amortization of intangible assets decreased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, due to reductions in expenses associated with certain of our intangible assets that became fully amortized, partially offset by a smaller amount of additional amortization from intangible assets that we acquired in connection with our recent acquisitions.

Acquisition Related and Other Expenses: Acquisition related and other expenses primarily consist of personnel related costs for transitional and certain other employees, certain business combination adjustments, including adjustments after the measurement period has ended, and certain other operating items, net.

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Transitional and other employee related costs	$	1	-48%	-48%	$	2	$	4	-56%	-56%	$	9
Business combination adjustments, net		2	4%	3%		2		3	-25%	-25%		4
Other, net		10	245%	244%		3		100	224%	225%		31
Total acquisition related and other expenses	$	13	92%	91%	$	7	$	107	144%	145%	$	44

On a constant currency basis, acquisition related and other expenses increased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to higher other expenses, net, which primarily related to certain facilities-related right-of-use assets and certain other assets that were abandoned in connection with plans to improve our cost structure and operations during the periods presented.

Restructuring Expenses: Restructuring expenses resulted from the execution of management approved restructuring plans that were generally developed to improve our cost structure and/or operations, often in conjunction with our acquisition integration strategies. Restructuring expenses consist of employee severance costs and other contract termination costs to improve our cost structure prospectively. For additional information regarding our restructuring plans, see Note 5 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2020.

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Restructuring expenses	$	66	10%	1%	$	60	$	337	87%	82%	$	181

Restructuring expenses in the fiscal 2021 and 2020 periods presented primarily related to our 2019 Restructuring Plan. Our management approved, committed to and initiated the 2019 Restructuring Plan in order to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations. We may incur additional restructuring expenses in future periods due to the initiation of new restructuring plans or from changes in estimated costs associated with existing restructuring plans.

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The majority of the initiatives undertaken by our 2019 Restructuring Plan were effected to implement our continued emphasis in developing, marketing and selling our cloud-based offerings. These initiatives impacted certain of our sales and marketing and research and development operations. Certain of the cost savings realized pursuant to our 2019 Restructuring Plan initiatives were offset by investments in resources and geographies that best address the development, marketing, sale and delivery of our cloud‑based offerings including investments in our second‑generation cloud infrastructure.

Interest Expense:

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,		February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020		2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Interest expense	$	585	28%	28%	$	456	$	1,799	27%	27%	$	1,416

Interest expense increased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, substantially due to higher average borrowings resulting from our issuance of $20.0 billion of senior notes in April 2020.

Non-Operating (Expenses) Income, net: Non-operating (expenses) income, net consists primarily of interest income, net foreign currency exchange losses, the noncontrolling interests in the net profits of our majority-owned subsidiaries (primarily Oracle Financial Services Software Limited and Oracle Corporation Japan) and net other income and expenses, including net realized gains and losses related to all of our investments, net unrealized gains and losses related to the small portion of our investment portfolio related to our deferred compensation plan, net unrealized gains and losses related to equity securities and non-service net periodic pension income and losses.

	Three Months Ended								Nine Months Ended
	February 28,			Percent Change		February 29,			February 28,			Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021			Actual	Constant	2020			2021			Actual	Constant	2020
Interest income	$	23		-82%	-82%	$	122		$	80		-82%	-82%	$	457
Foreign currency losses, net		(18	)	-62%	-72%		(47	)		(84	)	-34%	-41%		(127	)
Noncontrolling interests in income		(46	)	62%	62%		(28	)		(127	)	11%	11%		(115	)
Other, net		24		*	*		(43	)		101		*	*		(20	)
Total non-operating (expenses) income, net	$	(17	)	*	*	$	4		$	(30	)	*	*	$	195

*	Not meaningful

In constant currency, we incurred non-operating expenses, net during the fiscal 2021 periods presented in comparison to non-operating income, net during the fiscal 2020 periods presented. The changes to non-operating expenses, net during the fiscal 2021 periods presented were primarily due to lower interest income amounts that we recognized during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, which were caused by lower average interest rates that were applicable to our cash, cash equivalent and marketable securities balances. This variance to our non-operating expenses, net during the fiscal 2021 periods presented was partially offset by other income, net, which was primarily attributable to higher market values associated with certain marketable equity securities that we held for certain employee benefit plans and classified as trading, and for which an equal and offsetting amount was recorded to our operating expenses in the same period.

