UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the fiscal year ended May 31, 20152018
OR
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: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.) | |
| 500 Oracle Parkway | ||
| Redwood City, California | 94065 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |
(650) 506-7000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Name of each exchange on which registered | |
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share 2.25% senior notes due January 2021 3.125% senior notes due July 2025 | New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange |
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
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The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $136,863,594,000$142,975,778,000 based on the number of shares held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of May 31, 2015,2018, and based on the closing sale price of common stock as reported by the New York Stock Exchange on November 28, 2014,30, 2017, which is the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter. This calculation does not reflect a determination that persons are affiliates for any other purposes.
Number of shares of common stock outstanding as of June 18, 2015: 4,336,077,000.15, 2018: 3,981,155,000.
Documents Incorporated by Reference:
Portions of the registrant’s definitive proxy statement relating to its 20152018 annual stockholders’ meeting are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K where indicated.
ORACLE CORPORATION
FISCAL YEAR 20152018
FORMFORM 10-K
ANNUAL REPORT
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
For purposes of this Annual Report, the terms “Oracle,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Oracle Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries. This Annual Report on Form10-K 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:
our expectations regarding the effects of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 on our tax position and ability to access and use cash and other balances held by certain of our foreign subsidiaries;
our expectation that we will continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies;technologies to further our corporate strategy;
our belief that our acquisitions enhance the products and services that we can offer to customers, expand our customer base, provide greater scale to accelerate innovation, grow our revenues and earnings, and increase stockholder value;
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, continued demand for our cloud license andon-premise license offerings, and contributions from acquisitions;
our belief that our Oracle Cloud Platform and Infrastructure offerings are large opportunities for us to expand our cloud and license business;
our beliefs regarding howthe marketing of our acquisitions, investmentsPaaS and innovations will help us achieve our long-term strategic plans;
continued realization of gains or losses with respect to our foreign currency exposures;IaaS offerings;
our expectation that our software and cloud business’ total revenues generallywe will continue to increase;place significant strategic emphasis on growing our cloud offerings;
our beliefintention that we will renew our cloud software license updatesas a service (SaaS) and product support revenuescloud platform as a service (PaaS) and margins will grow;infrastructure as a service (IaaS) contracts and hardware contracts when they are eligible for renewal;
our expectation that our hardware business will have lower operating margins as a percentage of revenues than our softwarecloud and cloudlicense business;
our international operations providing a significant portion of our total revenues and expenses;
our expectation that we will continue to make significant investments in research and development and related product opportunities, including those related to hardware products and services, and our belief that research and development efforts are essential to maintaining our competitive position;
the sufficiencyour expectation that our international operations will continue to provide a significant portion of our sources of funding for acquisitions, dividends, stock repurchasestotal revenues and other matters;expenses;
our expectation that we will continue paying comparable cash dividends on a quarterly basis;
the sufficiency of our sources of funding for working capital, capital expenditures, contractual obligations, acquisitions, dividends, stock repurchases, debt repayments and other matters;
our belief that we have adequately provided under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles for any reasonably foreseeable outcomes related to our tax audits and that anythe final outcome of our tax settlementrelated examinations, agreements or judicial proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position or results of operations, and our assumptions regardingbelief that our net deferred tax assets will be realized in the potential U.S. income tax liability associated with any repatriation of our undistributed earnings held by our foreign subsidiaries;
our estimates and current intentions regarding potential future goodwill impairment losses, if any;foreseeable future;
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;
the possibility that certain legal proceedings to which we are a party could have a material impact on our expectations regarding the timingfuture cash flows and amountresults of expenses relatingoperations;
the timing and amount of our stock repurchases;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;
our expectation that seasonal trends will continue in the future;
our expectationexpectations regarding the impact of recent accounting pronouncements on our consolidated financial statements, including our belief that wethere will continuebe no material impact to depend on third party manufacturers to build certain hardware systems products and third party logistics providers to deliver our products;revenues or operating expenses upon adoption of Topic 606 (as defined below);
our expectation that, to the extent customers renew support contracts or cloud software as a serviceSaaS, PaaS and platform as a serviceIaaS contracts from companies that we have acquired, we will recognize revenues for the full contracts’ values over the respective renewal periods;
our ability to predict quarterly hardware systems revenues;
the timing of customer orders and delays in our ability to manufacture or deliver a few large transactions substantially affecting the amount of hardware systems products revenues, expenses and operating margins that we will report;
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, “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “strives,” “endeavors,” “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 elsewhere in this Annual Report and as may be updated in filings we make from time to time with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC)(SEC), including theour Quarterly Reports on Form10-Q to be filed by us in our fiscal year 2016,2019, which runs from June 1, 20152018 to May 31, 2016.2019.
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 Annual 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 Annual Report.
Oracle Corporation provides products and services that address all aspects of corporate information technology (IT) environments—application,applications, platform and infrastructure—infrastructure. Our applications, platform and infrastructure offerings are availabledelivered to customers either via cloud computing or on-premises deployment models. Our products include databaseworldwide through a variety of flexible and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure software and hardware systems (Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking and industry specific products), along with support and related services. We offer over 400,000 worldwide customers a choice ofinteroperable IT deployment models, including cloud-based,on-premise, or hybrid, which enable customer choice and flexibility. We 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 suit their needs including (1) the deployment of our products via ourmeet customer needs.
Our Oracle Cloud offerings (2) the acquisitionprovide a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of Oracle productsapplications, platform, compute, storage and services for an on-premises IT environment or (3) a mix of these two models.
For customers opting for a cloud computing model, Oracle offers a wide range ofnetworking services in all three primary layers of the cloud: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Our Oracle Cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings (collectively, “Oracle Cloud Services”) integrate the software, hardware and services on customers’ behalf in IT environments that we deploy, support and manage for the customer. Our integrated Oracle Cloud Services are designed to be:be rapidly deployable to enable customers shorter time to innovation; easily maintainable to reduce integration and testing work; connectable among differing deployment models to enable interchangeability and cost effectiveextendibility between IT environments; compatible to easily move workloads between the Oracle Cloud and other IT environments; cost-effective by requiring lower upfront customer investment. Our Oracle Cloud offerings integrate the software, hardwareinvestment; and services on the customers’ behalf in IT environments that we deploy, supportsecure, standards-based and manage for the customer.reliable. We are a leader in the core technologies of cloud IT environments, including database and middleware software as well as enterprise applications, virtualization, clustering, large-scale systems management and related infrastructure. Our products and services are the building blocks of our Oracle Cloud services,Services, our partners’ cloud services and our customers’ cloud IT environments.
In additionOur cloud license andon-premise license deployment model includes Oracle Applications, Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware software offerings, among others, which customers deploy utilizing IT infrastructure from the Oracle Cloud or their own cloud-based oron-premise IT environments. Substantially all customers, at their option, purchase license support contracts when they purchase a license. Our hardware products include Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage and industry-specific products, among others, and customers generally opt to offeringpurchase hardware support contracts when they make a broad spectrumhardware purchase. We also offer services to assist our customers and partners to maximize the performance of cloud productstheir Oracle purchases.
Providing choice and services, Oracle for decades has developed and sold its products and servicesflexibility to our customers worldwide for use in their global data centersas to when and on-premises IT environments. Anhow they deploy our applications, platform and infrastructure technologies is an important element of our corporate strategy. We believe that offering customers broad, comprehensive, flexible and interoperable deployment models for our applications, platform and infrastructure technologies is important to our growth strategy isand better addresses customer needs relative to continue our competitors, many of whom provide fewer offerings and more restrictive deployment models.
Our investments in, and innovation with respect to, our products and services that we offer through our softwarecloud and cloud,license, hardware and services businesses.businesses are another important element of our corporate strategy. In fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, we invested $5.5$6.1 billion, $5.2$6.2 billion and $4.9$5.8 billion, respectively, in research and development to enhance our existing portfolio of productsofferings and servicesproducts and to develop new productstechnologies and services. We have a deep understanding as to how all components within IT environments—application,applications, platform and infrastructure—infrastructure technologies interact and function with one another. We focus our development efforts on improving the performance, security, operation and integration of these differingour technologies to make them more cost-effective and easier to deploy, manage and maintain for our customers and to improve their computing performance relative to our competitors.competitors’ products. For example, we believe that Oracle applications and platform technologies, such as the Oracle Database, when combined with Oracle infrastructure technologies deliver improved performance at a lower cost relative to competing infrastructure technologies. After purchasingthe initial purchase of Oracle products and services, our customers can continue to take advantage of Oracle’sbenefit from our research and development investmentsefforts and deep IT expertise by purchasingelecting to purchase and renewingrenew Oracle support offerings for their license and hardware deployments, which may include product enhancements that we periodically deliver to our Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoftproducts, and JD Edwards application software products, among others, or by renewing their SaaS, PaaS and IaaSOracle Cloud Services contracts with us.
Oracle customers are increasingly electing
AOur selective and active acquisition program is another important element of our corporate strategy. We believe that our acquisitions enhance the products and services that we can offer to customers, expand our customer base, provide greater scale to accelerate innovation, contribute togrow our revenues and earnings, and increase stockholder value. In recent years, we have invested billions of dollars to acquire a number of companies, products, services and technologies that add to, are complementary to, or have otherwise enhanced our existing offerings. We expect to continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies to further our corporate strategy.
We have three businesses that deliver our application, platform and infrastructure technologies: software and cloud, hardware systems, and services. These businesses can be further divided into certain operating segments (Note 16 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, included elsewhere in this Annual Report, provides additional information related to our operating segments):businesses:
our softwarecloud and cloudlicense business, which is comprised of threea single operating segments: (1) new software licensessegment and cloud software subscriptions, which includes our SaaSOracle Cloud Services offerings, cloud license and PaaSon-premise license offerings, (2) cloud infrastructure as a service and (3) software license updatessupport offerings, represented 82%, 80% and product support. Our software and cloud business represented 77%, 76% and 75%78% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively;
our hardware systems business, which is comprised of twoa single operating segments: (1)segment and includes our hardware systems products and (2)related hardware systems support. Our hardware systemssupport services offerings, represented 10%, 11% and 13% of our total revenues in fiscal 2018, 2017, and 2016, respectively; and
our services business, which is comprised of a single operating segment, represented 14%8% of our total revenues in fiscal 2018 and 9% of our total revenues in each of fiscal 2015, 20142017 and 2013; and2016.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Note 15 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, both included elsewhere in this Annual Report, provide additional information related to our services business is comprised of the remainder of ourbusinesses and operating segments and offers consulting services, enhanced support services and education services. Our services business represented 9%, 10% and 11% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.segments.
Oracle Corporation was incorporated in 2005 as a Delaware corporation and is the successor to operations originally begun in June 1977.
Application,Applications, Platform and Infrastructure Technologies
Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of application,applications, platform and infrastructure technologies is designed to address an organization’s IT environment needs including business process, infrastructure and applications development IT requirements. Ourrequirements, among others. Oracle applications, platform and infrastructure technologies are based upon industry standards and are designed to be enterprise grade,enterprise-grade, reliable, scalable and secure. We offer these technologiesour applications, platform and infrastructure offerings through our softwarecloud and cloud,license, hardware and services businesses and deliver them through flexiblethe Oracle Cloud, or through customer use of other IT environments including cloud-based, hybrid and interoperable deployment models thaton-premise. We believe our applications, platform and infrastructure offerings enable customerflexibility, interoperability, and choice andto best meet customer IT needs.
ApplicationOracle License Support
Oracle license support offerings represent our largest revenue stream and Platformare a part of our cloud and license business. Substantially all of our customers opt to purchase license support contracts when they purchase Oracle applications, platform and/or infrastructure licenses to run within the Oracle Cloud or other cloud-based andon-premise IT environments. Substantially all customers renew their license support contracts annually. Our license support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net fees paid by the customer to access the license and are typically one year in duration. We believe our license support offerings protect and enhance our customers’ current investments in Oracle applications, platform and infrastructure technologies because they provide proactive and personalized support services, including Oracle Lifetime Support and unspecified license enhancements and upgrades during the term of the support period.
Providing choice and flexibility to our customers as to when and how they deploy our applications, platform and infrastructure technologies is an important element of our corporate strategy. In recent periods, customer demand has increased for our Oracle Cloud Services. To address customer demand and enable customer choice, we have introduced certain programs for customers to pivot their applications, platform and infrastructure licenses and license support contracts 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.
Applications Technologies
Our application and platform technologies consist of comprehensive software and cloud offerings including our SaaS and PaaS offerings, Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, among others, and related support.
Our application and platform technologies are substantially built on standards-based architectures that are designed to help customers reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure. Our commitment to industry standards results in software that works in customer environments with Oracle or non-Oracle hardware or software components and that can be adapted to meet specific industry or business needs. This approach is designed to support customer choice and reduce customer risk. Our software offerings are substantially designed to operate on both single server and clustered server configurations for cloud or on-premises IT environments, and to support a choice of operating systems including Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windows and third party UNIX products, among others.
Our application and platformapplications technologies are marketed, sold and delivered through our softwarecloud and cloud business,license business. Our applications technologies consist of comprehensive cloud-based and license offerings including our Oracle Cloud SaaS offerings, which includes our new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions segment and software license updates and product support segment, among others. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues represented 26% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015 and 28% in each of fiscal 2014 and 2013. Software license updates and product support revenues represented 49%, 47% and 46% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Application Technologies
Our application technologies are available throughfor customers as a subscription, and Oracle Applications offerings, which are available for customers to purchase as a license for use in cloud-based andon-premise IT environments with the option to purchase of an on-premises softwarerelated license or via subscription to our Oracle SaaS offerings.support. Regardless of the deployment model selected, our applicationapplications technologies are designed to reduce the risk, cost and complexity of our customers’ IT infrastructures, while supporting customer choice with flexible deployment models that readily enable performance, agility, compatibility and extendibility.
Our applicationapplications technologies are generally designed using an industry standards-based architecturearchitectures to manage and automate core business functions across the enterprise, as well as to help customers differentiate and innovate in those processes unique to their industries or organizations. In addition toWe offer applications that are deployable to meet a number of business automation requirements across a broad range of industries, weindustries. We also offer industry-specific applications through a focused strategy of investments in internal development and strategic acquisitions. Our industry specific applicationsacquisitions, which provide solutions to customers in the communications, engineeringconstruction and construction,engineering, financial services, healthcare,health sciences, hospitality, and retail, manufacturing, public sectors, retail and utilities, sectors, among others. Our ability to offer applications to address industry specific complex processes provides us an opportunity to expand our customers’ knowledge of our broader product offerings and address customer specific technology challenges.
Oracle Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS)
Our broad spectrum of SaaS offerings provides customers a choice of software applications that are delivered via a cloud-based IT environment that we host, manage and support. Our SaaS offerings are built upon open industry standards such as SQL, Java and HTML5 for easier application portability,accessibility, integration and development. Our SaaS offerings include a broad suite of modular, next-generation cloud software applications that span core business functions including human capital management (HCM), customer experience (CX), enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM)customer experience (CX), and supply chain management (SCM), among others. We also offer a number of cloud-based industry solutions to address specific customer needs within certain industries.
We believe that the comprehensiveness and breadth of our SaaS offerings providesprovide greater benefit to our customers and differentiatesdifferentiate us from many of our competitors that offer more limited or specialized cloud-based applications. Our SaaS offerings are designed to be interoperable with one another, thereby limitingsupport connected business processes in the integrationcloud and tuning of multiple cloud applications from multiple vendors.are centered on a responsive and flexible business core. Our SaaS offerings are designed to deliver a secure data isolation architecture and flexible upgrades,upgrades; self-service access controls for users,users; a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for integration with on-premises systems, ;built-in social, mobile and business insight capabilities,capabilities; and a high performance, high availability infrastructure based on our infrastructure technologies, including Oracle Engineered Systems. These SaaS capabilities are designed to simplify IT environments, reduce time to implementation and risk, improve the user experience and enable customers to focus resources on business growth opportunities.
Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud
Our HCM cloud applicationsSaaS offerings are designed to be completeincorporate emerging technologies such asInternet-of-Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and integratedMachine Learning (ML), blockchain and advances in the “human interface” and how users interact with our applications.
Our Oracle Cloud SaaS offerings include, among others:
Oracle HCM Cloud, which is designed to help organizations find, grow and retain the besttheir talent, enable collaboration, provide complete workforce insights, increase operational efficiency, and enable peopleusers to connect to an integrated suite of HCM applications from any device. device;
Oracle HCM Cloud delivers global human resources, workforce rewards, workforce management and talent management cloud services.
Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud
Our ERP, cloud applications arewhich is designed to be a complete, global and integrated ERP solution to help organizations improve decision making and workforce productivity, and to optimize back office operations by utilizing a single data and security model with a common user interface. We also offer NetSuite ERP, which is a cloud-based ERP offering targeted at small andmedium-sized organizations and is designed to run back-office operations and financial processes and includes financial management, revenue management and billing, inventory, supply chain and warehouse management capabilities, among others;
Oracle CX Cloud, which is designed to be a complete and integrated to help organizations achieve business insight, improve workforce productivity and operate globally. Oracle ERP Cloud delivers financial management, financial reporting, procurement and project portfolio management cloud services.
Oracle Customer Experience Cloud
Our CX cloud applications are designed to be complete and integratedsolution to help organizations deliver consistent and personalized customer experiences across alltheir customer channels, touch points and interactions. Our CX cloud applications include, among others:interactions;
Oracle MarketingSCM Cloud, which is designed to personalize customer experiences on a consistent platformhelp organizations create, optimize and to increase customer engagement, advocacy,digitize their supply chains and revenue generating possibilities using cross-channel, content,innovate products quickly; and social marketing solutions with integrated data management and activation;
Oracle SalesData Cloud, which is designed to enable sales teams to engage with their customers earlier and to generate customer orders more frequently via a platform that equips sales teams with processes, tools, resources, and intelligenceorganizations to leverage as a part of the sales cycle;
Oracle Commerce Cloud, which is designed to enable secure customer transactions through almost any device, to be scalable and to support personalized customer experiences through customer search, merchandising, promotions, and content management capabilities;
Oracle Services Cloud, which is designed to provide a unified web, social, and contact center platform that is used to understand customer needs, to resolve customer problems and to ensure the delivery of accurate information to users; and
Oracle Configure, Price and Quote Cloud, which is designed to help sales teams, channels, and ecommerce sites sell faster, more easily, and more accurately through almost any device.
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
Our EPM cloud applications are designed to be integrated to help organizations improve and simplify enterprise performance reporting and enterprise planning processes. Oracle EPM Cloud delivers financial and management reporting and planning and budgeting cloud services.
Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud
Our SCM cloud applications are designed to help organizations optimize their supply chain and innovate products quickly. Oracle SCM Cloud delivers transportation and global trade management, inventory and cost management, innovation management and product development cloud services.
Oracle Cloud Industry Solutions
Oracle Cloud Industry Solutions are industry specific SaaS applications that are designed to address the distinct requirements of the communications, financial services, healthcare, hospitality and retail, manufacturing and utilities sectors, among others.
Oracle Data as a Service
Oracle Data as a Service (DaaS) provides a centralized way to source, manage and furnish externalconsumer data to business users through a cloud service forinform and measure marketing strategies and customer intelligence purposes. Oracle DaaS offerings connect business users and applications to a rich set of information to inform business actions with a vendor-agnostic approach so customers can activate the data in an application or engine of choice.programs.
Oracle Applications
WeCustomers have the ability to license Oracle Applications software for use in on-premises, data center and relatedwithin the Oracle Cloud, or within their own cloud-based oron-premise IT environmentsenvironments. Oracle Applications are designed to manage and automate core business functions across the enterprise, including human capital and talent management; customer experience and customer relationship management;HCM; ERP; financial management and governance, risk and compliance; procurement; project portfolio management; supply chain management;SCM; business analytics and enterprise performance management; CX and industry specificcustomer relationship management; and industry-specific applications, among others. Our
As described above, we provide the option for customers to purchase license support contracts in connection with the purchase of Oracle Applications software strategy is designed to provide customers with complete choicelicenses.
Platform and a secure path to benefit from the latest technology advances.Infrastructure Technologies
Our Oracle Applications Unlimited program is Oracle’s commitment to ongoing investmentplatform technologies are marketed, sold and innovation indelivered through our current application offerings including our Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoftcloud and JD Edwards application software products, among others. Since announcing the Oracle Applications Unlimited program in 2005, we have delivered major releases of all application product lines by combining business functionality with innovative technologies, providing customers with more adaptive industry processes, business intelligence and optimal end-user productivity.
Platform Technologies
license business. Our comprehensive platform technologies include license and subscription basedincluding database, middleware and development softwaretools are available through subscription to our Oracle Cloud PaaS offerings includingor by the purchase of a license. Our platform offerings include Oracle Database, software, the world’s most popular enterprise database, and Java, the computer industry’s most widely-used software development language, among others.
others, and related license support at the customer’s option. Our platform technologies are designed to provide a cost-effective, standards-based, high-performance platform for developing, running, integrating, managing and managingextending business applications for midsize businesses, as well as large, global enterprises.applications. Our customers are increasingly focused on developing innovations and reducing the total cost of their IT infrastructure and we believe that our platform technologies help them achieve this goal.