Benefit from (Provision for) Income Taxes: Our effective income tax rates for each of the periods presented were the result of the mix of income earned in various tax jurisdictions that apply a broad range of income tax rates. For the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021, our benefit from income taxes varied from the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to a total net deferred tax benefit of $2.3 billion that we recognized during the fiscal 2021 periods presented as a result of a partial realignment of our legal entity structure that resulted in the intra-group transfer of certain intellectual property rights, earnings in foreign operations, state taxes, the U.S. research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation, the Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction and the tax effect of Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI). For the three and nine months ended February 29, 2020, our provision for income taxes varied from the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate primarily due to earnings in foreign operations, state taxes, the U.S.

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research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation, the Foreign Derived Intangible Income deduction and the tax effect of GILTI. Future effective tax rates could be adversely affected by an unfavorable shift of earnings weighted to jurisdictions with higher tax rates, by unfavorable changes in tax laws and regulations, by adverse rulings in tax related litigation, or by shortfalls in stock-based compensation realized by employees relative to stock-based compensation that was recorded for book purposes, among others.

	Three Months Ended							Nine Months Ended
	February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,			February 28,		Percent Change		February 29,
(Dollars in millions)	2021		Actual	Constant	2020			2021		Actual	Constant	2020
Benefit from (provision for) income taxes	$	1,745	*	*	$	(505	)	$	871	*	*	$	(1,348	)
Effective tax (benefit) expense rate	(53.3%)				16.4%			(9.8%)				16.1%

*	Not meaningful

Provision for income taxes decreased during the fiscal 2021 periods presented, relative to the corresponding prior year periods, primarily due to the favorable impact of a $2.3 billion net tax benefit arising from an increase in a net deferred tax asset associated with a partial realignment of our legal entity structure in fiscal 2021 (as described above) and a favorable jurisdictional mix of earnings, partially offset by higher pre-tax income during the fiscal 2021 periods presented.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

(Dollars in millions)

February 28,

2021

Change

May 31,

2020

Working capital

23,494

-33%

34,940

Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities

35,864

-17%

43,057

Working capital: The decrease in working capital as of February 28, 2021 in comparison to May 31, 2020 was primarily due to cash used for repurchases of our common stock, the reclassification of $5.8 billion of long-term senior notes as current liabilities, cash used to pay dividends to our stockholders, and cash used for capital expenditures during the first nine months of fiscal 2021. These unfavorable impacts were partially offset by the favorable effects to our net current assets resulting from our net income during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 and cash proceeds from stock option exercises. Our working capital may be impacted by some or all of the aforementioned factors in future periods, the amounts and timing of which are variable.

Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities: Cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of deposits held at major banks, money market funds, Tier-1 commercial paper and other securities with original maturities of 90 days or less. Marketable securities consist of corporate debt securities and certain other securities. The decrease in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at February 28, 2021 in comparison to May 31, 2020 was primarily due to $13.0 billion of settled repurchases of our common stock, the repayment of $2.6 billion of borrowings, payments of cash dividends to our stockholders and cash used for capital expenditures. These cash outflows during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 were partially offset by certain cash inflows, primarily cash inflows generated by our operations and cash inflows from stock option exercises during the first nine months of fiscal 2021.

The amount of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities that we report in U.S. Dollars for a significant portion of the cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balances held by our foreign subsidiaries is subject to translation adjustments caused by changes in foreign currency exchange rates as of the end of each respective reporting period (the offset to which is substantially recorded to accumulated other comprehensive loss in our condensed consolidated balance sheets and is also presented as a line item in our condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report). As the U.S. Dollar generally weakened against certain major international currencies on a net basis during the first nine months of fiscal 2021, the amount of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities that we reported in U.S. Dollars for these subsidiaries increased on a net basis as of February 28, 2021 relative to what we reported as of May 31, 2020.

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	Nine Months Ended
(Dollars in millions)	February 28, 2021			Change	February 29, 2020
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	11,045		16%	$	9,525
Net cash (used for) provided by investing activities	$	(9,187	)	*	$	14,099
Net cash used for financing activities	$	(17,176	)	-15%	$	(20,265	)

*	Not meaningful

Cash flows from operating activities: Our largest source of operating cash flows is cash collections from our customers following the purchase and renewal of their license support agreements. Payments from customers for these license support agreements are generally received near the beginning of the contracts’ terms, which are generally one year in length. Over the course of a fiscal year, we also have historically generated cash from the sales of new licenses, cloud services, hardware offerings and other services. Our primary uses of cash from operating activities are for employee related expenditures, material and manufacturing costs related to the production of our hardware products, taxes, interest payments and leased facilities.