Our platform technologies are designed to accommodate demanding, non-stopmission-critical business environments using clusteredelastic clusters of middleware, and database servers and storage. These elastic clusters are designed to scale incrementally as required to address our customers’ IT capacity requirements, satisfy their planning and procurement needs, support their business applications with a standardized platform architecture, reduce their risk of data loss and IT infrastructure downtime and efficiently utilize available IT resources to meet quality of service expectations.
In addition to utilizing these tools for modernizing their businesses, our customers are looking to build new and innovative applications leveraging emerging technologies such as IoT chatbots and AI/ML. Today, Oracle Platformdelivers applied AI functionality as a part of its Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service, (PaaS)
Oracle PaaSwhich is designed to deliver simplified, fast and highly elastic support for data warehousing in the Oracle Database, JavaCloud, eliminating manual configuration, tuning, and scaling tasks and allowing for streamlined operations, more efficient consumption of resources, and higher security and reliability. Our Cloud Platform technologies are designed withbuilt-in automation at all levels to perform maintenance tasks so our customers can utilize their IT resources to focus on extracting more value from the data they currently manage.
Oracle infrastructure technologies provide cloud-based compute, storage and networking capabilities through our Oracle Cloud IaaS offerings. Oracle infrastructure technologies also include hardware and certain hardware-related software offerings such as Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware, virtualization software, operating systems, management software and related hardware services including support at the customer’s option. We design our infrastructure technologies to work in customer environments that may include other Oracle ornon-Oracle hardware or software components. Our flexible and open approach provides Oracle customers choice on how they utilize and deploy our infrastructure technologies: through the use of Oracle Cloud Platform’s IaaS offerings; in our customer’s data centers; or a hybrid combination of these two deployment models. We focus on the operation and integration of our infrastructure technologies to make them easier to deploy, extend, interconnect, manage and maintain for our customers and to improve computing performance relative to our competitors’ offerings. For example, we believe that Oracle applications and platform technologies when combined with Oracle infrastructure technologies deliver improved performance at a lower cost relative to competing infrastructure technologies. As another example,
we design Oracle Engineered Systems to integrate multiple Oracle technology components to work together to deliver improved performance, availability, security and operational efficiency relative to our competitors’ products. These same Oracle technology components are tested together and supported together to streamline the Oracle Engineered System deployment and maintenance cycles. We also engineer our hardware products with virtualization and management capabilities to enable the rapid deployment and efficient management of cloud and other platform services in the cloud to enable developers to extend applications, including IT infrastructures.
Oracle SaaS applications, or build new applications. CustomersCloud-Based Platform and partners can use our open, standards based platform services that are based on Oracle WebLogic Server and our Oracle Database Cloud service, including tools for rapid application development, flexible cloud-based file sharing and collaboration, intuitive business analysis and reporting, and mobile device connectivity.Infrastructure Offerings
We believe that our PaaSOracle Cloud Platform and Infrastructure offerings are a large opportunityopportunities for us to expand our softwarecloud and cloudlicense business. We believe that our customers increasingly recognize the value of access to cloud-based IaaS capabilities on both a standalone basis and including PaaS with Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware (Java, Container Platform, API Management, Integration, Developer Tools, Mobile, Analytics, Content and JavaExperience, Security and Management), and open source including MySQL via a low cost, rapidly deployable, flexible and interoperable services model that we manageOracle manages and maintainmaintains on theirthe customer’s behalf. We believe that we can market and sell our PaaS and IaaS offerings together to ourhelp customers migrate their extensive installed base of databaseon-premise platform and middleware customers, and current and future users of our popular Java software development language, among others.
Oracle Database Cloud Services
Oracle Database Cloud Service provides customers with accessinfrastructure technologies to the Oracle Database viaCloud while at the same time reaching a broader ecosystem of developers and partners. We also believe we can market our PaaS and IaaS services to small andmedium-sized businesses andnon-IT lines of business purchasers due to the highly available, low touch and low cost characteristics of the Oracle Cloud.
Oracle Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Oracle Cloud PaaS is designed to provide a broad suite of services to rapidly build, deploy, integrate, analyze, secure and manage all enterprise applications (customer facilities-based and cloud computingdeployed) using a cloud-based IT model that we run, manage, and support on the behalf of the customer for a customer choicefee for a stated time period. Customers and partners utilize our open, standards-based PaaS offerings that are based upon Oracle Fusion Middleware including Java, open source, and the Oracle Database, together with tools for a variety of use cases across data management, applications development, integration, content and experience, business analytics, IT operations management and security. Our Oracle Cloud PaaS offerings include, among others, Data Management, Application Development, Integration, Business Analytics, Management and Security Cloud solutions.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a dedicated database instance with direct network connections and full administrative control or a dedicated schema with a full development and deployment platform managed by Oracle.Service (IaaS)
Oracle Database Backup Service isCloud IaaS offerings are substantially marketed, sold and delivered through our cloud and license business and include our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Managed Cloud Services offerings. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offerings are designed to deliver enterprise-grade compute, storage and networking services within the Oracle Cloud for a fee for a stated period of time, or on apay-as-you-go basis for service at a specified rate. Customers use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offerings to build and operate new cloud-native applications, and to move their existing workloads to the Oracle Cloud from their data centers or from other cloud-based IT environments, among other uses. By utilizing Oracle Cloud IaaS, customers leverage the Oracle Cloud for enterprise-grade, scalable, cost-effective, and secure scalable, on-demand storage solution for backing up Oracle databases to an off-site storage location in the cloud.
Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service
Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is a cloud-based, enterprise-class analytics platform for creating business intelligence applicationsinfrastructure technologies that are designed to convert customer data into business insight, upon which these customers can optimize decision-making.
be rapidly deployable while reducing the amount of time and resources normally consumed by IT processes in theiron-premise environments. We continue to invest in Oracle Java Cloud Service
Oracle Java Cloud Service is a complete platformIaaS to expand the catalog of tools and infrastructure cloud solution for building, deploying and managing Java EE applications. Oracle Java Cloud Service provides easy, rapid and agile deploymentservices we provide to simplify the process of any Java application—all on top of infrastructure provided by Oracle.
Oracle Developer Cloud Service
Oracle Developer Cloud Service is an easy-to-use, automatically provisioned enterprise development platform deployed in the cloud that supports the complete software development lifecycle.
Oracle Documents Cloud Service
Oracle Documents Cloud Service is an enterprise level, content collaboration solution that enables informationmigrating workloads to be accessed, uploaded and shared via a cloud computing IT environment that is provided and secured by Oracle.
Oracle Messaging Cloud Service
Oracle Messaging Cloud Service is a cloud-based, reliable messaging service that enables communication between software components both on-premises and in the Oracle Cloud, using standard interfaces.as well as to provide customers with the ability to run workloads acrosson-premise IT environments and the Oracle Cloud in a hybrid deployment model. Our Oracle Cloud IaaS offerings include compute offerings such as bare metal servers and virtual machines, among others; storage offerings including block, object and archive storage, among others; and networking cloud offerings.
We also offer Oracle Managed Cloud Services which are designed to provide comprehensive software and hardware management, maintenance and security services for customer cloud-based, hybrid IT or other infrastructure for a fee for a stated term. Oracle Managed Cloud Services may be hosted at our Oracle data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically at our customer’s facilities.
Oracle Cloud at Customer
Oracle Cloud at Customer is a direct response to barriers to public cloud adoption for businesses within certain regulated industries or jurisdictions. Customers are able to access certain SaaS, PaaS and IaaS capabilities of the Oracle Cloud in their own data centers, fully managed by Oracle. This allows customers to take advantage of the agility, innovation and subscription based pricing of Oracle Cloud Services while meeting data sovereignty, data residency, data protection and regulatory business policy requirements.
Other Oracle Platform and Infrastructure Offerings
Oracle Database
We license ourThe Oracle Database software to customers, whichis the world’s most popular enterprise database and is designed to enable reliable and secure storage, retrieval and manipulation of all forms of data, including: transactional data, business information and analytics; semi-structured and unstructured data in the form of weblogs, text, social media feeds, XML files, office documents, images, video and spatial images; and other specialized forms of data, such as graph data. The Oracle Database software is usedlicensed throughout the world by businesses and organizations of different sizes for a varietymultitude of purposes, including, withamong others: for use within the Oracle Cloud to deliver our Cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings; for use by a number of cloud-based vendors in offering their cloud services; for packaged applications and custom applications for transaction processing,transactions processing; and for data warehousing and business intelligenceintelligence. The Oracle Database may be deployed within different IT environments including the Oracle Cloud, other cloud-based environments,on-premise data centers and as a document repository or specialized data store. Security continuesrelated IT environments. Customers may elect to be a critical characteristic ofpurchase license support for the Oracle Database and our latest version, Oracle Database 12c, includes a number of security enhancements and new features including, among others, encryption of data in motion, conditional auditing, real application security, and transparent sensitive data protection. All security capabilities available are compatible with Oracle Database 12c’s new Oracle Multitenant architecture option, which enables customers to quickly and efficiently address the unique security requirements of each ofat their database instances.option.
A number of optional add-on products are available with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition softwareis available with a number of optionaladd-on products to address specific customer requirements, including:
a comprehensive portfolio of advanced defense, in depth security solutions that safeguard data at the source including Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle Database Vault, and Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting, as well as detective security options including Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. Oracle Database security options are designed to ensure data privacy, protect against insider threats, and enable regulatory compliance for both Oracle and non-Oracle databases;
in the areas of cloud computing and consolidation, we offer a new Oracle Multitenant software option that is designed to make it easier to consolidate multiple databases quickly and manage them as a cloud service, which enables customers to easily consolidate multiple databases into one without changing their applications. Our Oracle Multitenant architecture option offers the efficiency and cost savings of managing many databases at one time, yet retains the isolation and resource prioritization of separate databases that is necessary for multitenant cloud services; and
in the areas of performance and scalability, we offer Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Database In-Memory, Oracle Advanced Compression and Oracle Partitioning software options. Deploying Oracle Database In-Memory option with virtually any existing Oracle Database compatible application requires no application changes as it is fully integrated with Oracle Database’s scale-up, scale-out, storage tiering, availability and security technologies, which makes any Oracle in-memory database enterprise-ready.
requirements. In addition to the Oracle Database, we also offer a portfolio of specialized database software products to address particular customer requirements including the following:
MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database, designed for high performance and scalability of web applications and embedded applications, available in Enterprise, Standard, Classic, Cluster and Community editions;
Oracle TimesTenIn-Memory Database, designed to deliver real-time data management and transaction processing speeds for performance-critical applications. Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database can serve as a cache to accelerate Oracle Database and can work as a standalone database at the application tier;
Oracle Berkeley DB, a family of open source, embeddable, relational, XML and key-value (NoSQL) databases designed for developers to embed within their applications and devices; and
Oracle NoSQL Database, a distributed key-value database designed for high availability and massive scalability of high volume transaction processing with predictable low-latency.
Oracle Big Data
Oracle offers big data solutions to complement and extend its Oracle Database software offerings. Big data generally refers to a massive amount of unstructured, streaming and structured data that is so large that it is difficult to process using traditional IT techniques. As businesses drive more of their critical operationsWe offer big data solutions to complement and information management through IT solutions, the volume of this data generated by businesses is increasing at unprecedented levels.
extend its applications, platform and infrastructure technologies. We believe that most businesses view big data as a potentially high-value source of business intelligence that can be used to gain new insights into customer behavior,their customers’ behaviors, to anticipate future demand more accurately, to align workforce deployment with business activity forecasts and to accelerate the pace of operations, among others. Oracle offersother benefits. We offer a comprehensivebroad portfolio of productsplatform and servicesinfrastructure offerings to help enterprises capture, manage, and analyzeaddress an organization’s big data alongside an enterprise’s existing enterprise and streaming data.
Our bigrequirements including, among others, cloud-based services for data solutions for capturing unstructured, streaming and structuredintegration, data complement existing Oracle Database environments and include Oracle NoSQL Database and popular open source software such as the Hadoop File System. Oracle Data Integration and Oracle Big Data Connectors are designed to easily and non-invasively integrate data from Hadoop file systems or Oracle NoSQL databases and Oracle databases to enable a data warehouse to further organize, analyze, interpret, report on and act on information from these high volume data sources.
We offer Oracle Business Analytics products that are designed to leverage big data and enterprise data to enable organizations to analyze the data and discover new ways to strategize, plan, optimize business operations and capture new market opportunities. Oracle Business Analytics products include data discovery software, enterprise performance management, and analytic application software, business intelligence software, and predictive analytics and self-learning decision optimization software. The Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine is designed to run analytic environments at optimal performance and scale, which is ideal for use with big data environments.ML.
Oracle Fusion Middleware
We license our Oracle Fusion Middleware, software, which is a broad family of integrated application infrastructure software, products.for use in the Oracle Cloud, other cloud-based environments,on-premise data centers and related IT environments. These products are designed to form a reliable and scalable foundation on which customers can build, deploy, secure, access, extend and integrate business applications and automate their business processes. Built with our Java technology platform, Oracle Fusion Middleware products canare designed to be used flexible across different deployment environments—cloud,on-premise or hybrid—as a foundation for custom, packaged and composite applications—or applications that can be deployed in cloud environments.
thereby simplifying and reducing time to deployment. Oracle Fusion Middleware software is designed to protect customers’ IT investments and work with both Oracle andnon-Oracle database, middleware and applicationapplications software through its open architecture and adherence to industry standards. Specifically, Oracle Fusion Middleware software is designed to enable customers to integrate Oracle andnon-Oracle business applications, automate business processes, scale applications to meet customer demand, simplify security and compliance, manage lifecycles of documents and get actionable, targeted business intelligence; all while continuing to utilize their existing IT systems.intelligence. In addition, Oracle Fusion Middleware software supports multiple development languages and tools, which enables developers to flexibly build and deploy web services, websites, portals andweb-based applications. applications across different IT environments.
Oracle Fusion Middleware
Among our other middleware offerings, we license a wide range of development tools, identity management and business analytics software is available in various software products and suites, including the following:
Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Cloud Application Foundation, designed to be the most complete, best-of-breed platform for developing cloud applications;
Oracle SOA Suite of software products used to create, deploy and manage applications on a Service-Oriented Architecture;
Oracle Data Integration software products, which are designed to enable pervasive and continuous access to timely and trusted data across heterogeneous systems, including real-time and bulk data movement, transformation, bi-directional replication, data services and data quality for customer and product domains;
Oracle Business Process Management Suite software productsmobile computing development that are designed to enable businesses and IT professionals to design, implement, automate and evolve business processes and workflows within and across organizations;
Oracle WebCenter software products, a complete set of web experience management, portals, content management and social networks software, designed to help people work together more efficiently through contextual collaboration tools that optimize connections between people, information and applications and to ensure users have access to the right information in the context of the business process in which they are engaged;
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, a comprehensive set of analytic software products designed to provide customers with the information they need to make better business decisions;
Oracle Identity Management software, which is designed to enable customers to manage internal and external users, to secure corporate information from potential software threats and to streamline compliance initiatives while lowering the total cost of their security and compliance initiatives; and
Development Tools for application development, database development and business intelligence, including Oracle JDeveloper, an integrated software environment designed to facilitate rapid development of applications using Oracle Fusion Middleware and popular open source technologies.
Mobile Computing
Among its other middleware offerings, Oracle provides a wide range of software for mobile computing to address the development needs of businesses that are increasingly focused on delivering mobile device applications to their customers. For example,We also offer certain of these mobile development capabilities as a cloud service, including Oracle Mobile Platform enables developersCloud Service, among others.
Customers may elect to build and extend enterprise applicationspurchase license support, as described above, for popular mobile devices from a single code base. Oracle Mobile Platform supports access to native device services, enables offline applications and is designed to protect enterprise investments from future technology shifts. Oracle Mobile Security offers comprehensive mobile identity and application management for provisioning of trusted access. Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile provides business intelligence functionality, from interactive dashboards to location intelligence, while enabling users to initiate business processes from a mobile device.Fusion Middleware licenses at their option.
Java
Java is the computer industry’s most widely-used software development language and is viewed as a global standard. TheWe believe the Java programming language and platform together represent one of the most popular and powerful development environments in the world, one that is used by millions of developers globally to develop business applications.embedded applications, web content, enterprise software and games. Oracle Fusion Middleware software products and certain of our Oracle Applications are built using our Java technology platform, which we believe is a key advantage for our business. Customers may license the use of Java or access Java through Oracle Java Cloud Service.
Java is designed to enable developers to write software on a single platform and run it on many other different platforms, independent of operating system and hardware architecture. Java has been adopted by both independent software vendors (ISV)(ISVs) that have built their products on Java and by enterprise organizations building custom applications or consuming Java-based ISV products.
Software License UpdatesHardware Business
Our hardware business provides a broad selection of hardware products and Product Support
We seek to protect and enhance our customers’ current investments in Oracle application and platform technologies by offering proactive and personalizedrelated hardware support services including Oracle Lifetime Support and product enhancements and upgrades. Software license updates provide customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases and patches released during the term of the support period. Product support includes internet and telephone access to technical support personnel located in our global supportfor cloud-based IT environments, data centers as well as internet access to technical content through “My Oracle Support”. Software license updates and product support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net new software license fees. Substantially all of our customers purchase software license updates and product support contracts when they acquire new software licenses and renew their software license updates and product support contracts annually.
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Our Oracle IaaS offerings, which are a part of our software and cloud business and represented 2% of total revenues in fiscal 2015 and 1% of total revenues in each of fiscal 2014 and 2013, provide deployment and management offerings for our software and hardware and related IT infrastructure, including:environments.
comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services for customer IT infrastructure for a stated term that is hosted at our Oracle data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on-premises at customer facilities;
virtual machine instance services in which we deploy, secure, provision, manage and maintain certain of our hardware products for our customers to provide them with a set of cloud-based core infrastructure capabilities like elastic compute and storage services to run workloads in the cloud; and
hardware and related support services offerings for certain of our Oracle Engineered Systems that are deployed at our customers’ data centers for a monthly fee that includes the option of elastic compute capacity on demand and Oracle Platinum and PlatinumPlus Services for a higher level of support and advisory services designed to ensure these hardware products remain configured and tuned correctly with quarterly automated assessments for performance, availability and security.
Infrastructure Technologies
Oracle infrastructure technologies consist of our hardware systems products including Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking, industry specific hardware, virtualization software, operating systems, management software and related hardware services including support. We also offer Oracle IaaS, which provides elastic compute and storage capabilities, among others.
Our infrastructure technologies help customers manage growing amounts of data and business requirements, meet increasing compliance and regulatory demands and reduce energy, space and operational costs. Our infrastructure technologies support many of the world’s largest on-premises and cloud IT environments, including the Oracle Cloud. Our infrastructure technologies are designed to seamlessly connect on-premises and cloud IT environments to further enable interoperability, interchangeability and extendibility. We design our infrastructure technologies to work in customer environments that may include other Oracle or non-Oracle hardware or software components. Our flexible and open approach provides Oracle customers with a broad range of choices in how they deploy our infrastructure technologies, which we believe is a priority for our customers.
We focus the operation and integration of our infrastructure technologies to make them easier to deploy, manage and maintain for our customers and to improve computing performance relative to our competitors’ offerings. For example, our Oracle Engineered Systems are core to our cloud-based andon-premise data center infrastructure offerings. Oracle Engineered Systems arepre-integrated products designed to integrate multiple Oracle technology components including database, storage, operating system or middleware software with server, storage and networking hardware and other technologies to work together to deliver improved performance, availability, security and operational efficiency relative to our competitors’ products. These same Oracle technology components are tested together and supported together to streamline system deployment and maintenance cycles. We also engineer our hardware systems with virtualization and management capabilities to enable the rapid deployment and efficient management of cloud and on-premises IT infrastructures.
Our infrastructure technologies are substantially marketed, sold and delivered through our hardware business, which includes our hardware systems products segment and hardware systems support segment. Our hardware systems products revenues represented 8% of our total revenues in each of fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013. Our hardware systems support revenues represented 6% of our total revenues in each of fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013.
Oracle Engineered Systems
Oracle Engineered Systems are core to our infrastructure technology offerings and are important elements of our data center and cloud computing offerings including the Oracle Cloud. These pre-integrated products are designed to integrate multiple Oracle technology components to work together to deliver improved performance, availability, security and operational efficiency relative to our competitors’ products,products; to be upgraded effectively and efficientlyefficiently; and to simplify maintenance cycles by providing a single solution for software patching. They are tested before they are shipped to customers and delivered ready-to-run, enabling customers to shorten the time to production. Oracle’sWe offer certain of our Oracle Engineered Systems, include:
including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, among others, through flexible deployment options, including as a family of integrated softwarecloud service and hardware products that combines our database, storage and operating system software with our server, storage and networking hardware and is designed to provideas a high performance database system for online transaction processing and data warehousing applications;
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, an engineered system that combines Oracle Fusion Middleware software with our server, storage and networking hardware to run Java and non-Java applications and provide customers with an applications platform for cloud computing;at customer service.
Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, a single server that is designed to be configured for in-memory analytics for business intelligence workloads;
Oracle SuperCluster, a general purpose engineered system that combines the optimized database performance of Oracle Exadata storage and the accelerated middleware and application processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud on a SPARC/Solaris platform;
Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, an engineered system delivering converged infrastructure for virtualized environments that is designed to be simple to use, rapidly deployable and capable of running almost any application built upon Linux, Microsoft Windows or Oracle Solaris operating systems;
Oracle Database Appliance, an integrated, fault resilient system of database, operating system and virtualization software, servers, storage and networking hardware in a single box that is designed to deliver high availability database services for a wide range of homegrown and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing applications;
Oracle Big Data Appliance, a scalable, engineered system designed for acquiring, organizing and loading unstructured data into a Hadoop file system or Oracle NoSQL Database and optionally integrating that data with Oracle Databases. The key components of a big data platform are integrated into the Oracle Big Data Appliance to reduce deployment, integration and management risks in comparison to custom-built solutions; and
Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, an engineered system that is integrated with Oracle Database and is designed to eliminate data loss exposure for databases without impacting production environments.
Servers
We offer a wide range of server products that are designed for mission-critical enterprise environments and are key components of our engineered systems using ourofferings and cloud offerings. We have two families of server products: those based on the SPARC microprocessor, which are designed to be differentiated by their reliability, security and scalability. Our SPARC-based T5 mid-range serverscalability; and M6 high-end servers, for example, are designed to offer better performance and lower total cost of ownership than mainframe systems for business critical applications and for customers having more computationally intensive needs. Measurably increasing computing performance and reliability, these servers are ideal platforms for building cloud computing IT environments. We also offer serversthose using microprocessors from Intel Corporation (Intel).Corporation. By offering customers a range of server sizes and microprocessors, we intendcustomers are offered the flexibility to offer our customers maximum flexibility in choosingchoose the types of hardware systemsservers that they believe will be most appropriate and valuable for their particular IT environments.
Our SPARC servers run We believe the combination of Oracle Solaris operating system and are designed for mission critical enterprise environments. SPARC servers are also a core component of the Oracle SuperCluster, one of our Oracle Engineered Systems.
Our Intel-based enterprise x86 servers are compatibleserver systems with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windowssoftware enhances customer ability to shift data and other operating systems. Our x86 servers are also a core component of many of our Oracle Engineered Systems including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machineworkloads between data center and the Oracle Big Data Appliance.cloud deployments based on business requirements.
Storage
OurOracle storage products are engineered for the cloud and designed to securely store, manage, protect, and archive and restore customers’ mission criticalmission-critical data assets generated by any database or application. Oracle storage products combine flash, disk, tape and consist of tape, disk, flash and hardware-related software including file systems software, back-up and archiveserver technologies with optimized software and unique integrations with Oracle Database designed to offer greater performance and efficiency, and lower total cost relative to our
competitors’ storage management software and networking for mainframe and open systems environments. Ourproducts. Certain of our storage products are designed to improve data availability by providing fast data accessoffered as a cloud service and dynamic data protection for back-up and restoration and secure archiving for compliance.cloud at customer service. Our storage products are co-engineered with Oracle software and designed to provide performance benefits for our customers in Oracle Database and Oracle Applications environments, as well as to work with multi-vendor application and systems environments to maximize performance and efficiency while minimizing management overhead and lowering the total cost of ownership.
Ourofferings include, among others, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, is designed to improve Network Attached Storage (NAS) performance and manageability and lower total cost of ownership by combining our advanced storage operating system with high-performance controllers, DRAM and flash-based caches and disks. The foundation of our Oracle FS1 flasha unified storage system targeted at flash Storage Area Networkthat combines network attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN) environments, is a patented quality-of-service architecture designed to meet business critical service level agreementsand object storage capabilities; Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance that provides unique, recovery-focused data protection for dynamic, multi-application workloadsOracle Database; and enable customers to consolidate storage applications into a single data center storage solution.
OurOracle’s StorageTek tape storage and automation product line which includes Oracle StorageTektape drives, tape libraries, drives, virtualization systems,mainframe virtualized tape libraries, media, and associated software packages that provide lifecycle data lifecycle management deep analytics and file access through the familiar “drag-and-drop” paradigm. In addition to serving in tape’s traditional role assecurity for enterprise data backup these products are intended to provide robust, scalable solutions at a lower total cost of ownership for long-term data archiving and preservation in vertical industries such as communications, energy, healthcare and internet, among others.archive requirements.
Networking and Data Center Fabric Products
Our networking and data center fabric products, including Oracle Virtual Networking, and Oracle InfiniBand and Ethernet products, are used with our server and storage products and are integrated into our management tools to help enterprise customers improve infrastructure performance, reduce cost and complexity and simplify storage and server connectivity.
Industry SpecificIndustry-Specific Hardware Offerings
We offer hardware products and services designed for certain specific industries. Our industries including ourpoint-of-sale hardware offerings include point-of-sale terminals and related hardware that are designed for managing businesses within the food and beverage, hotel and retail industries, among others. Ourindustries; and hardware products and services for communications networks includeincluding network signaling, policy control and subscriber data management solutions, and session border control technology, among others.
Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux Operating Systems, Virtualization, Management and Other Hardware-Related Software
TheWe offer a portfolio of operating systems, including Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris, operating system is designed to provide a reliable, secure and scalable operating system environment through significant kernel feature development, networking, security, and file system technologies as well as close integration with hardware features. This design provides us with an ability to combine Oracle Solaris with our own hardware components to achieve certain performance and efficiency advantages in comparison to our competitors. The Oracle Solaris operating system is based on the UNIX operating system, but is unique among UNIX systems in that it is available on our SPARC servers and x86 servers. We also support Oracle Solaris deployed on other companies’ hardware products.
The Oracle Linux operating system with Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is a Linux operating system for enterprise workloadsvirtualization software including databases, middleware and applications. Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is designed to work well with Oracle products and enables users to patch core operating systems without downtime.
Oracle provides a broad portfolio of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. Oracle VM, is server virtualization software for both Oracle SPARC and x86 servers and supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM software is designed to enable different applications to share a single physical system for higher utilization and efficiency and simplify software deployment by enabling pre-configured software images to be created and rapidly deployed without installation or configuration errors. In addition, Oracle Solaris 11 provides comprehensive, built-in virtualization capabilities for both SPARC and x86 servers, networking and storage resources.
In addition to Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux operating systems and Oracle’s virtualization software, we also develop a range of other hardware-relatedhardware related software including development, tools, compilers, management tools for servers and storage, diagnostic tools and file systems.
Management Software
Oracle invests insystems tools that are designed to optimize the performance, efficiency, and security of customers’ hardware products while providing customers with high levels of flexibility, reliability, and availability. We also offer a range of management technologies and products, in order to meet the needs ofincluding Oracle Enterprise Manager, that help customers buildingbuild and efficiently operatingoperate complex IT environments, including both end users’ and service providers’ cloud environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager is a comprehensive management solution for all Oracle infrastructure, platform and applications technologies and provides an integrated view of the entire IT lifecycle including deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management. Oracle Enterprise Manager can be applied to traditional on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments in a seamless manner via a single interface, which accelerates customer deployment of and transition to the cloud with Oracle products. Oracle also enhances and integrates with certain key open technologies including OpenStack, which is broadly supported by Oracle products for customers that require seamless integration with this method of cloud management and provisioning. The combination of Oracle’s comprehensive solutions and investments in open standards allows Oracle customers to manage Oracle products efficiently across a range of IT offerings from traditional on-premises environments to the most advanced cloud architectures.
Hardware Systems Support
Our hardware systems 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 and certain other software products, andSolaris. These offerings can also include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services. We continue to evolve hardware systems support processes that are intended to proactively identify and solve quality issues and to increase the amount of new and renewed hardware systems support contracts sold in connection with the sales of our hardware systems products. Hardware systems support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net hardware systems products fees.
Services
We offer services solutions to help customers and partners maximize the performance of their investments in Oracle application,applications, platform and infrastructure technologies. We believe that our services are differentiated based on our focus on Oracle technologies, extensive experience and broad sets of intellectual property and best practices. Our services business represented 9%, 10% and 11% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Our services business, which is comprised of the remainder of our operating segments, offers the following:
consulting services, thatwhich are designed to help our customers and global system integrator partners more successfully architect and deploy our products,cloud and license offerings including IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial productsoftware implementation and integration, application development and integration services, security assessments and ongoing productsoftware enhancements and upgrades. We utilize a global, blended delivery model to optimize value for our customers and partners, consisting of on-premises consultants from local geographies, industry specialists and consultants from our global delivery and solution centers;
advanced customer support services, which are provided on-premisesat customer facilities and remotely to our customers to enable increased performance and higher availability of their Oracle products and services;products; and
education services for Oracle productsOracle’s cloud and services,license offerings, including training and certification programs that are offered to customers, partners and employees through a variety of formats including instructor ledinstructor-led classes, at our education centers, live virtual training, self-pacedvideo-based training on demand, online training,learning subscriptions, private events and custom training.
Oracle Cloud Operations Oracle Cloud Operations deliver our Oracle Cloud Services to customers through a secure, reliable, scalable, enterprise grade cloud infrastructure platform managed by our employees within a global network of data centers, which we refer to as the Oracle Cloud. Oracle Cloud Operations leverage automated software tools to enable the rapid delivery of the latest cloud technology capabilities to the Oracle Cloud as they become available. The Oracle Cloud enables secure and isolated cloud-based instances for each of our customers to access the functionality of our Oracle Cloud Services via a broad spectrum of devices. Manufacturing To produce our hardware products that we market and sell to third-party customers and that we utilize internally to deliver as a part of our Oracle Cloud operations, we rely on both our internal manufacturing operations as well as third-party manufacturing partners. Our internal manufacturing operations consist primarily of materials procurement, assembly, testing and quality control of our Oracle Engineered Systems and certain of our enterprise and data center servers and storage products. For all other manufacturing, we generally rely on third-party manufacturing partners to produce our hardware-related components and hardware products and we may involve our internal manufacturing operations in the final assembly, testing and quality control processes for these components and products. We distribute most of our hardware products either from our facilities or partner facilities. Our manufacturing processes are substantially based on standardization of components across product types, centralization of assembly and distribution centers and a“build-to-order” methodology in which products generally are built only after customers have placed firm orders. Production of our hardware products requires that we purchase materials, supplies, product subassemblies and full assemblies from a number of vendors. For most of our hardware products, we have existing alternate sources of supply or such sources are readily available. However, we do rely on sole sources for certain of our hardware products. As a result, we continue to evaluate potential risks of disruption to our supply chain operations. Refer to “Risk Factors” included in Item 1A within this Annual Report for additional discussion of the challenges we encounter with respect to the sources and availability of supplies for our products and the related risks to our business. SalesMarketingIndex to Financial Statements
We directly market and sell our productscloud, license, hardware and services offerings to businesses of many sizes and in many industries, government agencies and educational institutions. We also market and sell our productsofferings through indirect channels. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 or 2013.2016.
In the United States, our sales and services employees are based in our headquarters and in field offices throughout the country. Outside the United States, our international subsidiaries sell, support and service our products and offerings in their local countries as well as within other foreign countries where we do not operate through a direct sales subsidiary. Our geographic coverage allows us to draw on business and technical expertise from a global workforce, provides stability to our operations and revenue streams to offset geography specific economic trends and offers us an opportunity to take advantage of new markets for our products.offerings. Our international operations subject us to certain risks, which are more fully described in “Risk Factors” included in Item 1A of this Annual Report. A summary of our domestic and international revenues and long-lived assets is set forth in Note 1615 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
We also market our productsproduct offerings worldwide through indirect channels. The companies that comprise our indirect channel network are members of the Oracle Partner Network. The Oracle Partner Network is a global program that manages our business relationships with a large, broad-based network of companies, including independent software and hardware vendors, system integrators and resellers that deliver innovative solutions and services based upon our product offerings. By offering our partners access to our product offerings, educational information, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle Partner Network program extends our market reach by providing our partners with the resources they need to be successful in delivering solutions to customers globally. The majority of our hardware systems products are sold through indirect channels including independent distributors and value-added resellers.
Research and Development
We develop the substantial majority of our product offerings internally. In addition, we have extended our product offerings and intellectual property through acquisitions of businesses and technologies. We also purchase or license intellectual property rights in certain circumstances. Internal development allows us to maintain technical control over the design and development of our products. We have a number of United States and foreign patents and pending applications that relate to various aspects of our products and technology. While we believe that our patents have value, added resellers.no single patent is essential to us or to any of our principal businesses. Research and development expenditures were $6.1 billion, $6.2 billion and $5.8 billion in fiscal 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively, or 15% of total revenues in fiscal 2018 and 16% of total revenues in each of fiscal 2017 and 2016. Rapid technological advances in hardware and software development, evolving standards in computer hardware and software technology, changing customer needs and frequent new product introductions, offerings and enhancements characterize the markets in which we compete. We plan to continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to research and development efforts to maintain and improve our current product and services offerings.
Employees
As of May 31, 2018, we employed approximately 137,000 full-time employees, including approximately 39,000 in sales and marketing, approximately 18,000 in our cloud services and license support operations, approximately 4,000 in hardware, approximately 24,000 in services, approximately 39,000 in research and development and approximately 13,000 in general and administrative positions. Of these employees, approximately 49,000 were employed in the United States and approximately 88,000 were employed internationally. None of our employees in the United States is represented by a labor union; however, in certain foreign subsidiaries, labor unions or workers’ councils represent some of our employees.
Seasonality and Cyclicality
Our quarterly revenues have historically been affected by a variety of seasonal factors, including the structure of our sales force incentive compensation plans, which are common in the technology industry. OurIn each fiscal year, our total revenues and operating margins are typically highest in our fourth fiscal quarter and lowest in our first fiscal quarter. The operating margins of our businesses (in particular, our cloud and license business and hardware business) are generally affected by seasonal factors in a similar manner as our revenues (in particular, our new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions segment) as certain expenses within our cost structure are relatively fixed in the short term. See “Selected Quarterly Financial Data” in Item 7 of this Annual Report for a more complete description of the seasonality and cyclicality of our revenues, expenses and margins.
Competition
We face intense competition in all aspects of our business. The nature of the IT industry creates a competitive landscape that is constantly evolving as firms emerge, expand or are acquired, as technology evolves and as customer demands and competitive pressures otherwise change.
Our customers are demanding less complexity and lower total cost in the implementation, sourcing, integration and ongoing maintenance of their enterprise software and hardware systems.hardware. Our enterprise softwarecloud license and cloudon-premise license, and hardware offerings compete directly with somecertain offerings from some of the largest and most competitive companies in the world, including Amazon.com, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, (Microsoft), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Intel Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Adobe Systems Incorporated, Alphabet Inc. and SAP AG and smallerSE, as well as other companies like
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, salesforce.com, inc. and Workday, Inc., as well as many others. In addition, due to the low barriers to entry in many of our market segments, new technologies and new and growing competitors frequently emerge to challenge our offerings. Our competitors range from companies offering broad IT solutions across many of our lines of business to vendors providing point solutions, or offerings focused on a specific functionality, product area or industry. In addition, as we expand into new market segments, we will face increased competition as we will compete with existing competitors, as well as firms that may be partners in other areas of our business and other firms with whom we have not previously competed like Amazon.com, Inc. competed.
Moreover, we or our competitors may take certain strategic actions—including acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, or repositioning of product lines—which invite even greater competition in one or more product offering categories.
Key competitive factors in each of the segments in which we currently compete and may compete in the future include: total cost of ownership, performance, scalability, reliability, security, functionality, efficiency, ease of managementspeed to production and quality of technical support. Our product and service sales (and the relative strength of our products and services versus those of our competitors) are also directly and indirectly affected by the following, among other things:
the adoption of cloud basedcloud-based IT offerings including software as a service, platform as a serviceSaaS, PaaS and infrastructure as a serviceIaaS offerings;
total cost of ownership;
ease of deployment, use and maintenance of our products and services offerings;
compatibility between Oracle products and services deployed within on-premiseslocal IT environments and public cloud IT environments, including our Oracle Cloud environments;
the adoption of commodity servers and microprocessors;
the broader “platform” competition between our industry standard Java technology platform and the .NET programming environment of Microsoft;
operating system competition among our Oracle Solaris and Linux operating systems, with alternatives including Microsoft’s Windows Server, and other UNIX and Linux operating systems;
the adoption of open source alternatives to commercial software by enterprise software customers;
products, features and functionality developed internally by customers and their IT staff;
products, features orand functionality customized and implemented for customers by consultants, systems integrators or other third parties; and
attractiveness of offerings from business processing outsourcers.
For more information about the competitive risks we face, refer to Item 1A. “Risk Factors” included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Manufacturing
To produce our hardware products, we rely on both our internal manufacturing operations as well as third party manufacturing partners. Our internal manufacturing operations consist primarily of materials procurement, assembly, testing and quality control of our Oracle Engineered Systems and certain of our enterprise and data center servers, storage systems and networking products. For all other manufacturing, we generally rely on third party manufacturing partners to produce our hardware related components and hardware products and we may involve our internal manufacturing operations in the final assembly, testing and quality control processes for these components and products. We distribute most of our hardware products either from our facilities or partner facilities. Our manufacturing processes substantially are based on standardization of components across product types, centralization of assembly and distribution centers and a “build-to-order” methodology in which products generally are built only after customers have placed firm orders. Production of our hardware products requires that we purchase materials, supplies, product subassemblies and full assemblies from a number of vendors. For most of our hardware products, we have existing alternate sources of supply or such sources are readily available.
However, we do rely on sole sources for certain of our hardware products. As a result, we continue to evaluate potential risks of disruption to our supply chain operations. Refer to “Risk Factors” included in Item 1A within this Annual Report for additional discussion of the challenges we encounter with respect to the sources and availability of supplies for our products and the related risks to our business.
Research and Development
We develop the substantial majority of our products internally. In addition, we have extended our product offerings and intellectual property through acquisitions of businesses and technologies. We also purchase or license intellectual property rights in certain circumstances. Internal development allows us to maintain technical control over the design and development of our products. We have a number of United States and foreign patents and pending applications that relate to various aspects of our products and technology. While we believe that our patents have value, no single patent is essential to us or to any of our principal business segments. Research and development expenditures were $5.5 billion, $5.2 billion and $4.9 billion in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively, or 14% of total revenues in fiscal 2015 and 13% of total revenues in each of fiscal 2014 and 2013. Rapid technological advances in hardware and software development, evolving standards in computer hardware and software technology, changing customer needs and frequent new product introductions and enhancements characterize the software and cloud and hardware markets in which we compete. We plan to continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to research and development efforts to maintain and improve our current product and services offerings.
Employees
As of May 31, 2015, we employed approximately 132,000 full-time employees, including approximately 35,000 in sales and marketing, approximately 11,000 in software license updates and product support, approximately 6,000 in our cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS operations, approximately 1,000 in the manufacturing of our hardware systems products, approximately 5,000 in hardware systems support, approximately 23,000 in services, approximately 38,000 in research and development and approximately 13,000 in general and administrative positions. Of these employees, approximately 49,000 were employed in the United States and approximately 83,000 were employed internationally. None of our employees in the United States is represented by a labor union; however, in certain foreign subsidiaries labor unions or workers’ councils represent some of our employees.
Available Information
Our Annual Report on Form10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form10-Q, Current Reports on Form8-K and amendments to those reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available, free of charge, on our Investor Relations website at www.oracle.com/investor as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the United StatesU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Commission. We use our Investor Relations website as a means of disclosing material non-public information. Accordingly, investors should monitor our Investor Relations website, in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings and public conference calls and webcasts. In addition, information regarding our environmental policy and global sustainability initiatives and solutions are also available on our website www.oracle.com/corporate/citizenship. The information posted on or accessible through our website is not incorporated into this Annual Report.
Executive Officers of the Registrant
Our executive officers are listed below.
Name | Office(s) | |
Lawrence J. Ellison | Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Technology Officer | |
Safra A. Catz | Chief Executive Officer and Director | |
Mark V. Hurd | Chief Executive Officer and Director | |
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Jeffrey O. Henley | ||
Thomas Kurian | President, Product Development | |
| Executive Vice President, | |
Dorian E. Daley | Executive Vice President and General Counsel | |
William Corey West | Executive Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer |
Mr. Ellison, 73, has been our Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer since September 2014. He served as our Chief Executive Officer from June 1977, when he founded Oracle, until September 2014. He has served as a Director since June 1977. He previously served as our Chairman of the Board from May 1995 to January 2004.