Net cash provided by operating activities increased during the first nine months of fiscal 2021, relative to the corresponding prior year period, primarily due to higher net income, higher cash collections from customers, a portion of which were previously delayed due to the global economic effects that resulted from COVID-19, and certain other cash favorable working capital changes, in each case during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 relative to the first nine months of fiscal 2020.

Cash flows from investing activities: The changes in cash flows from investing activities primarily relate to the timing of our purchases, maturities and sales of our investments in marketable securities, and investments in capital and other assets, including certain intangible assets, to support our growth.

Net cash used for investing activities was $9.2 billion during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 in comparison to net cash provided by investing activities of $14.1 billion during the first nine months of fiscal 2020. Net cash used for investing activities during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 primarily resulted from an increase in cash used for the purchases of marketable securities and other investments, partially offset by an increase in cash proceeds from sales and maturities of marketable securities and other investments, in each case during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 relative to the first nine months of fiscal 2020.

Cash flows from financing activities: The changes in cash flows from financing activities primarily relate to borrowings and repayments related to our debt instruments, stock repurchases, dividend payments and net proceeds related to employee stock programs.

Net cash used for financing activities in the first nine months of fiscal 2021 decreased compared to the first nine months of fiscal 2020 primarily due to lower debt repayments; lower stock repurchases; and lower payments of dividends; in each case during the first nine months of fiscal 2021 in comparison to the first nine months of fiscal 2020.

Free cash flow: To supplement our statements of cash flows presented on a GAAP basis, we use non-GAAP measures of cash flows on a trailing 4-quarter basis to analyze cash flows generated from our operations. We believe that free cash flow is also useful as one of the bases for comparing our performance with our competitors. The presentation of non-GAAP free cash flow is not meant to be considered in isolation or as an alternative to net income as an indicator of our performance, or as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of liquidity. We calculate free cash flow as follows:

	Trailing 4-Quarters Ended
(Dollars in millions)	February 28, 2021			Change	February 29, 2020
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	14,659		5%	$	13,947
Capital expenditures		(1,851	)	20%		(1,544	)
Free cash flow	$	12,808		3%	$	12,403
Net income	$	12,830			$	10,759
Free cash flow as percent of net income	100%				115%

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Long-Term Customer Financing: We offer certain of our customers the option to acquire licenses, cloud services, hardware and other services offerings through separate long-term payment contracts. We generally sell these contracts that we have financed for our customers on a non-recourse basis to financial institutions within 90 days of the contracts’ dates of execution. We generally record the transfers of amounts due from customers to financial institutions as sales of financing receivables because we are considered to have surrendered control of these financing receivables. We financed $546 million and $548 million, respectively, or approximately 17%, of our cloud license and on-premise license revenues in each of the first nine months of fiscal 2021 and 2020.

Recent Financing Activities:

Cash Dividends: In March 2021, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.32 per share of our outstanding common stock, an increase of $0.08 per share over the dividend declared in December 2020. The dividend is payable on April 22, 2021 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 8, 2021. Future declarations of dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to the final determination of our Board of Directors.

Common Stock Repurchase Program: Our Board of Directors has approved a program for us to repurchase shares of our common stock. On March 10, 2021, we announced that our Board of Directors approved an expansion of our stock repurchase program by an additional $20.0 billion. As of February 28, 2021, approximately $3.6 billion remained available for stock repurchases pursuant to our stock repurchase program. Our stock repurchase authorization does not have an expiration date and the pace of our repurchase activity will depend on factors such as our working capital needs, our cash requirements for acquisitions and dividend payments, our debt repayment obligations or repurchases of our debt, our stock price, and economic and market conditions. Our stock repurchases may be effected from time to time through open market purchases or pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan. Our stock repurchase program may be accelerated, suspended, delayed or discontinued at any time.

Contractual Obligations: During the first nine months of fiscal 2021, there were no significant changes to our estimates of future payments under our fixed contractual obligations and commitments as presented in Part II, Item 7 Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended May 31, 2020.