Ms. Catz, 53,56, has been our Chief Executive Officer since September 2014. She served as our President from January 2004 to September 2014, our Chief Financial Officer most recently from April 2011 until September 2014 and a Director since October 2001. She was previously our Chief Financial Officer from November 2005 until September 2008 and our Interim Chief Financial Officer from April 2005 until July 2005. Prior to being named our President, she held various other positions with us since joining Oracle in 1999. She also currently serves as a director of The Walt Disney Company and she previously served as a director of HSBC Holdings plc.
Mr. Hurd, 58,61, has been our Chief Executive Officer since September 2014. He served as our President from September 2010 to September 2014 and a Director since September 2010. Prior to joining us, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of HPHewlett-Packard Company from September 2006 to August 2010 and as Chief Executive Officer, President and a member of the Board of Directors of HPHewlett-Packard Company from April 2005 to August 2010.
Mr. Ellison, 70, has been our Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer since September 2014. He served as our Chief Executive Officer from June 1977, when he founded Oracle, until September 2014. He has served as a Director since June 1977. He previously served as our Chairman of the Board from May 1995 to January 2004.
Mr. Henley, 70,73, has served as our Vice Chairman of the Board since September 2014. He previously served as our Chairman of the Board from January 2004 to September 2014 and has served as a Director since June 1995. He served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from March 1991 to July 2004.
Mr. Kurian, 48,51, has been our President, Product Development since January 2015. He served as our Executive Vice President, Product Development from July 2009 until January 2015. He served as our Senior Vice President of Development from February 2001 until July 2009. Mr. Kurian worked in Oracle Server Technologies as Vice President of Development from March 1999 until February 2001. He also held various other positions with us since joining Oracle in 1996.
Mr. Fowler, 54,Screven, 53, has been Executive Vice President, SystemsChief Corporate Architect since February 2010. Prior to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mr. FowlerMay 2015. He served as Sun’s Executiveour Senior Vice President, Systems GroupChief Corporate Architect from MayNovember 2006 to February 2010,April 2015 and as Executive Vice President, Network Systems GroupChief Corporate Architect from May 2004January 2003 to May 2006 and as Chief Technology Officer, Software Group from July 2002 to May 2004.November 2006. He held various other positions with us since joining Oracle in 1986.
Ms. Daley, 56,59, has been our Executive Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary since April 20152015. She served as our Secretary from October 2007 until October 2017 and she was our Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from October 2007 to April 2015. She served as our Vice President, Legal, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from June 2004 to October 2007, as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from October 2001 to June 2004 and as Associate General Counsel from February 2001 to October 2001. She held various other positions with us since joining Oracle’s Legal Department in 1992.
Mr. West, 53,56, has been our Executive Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since April 2015. He served as our Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from February 2008 to April 2015 and served as our Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from April 2007 to February 2008. His previous experience includes 14 years with Arthur Andersen LLP, most recently as a partner.
We operate in rapidly changing economic and technological environments that present numerous risks, many of which are driven by factors that we cannot control or predict. The following discussion, as well as our “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” discussion in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Item 7), highlights some of these risks. The risks described below are not exhaustive and you should carefully consider these risks and uncertainties before investing in our securities.
Economic, political and market conditions can adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition, including our revenue growth and profitability, which in turn could adversely affect our stock price. Our business is influenced by a range of factors that are beyond our control and that we have no comparative advantage in forecasting. These include:
general economic and business conditions;
overall demand for enterprise software, cloud offerings, hardware systems and services;
governmental budgetary constraints or shifts in government spending priorities; and
general political developments.
Macroeconomic developments like the continued slow pace of economic recovery in Europe and parts of the United States, Asia and South America could negatively affect our business, operating results, financial condition and outlook, which, in turn, could adversely affect our stock price. Any general weakening of, and related declining corporate confidence in, the global economy or the curtailment of government or corporate spending could cause current or potential customers to reduce or eliminate their information technology (IT) budgets and spending, which could cause customers to delay, decrease or cancel purchases of our products and services or cause customers not to pay us or to delay paying us for previously purchased products and services.
In addition, political unrest in places like Ukraine, Syria and Iraq and the related potential impact on global stability, terrorist attacks and the potential for other hostilities in various parts of the world, potential public health crises and natural disasters continue to contribute to a climate of economic and political uncertainty that could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition, including our revenue growth and profitability. These factors generally have the strongest effect on our sales of new software licenses, hardware systems products, hardware systems support and related services and, to a lesser extent, also may affect our renewal rates for software license updates and product support and our subscription-based cloud offerings.
We may experience foreign currency gains and losses. Changes in currency exchange rates can adversely affect customer demand and our revenue and profitability. We conduct a significant number of transactions and hold cash in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. Changes in the values of major foreign currencies, particularly the Euro, Japanese Yen and British Pound, relative to the U.S. Dollar can significantly affect our total assets, revenues, operating results and cash flows, which are reported in U.S. Dollars. In particular, the economic uncertainties relating to European sovereign and other debt obligations may cause the value of the Euro to fluctuate relative to the U.S. Dollar. Fluctuations in foreign currency rates, most notably the recent strengthening of the U.S. Dollar against the Euro, adversely affects our revenue growth in terms of the amounts that we report in U.S. Dollars after converting our Euro-based results into U.S. Dollars and in terms of actual demand for our products and services as these products become relatively more expensive for Euro-based enterprises to purchase. In addition, currency variations can adversely affect margins on sales of our products in countries outside of the United States. Generally, our revenues and operating results are adversely affected when the dollar strengthens relative to other currencies and are positively affected when the dollar weakens. In addition, our reported assets generally are adversely affected when the dollar strengthens relative to other currencies as a significant portion of our consolidated cash and bank deposits, among other assets, are held in foreign currencies. The U.S. dollar strengthened relative to other currencies, including the Euro, in fiscal 2015, which is reflected in our results.
Certain of our international subsidiaries operate in economies that have been designated as highly inflationary. We have incurred foreign currency losses associated with the devaluation of currencies in these highly inflationary economies relative to the U.S. Dollar and we may continue to incur such losses in these countries or other emerging market countries where we do business.
In addition, we incur foreign currency transaction gains and losses, primarily related to sublicense fees and other intercompany agreements among us and our subsidiaries that we expect to cash settle in the near term, which are charged against earnings in the period incurred. We have a program which primarily utilizes foreign currency forward contracts designed to offset the risks associated with certain foreign currency exposures. We may suspend the program from time to time. As a part of this program, we enter into foreign currency forward contracts so that increases or decreases in our foreign currency exposures are offset at least in part by gains or losses on the foreign currency forward contracts in an effort to mitigate the risks and volatility associated with our foreign currency transaction gains or losses. A large portion of our consolidated operations are international, and we expect that we will continue to realize gains or losses with respect to our foreign currency exposures, net of gains or losses from our foreign currency forward contracts. For example, we will experience foreign currency gains and losses in certain instances if it is not possible or cost effective to hedge our foreign currency exposures, if our hedging efforts are ineffective, or should we suspend our foreign currency forward contract program. Our ultimate realized loss or gain with respect to currency fluctuations will generally depend on the size and type of cross-currency exposures that we enter into, the currency exchange rates associated with these exposures and changes in those rates, whether we have entered into foreign currency forward contracts to offset these exposures and other factors. All of these factors could materially impact our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
We may fail to achieve our financial forecasts due to inaccurate sales forecasts or other factors. Our revenues, particularly our new software licenses revenues and hardware systems revenues, are difficult to forecast. As a result, our quarterly operating results can fluctuate substantially.
We use a “pipeline” system, a common industry practice, to forecast sales and trends in our business. Our sales personnel monitor the status of all proposals and estimate when a customer will make a purchase decision and the dollar amount of the sale. These estimates are aggregated periodically to generate a sales pipeline. Our pipeline estimates can prove to be unreliable both in a particular quarter and over a longer period of time, in part because the “conversion rate” or “closure rate” of the pipeline into contracts can be very difficult to estimate. A reduction in the conversion rate, or in the pipeline itself, could cause us to plan or budget incorrectly and adversely affect our business or results of operations. In particular, a slowdown in IT spending or economic conditions generally can unexpectedly reduce the conversion rate in particular periods as purchasing decisions are delayed, reduced in amount or cancelled. The conversion rate can also be affected by the tendency of some of our customers to wait until the end of a fiscal period in the hope of obtaining more favorable terms, which can also impede our ability to negotiate, execute and deliver upon these contracts in a timely manner. In addition, for newly acquired companies, we have limited ability to predict how their pipelines will convert into sales or revenues for a number of quarters following the acquisition. Conversion rates post-acquisition may be quite different from the acquired companies’ historical conversion rates. Differences in conversion rates can also be affected by changes in business practices that we implement in our newly acquired companies. These changes may negatively affect customer behavior.
A substantial portion of our new software licenses and hardware systems contracts is completed in the latter part of a quarter and a significant percentage of these are larger orders. Because a significant portion of our cost structure is largely fixed in the short-term, sales and revenue shortfalls tend to have a disproportionately negative impact on our profitability. The number of large new software licenses transactions and, to a lesser extent, hardware systems products transactions increases the risk of fluctuations in our quarterly results because a delay in even a small number of these transactions could cause our quarterly sales, revenues and profitability to fall significantly short of our predictions.
Our Oracle Cloud strategy, including our Oracle Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Data as a Service (DaaS) offerings, may adversely affect our revenues and profitability. We offerprovide our cloud and other offerings to customers a full range of consumptionworldwide via deployment models that best suit their needs, including the deployment of our products via our cloud basedcloud-based SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and DaaS offerings. TheseAs these business
models continue to evolve, and we may not be able to compete effectively, generate significant revenues or maintain the profitability of our cloud offerings. Additionally, the increasing prevalence of cloud and SaaS delivery models offered by us and our competitors may unfavorably impact the pricing of our on-premises enterprise software offeringscloud and our cloud offerings, and has a dampening impact on overall demand for our on-premises software product and service
offerings, which could reduce our revenues and profitability, at least in the near-term.license offerings. If we do not successfully execute our cloud computing strategy or anticipate the cloud computing needs of our customers, our reputation as a cloud services provider could be harmed and our revenues and profitability could decline.
Our cloud offerings are generally purchased by customers on a subscription basis and revenues from these offerings are generally recognized ratably over the term of the subscriptions. The deferred revenue that results from sales of our cloud offerings may prevent any deterioration in sales activity associated with our cloud offerings from becoming immediately observable in our consolidated statement of operations. This is in contrast to revenues associated with our new software licenses arrangements whereby new software licenses revenues are generally recognized in full at the time of delivery of the related software licenses. We incur certain expenses associated with the infrastructures and marketing of our cloud offerings in advance of our ability to recognize the revenues associated with these offerings. As customer demand for our cloud offerings increases, we experience volatility in our reported revenues and operating results due to the differences in timing of revenue recognition between our new software licensescloud license andon-premise license, and hardware arrangements andrelative to our cloud offering arrangements. Customers generally purchase our cloud offerings on a subscription basis and revenues from these offerings are generally recognized ratably over the terms of the subscriptions. Consequently, any deterioration in sales activity associated with our cloud offerings may not be immediately observable in our consolidated statement of operations. This is in contrast to revenues associated with our cloud license andon-premise license arrangements which are generally recognized in full at the time of delivery of the related licenses. In addition, we incur certain expenses associated with the infrastructure and marketing of our cloud offerings in advance of our ability to recognize the revenues associated with these offerings.
We have also acquired a number of cloud computing companies, and the integration of these companies into our Oracle Cloud strategy may not be as efficient or scalable as anticipated, which could adversely affect our ability to fully realize the benefits anticipated from these acquisitions.
Our success depends upon our ability to develop new products and services, integrate acquired products and services and enhance our existing products and services.Rapid technological advances, changing delivery models and evolving standards in computer hardware and software development and communications infrastructure, changing and increasingly sophisticated customer needs and frequent new product introductions and enhancements characterize the industries in which we compete. If we are unable to develop new or sufficiently differentiated products and services, enhance and improve our productsproduct offerings and support services in a timely manner or position and price our products and services to meet demand, customers may not purchase or subscribe to our software, hardware or cloud offerings or renew software support, hardware support or cloud subscriptions contracts. Renewals of these contracts are important to the growth of our business. In addition, we cannot provide any assurance that the standards on which we choose to develop new products will allow us to compete effectively for business opportunities in emerging areas.
We have continued to refresh and release new offerings of our software and cloud and hardware products and services, including the launch of the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service in fiscal 2018. The Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service offers automation based on machine learning and we have guaranteed, among other matters, that it will reduce customer downtime to less than 30 minutes a year and that Amazon Data Warehouse customers will see a significant cost reduction if they migrate their workloads to our Database Multitenant, Database In-Memory, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, DaaSoffering. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are increasingly driving innovations in technology but if they fail to operate as anticipated or the Oracle Engineered Systems offerings. OurAutonomous Warehouse Cloud Service or our other products do not perform as promised, our business and reputation may be harmed.
In addition, our business may be adversely affected if:
we do not continue to develop and release these or other new or enhanced products and services within the anticipated time frames;
there is a delay in market acceptance of a new, enhanced or acquired product linelines or service;services;
there are changes in information technology (IT) trends that we do not adequately anticipate or address with our product development efforts;
we do not timely optimize complementary product lines and services; or
we fail to adequately integrate, support or enhance acquired product lines or services.
We might experience significant coding, manufacturing or configuration errors in our cloud, license and hardware offerings. Despite testing prior to the release and throughout the lifecycle of a product or service,
our cloud, license and hardware offerings sometimes contain coding or manufacturing errors that can impact their function, performance and security, and result in other negative consequences. The detection and correction of any errors in released cloud, license or hardware offerings can be time consuming and costly. Errors in our cloud, license or hardware offerings could affect their ability to properly function or operate with other cloud, license or hardware offerings, could delay the development or release of new products or services or new versions of products or services, could create security vulnerabilities in our products or services, and could adversely affect market acceptance of our products or services. This includes third-party software products or services incorporated into our own. If we experience errors or delays in releasing our cloud, license or hardware offerings or new versions thereof, our sales could be affected and revenues could decline. In addition, we run Oracle’s business operations as well as cloud and other services that we offer to our customers on our products and networks. Therefore, any flaws could affect our ability to conduct our business operations and the operations of our customers. Enterprise customers rely on our cloud, license and hardware offerings and related services to run their businesses and errors in our cloud, license and hardware offerings and related services could expose us to product liability, performance and warranty claims as well as significant harm to our brand and reputation, which could impact our future sales.
If our security measures for our software, hardware,products and services or Oracle Cloud offerings are compromised and as a result, our data, our customers’ data or our IT systems are accessed improperly, made unavailable, or improperly modified, our products and services may be perceived as vulnerable, our brand and reputation could be damaged, the IT services we provide to our customers could be disrupted, and customers may stop using our products and services, all of which could reduce our revenue and earnings, increase our expenses and expose us to legal claims and regulatory actions. We are in the information technologyIT business, and our products and services, including our Oracle Cloud offerings,Services, store, retrieve, manipulate and manage our customers’ information and data, external data, as well as our own data. We have a reputation for secure and reliable product offerings and related services and we have invested a great deal of time and resources in protecting the integrity and security of our products, services and the internal and external data that we manage.
At times, we encounter attempts by third parties (which may include individuals or groups of hackers and sophisticated organizations, such as state-sponsored organizations, nation states and individuals sponsored by them) to identify and exploit product and service vulnerabilities, penetrate or bypass our security measures, and gain unauthorized access to our or our customers’, partners’ and suppliers’ software, hardware and cloud offerings, networks and systems, any of which could lead to the compromise of personal information or the confidential information or data of Oracle or our customers. Computer hackers and others may be able to develop and deploy IT related viruses, worms, and other malicious software programs that could attack our networks, systems, products and services, exploit potential security vulnerabilities of our networks, systems, products and services, create system disruptions and cause shutdowns or denials of service. This is also true for third partythird-party data, products or services incorporated into our own. Data may also be accessed or modified improperly as a result of customer, partner, employee or supplier error or malfeasance and third parties may attempt to fraudulently induce customers, partners, employees or suppliers into disclosing sensitive information such as user names, passwords or other information in order to gain access to our data, our customers’, suppliers’ or partners’ data or the IT systems of Oracle, itsour customers, suppliers or partners.
High-profile security breaches at other companies have increased in recent years, and securitySecurity industry experts and government officials have warned about the risks of hackers and cyber-attacks targeting information technologyIT products and businesses. Although this is an industry-wide problem that affects other software and hardware companies generally, it affects Oracle in particular because computer hackers tend to focus their efforts on the most prominent IT companies, and they may focus on Oracle because of our reputation for, and marketing efforts associated with, having secure products and services. These risks will increase as we continue to grow our cloud offerings and store and process increasingly large amounts of data, including personal information and our customers’ confidential information and data and other external data, and host or manage parts of our customers’ businesses in cloud-based IT environments, especially in customer sectors involving particularly sensitive data such as health sciences, financial services, retail, hospitality and the government. We also have an active acquisition program and have acquired a number of companies, products, services and technologies over the years. While we make significant efforts to address any IT security issues with respect to our acquired companies, we may still inherit such risks when we integrate these companies within Oracle.
If
Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to, or sabotage IT systems change frequently, grow more complex over time, and often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate or implement adequate measures to prevent against such techniques.Our internal IT systems continue to evolve and we are often early adapters of new technologies.However, our business policies and internal security controls may not keep pace with these changes as new threats emerge. In addition, we may not discover any security breach and loss of information for a significant period of time after the security breach.
We could suffer significant damage to our brand and reputation if a cyber-attack or other security incident described above were to allow unauthorized access to or modification of our customers’ or suppliers’ data, other external data, or our own data or our IT systems or if the services we provide to our customers were disrupted, or if our products or services are perceived as having security vulnerabilities, we could suffer significant damage to our brand and reputation.vulnerabilities. Customers could lose confidence in the security and reliability of our products and services, including our cloud offerings, and perceive them to be not secure. This in turn could lead to fewer customers using our products and services and result in reduced revenue and earnings. The costs we would incur to address and fix these security incidents would increase our expenses. These types of security incidents could also lead to loss or destruction of information, inappropriate use of proprietary and sensitive data, lawsuits, indemnity obligations, regulatory investigations and financial penalties, and claims and increased legal liability, including in some cases contractual costs related to customer notification and fraud monitoring.
As illustrated by the Spectre and Meltdown threats, our products operate in conjunction with and are dependent on products and components across a broad ecosystem. If there is a security vulnerability in one of these components, and if there is a security exploit targeting it, we could face increased costs, liability claims, customer dissatisfaction, reduced revenue, or harm to our reputation or competitive position.
Our business practices with respect to the collection, use and management of personal informationdata could give rise to operational interruption, liabilities or reputational harm as a result of governmental regulation, legal requirements or industry standards relating to consumer privacy and data protection.As regulatory focus on privacy issues continues to increase and worldwide laws and regulations concerning the handling of personal information expand and become more complex, potential risks related to data collection and use within our business will intensify. For example, the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) formally entered into a new framework in July 2016 that provides a mechanism for companies to transfer data from EU member states to the U.S. This new framework, called the Privacy Shield, is intended to address shortcomings identified by the Court of Justice of the EU in the previousEU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework, which the Court of Justice invalidated in October 2015. The Privacy Shield and other data transfer mechanisms are currently subject to challenges in European courts, which may lead to uncertainty about the legal basis for data transfers to the U.S. or interruption of such transfers. In the event any court blocks transfers to or from a particular jurisdiction on the basis that no transfer mechanisms are legally adequate, this could give rise to operational interruption in the performance of services for customers and internal processing of employee information, regulatory liabilities or reputational harm.
In addition, U.S. and foreign governments have enacted or are considering enacting legislation or regulations, or may in the near future interpret existing legislation or regulations, in a manner that could significantly impact our ability, as well as the ability of Oracle and our customers, partners and data partnersproviders, to collect, augment, analyze, use, transfer and share personal and other information that is integral to certain services Oracle provides and data services.we provide. This could be true particularly in those jurisdictions where privacy laws or regulators take a broader view of how personal information is defined, therefore subjecting the handling of such data to heightened restrictions that may be obstructive to our operations and the operations of Oracle and itsour customers, partners and data providers. This impact may be acute in countries that have passed or are considering passing legislation that requires data to remain localized “in country”,country,” as this imposes financial costs on any service provider that is required to store data in jurisdictions not of its choosing and nonstandard operational processes that are difficult and costly to integrate with global processes.
Regulators globally are also imposing greater monetary fines for privacy violations,violations. For example, in 2016, the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which became effective in May 2018. The law establishes new requirements regarding the handling of personal data.Non-compliance with the GDPR may result in monetary penalties of up to 4% of worldwide revenue. The GDPR and the European
Union (EU) is considering legislation that would impose fines for privacy violations based on a percentage of global revenues. Changesother changes in laws or regulations associated with the enhanced protection of certainpersonal and other types of sensitive data such as healthcare data or other personal information, could greatly increase
the size of potential fines related to data protection and our cost of providing our products and services could result in changes to our business practices or even prevent us from offering certain of our services in jurisdictions thatin which we operate. Although we have implemented contracts, policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, there can be no assurance that our employees, contractors, partners, data providers or agents will not violate such laws and regulations or our contracts, policies and procedures. Additionally, public perception and standards related to the privacy of personal information can shift rapidly, in ways that may affect Oracle’sour reputation or influence regulators to enact regulations and laws that may limit Oracle’sour ability to provide certain products.
We make statements about our use and disclosure of personal information through our privacy policy, information provided on our website and press statements. Any failure, or perceived failure, by Oracleus to comply with these public statements or with U.S. federal, state, or foreign laws and regulations, including laws and regulations regulating privacy, data security, or consumer protection, or other policies, public perception, standards, self-regulatory requirements or legal obligations, could result in lost or restricted business, proceedings, actions or fines brought against us or levied by governmental entities or others, or could adversely affect our business and harm our reputation.
We might experience significant coding, manufacturing or configuration errorsEconomic, political and market conditions can adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition, including our revenue growth and profitability, which in our software, hardware and cloud offerings. Despite testing prior to their release and throughout the lifecycle of a product or service, software, hardware and cloud offerings sometimes contain coding or manufacturing errors that can impact their function, performance and security, and result in other negative consequences. The detection and correction of any errors in released software, hardware or cloud offerings can be time consuming and costly. Errors in our software, hardware or cloud offerings could affect their ability to properly function or operate with other software, hardware or cloud offerings, could delay the development or release of new products or services or new versions of products or services, could result in creating security vulnerabilities in our products or services, andturn could adversely affect market acceptanceour stock price. Our business is influenced by a range of factors that are beyond our products or services. This includes third party software products or services incorporated into our own. If we experience errors or delays in releasing our software, hardware or cloud offerings or new versions thereof, our sales could be affectedcontrol and revenues could decline. In addition, we run Oracle’s business operations as well as cloud and other services that we offer to our customers on our productshave no comparative advantage in forecasting. These include:
general economic and networks. Therefore, any flaws could affect our ability to conduct our business operations and the operations of our customers. Enterprise customers rely on our softwareconditions;
overall demand for enterprise cloud, license and hardware products and servicesservices;
governmental budgetary constraints or shifts in government spending priorities; and
general legal, regulatory and political developments.
Macroeconomic developments like the developments associated with the United Kingdom’s vote to runexit the EU or the occurrence of similar events in other countries that lead to uncertainty or instability in economic, political or market conditions could negatively affect our business, operating results, financial condition and outlook, which, in turn, could adversely affect our stock price. Any general weakening of, and related declining corporate confidence in, the global economy or the curtailment of government or corporate spending could cause current or potential customers to reduce or eliminate their businessesIT budgets and errors in our software, hardware or cloud offerings could expose us to product liability, performance and warranty claims as well as significant harm to our brand and reputation,spending, which could cause customers to delay, decrease or cancel purchases of our products and services or cause customers not to pay us or to delay paying us for previously purchased products and services.
In addition, international, regional or domestic political unrest and the related potential impact on global stability, terrorist attacks and the potential for other hostilities in various parts of the world, potential public health crises and natural disasters continue to contribute to a climate of economic and political uncertainty that could adversely affect our future sales.results of operations and financial condition, including our revenue growth and profitability. These factors generally have the strongest effect on our sales of cloud license andon-premise license, hardware and related services and, to a lesser extent, also may affect our renewal rates for license support and our subscription-based cloud offerings.
If we are unable to compete effectively, the results of operations and prospects for our business could be harmed.We face intense competition in all aspects of our business. The nature of the IT industry creates a competitive landscape that is constantly evolving as firms emerge, expand or are acquired, as technology evolves and as technology evolves.delivery models change. Many vendors spend amounts in excess of what Oracle spends to develop and market applications, platform and infrastructure technologies including databases, middleware products, application development tools, business applications, collaboration products and business intelligence products, among others, thatwhich compete with Oracle applications, platform and infrastructure offerings. Use of our software and cloud offerings. These vendors include on-premises software companies and companies that offer cloud based SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and DaaS offerings and business process outsourcing (BPO) as competitive alternatives to buying software and hardware. Our competitors that offer business applications and middleware productscompetitors’ technologies may influence a customer’s purchasing decision for the underlying database inor create an effortenvironment that makes it less efficient to persuade potentialutilize Oracle products and services. Our competition may also adopt business practices that provide customers access to competing products and services at a risk profile that we may not generally find acceptable, which may convince customers to acquire our products.purchase competitor products and services. We could lose
customers if our competitors introduce new competitive products, add new functionality, acquire competitive products, reduce prices, better execute on their sales and marketing strategies, offer more flexible business practices or form strategic alliances with other companies. We may also face increasing competition from open source software initiatives in which competitors may provide software and intellectual property for free. Existing or new competitors could gain sales opportunities or customers at our expense.
Our hardware systems business competes with, among others, (i)(1) systems manufacturers and resellers of systems based on our own microprocessors and operating systems and those of our competitors, (ii)(2) microprocessor/chip manufacturers, (iii)(3) providers of storage products, and (iv)(4) certain industry-specific hardware manufacturers including those serving communications, hospitality and retail industries.industries and (5) certain cloud providers that build their own IT infrastructures. Our hardware systems business causes us to compete with certain companies that historically have been partners. Some of these competitors may have more experience than we do in managing a hardware business. A large portion of our hardware products are based on our SPARC microprocessor and Oracle Solaris operating system platform, which has a smaller installed base than certain of our competitors’ platforms and which may make it difficult for us to win new customers that have already made significant investments in our competitors’ platforms. Certain of these competitors also
compete very aggressively on price. A loss in our competitive position could result in lower revenues or profitability, which could adversely impact our ability to realize the revenue and profitability forecasts for our hardware systems business.
We may need to change our pricing models to compete successfully. The intense competition we face in the sales of our products and services and general economic and business conditions can put pressure on us to change our prices. If our competitors offer deep discounts on certain products or services or develop products that the marketplace considers more valuable, we may need to lower prices or offer other favorable terms in order to compete successfully. Any such changes may reduce margins and could adversely affect operating results. Additionally, the increasing prevalence of cloud delivery models offered by us and our competitors may unfavorably impact the pricing of our other cloud and license, hardware and services offerings, in particular our IaaS offerings, which could reduce our revenues and profitability. Our license support fees and hardware support fees are generally priced as a percentage of our net cloud license andon-premise license fees and net new hardware products fees, respectively. Our competitors may offer lower pricing on their support offerings, which could put pressure on us to further discount our offerings or support pricing.
We introduced Oracle Bring Your Own License (BYOL) to PaaS and Universal Credit Pricing in fiscal 2018 to simplify the way customers purchase and consume our cloud services. Oracle BYOL enables customers to maintain their existing software licenses for Oracle PaaS while expanding their platform technology footprint at a discounted price. Oracle Universal Credit Pricing provides a flexible model for customers to access Oracle PaaS and IaaS services on demand via a single contract. These changes and any future changes to our prices and pricing policies could cause our revenues to decline or be delayed as our sales force implements and our customers adjust to the new pricing policies. Some of our competitors may bundle products for promotional purposes or as a long-term pricing strategy, commit to large customer deployments at prices that are unprofitable, or provide guarantees of prices and product implementations. These practices could, over time, significantly constrain the prices that we can charge for certain of our products. If we do not adapt our pricing models to reflect changes in customer use of our products or changes in customer demand, our revenues could decrease. The increase in open source software distribution may also cause us to change our pricing models.
Our international sales and operations subject us to additional risks that can adversely affect our operating results. We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from, and have significant operations, outside of the United States.U.S. Our international operations include cloud operations, cloud, software and hardware systems development, manufacturing, assembly, sales, customer support, consulting and other services and shared administrative service centers.
Compliance with international and U.S. laws and regulations that apply to our international operations increases our cost of doing business in foreign jurisdictions. These laws and regulations include U.S. laws and local laws which include data privacy requirements, labor relations laws, tax laws, foreign currency-related regulations, anti-competition regulations, prohibitions on payments to governmental officials, market access, import, export and general trade restrictionsregulations, including but not limited to economic sanctions and export requirements.embargos. Violations of these laws and regulations could result in fines and penalties, criminal sanctions against us, our officers or our employees, and prohibitions on the conduct of our business.business, including the loss of trade privileges. Any such violations could result in prohibitions on our ability to offer our products and services in one or more countries, could delay or prevent potential acquisitions and could also materially damage our
reputation, our brand, our international expansion efforts, our ability to attract and retain employees, our business and our operating results. Compliance with these laws requires a significant amount of management attention and effort, which may divert management’s attention from running our business operations and could harm our ability to grow our business, or may increase our expenses as we engage specialized or other additional resources to assist us with our compliance efforts. Our success depends, in part, on our ability to anticipate these risks and manage these difficulties. We monitor our operations and investigate allegations of improprieties relating to transactions and the way in which such transactions are recorded. Where circumstances warrant, we provide information and report our findings to government authorities, but no assurance can be given that action will not be taken by such authorities.
We are also subject to a variety of other risks and challenges in managing an organization operating in various countries,globally, including those related to:
general economic conditions in each country or region;
fluctuations in currency exchange rates and related impacts to customer demand and our operating results;
difficulties in transferring funds from or converting currencies in certain countries such as Venezuela that have ledcould lead to a devaluation of our net assets, in particular our cash assets, in that country’s currency;
regulatory changes, including government austerity measures in certain countries that we may not be able to sufficiently plan for or avoid that may unexpectedly impair bank deposits or other cash assets that we hold in these countries or that impose additional taxes that we may be required to pay in these countries;
political unrest, terrorism and the potential for other hostilities, including thosehostilities;
common local business behaviors that are in Ukraine, Syria, Iraqdirect conflict with our business ethics, practices and Yemen;conduct policies;
natural disasters;
the effects of climate change (such as sea level rise, drought, flooding, wildfires and increased storm sensitivity);
longer payment cycles and difficulties in collecting accounts receivable;
overlapping tax regimes;
our ability to repatriate funds held by our foreign subsidiaries to the United States at favorable tax rates;
public health risks, social risks and supporting infrastructure stability risks, particularly in areas in which we have significant operations; and
reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries.
The variety of risks and challenges listed above could also disrupt or otherwise negatively impact the supply chain operations for our hardware systems products segmentbusiness and the sales of our products and services in affected countries or regions.
As the majority shareholder of Oracle Financial Services Software Limited, (OFSS), a publicly traded company in India, and Oracle Corporation Japan, (NOKK), a publicly traded company in Japan, we are faced with several additional risks, including being subject to local securities regulations and being unable to exert full control that we would otherwise have if OFSS or NOKKthese entities were wholly ownedwholly-owned subsidiaries.
Acquisitions present many risks and we may not realize the financial and strategic goals that were contemplated at the time of a transaction. In recent years, we have investedWe continue to invest billions of dollars to acquire a number of companies, products, services and technologies. AWe have a selective and active acquisition program is an important element of our overall corporate strategy and we expect to continue to make acquisitions in the future.future because acquisitions are an important element of our overall corporate strategy. Risks we may face in connection with our acquisition program include:
our ongoing business may be disrupted and our management’s attention may be diverted by acquisition, transition or integration activities;
we may have difficulties (i)(1) managing an acquired company’s technologies or lines of business; (ii)(2) entering new markets where we have no or limited direct prior experience or where competitors may have stronger market positions; or (iii)(3) retaining key personnel from the acquired companies;
an acquisition may not further our business strategy as we expected, we may not integrate an acquired company or technology as successfully as we expected, we may impose our business practices or altergo-to-market strategies that adversely impact the acquired business or we may overpay for, or otherwise not realize the expected return on, our investments, which could adversely affect our business or operating results and potentially cause impairment to assets that we recorded as a part of an acquisition including intangible assets and goodwill;
our operating results or financial condition may be adversely impacted by (1) claims or liabilities that we assume from an acquired company or technology or that are otherwise related to an acquisition, including, among others, claims from government agencies, terminated employees, current or former customers, former stockholders or other third parties;(2) pre-existing contractual relationships of an acquired company that we would not have otherwise entered into, the termination or modification of which may be costly or disruptive to our business; (3) unfavorable revenue recognition or other accounting treatment as a result of an acquired company’s practices; and (4) intellectual property claims or disputes;
we may fail to identify or assess the magnitude of certain liabilities, shortcomings or other circumstances prior to acquiring a company or technology, which could result in unexpected litigation or regulatory exposure, unfavorable accounting treatment, unexpected increases in taxes due, a loss of anticipated tax benefits or other adverse effects on our business, operating results or financial condition;
we may not realize the anticipated increase in our revenues from an acquisition for a number of reasons, including if a larger than predicted number of customers decline to renew cloud-based subscription contracts or software or hardware support contracts or cloud-based subscription contracts, if we are unable to sell the acquired products or service offerings to our customer base, if acquired customers do not elect to purchase our technologies due to differing business practices or if contract models of an acquired company do not allow us to recognize revenues on a timely basis;
we may have difficulty incorporating acquired technologies, products, services and their related supply chain operations with our existing lines of business and supply chain infrastructure and maintaining uniform standards, architecture, controls, procedures and policies;
we may have multiple product lines or services offerings as a result of our acquisitions that are offered, priced and supported differently, which could cause customer confusion and delays;
we may have higher than anticipated costs in continuing support and development of acquired products or services, in general and administrative functions that support new business models, or in compliance with associated regulations that are more complicated than we had anticipated;
we may be unable to obtain timely approvals from, or may otherwise have certain limitations, restrictions, penalties or other sanctions imposed on us by worker councils or similar bodies under applicable employment laws as a result of an acquisition, which could adversely affect our integration plans in certain jurisdictions and potentially increase our integration and restructuring expenses;
we may be unable to obtain required approvals from governmental authorities under competition and antitrust laws on a timely basis, if at all, which could, among other things, delay or prevent us from completing a transaction, otherwiseadversely affect our integration plans in certain jurisdictions, restrict our ability to realize the expected financial or strategic goals of an acquisition, or have other adverse effects on our current business and operations;
our use of cash to pay for acquisitions may limit other potential uses of our cash, including stock repurchases, dividend payments and retirement of outstanding indebtedness;
we may significantly increase our interest expense, leverage and debt service requirements if we incur additional debt to pay for an acquisition and we may have to delay or not proceed with a substantial acquisition if we cannot obtain the necessary funding to complete the acquisition in a timely manner or on favorable terms;
to the extent that we issue a significant amount of equity securities in connection with future acquisitions, existing stockholders may be diluted and earnings per share may decrease; and
we may experience additional or unexpected changes in how we are required to account for our acquisitions pursuant to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, including arrangements that we assume from an acquisition.
The occurrence of any of these risks could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows, particularly in the case of a larger acquisition or several concurrent acquisitions.
Any failure to offer high-quality technical support services may adversely affect our relationships with our customers and our financial results.Our periodic workforce restructurings, including reorganizationscustomers depend on our support organization to resolve technical issues relating to our applications, platform and infrastructure offerings. We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for support services. Increased customer demand for these services, without corresponding revenues, could increase costs and adversely affect our operating results. Any failure to maintain high-quality technical support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality support, could adversely affect our reputation, our ability to sell our applications to existing and prospective customers, and our business, operating results, and financial position.
We may fail to achieve our financial forecasts due to inaccurate sales forecasts or other factors. Our revenues, particularly certain of our cloud license andon-premise license revenues and hardware revenues, are difficult to forecast. As a result, our quarterly operating results can fluctuate substantially.
For our Oracle Cloud Services, we may use conversion or renewal rates in our forecasts that differ materially from our actual conversion or renewal rates because this business is continuing to evolve and such rates may be unpredictable. For our license business, we use a “pipeline” system, a common industry practice, to forecast sales force,and trends in that business. Our sales personnel monitor the status of all proposals and estimate when a customer will make a purchase decision and the dollar amount of the sale. These estimates are aggregated periodically to generate a sales pipeline. Our pipeline estimates can prove to be unreliable both in a particular quarter and over a longer period of time, in part because the conversion rate or closure rate of the pipeline into contracts can be disruptive.very difficult to estimate.
A reduction in the conversion rates, renewal rates, or in the pipeline itself, could cause us to plan or budget incorrectly and adversely affect our business or results of operations. In particular, a slowdown in IT spending or economic conditions generally can unexpectedly reduce the conversion rates and renewal rates in particular periods as purchasing decisions are delayed, reduced in amount or cancelled. The conversion rates can also be affected by the tendency of some of our customers to wait until the end of a fiscal period in the hope of obtaining more favorable terms, which can also impede our ability to negotiate, execute and deliver upon these contracts in a timely manner. In addition, for newly acquired companies, we have limited ability to predict how their pipelines will convert into sales or revenues for a number of quarters following the acquisition. Conversion rates and renewal rates post-acquisition may be quite different from the acquired companies’ historical conversion rates. Differences in conversion rates and renewal rates can also be affected by changes in business practices that we implement in our newly acquired companies. These changes may negatively affect customer behavior.
A substantial portion of our cloud license andon-premise license, and hardware contracts is completed in the latter part of a quarter and a significant percentage of these are larger orders. Because a significant portion of our cost structure is largely fixed in the short term, sales and revenue shortfalls tend to have a disproportionately negative impact on our profitability. The number of large cloud license andon-premise license transactions and, to a lesser extent, hardware products transactions increases the risk of fluctuations in our quarterly results because a delay in even a small number of these transactions could cause our quarterly sales, revenues and profitability to fall significantly short of our predictions.
We may experience foreign currency gains and losses. Changes in currency exchange rates can adversely affect customer demand and our revenue and profitability. We haveconduct a significant number of transactions and hold cash in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. Changes in the past restructured or made other adjustmentsvalues of major foreign currencies, particularly the Euro, Japanese Yen and British Pound, relative to the U.S. Dollar can significantly affect our workforce, including our direct sales force ontotal assets, revenues, operating results and cash flows, which we rely heavily,are reported in responseU.S. Dollars. In particular, the economic uncertainties relating to management changes, product changes, performance issues, acquisitionsEuropean sovereign and other internaldebt obligations may cause the value of the Euro to fluctuate relative to the U.S. Dollar. Fluctuations in foreign currency rates, including the strengthening of the U.S. Dollar against the Euro and external considerations.most other major international currencies, adversely affects our revenue growth in terms of the amounts that we report in U.S. Dollars after converting our foreign currency results into U.S. Dollars and in terms of actual demand for our products and services as certain of these products may become relatively more expensive for foreign currency-based enterprises to purchase. In addition, currency variations can adversely affect margins on sales of our products in countries outside of the past, these typesU.S. Generally, our revenues and operating results are adversely affected when the dollar strengthens relative to other currencies and are positively affected when the dollar weakens. In addition, our reported assets generally are adversely affected when the dollar strengthens relative to other currencies as a portion of sales force restructurings have resultedour consolidated cash and bank deposits, among other assets, are held in increased restructuring costs, increased sales and marketing costs and temporary reduced productivity while the sales teams adjusted to their new roles and responsibilities. foreign currencies.
In addition, we may not achieve or sustain the expected growth or cost savings benefits of these restructurings, or do so within the expected timeframe. These effects could recur in connection with future acquisitionsincur foreign currency transaction gains and losses, primarily related to sublicense fees and other restructuringsintercompany agreements among us and our revenues and other results of operations could be negatively affected.
Our hardware systems revenues and profitability could decline ifsubsidiaries that we do not manageexpect to cash settle in the near term, which are charged against earnings in the period incurred. We have a program which primarily utilizes foreign currency forward contracts designed to offset the risks associated with certain foreign currency exposures. We may suspend the program from time to time. As a part of this program, we enter into foreign currency forward contracts so that increases or decreases in our foreign currency exposures are offset at least in part by gains or losses on the foreign currency forward contracts in an effort to mitigate the risks and volatility associated with our foreign currency transaction gains or losses. A large portion of our consolidated operations are international, and we expect that we will continue to realize gains or losses with respect to our foreign currency exposures, net of gains or losses from our foreign currency forward contracts. For example, we will experience foreign currency gains and losses in certain instances if it is not possible or cost-effective to hedge our foreign currency exposures, if our hedging efforts are ineffective, or should we suspend our foreign currency forward contract program. Our ultimate realized loss or gain with respect to currency fluctuations will generally depend on the size and type of cross-currency exposures that we enter into, the currency exchange rates associated with these exposures and changes in those rates, whether we have entered into foreign currency forward contracts to offset these exposures and other factors. All of these factors could materially impact our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.
We have incurred foreign currency losses associated with the devaluation of currencies in certain highly inflationary economies relative to the U.S. Dollar. We could incur future losses in emerging market countries where we do business should their currencies become designated as highly inflationary.