We believe that our current cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities and cash generated from operations will be sufficient to meet our working capital, capital expenditures and contractual obligation requirements. In addition, we believe that we could fund our future acquisitions, dividend payments and repurchases of common stock or debt with our internally available cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, cash generated from operations, additional borrowings or from the issuance of additional securities.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements: We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that are material to investors.

Restricted Stock-Based Awards and Stock Options

Our stock-based compensation program is a key component of the compensation package we provide to attract and retain certain of our talented employees and align their interests with the interests of existing stockholders.

We recognize that restricted stock-based awards and stock options dilute existing stockholders and have sought to control the number of stock-based awards granted while providing competitive compensation packages. Consistent with these dual goals, our cumulative potential dilution since June 1, 2017 has been a weighted-average annualized rate of 1.3% per year. The potential dilution percentage is calculated as the average annualized new restricted stock-based awards and stock options granted and assumed, net of restricted stock-based awards and stock options forfeited by employees leaving the company, divided by the weighted-average outstanding shares during the calculation period. This maximum potential dilution will only result if all restricted stock-based awards vest and all stock options are exercised. Of the outstanding stock options at February 28, 2021, which generally have a ten-year exercise period, substantially all have exercise prices lower than the market price of our common stock on such date. In recent years, our stock repurchase program has more than offset the dilutive effect of our stock-based compensation program. However, we may modify the levels of our stock repurchases in the future

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depending on a number of factors, including the amount of cash we have available for acquisitions, to pay dividends, to repay or repurchase indebtedness or for other purposes. At February 28, 2021, the maximum potential dilution from all outstanding restricted stock-based awards and unexercised stock options, regardless of when granted and regardless of whether vested or unvested, was 8.3%.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

For information with respect to recent accounting pronouncements, if any, and the impact of these pronouncements on our consolidated financial statements, if any, see Note 1 of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report.

Item 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

There were no significant changes to our quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk during the first nine months of fiscal 2021. Please refer to Part II, Item 7A Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended May 31, 2020 for a more complete discussion of the market risks we encounter.

Item 4.

Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures: Based on our management’s evaluation (with the participation of our Principal Executive and Financial Officer), as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report, our Principal Executive and Financial Officer has concluded that our “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act)) were effective to provide reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed by us in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and is accumulated and communicated to our management (including our Principal Executive and Financial Officer) as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting: There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls: Our management, including our Principal Executive and Financial Officer, believes that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and are effective at the reasonable assurance level. However, our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well-conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision making can be faulty and that breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1.

Legal Proceedings

The material set forth in Note 9 (pertaining to information regarding contingencies related to our income taxes) and Note 12 (pertaining to information regarding legal contingencies) of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 1A.

Risk Factors

In addition to the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended May 31, 2020. The risks discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K could materially affect our business, financial condition and future results. The risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K are not the only risks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be insignificant also may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or operating results in the future.

Item 2.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

The following table summarizes the stock repurchase activity for the three months ended February 28, 2021 and the approximate dollar value of shares that may yet be purchased pursuant to our stock repurchase program:

(in millions, except per share amounts)	Total Number of Shares Purchased		Average Price Paid per Share		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program		Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program
December 1, 2020—December 31, 2020		42.7	$	62.18		42.7	$	4,990.7
January 1, 2021—January 31, 2021		5.5	$	62.10		5.5	$	4,648.4
February 1, 2021—February 28, 2021		15.9	$	62.91		15.9	$	3,648.4
Total		64.1	$	62.36		64.1

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Item 6.

Exhibits

Exhibit

No.

Incorporated by Reference

Exhibit Description

Form

File No.

Exhibit

Filing Date

Filed By

31.01‡

Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive and Financial Officer

32.01†

Section 1350 Certification of Principal Executive and Financial Officer

101‡

Interactive Data Files Pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T, formatted in Inline XBRL: (i) Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of February 28, 2021 and May 31, 2020, (ii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020, (iii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020, (iv) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Equity for the three and nine months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020, (v) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended February 28, 2021 and February 29, 2020 and (vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

104‡

The cover page from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended February 28, 2021, formatted in Inline XBRL

‡	Filed herewith.

†	Furnished herewith.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Oracle Corporation has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

	ORACLE CORPORATION

Date: March 11, 2021	By:	/s/ Safra A. Catz
		Safra A. Catz Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive and Financial Officer)

Date: March 11, 2021	By:	/s/ William Corey West
		William Corey West
		Executive Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)