Our hardware systems business.revenues and profitability have declined and could continue to decline. Our hardware systems business may adversely affect our overall profitability if we do not effectively manage the associated risks.profitability. We may not achieve our estimated revenue, profit or other financial projections with respect to our hardware systems business in a timely manner or at all due to a number of factors, including:
as we developour changes in hardware strategies, offerings and introduce new versions or next generationstechnologies including the development marketing and sale of our hardware systems products, customers may defer or delay purchases of existing hardware systems products and wait for these new releases, all ofown Oracle Cloud Services, which could adversely affect demand for our hardware systems revenues in the short term;products;
our hardware systems business has higher expenses as a percentage of revenues, and thus has been less profitable, than our softwarecloud and cloudlicense business;
we have focusedour focus on our more profitable Oracle Engineered Systems, such as our Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and Oracle SuperCluster products, which are in the relatively early stages of adoption by our customers, and thede-emphasis of our lower profit margin commodity hardware systems products, which could adversely affect our hardware systems revenues because the lower profit systemsproducts have historically constituted a larger portion of our hardware systemsrevenues;
changes in strategies for the development and introduction of new versions or next generations of our hardware products, including the pace at which we offer new versions or next generations of our hardware products, and the related impacts from customers that may defer or delay purchases of existing hardware products and wait for these new releases, all of which could adversely affect our hardware revenues;
we face a greater risk of material charges that could adversely affect our operating results, such as potential write-downs and impairments of inventory,our inventories; higher warranty expenses than what we experience in our software and cloud and license and services businesses,businesses; and amortization and potential impairment of intangible assets associated with our hardware systems business. Any of these items could result in material charges and adversely affect our operating results;business;
we may not be ablethe close connection between hardware products (which have a finite life) and customer demand for related hardware support in which hardware products that approach the end of their useful lives are less likely to increase sales ofhave hardware systems support contracts or such increase may take longer than we anticipate, which could result in lower revenues and profitability, or slower than expected growth of such revenues and profitability;renewed by customers; and
we may acquire hardware companies that are strategically important to us but (i)(1) operate in hardware businesses with historically lower operating margins than our own; (ii)(2) have different legacy business practices andgo-to-market strategies than our own that we may alter as a part of our integration efforts, which may significantly impact our estimated revenues and profits from the acquired company; (3) leverage different platforms or competing technologies that we may encounter difficulties in integrating; or (4) utilize unique manufacturing processes that affect our ability to scale these acquired products within our own manufacturing operations.
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Our hardware systems offerings are complex products, and if we cannot successfully manage this complexity, the results of our hardware systems business will suffer.Designing, developing, manufacturing and introducing new hardware systems products are complicated processes. The development process for our hardware systems products is uncertain and requires a high level of innovation. After the development phase, we must be able to forecast customer demand and manufacture new hardware systems products in sufficient volumes to meet this demand and do so in a cost effectivecost-effective manner. Our “build-to-order”“build-to-order” manufacturing model, in which our hardware systems products generally are not built until after customers place orders, may from time to time experience delays in delivering our hardware systems products to customers in a timely manner. These delays could cause our customers to purchase hardware products and services from our competitors. We must also manage new hardware product introductions and transitions to minimize the impact of customer delayed purchases of existing hardware systems products in anticipation of new hardware systems product releases. It is also possible that we could experience design or manufacturing flaws, which could delay or prevent the production of the components for which we have previously committed to pay or need to fulfill orders from customers and could also prevent the production of our hardware products or cause our hardware products to be returned, recalled or rejected resulting in lost revenues, increases in warranty costs or costs related to remediation efforts, damage to our reputation, penalties and litigation.
We depend on suppliers to design, develop, manufacture and deliver on a timely basis the necessary technologies and components for our hardware products, and there are some technologies and components that can only be purchased from a single vendor due to price, quality, technology, availability or other business constraints. As a result, our supply chain operations could be disrupted or negatively impacted by industry consolidation and component constraints or shortages, natural disasters, political unrest, port stoppages or other transportation disruptions or slowdowns, or other factors affecting the countries or regions where these single source component vendors are located or where the products are being shipped. We may be unable to purchase these items from the respective single vendors on acceptable terms or may experience significant shortages, delays or quality issues in the delivery of necessary technologies, parts or components from a particular vendor. If we had to find a new supplier for these technologies, parts and components, hardware systems product shipments could be delayed, which would adversely affect our hardware systems revenues. We could also experience fluctuations in component prices, which, if unanticipated, could negatively impactaffect our hardware systems business cost structure. Additionally, we could experience changes in shipping and logistics of our hardware products, which could result in fluctuations in prices and negatively impact our hardware systems margins. These factors may make it difficult for us to plan and procure appropriate component inventory levels in a timely fashion to meet customer demand for our hardware products. Therefore, we may experience component inventory
shortages, which may result in production delays or customers choosing to purchase fewer hardware products from us or systemshardware products from our competitors. We negotiate supply commitments with vendors early in the manufacturing process to ensure we have sufficient technologies and components for our hardware products to meet anticipated customer demand. We must also manage our levels of older component inventories used in our hardware products to minimize inventory write-offs or write-downs. If we have excess inventory, it may be necessary to write-down the inventory, which would adversely affect our operating results. If one or more of the risks described above occurs, our hardware systems business and related operating results could be materially and adversely affected.
We are susceptible to third partythird-party manufacturing and logistics delays, which could result in the loss of sales and customers.We outsource the design, manufacturing, assembly and delivery of certain of our hardware products to a variety of companies, many of which are located outside the United States.U.S. Our reliance on these third parties reduces our control over the design, manufacturing and delivery process, exposing us to risks, including reduced control over quality assurance, product costs, product supply and delivery delays as well as the political and economic uncertainties and natural disasters of the international locations where certain of these third partythird-party manufacturers have facilities and operations. Some countries may raise national security concerns or
impose market access restrictions based on location of manufacturemanufacturing or sourcing. Any manufacturing disruption or logistics delays by these third parties could impair our ability to fulfill orders for these hardware systems products for extended periods of time. If we are unable to manage our relationships with these third parties effectively, or if these third parties experience delays, disruptions, capacity constraints, regulatory issues or quality control problems in their operations, or fail to meet our future requirements for timely delivery, our ability to ship and deliver certain of our hardware systems products to our customers could be impaired and our hardware systems business could be harmed.
We have simplifiedendeavor to continue simplifying our supply chain processes by reducing the number of third partythird-party manufacturing partners and the number of locations where these third partythird-party manufacturers build our hardware systems products. We therefore have become more dependent on a fewer number of these manufacturing partners and locations. If these partners experience production problems or delays or cannot meet our demand for products, we may not be able to find alternate manufacturing sources in a timely or cost effectivecost-effective manner, if at all. If we are required to change third partythird-party manufacturers, our ability to meet our scheduled hardware systems products deliveries to our customers could be adversely affected, which could cause the loss of sales and existing or potential customers, delayed revenue recognition or an increase in our hardware systems products expenses, all of which could adversely affect the margins of our hardware business.
These challenges and risks also exist when we acquire companies with hardware products and related supply chain operations. In some cases, we may be dependent, at least initially, on these acquired companies’ supply chain operations that we are less familiar with and thus we may be slower to adjust or react to these challenges and risks.
Our softwarecloud and license, and hardware indirect sales channel could affect our future operating results. Our softwarecloud and license, and hardware indirect channel network is comprised primarily of resellers, system integrators/implementers, consultants, education providers, internet service providers, network integrators and independent software vendors. Our relationships with these channel participants are important elements of our cloud, software and hardware marketing and sales efforts. Our financial results could be adversely affected if our contracts with channel participants were terminated, if our relationships with channel participants were to deteriorate, if any of our competitors enter into strategic relationships with or acquire a significant channel participant, if the financial condition or operations of our channel participants were to weaken or if the level of demand for our channel participants’ products and services were to decrease. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in maintaining, expanding or developing our relationships with channel participants. If we are not successful, we may lose sales opportunities, customers and revenues.
We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights. We rely on copyright, trademark, patent and trade secret laws, confidentiality procedures, controls and contractual commitments to protect our intellectual property rights. Despite our efforts, these protections may be limited. Unauthorized third parties may try to copy or reverse engineer portions of our products or otherwise obtain and use our intellectual property. Any
patents owned by us may be invalidated, circumvented or challenged. Any of our pending or future patent applications, whether or not being currently challenged, may not be issued with the scope of the claims we seek, if at all. In addition, the laws of some countries do not provide the same level of protection of our intellectual property rights as do the laws and courts of the United States.U.S. If we cannot protect our intellectual property rights against unauthorized copying or use, or other misappropriation, we may not remain competitive.
Third parties have claimed, and in the future may claim, infringement or misuse of intellectual property rights and/or breach of license agreement provisions. We periodically receive notices from, or have lawsuits filed against us by, others claiming infringement or other misuse of their intellectual property rights and/or breach of our agreements with them. These third parties include entities that do not have the capabilities to design, manufacture, or distribute products or services or that acquire intellectual property like patents for the sole purpose of monetizing their acquired intellectual property through asserting claims of infringement and misuse. We expect the number ofto continue to receive such claims will increase as:
we continue to acquire companies and expand into new businesses;
the number of products and competitors in our industry segments grows;
the use and support of third partythird-party code (including open source code) becomes more prevalent in the industry;
the volume of issued patents continues to increase; and
the proliferation of non-practicing entities assertingcontinue to assert intellectual property infringement claims increases.in our industry segments.
Responding to any such claim, regardless of its validity, could:
be time consuming, costly and result in litigation;
divert management’s time and attention from developing our business;
require us to pay monetary damages or enter into royalty and licensing agreements that we would not normally find acceptable;
require us to stop selling or to redesign certain of our products;
require us to release source code to third parties, possibly under open source license terms;
require us to satisfy indemnification obligations to our customers; or
otherwise adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
Our periodic workforce restructurings and reorganizations can be disruptive. We have in the past restructured or made other adjustments to our workforce, including our hardware employees and direct sales force, in response to management changes, product changes, performance issues, change in strategies, acquisitions and other internal and external considerations. In the past, these types of restructurings have resulted in increased restructuring costs, increased sales and marketing costs and temporary reduced productivity while the employees adjusted to their new roles and responsibilities. In addition, we may not achieve or sustain the expected growth or cost savings benefits of these restructurings, or may not do so within the expected timeframe. These effects could recur in connection with future acquisitions and other restructurings and our revenues and other results of operations could be negatively affected.
We may lose key employees or may be unable to hire enough qualified employees. We rely on hiring qualified employees and the continued service of our senior management, including our Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Technology Officer and founder, our Chief Executive Officers, other members of our executive team and other key employees and the hiring of new qualified employees. In the technology industry, there is substantial and continuous competition for highly skilled business, product development, technical and other personnel. In addition, acquisitions could cause us to lose key personnel of the acquired companies or at Oracle. We may also experience increased compensation costs that are not offset by either improved productivity or higher sales. We may not be successful in recruiting new personnel and in retaining and motivating existing personnel. With rare exceptions, we do not have long-term employment ornon-competition agreements with our employees. Members of our senior management team have left Oracle over the years for a variety of reasons, and we cannot assure youguarantee that there will not be additional departures, which may be disruptive to our operations.
We continually focus on improving our cost structure by hiring personnel in countries where advanced technical expertise and other expertise are available at lower costs. When we make adjustments to our workforce, we may incur expenses associated with workforce reductions that delay the benefit of a more efficient workforce structure. We may also experience increased competition for employees in these countries as the trend toward globalization continues, which may affect our employee retention efforts and increase our expenses in an effort to offer a competitive compensation program. In addition, changes to immigration and labor law policies may adversely impact our access to technical and professional talent.
Our general compensation program includes stock options and restricted stock units, (RSUs),performance equity and stock options, which are important tools in attracting and retaining employees in our industry. If our stock price performs poorly, it may adversely affect our ability to retain or attract employees. In addition, because we expense all stock-based compensation, we have changed and may in the future change our stock-based and other compensation practices. For example, in fiscal 2015, we introduced RSU grants for certain of our employees and performance related stock unit grants for certain of our executives. We continue tocontinually evaluate our compensation practices and otherconsider changes we consider from time to time, include a reduction insuch as reducing the number of employees granted equity awards a reduction inor the number of stock options or RSUsequity awards granted per employee and granting alternative forms of stock-based compensation, all of which may have an impact on our ability to retain employees and also impact the amount of stock-based compensation expense that we record. Any changes in our compensation practices or changes made bythose of our competitors could affect our ability to retain and motivate existing personnel and recruit new personnel.
Our sales to government clients subjectexpose us to business volatility and risks, including government budgeting cycles and appropriations, procurement regulations, governmental policy shifts, early termination of contracts, audits, investigations, sanctions and penalties. We derive revenues from contracts with the U.S. government, state and local governments, and foreign governments and their respective agencies, whichare subject to procurement laws and regulations relating to the award, administration and performance of those contracts.
Governmental entities are variously pursuing policies that affect our ability to sell our products and services. Changes in government procurement policy, priorities, technology initiatives, and/or contract award criteria may terminate mostnegatively impact our potential for growth in the government sector.
We are also subject to early termination of theseour contracts. Many governmental entities have the right to terminate contracts at any time, without cause. For example, the U.S. federal government may terminate any of our government contracts and subcontracts at its convenience, or for default based on our performance.
U.S. federal contracts are subject to the congressional approval of appropriations to fund the expenditures under these contracts. Similarly, our contracts with U.S. state and local governments, foreign governments and their agencies are generally subject to government funding authorizations. Contracts may be terminated based upon a lack of appropriated funds.
There is increased pressure foron governments and their agencies, both domestically and internationally, to reduce spending. Further, our U.S. federalspending as governments continue to face significant deficit reduction pressures. This may adversely impact spending on government programs.
Government contracts are subject to the approval of appropriations made by the U.S. Congress to fund the expenditures under these contracts. Similarly, our contracts at the statelaws and local levels in the U.S.regulations impose certain risks, and our contracts with foreign governments and their agencies are generally subject to government
funding authorizations. Additionally, government contracts are generally subject to audits and investigations whichinvestigations. If violations of law are found, they could result in various civil and criminal penalties and administrative sanctions, including termination of contracts, refund of a portion of fees received, forfeiture of profits, suspension of payments, fines and suspensions or debarment from future government business.
We may need to change our pricing models to compete successfully. The intense competition we face in the sales of our products and services and general economic and business conditions can put pressure on us to change our prices. If our competitors offer deep discounts on certain products or services or develop products that the marketplace considers more valuable, we may need to lower prices or offer other favorable terms in order to compete successfully. Any such changes may reduce margins and could adversely affect operating results. Additionally, the increasing prevalence of cloud and SaaS delivery models offered by us and our competitors may unfavorably impact the pricing of our on-premises enterprise software offerings and our cloud offerings, as well as overall demand for our on-premises software product and service offerings, which could reduce our revenues and profitability. Our software license updates and product support fees and hardware systems support fees are generally priced as a percentage of our net new software licenses fees and net new hardware systems products fees, respectively. Our competitors may offer lower pricing on their support offerings, which could put pressure on us to further discount our product or support pricing.
Any broad-based change to our prices and pricing policies could cause our revenues to decline or be delayed as our sales force implements and our customers adjust to the new pricing policies. Some of our competitors may bundle products for promotional purposes or as a long-term pricing strategy or provide guarantees of prices and product implementations. These practices could, over time, significantly constrain the prices that we can charge for certain of our products. If we do not adapt our pricing models to reflect changes in customer use of our products or changes in customer demand, our revenues could decrease. The increase in open source software distribution may also cause us to change our pricing models.
We may not receive significant revenues from our current research and development efforts for several years, if at all. Developing software,our cloud and license, and hardware offerings is expensive and the investment in the development of these offerings often involves a long return on investment cycle. An important element of our corporate strategy is to continue to makededicate a significant investments inamount of resources to research and development and related product and service opportunities both through internal investments and the acquisition of intellectual property from companies that we have acquired. Accelerated product and service introductions and short software and hardware life cycles require high levels of expenditures for research and development that could adversely affect our operating results if not offset by revenue increases. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our research and development efforts to maintain our competitive position. However, we do not expect to receive significant revenues from these investments for several years, if at all.
Business disruptions could adversely affect our operating results. A significant portion of our critical business operations are concentrated in a few geographic Index to Financial Statements
areas.areas, some of which include emerging market international locations that may be less stable relative to running such business operations solely within the U.S. We are a highly automated business and a disruption or failure of our systems and processes could cause delays in completing sales, and providing services, including some of our cloud offerings.offerings, and enabling a seamless customer experience with respect to our customer facing back office processes. A major earthquake or fire, political, social or other disruption to infrastructure that supports or operations or other catastrophic event or the effects of climate change (such as increased storm severity, drought and pandemics) that results in the destruction or disruption of any of our critical business or IT systems could severely affect our ability to conduct normal business operations and, as a result, our future operating results could be materially and adversely affected.
Adverse litigation results could affect our business. We are subject to various legal proceedings. Litigation can be lengthy, expensive and disruptive to our operations, and can divert our management’s attention away from running our core business. The results of our litigation also cannot be predicted with certainty. An adverse decision could result in monetary damages or injunctive relief that could affect our business, operating results or financial condition. Additional information regarding certain of the lawsuits we are involved in is discussed under Note 1817 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
We may have exposure to additional tax liabilities. As a multinational corporation, we are subject to income taxes as well asnon-income based taxes, in both the United StatesU.S. and various foreign jurisdictions. Significant judgment isuncertainties exist with respect to the amount of our tax liabilities, including those arising from potential changes in laws in the countries in which we do business and the possibility of adverse determinations with respect to the application of existing laws. Many judgments are required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes and other tax liabilities. Weliabilities, and we are regularly under audit by tax authorities, and those authoritieswhich often do not agree with positions taken by us on our tax returns.
Changes in tax laws or tax rulings Any unfavorable resolution of these uncertainties may have a significantlysignificant adverse impact on our effective tax rate. For example,
Increasingly, countries around the United States, many countries in the EU, and other countries where we do business,world are actively considering or have enacted changes in relevant tax, accounting and other laws, regulations and interpretations, includinginterpretations. In particular, the recently enacted U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Tax Act) significantly changed how corporations are taxed in the United States, which has had and we expect will continue to have a meaningful impact on our provision for income taxes. Due to the complexity involved in applying the provisions of the Tax Act, we made reasonable estimates of the effects and recorded provisional amounts in our financial statements for the year ended May 31, 2018. The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and other standards-setting bodies may issue guidance on how the provisions of the Tax Act will be applied that is different from our interpretation. The Tax Act requires complex computations not previously required or produced, and significant judgments and assumptions in the interpretation of the law were made in producing our provisional estimates. As we complete our analyses, and interpret any additional guidance, we may adjust the provisional amounts we have recorded, and those adjustments may materially impact our provision for income taxes in the period in which the adjustments are made. We also anticipate that uncertainty in the application of the Tax Act to our ongoing operations as well as possible adverse future law changes attributable to tax laws applicable to corporate multinationals, which, if enacted,changes in the U.S. political environment could have a significantan adverse impact on our effectivefuture tax rate. Further,Other countries also continue to consider enacting new laws, including changes in withholding tax regimes and the ordinary courseimposition of taxes targeted at certain technology businesses (some of which may be made in response to the Tax Act), that could adversely affect us.
As a global business,part of our income tax structure, there are many intercompany transactions and calculations made in the ordinary course of business where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Our intercompany transfer pricing has been and is currently being reviewed by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)IRS and by foreign tax jurisdictions and will likely be subject to additional audits in the future. Although we have negotiated a number of agreements with certain unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements with the IRS and certain selected bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements that cover some of our intercompany transfer pricing issues and preclude the relevant tax authorities from making a transfer pricing adjustment within the scope of these agreements,taxing jurisdictions, these agreements do not cover substantial elements of our transfer pricing. In recent periods, transfer pricing audits in many foreign jurisdictions have become increasingly contentious. Similarly, certain jurisdictions are increasingly raising concerns about certain withholding tax matters.matters under current law. In addition, our provision for income taxes could be adversely affected by shifts of earnings being lower than anticipated infrom jurisdictions which we consider to be indefinitely reinvested outside the United Statesor regimes that have relatively lower statutory tax rates and earnings being higher than anticipatedto those in jurisdictions that have higher statutory tax rates.which the rates are relatively higher.
We are also subject tonon-income based taxes, such as payroll, sales, use, value-added, net worth, property and goods and services taxes, in both the United States and various foreign jurisdictions. We are regularly under audit by tax authorities with respectjurisdictions that have uncertain applicability to these non-income based taxes and may have exposure to additional non-income based tax liabilities. Our acquisition activities have increased our non-income based tax exposures, particularly with our entry into the hardware systems business,businesses in which increased the volume and complexity of laws and regulations that we are subject to and with which we must comply.
engaged. Although we believe that our income andnon-income based tax estimates are reasonable, there is no assurance that the final determination of tax audits or tax disputes will not be different from what is reflected in our historical income tax provisions and accruals.
Charges to earnings resulting from acquisitions may adversely affect our operating results. Under business combination accounting standards pursuant to ASCAccounting Standards Codification (ASC) 805,Business Combinations, we recognize the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed and anynon-controlling interests in acquired companies generally at their acquisition date fair values and, in each case, separately from goodwill. Goodwill as of the acquisition date is measured as the excess amount of consideration transferred, which is also generally measured at fair value, and the net of the acquisition date amounts of the identifiable assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. Our estimates of fair value are based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable but which are inherently uncertain. After we complete an acquisition, the following factors could result in material charges and adversely affect our operating results and may adversely affect our cash flows:
costs incurred to combine the operations of companies we acquire, such as transitional employee expenses and employee retention, redeployment or relocation expenses;
impairment of goodwill in particular within our consulting reporting unit, or impairment of intangible assets, both of which we have added to significantly in recent years and may continue to increase in the future;assets;
amortization of intangible assets acquired;
a reduction in the useful lives of intangible assets acquired;
identification of, or changes to, assumed contingent liabilities, both income tax andnon-income tax related, after our final determination of the amounts for these contingencies or the conclusion of the measurement period (generally up to one year from the acquisition date), whichever comes first;
charges to our operating results to maintain certain duplicativepre-merger activities for an extended period of time or to maintain these activities for a period of time that is longer than we had anticipated, charges to eliminate certain duplicativepre-merger activities, and charges to restructure our operations or to reduce our cost structure;
charges to our operating results due to expenses incurred to effect the acquisition; and
charges to our operating results due to the expensing of certain stock awards assumed in an acquisition.
Substantially all of these costs will be accounted for as expenses that will decreaseadversely impact our net income and earnings per shareoperating results for the periods in which those costs are incurred. For example, we recognized a goodwill impairment loss in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 relating to our hardware systems reporting unit. Charges to our operating results in any given period could differ substantially from other periods based on the timing and size of our future acquisitions and the extent of integration activities. A more detailed discussion of our accounting for business combinations and other items is presented in the “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” section of Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Item 7). included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
There are risks associated with our outstanding and future indebtedness. As of May 31, 2015,2018, we had an aggregate of $42.0$60.9 billion of outstanding indebtedness that will mature between calendar year 20162018 and calendar year 2055 and we may incur additional indebtedness in the future. Our ability to pay interest and repay the principal for our indebtedness is dependent upon our ability to manage our business operations, generate sufficient cash flows to service such debt and the other factors discussed in this section. There can be no assurance that we will be able to manage any of these risks successfully.
We may also need to refinance a portion of our outstanding debt as it matures. There is a risk that we may not be able to refinance existing debt or that the terms of any refinancing may not be as favorable as the terms of our existing debt. Furthermore, if prevailing interest rates or other factors at the time of refinancing result in higher interest rates upon refinancing, then the interest expense relating to that refinanced indebtedness would increase. Should we incur future increases in interest expense, our ability to utilize certain of our foreign tax credits to reduce our U.S. federal income tax could be limited, which could unfavorably affect our provision for income taxes and effective tax rate. In addition, changes by any rating agency to our outlook or credit rating
could negatively affect the value of both our debt and equity securities and increase the interest amounts we pay on certain outstanding or future debt. These risks could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
Environmental and other related laws and regulations subject us to a number of risks and could result in significant liabilities and costs. Some of our cloud and hardware systems operations are subject to state, federal and international laws governing protection of the environment, proper handling and disposal of materials used for these products, human health and safety, the use of certain chemical substances and the labor practices of suppliers. We endeavor to comply with these environmentalsuppliers, as well as local testing and other laws, yet compliancelabelling requirements. Compliance with these environmental and other laws could increase our product design, development, procurement, manufacturing, delivery, cloud operations and administration costs, limit our ability to manage excess and obsoletenon-compliant inventory, change our sales activities, or otherwise impact future financial results of our cloud and hardware systems businesses. Any violation of these laws can subject us to significant liability, including fines, penalties and possible prohibition of sales of our products and services into one or more states or countries and result in a material adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of our cloud and hardware systems businesses. Regulatory, market, and competitive pressures regarding the energy intensity and energy mix for our data center operations may also grow.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted disclosure requirements for companies that use certain “conflict minerals” (commonly referred to as tantalum,(tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold) in their products. Our supply chain is multi-tiered, global and highly complex. As a provider of hardware systems end products, we are several steps removed from the mining and smelting or refining of any conflict minerals in our supply chain. Accordingly, our ability to determine with certainty the origin and chain of custody of conflict minerals is limited. Our relationships with customers and suppliers could suffer if we are unable to describe our products as “conflict-free.” We may also face increased costs in complying with conflict minerals disclosure requirements.
A significant portion of our hardware systems revenues come from international sales. Environmental legislation, such as the EU Directive on Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), the EU Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE Directive) and China’s regulation on Management Methods for Controlling Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products, may increase our cost of doing business internationally and impact our hardware systems revenues from the EU, China and other countries with similar environmental legislation as we endeavor to comply with and implement these requirements. The cumulative impact of international environmental legislation could be significant.
Our stock price could become more volatile and your investment could lose value. All of the factors discussed in this section could affect our stock price. The timing of announcements in the public market regarding new products, product enhancements or technological advances by our competitors or us and any announcements by us of acquisitions, major transactions, or management changes could also affect our stock price. Changes in the amounts and frequency of share repurchases or dividends could adversely affect our stock price. Our stock price is subject tocould also be affected by factors, some of which are beyond our control, including, among others: speculation in the press and the analyst community, changes in recommendations or earnings estimates by financial analysts, changes in investors’ or analysts’ valuation measures for our stock, earnings announcements where our financial results differ from our guidance or investors’ expectations, our credit ratings and market trends unrelated to our performance. A significant drop in our stock price could also expose us to the risk of securities class actionsaction lawsuits, which could result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention and resources, which could adversely affect our business.
We cannot guarantee that our stock repurchase program will be fully implemented or that it will enhance long-term stockholder value. In fiscal 2018, our Board of Directors approved expansions of our stock repurchase program totaling $24.0 billion. The repurchase program does not have an expiration date and we are not obligated to repurchase a specified number or dollar value of shares. Our repurchase program may be suspended or terminated at any time and, even if fully implemented, may not enhance long-term stockholder value.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.
Our properties consist of owned and leased office facilities for sales, support, research and development, consulting,services, manufacturing, cloud operations and administrative personnel.and other functions. Our headquarters facility consists of approximately 2.02.1 million square feet in Redwood City, California, substantially all of which we own. We lease our principal internal manufacturing facility for our hardware systems products in Hillsboro, Oregon. We also own or lease other office facilities for current use consisting of approximately 25.626.8 million square feet in various other locations in the United States and abroad. We believe our facilities are in good condition and suitable for the conduct of our business. Approximately 2.53.0 million square feet, or 9%10%, of our total owned and leased space is sublet or is being actively marketed for sublease or disposition. We lease our principal internal manufacturing facility for our hardware products in Hillsboro, Oregon. Our cloud operations deliver our Oracle Cloud Services through the use of global data centers including those that we own and operate and those that we utilize through colocation suppliers. We believe that our facilities are in good condition and suitable for the conduct of our business.
The material set forth in Note 1814 (pertaining to information regarding contingencies related to our income taxes) and Note 17 (pertaining to information regarding legal contingencies) of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 15 of this Annual Report on Form10-K is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
None.Not applicable.
| Item 5. | Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities |
Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “ORCL”. Prior to July 15, 2013, our common stock traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “ORCL”.“ORCL.” According to the records of our transfer agent, we had 11,3839,575 stockholders of record as of May 31, 2015.2018. The following table sets forth the low and high sale prices per share of our common stock, based on the last daily sale, in each of our last eight fiscal quarters.
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Fourth Quarter | $ | 41.47 | $ | 44.73 | $ | 37.50 | $ | 42.20 | $ | 44.79 | $ | 52.97 | $ | 42.44 | $ | 45.73 | ||||||||||||||||
Third Quarter | $ | 39.95 | $ | 46.23 | $ | 33.23 | $ | 39.11 | $ | 46.63 | $ | 52.75 | $ | 38.45 | $ | 43.17 | ||||||||||||||||
Second Quarter | $ | 37.56 | $ | 42.41 | $ | 32.02 | $ | 35.29 | $ | 47.92 | $ | 52.80 | $ | 37.93 | $ | 41.25 | ||||||||||||||||
First Quarter | $ | 39.61 | $ | 42.81 | $ | 29.96 | $ | 34.40 | $ | 44.68 | $ | 51.17 | $ | 38.44 | $ | 41.77 | ||||||||||||||||
We declared and paid cash dividends totaling $0.51$0.76 and $0.48$0.64 per outstanding common share over the course of fiscal 20152018 and fiscal 2014,2017, respectively.
In June 2015,2018, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15$0.19 per share of our outstanding common stock payable on July 29, 201531, 2018 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 8, 2015.17, 2018. We currently expect to continue paying comparable cash dividends on a quarterly basis; however, future declarations of dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to the final determination of our Board of Directors.
For equity compensation plan information, please refer to Item 12 in Part III of this Annual Report.
Stock Repurchase ProgramsProgram
Our Board of Directors has approved a program for us to repurchase shares of our common stock. On September 18, 2014,December 14, 2017 and February 2, 2018, we announced that our Board of Directors approved an expansionexpansions of our stock repurchase program by an additional $13.0totaling $24.0 billion. Approximately $9.2As of May 31, 2018, approximately $17.8 billion remained available for stock repurchases as of May 31, 2015 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 Rule10b5-1 plan. Our stock repurchase program may be accelerated, suspended, delayed or discontinued at any time.
The following table summarizes the stock repurchase activity for the three months ended May 31, 20152018 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 | ||||||||||||
March 1, 2015—March 31, 2015 | 16.2 | $ | 43.20 | 16.2 | $ | 10,542.3 | ||||||||||
April 1, 2015—April 30, 2015 | 15.4 | $ | 43.40 | 15.4 | $ | 9,875.7 | ||||||||||
May 1, 2015—May 31, 2015 | 14.4 | $ | 43.99 | 14.4 | $ | 9,240.8 | ||||||||||
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March 1, 2018—March 31, 2018 | 35.5 | $ | 48.68 | 35.5 | $ | 21,120.5 | ||||||||||
April 1, 2018—April 30, 2018 | 33.8 | $ | 45.72 | 33.8 | $ | 19,576.4 | ||||||||||
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Stock Performance Graph and Cumulative Total Return
The graph below compares the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock with the cumulative total return of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P Information Technology Index for each of the last five fiscal years ended May 31, 2015,2018, assuming an investment of $100 at the beginning of such period and the reinvestment of any dividends. The comparisons in the graphs below are based upon historical data and are not indicative of, nor intended to forecast, future performance of our common stock.
*$100 INVESTED ON MAY 31, 20102013 IN STOCK OR
INDEX-INCLUDING REINVESTMENT OF DIVIDENDS
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Oracle Corporation | 100.00 | 152.74 | 119.11 | 153.47 | 193.53 | 202.77 | 100.0 | 126.1 | 132.1 | 124.0 | 142.3 | 148.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
S&P 500 Index | 100.00 | 125.95 | 125.43 | 159.64 | 192.28 | 214.99 | 100.0 | 120.5 | 134.7 | 137.0 | 160.9 | 184.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
S&P Information Technology Index | 100.00 | 121.13 | 130.30 | 150.00 | 185.84 | 220.80 | 100.0 | 123.9 | 147.2 | 151.8 | 203.1 | 260.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN” Among Oracle Corporation, the S&P 500 Index and the S&P Information Technology Index
Item 6. Selected Financial Data
The following table sets forth selected financial data as of and for theour last five fiscal years. This selected financial data should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in Item 15 of this Annual Report. Over theour last five fiscal years, we have acquired a number of companies, including NetSuite Inc. (NetSuite) in fiscal 2017 and MICROS Systems, Inc. in fiscal 2015, among others. The results of our acquired companies have been included in our consolidated financial statements since their respective dates of acquisition and have contributed to our revenues, income, earnings per share and total assets.
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(in millions, except per share amounts) | 2015(1) | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total revenues | $ | 38,226 | $ | 38,275 | $ | 37,180 | $ | 37,121 | $ | 35,622 | $ | 39,831 | $ | 37,728 | $ | 37,047 | $ | 38,226 | $ | 38,275 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income | $ | 13,871 | $ | 14,759 | $ | 14,684 | $ | 13,706 | $ | 12,033 | $ | 13,679 | $ | 12,710 | $ | 12,604 | $ | 13,871 | $ | 14,759 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Net income | $ | 9,938 | $ | 10,955 | $ | 10,925 | $ | 9,981 | $ | 8,547 | $ | 3,825 | $ | 9,335 | $ | 8,901 | $ | 9,938 | $ | 10,955 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Earnings per share—diluted | $ | 2.21 | $ | 2.38 | $ | 2.26 | $ | 1.96 | $ | 1.67 | $ | 0.90 | $ | 2.21 | $ | 2.07 | $ | 2.21 | $ | 2.38 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding | 4,503 | 4,604 | 4,844 | 5,095 | 5,128 | 4,238 | 4,217 | 4,305 | 4,503 | 4,604 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared per common share | $ | 0.51 | $ | 0.48 | $ | 0.30 | $ | 0.24 | $ | 0.21 | $ | 0.76 | $ | 0.64 | $ | 0.60 | $ | 0.51 | $ | 0.48 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Working capital(2) | $ | 47,892 | $ | 33,739 | $ | 28,813 | $ | 24,630 | $ | 24,975 | $ | 56,769 | $ | 50,337 | $ | 47,105 | $ | 47,314 | $ | 32,954 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total assets | $ | 110,903 | $ | 90,266 | $ | 81,745 | $ | 78,274 | $ | 73,476 | $ | 137,264 | $ | 134,991 | $ | 112,180 | $ | 110,903 | $ | 90,266 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Notes payable and other borrowings(3) | $ | 41,958 | $ | 24,097 | $ | 18,427 | $ | 16,421 | $ | 15,863 | $ | 60,619 | $ | 57,909 | $ | 43,855 | $ | 41,958 | $ | 24,097 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| (3) | Our notes payable and other borrowings, which represented the summation of our notes payable |
Item 7. 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 key operating business segmentsbusinesses 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 Corporation provides products and services that address all aspects of corporate information technology (IT) environments—application,applications, platform and infrastructure—infrastructure. Our applications, platform and infrastructure offerings are availabledelivered to customers either via cloud computing or on-premises deployment models. Our products include databaseworldwide through a variety of flexible and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure software, and hardware systems (Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking and industry specific products), along with support and related services. We offer over 400,000 worldwide customers a choice ofinteroperable IT deployment models, including cloud-based,on-premise, or hybrid, which enable customer choice and flexibility. We market and sell our offerings globally to businesses of many sizes, government agencies, educational institutions and resellers with a worldwide sales force that is employed by our domestic and international subsidiaries and is positioned to offer the combinations that best suit their needs including (1) the deployment of our products via our Oracle Cloud offerings, (2) the acquisition of Oracle products and services for an on-premises IT environment or (3) a mix of these two models.
For customers opting for a cloud computing model, Oracle offers a wide range of services in all three primary layers of the cloud: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Our Oracle Cloud offerings are designed to be: rapidly deployable to enable customers shorter time to innovation; easily maintainable to reduce integration and testing work; and cost effective by requiring lower upfrontmeet customer investment. Our Oracle Cloud offerings integrate the software, hardware and services on the customers’ behalf in IT environments that we deploy, support and manage for the customer. We are a leader in the core technologies of cloud IT environments, including database and middleware software as well as enterprise applications, virtualization, clustering, large-scale systems management and related infrastructure. Our products and services are the building blocks of our Oracle Cloud services, our partners’ cloud services and our customers’ cloud IT environments.
In addition to offering a broad spectrum of cloud products and services, Oracle for decades has developed and sold its products and services to our customers worldwide for use in their global data centers and on-premises IT environments. An important element of our corporate strategy is to continue our investments in, and innovation with respect to, our products and services that we offer through our software and cloud, hardware and services businesses. In fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, we invested $5.5 billion, $5.2 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, in research and development to enhance our existing portfolio of products and services and to develop new products and services. We have a deep understanding as to how all components within IT environments—application, platform and infrastructure—interact and function with one another. We focus our development efforts on improving the performance, operation and integration of these differing technologies to make them more cost-effective and easier to deploy, manage and maintain for our customers and to improve their computing performance relative to our competitors. After purchasing Oracle products and services, customers can continue to take advantage of Oracle’s research and development investments and deep IT expertise by purchasing and renewing Oracle support offerings, which may include product enhancements that we periodically deliver to our Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards application software products, among others, or renewing their SaaS, PaaS and IaaS contracts with us.
Oracle customers are increasingly electing to run their IT environments using our suite of Oracle Cloud offerings. As customers deploy with the Oracle Cloud, many are adopting a hybrid IT model whereby certain of their IT resources are deployed and managed through the Oracle Cloud, while other of their IT resources are deployed and managed on-premises, and both sets of resources can be managed as one. We focus the engineering of our products and services to best connect these different deployment models to enable flexibility, ease, agility, compatibility, extensibility and seamlessness.
A selective and active acquisition program is another important element of our corporate strategy. We believe our acquisitions enhance the products and services that we can offer to customers, expand our customer base, provide greater scale to accelerate innovation, grow our revenues and earnings, and increase stockholder value.
In recent years, we have invested billions of dollars to acquire a number of companies, products, services and technologies that add to, are complementary to, or have otherwise enhanced our existing offerings. We expect to continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies to further our corporate strategy.needs.
We have three businesses that deliver our application, platformbusinesses: cloud and infrastructure technologies: softwarelicense; hardware; and cloud, hardware systems,services; each of which comprises a single operating segment. The descriptions set forth below as a part of Management’s Discussion and services. These businesses can be further divided into certain operating segments (Note 16Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the information contained within Note 15 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report providesprovide additional information related to our operating segments). Each of our businesses and operating segments has unique characteristics and faces different opportunities and challenges. Although we report our actual results in U.S. Dollars, we conduct a significant number of transactions in currencies other than U.S. Dollars. Therefore, we present constant currency informationalign as to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying businesses performed excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations. An overview ofchief operating decision makers (CODMs), which include our three businessesChief Executive Officers and relatedChief Technology Officer, view our operating segments follows.results and allocate resources.
SoftwareCloud and CloudLicense Business
Our softwarecloud and cloudlicense line of business, which represented 77%82%, 76%80% and 75%78% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively, is comprised of three operating segments: (1) new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions, (2) cloud infrastructure as a service and (3) software license updates and product support. On a constant currency basis, we expect that our software and cloud business’ total revenues generally will continue to increase due to continued demand for our software products and cloud software subscription offerings, our software license updates and product support offerings, including the high percentage of customers that renew their software license updates and product support contracts, and our acquisitions, which should allow us to grow and continue to make investments in research and development.
New Software Licenses and Cloud Software Subscriptions: Our new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions line of business markets, sells and delivers our applicationa broad spectrum of applications, platform and platforminfrastructure technologies includingthrough our SaaS and PaaS offerings (our SaaS and PaaS offerings are collectively referred to as cloud software subscriptions), which provide customers a choice of software applications and platforms that are delivered via a cloud-based IT environment that we host, manage and support, and the licensing of our software products including Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, among others. Our application and platform technologies are substantially built on standards-based architectures that are designed to help customers reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure. Our commitment to industry standards results in software that works in customer environments with Oracle or non-Oracle hardware or software components and that can be adapted to meet specific industry or business needs. We focus the engineering of our products and services to best connect cloud and on-premises deployment models to enable flexibility, ease, agility, compatibility, extensibilitylicense offerings.
Cloud services and seamlessness. Our software offerings are substantially designed to operate on both single server and clustered server configurations for cloud or on-premises IT environments, and tolicense support a choice of operating systems includingrevenues include:
license support revenues, which is our largest revenues stream. Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windows and third party UNIX products, among others. These approaches are designed tolicense support customer choice and reduce customer risk. Our customers include businesses of many sizes, government agencies, educational institutions and resellers. We market and sell our software products and services to these customers with a sales force positioned to offer the combinations that best fit their needs. We enable customers to evolve and transform to substantially any IT environment at whatever pace is most appropriate for them.
The growth in our new software licenses and our SaaS and PaaS revenues that we report is affected by the strength of general economic and business conditions, governmental budgetary constraints, the competitive position of our software offerings, our acquisitions and foreign currency fluctuations. The substantial majority of our new software license transactions are characterized by long sales cycles and the timing of a few large software license transactions can substantially affect our quarterly new software licenses revenues. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues represented 26% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015 and 28% in each of fiscal 2014 and 2013. Our cloud software subscriptions contracts, which consist of SaaS and PaaS arrangements, are generally one to three years in duration and we strive to renew these contracts when they are eligible for renewal. Our new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions segment’s 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 new software licenses revenues over those quarterly periods and because the majority of our costs for this segment are predominantly fixed in the short-term. However, our new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions segment’s margin has been and will continue to be affected by the fair value adjustments relating to the cloud SaaS and PaaS obligations that we assumed in our business combinations (described further below) and by the amortization of intangible assets associated with companies and technologies that we have acquired.
For certain of our acquired businesses, we recorded adjustments to reduce the cloud SaaS and PaaS obligations to their estimated fair values at the acquisition dates. As a result, as required by business combination accounting rules, we did not recognize cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues related to acquired contracts that would have been otherwise recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities in the amounts of $12 million, $17 million and $45 million in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. To the extent underlying cloud SaaS and PaaS contracts are renewed with us following an acquisition, we will recognize the revenues for the full values of these contracts over their respective contractual periods.
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service: Our cloud infrastructure as a service offerings, which represented 2% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015 and 1% in each of fiscal 2014 and 2013, provide comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services for customer IT infrastructure for a fee for a stated term that is hosted at our Oracle data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on-premises at customer facilities; deployment and management offerings for our software and hardware and related IT infrastructure including virtual machine instances that are subscription-based and designed for computing and reliable and secure object storage; and certain of our Oracle Engineered Systems and related support offerings that are deployed in our customers’ data centers for a monthly fee.
Software License Updates and Product Support: Customers that purchase software license updates and product support are grantedgrants rights to unspecified product upgrades and maintenance releases and patches released during the term of the support period, as well as technical support assistance. Our softwareSubstantially all of our customers opt to purchase license support contracts when they purchase Oracle applications, platform and/or infrastructure licenses and substantially all customers renew their license support contracts annually in order to continue to benefit from Oracle’s research and development investments that are utilized as a part of unspecified periodic license updates that may be released and productthat customers with current license support contracts are entitled to. Our license support contracts are generally one yearpriced as a percentage of the net fees paid by the customer to access the license, are generally billed in duration. Substantially alladvance of the support services being performed and are generally recognized as revenues ratably as the support services are delivered over the contractual terms; and
cloud services revenues, which includes revenues from Oracle CloudSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS),Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) andInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings (collectively, Oracle Cloud Services), which deliver applications, platform and infrastructure technologies, respectively, via cloud-based deployment models that we develop functionality for, host, manage and support and that customers access by entering into a subscription agreement with us for a stated period. Our IaaS offerings also include Oracle Managed Cloud Services, which are designed to provide comprehensive software and hardware management, maintenance and security services for customer cloud-based, hybrid IT or other IT infrastructure for a fee for a stated term. The majority of our Oracle Cloud Services arrangements have durations of 12 to 36 months and are generally recognized as revenues ratably over the contractual period of the contract or, in the case of usage model contracts, as the cloud services are consumed. We strive to renew these cloud services contracts when they are eligible for renewal.
Cloud license andon-premise license revenues include revenues from the licensing of our software products including Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, among others which our customers use for cloud-based,on-premise and other IT environments. Our cloud license andon-premise license transactions are generally perpetual in nature and are generally recognized when unrestricted access to the license is granted to the customer provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met. The timing of a few large license transactions can substantially affect our quarterly license revenues, 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 periods. Cloud license andon-premiselicense customers renew their softwarehave the option to purchase license updates and product support contracts, annually. Theas described above.
Providing choice and flexibility to our customers as to when and how they deploy our applications, platform and infrastructure technologies is an important element of our corporate strategy. In recent periods, customer demand has increased for our Oracle Cloud Services. To address customer demand and enable customer choice, we have introduced certain programs for customers to pivot their applications, platform and infrastructure licenses and 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 services revenues growth and our cloud license andon-premise license revenues growth are affected by the strength of softwaregeneral economic and business conditions, governmental budgetary constraints, the strategy for and competitive position of our offerings, our acquisitions, our ability to deliver and renew our cloud services contracts with our existing customers and foreign currency rate fluctuations. Our license updates and product support revenues growth is primarily influenced by three factors: (1) the percentagecontinuity of substantially all of our softwarelicense support customer contract customer base that renews its softwarerenewing their license support contracts and substantially all customers continuing to purchase license support contracts in connection with their purchase of a new license; (2) the amountpricing of new softwarelicense support contracts sold in connection with the sale of new software licenseslicenses; and (3) the amountpricing of softwarenew licenses sold. Customers do so in order to benefit from Oracle’s research and development investments that are utilized as a part of unspecified periodic license updates that may be released and that customers with current license support contracts assumedare entitled to.
On a constant currency basis, we expect that our total cloud and license revenues generally will continue to increase due to:
expected growth in our cloud services and license support offerings, including the high percentage of customers that purchase and renew their license support contracts;
continued demand for our cloud license andon-premise license offerings; and
contributions from companies we have acquired.our acquisitions.
Software license updatesWe believe all of these factors should contribute to future growth in our cloud and product supportlicense 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 license andon-premise license revenues over those quarterly periods and because the majority of our costs for this business are generally fixed in the short term.
Hardware Business
Our hardware business, which represented 49%10%, 47%11% and 46%13% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively, is our highest marginprovides a broad selection of hardware products and hardware-related software products including Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, industry-specific hardware, operating systems, virtualization, management and other hardware related software, and related hardware support. Hardware transactions are generally recognized as revenues upon delivery to the customer provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met. Our hardware business unit. Our software support margins during fiscal 2015 were 90%also offers related hardware support. We expect to make investments in research and accounted for 81%development to improve existing hardware products and services and to develop new hardware products and services. The majority of our total margins overhardware 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 same period. Our software license updates and product support margins have been affected by fair value adjustments relating to software support obligations assumed in business combinations (described further below) and by amortization of intangible assets. However, over the longer term, we believe that software license updates and product support revenues and margins will grow for the following reasons:
substantially allfunctionality of our customers, including customers from acquired companies, renew theirhardware products and associated software products such as Oracle Solaris. Our hardware support contracts when eligible for renewal;
substantially all of our customers purchase software license updatesofferings can also include product repairs, maintenance services and producttechnical support contracts when they buy new software licenses, resulting in a further increase in our software support contract base. Even if new software licenses revenues growth was flat, software license updates and product support revenues would continue to grow in comparison to the corresponding prior year periods assuming contract renewal and cancellation rates and foreign currency rates remained relatively constant since substantially all new software licenses transactions result in the sale of software license updates and product support contracts, which add to our software support contract base; and
our acquisitions have increased our software support contract base, as well as the portfolio of products available to be licensed and supported.
We recorded adjustments to reduce software support obligations assumed in business combinations to their estimated fair values at the acquisition dates. As a result, as required by business combination accounting rules,
we did not recognize software license updates and product support revenues related to software support contracts that would have been otherwise recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities in the amounts of $11 million, $3 million and $14 million in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. To the extent underlying softwareservices. Hardware support contracts are renewed with us following an acquisition, we will recognizeentered into at the revenues for the full valuesoption of the softwarecustomer, are generally priced as a percentage of the net hardware products fees and are generally recognized as revenues ratably as the hardware support contractsservices are delivered over the respective support periods, the majority of which are one year.contractual terms.
Hardware Systems Business
Our hardware systems business is comprised of two operating segments: (1) hardware systems products and (2) hardware systems support. Our hardware business represented 14% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013. We generally expect our hardware business to have lower operating margins as a percentage of revenues than our softwarecloud and cloudlicense 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. We expect to make investments in research and development to improve existing hardware products and services and to develop new hardware products and services.
Hardware Systems Products: We provide a broad selection of hardware systems and related services including Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking, workstations and related devices, industry specific hardware, virtualization software, operating systems, and management software to support diverse IT environments, including cloud computing environments. We engineer our hardware systems with virtualization and management capabilities to enable the rapid deployment and efficient management of cloud and on-premises IT infrastructures. Our hardware products support many of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures, including the Oracle Cloud.
Our quarterly hardware systems productsrevenues are designeddifficult to be easier to deploy, manage and maintain for our customers and to improve computing performance relative to our competitors’ offerings. We design our hardware products to seamlessly connect on-premises and cloud IT environments to further enable interoperability, interchangeability and extendibility and to work in customer environments that may include other Oracle or non-Oracle hardware or software components. Our flexible and open approach provides Oracle customers with a broad range of choices in how they deploy our hardware products, which we believe is a priority for our customers.
Oracle Engineered Systems are core to our hardware offerings and are important elements of our data center and cloud computing offerings including the Oracle Cloud. These pre-integrated products are designed to integrate multiple Oracle technology components to work together to deliver improved performance, availability, security and operational efficiency relative to our competitors’ products, to be upgraded effectively and efficiently and to simplify maintenance cycles by providing a single solution for software patching. Oracle Engineered Systems are tested before they are shipped to customers and delivered ready-to-run, enabling customers to shorten the time to production.
We offer a wide range of server systems using our SPARC microprocessor. Our SPARC servers run the Oracle Solaris operating system and are designed to be differentiated by their reliability, security, and scalability. Our mid-size and large servers are designed to offer better performance and lower total cost of ownership than mainframe systems for business critical applications, for customers having more computationally intensive needs, and as platforms for building cloud computing IT environments. Our SPARC servers are also a core component of the Oracle SuperCluster, one of our Oracle Engineered Systems.
We also offer enterprise x86 servers. These x86 servers are based on microprocessors from Intel Corporation and are compatible with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. Our x86 servers are also a core component of many of our Oracle Engineered Systems including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and the Oracle Big Data Appliance.
Our storage products are designed to securely manage, protect, archive and restore customers’ mission critical data assets and consist of tape, disk, flash and hardware-related software including file systems software, back-up and archive software and storage management software and networking for mainframe and open systems environments.
Our networking and data center fabric products, including Oracle Virtual Networking, and Oracle InfiniBand and Ethernet technologies, are used with our server and storage products and are integrated into our management tools to help enterprise customers improve infrastructure performance, reduce cost and complexity and simplify storage and server connectivity.
We offer hardware products and services designed for specific industries. Our point-of-sale hardware offerings include point-of-sale terminals and related hardware that are designed for managing businesses within the food and beverage, hotel and retail industries, among others.predict. Our hardware products and services for communications networks include network signaling, policy control and subscriber data management solutions, and session border control technology, among others.
The majority of our hardware systems products are sold through indirect channels, including independent distributors and value added resellers.
To produce our hardware products, we rely on both our internal manufacturing operations as well as third party manufacturing partners. Our internal manufacturing operations consist primarily of materials procurement, assembly, testing and quality control of our Oracle Engineered Systems and certain of our enterprise and data center servers and storage systems. For all other manufacturing, we generally rely on third party manufacturing partners to produce our hardware related components and hardware products and we may involve our internal manufacturing operations in the final assembly, testing and quality control processes for these components and products. We distribute most of our hardware products either from our facilities or partner facilities. We strive to reduce costs by simplifying our manufacturing processes through increased standardization of components across product types and a “build-to-order” manufacturing process in which products generally are built only after customers have placed firm orders.
Our hardware systems products revenues, cost of hardware systems products and hardware systems operating margins that we report are affected by, our strategy for and the competitive position of our hardware systems products, the strength of general economic and business conditions, governmental budgetary constraints, certain of our acquisitions and foreign currency rate fluctuations. In addition, our operating margins for our hardware systems products segment have been and will be affected by the amortization of intangible assets.
Our quarterly hardware systems products revenues are difficult to predict. The timing of customer orders and delays inamong others: our ability to timely manufacture or deliver a few large hardware transactions, among other factors, could substantially affecttransactions; our strategy for and the amount of hardware systems products revenues, expenses and operating margins that we report.
Hardware Systems Support: Our hardware systems support offerings provide customers with software updates for software components that are essential to the functionalityposition of our hardware products relative to competitor offerings; customer demand for competing offerings such as Oracle SolarisPaaS and certain other software products,IaaS; the strength of general economic and can include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services. Typically, our hardware systems support contract arrangements are priced as a percentage of the net hardware systems products fees, are invoiced to the customer at the beginning of the support period and are one year in duration. We continue to evolve hardware systems support processes that are intended to proactively identify and solve quality issues and to increase the amount of new and renewed hardware systems support contracts sold in connection with the sales of our hardware systems products. Our hardware systems support revenues that we report are influenced by a number of factors, including the volume of purchases of hardware products, the mix of hardware products purchased,business conditions; governmental budgetary constraints; whether customers decide to purchase hardware systems support contracts at or in close proximity to the time of hardware product sale,sale; the percentage of our hardware systems support contract customer base that renews its support contracts and our acquisitions. Substantially all of these factors are heavily influenced by our customers’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 systems’ infrastructure to newly developed technologies that are available.
Our hardware systems support margins have been and will be affected byavailable; certain of our acquisitionsacquisitions; and related accounting, including fair value adjustments relating to hardware systems support obligations assumed, and by the amortization of intangible assets. As required by business combination accounting rules, we recorded adjustments to reduce our hardware systems support revenues for contracts assumed from our acquisitions to their estimated fair values. These amounts would have been recorded as hardware systems support revenues by
the acquired businesses as independent entities in the amounts of $4 million, $11 million and $14 million for fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. To the extent underlying hardware systems support contracts are renewed with us following an acquisition, we will recognize the revenues for the full values of the hardware systems support contracts over the respective support periods.
Services Business
Our services business whichhelps customers and partners maximize the performance of their investments in Oracle applications, platform and infrastructure technologies. We believe that our services are differentiated based on our focus on Oracle technologies, extensive experience and broad sets of intellectual property and best practices. Our services offerings include consulting services, advanced support services and education services and represented 9%, 10% and 11%8% of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, fiscal 20142018 and fiscal 2013, respectively, is comprised of the remainder9% of our operating segments.total revenues in each of fiscal 2017 and 2016. Our services business has lower margins than our softwarecloud and cloudlicense and hardware businesses. Our services revenues are impacted by, among others: 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; our strategic emphasis on growing our cloud revenues; certain of our acquisitions,acquisitions; general economic conditions,conditions; governmental budgetary constraints,constraints; personnel reductions in our customers’ IT departments,departments; and tighter controls over discretionary spending and the growth in our software and hardware systems products revenues. Our services business’ offerings include:spending.
consulting services that are designed to help our customers and global system integrator partners more successfully architect and deploy our products, including IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial product implementation and integration, and ongoing product enhancements and upgrades. We utilize a global, blended delivery model to optimize value for our customers and partners, consisting of on-premises consultants from local geographies, industry specialists and consultants from our global delivery and solution centers;
advanced customer support services, which are provided on-premises and remotely to our customers to enable increased performance and higher availability of their Oracle products and services; and
education services for Oracle products and services, including training and certification programs that are offered to customers, partners and employees through a variety of formats, including instructor-led classes at our education centers, live virtual training, self-paced online training, private events and custom training.
Acquisitions
AOur selective and active acquisition program is another important element of our corporate strategy. In recent years, we have invested billions of dollars to acquire a number of complementary companies, products, services and technologies, including MICROS Systems, Inc. (MICROS)NetSuite in fiscal 2015, Responsys, Inc. (Responsys) and Tekelec Global, Inc. (Tekelec) in fiscal 2014, and Acme Packet, Inc. (Acme Packet) in fiscal 2013, among others. We believe our acquisition program strengthens our competitive position, enhances the products and services that we can offer to customers, expands our customer base, provides greater scale to accelerate innovation, grows our revenues and earnings and increases stockholder value. 2017.
We expect to continue to acquire companies, products, services and technologies in furtherance of our corporate strategy. Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual 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 flow and return on invested capital targets before deciding to move forward with an acquisition.
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 (FASB) Accounting Standards
Codification (ASC), and we consider the various staff accounting bulletins and other applicable guidance issued by the United StatesU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (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 the following:include:
Revenue RecognitionRecognition;
Business CombinationsCombinations;
Goodwill and Intangible Assets—Impairment AssessmentsAssessments;
Accounting for Income TaxesTaxes; and
Legal and Other Contingencies
Stock-Based CompensationContingencies.
In many cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by GAAP and does not require management’s judgment in its application. There are also areas in which management’s judgment in selecting among available alternatives would not produce a materially different result. Our senior management has reviewed our critical accounting policies and related disclosures with the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Revenue Recognition
Our sources of revenues include: (1) software
cloud and license revenues, which include the sale of: cloud services and license support; and cloud revenues, including new softwarelicense andon-premise licenses, revenues earned from grantingwhich represent licenses topurchased by customers for use our software productsin both cloud and industry specific software; cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues generated from fees for granting customers access to a broad range of our software and related support offerings on a subscription basis in a secure, standards-based cloud computing environment; cloud IaaS revenues generated from fees for deployment and management offerings for our software and on-premise deployments;
hardware and related IT infrastructure generally on a subscription basis; and software license updates and product support revenues (described further below); (2) hardware systems revenues, which include the sale of hardware systems products including Oracle Engineered Systems, computer servers, storage, products, networking and data center fabric products, and industry specificindustry-specific hardware; and hardware systems support revenues; and (3)
services revenues, which include softwareare earned from providing cloud-, license- and hardware relatedhardware-related services including consulting, advanced customer support and education revenues. Revenues generally are recognized net of any taxes collected from customers and subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.services.
Revenue Recognition for Software Products and Software Related Services (Software Elements)
New software licenses revenues primarily represent fees earned from granting customers licenses to use our database, middleware and application software and exclude cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues and revenues derived from software license updates, which are included in software license updates and product support revenues. The basis for our new software licenses revenue recognition is substantially governed by the accounting guidance contained in ASC 985-605,Software-Revenue Recognition. We exercise judgment and use estimates in connection with the determination of the amount of software and software related services revenues to be recognized in each accounting period.
For software license arrangements that do not require significant modification or customization of the underlying software, we recognize new software licenses revenues when: (1) we enter into a legally binding arrangement with a customer for the license of software; (2) we deliver the products; (3) the sale price is fixed or determinable and free of contingencies or significant uncertainties; and (4) collection is probable. Revenues that are not recognized at the time of sale because the foregoing conditions are not met, are recognized when those conditions are subsequently met.
Substantially all of our software license arrangements do not include acceptance provisions. However, if acceptance provisions exist as part of public policy, for example, in agreements with government entities where
acceptance periods are required by law, or within previously executed terms and conditions that are referenced in the current agreement and are short-term in nature, we generally recognize revenues upon delivery provided the acceptance terms are perfunctory and all other revenue recognition criteria have been met. If acceptance provisions are not perfunctory (for example, acceptance provisions that are long-term in nature or are not included as standard terms of an arrangement), revenues are recognized upon the earlier of receipt of written customer acceptance or expiration of the acceptance period.
The vast majority of our software license arrangements include software license updates and product support contracts, which are entered into at the customer’s option and are recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement, typically one year. Software license updates provide customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades, maintenance releases and patches released during the term of the support period. Product support includes internet access to technical content, as well as internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. Software license updates and product support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net new software licenses fees. Substantially all of our customers renew their software license updates and product support contracts annually.
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element Arrangements—Software Products and Software Related Services (Software Arrangements)
We often enter into arrangements with customers that purchase both software related products and software related services from us at the same time, or within close proximity of one another (referred to as software related multiple-element arrangements). Such software related multiple-element arrangements include the sale of our software products, software license updates and product support contracts and other software related services whereby software license delivery is followed by the subsequent or contemporaneous delivery of the other elements. For those software related multiple-element arrangements, we have applied the residual method to determine the amount of new software license revenues to be recognized pursuant to ASC 985-605. Under the residual method, if fair value exists for undelivered elements in a multiple-element arrangement, such fair value of the undelivered elements is deferred with the remaining portion of the arrangement consideration generally recognized upon delivery of the software license. We allocate the fair value of each element of a software related multiple-element arrangement based upon its fair value as determined by our vendor specific objective evidence (VSOE—described further below), with any remaining amount allocated to the software license.
Revenue Recognition for Cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSServices Offerings, Hardware Systems Products, Hardware Systems Support and Related Services (Nonsoftware(Non-software Elements)
Our revenue recognition policy for nonsoftwarenon-software deliverables including our cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSservices offerings, hardware systems products, hardware support and related services is based upon the accounting guidance contained in ASC605-25,Revenue Recognition,,Multiple-Element Arrangements, and we exercise judgment and use estimates in connection with the determination of the amount of cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSservices revenues, hardware systems products revenues, hardware support and related services revenues to be recognized in each accounting period.
Revenues from the sales of our nonsoftwarenon-software elements are recognized when: (1) persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists; (2) we deliver the products and passage of the title to the buyer occurs;or services; (3) the sale price is fixed or determinable; and (4) collection is reasonably assured. Revenues that are not recognized at the time of sale because the foregoing conditions are not met are recognized when those conditions are subsequently met. When applicable, we reduce revenues for estimated returns or certain other incentive programs where we have the ability to sufficiently estimate the effects of these items. Where an arrangement is subject to acceptance criteria and the acceptance provisions are not perfunctory (for example, acceptance provisions that are long-term in nature or are not included as standard terms of an arrangement), revenues are recognized upon the earlier of receipt of written customer acceptance or expiration of the acceptance period.
Our cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings generally provide customers access to certain of our software within a cloud-based IT environment that we manage, host and support and offer to customers on a subscription basis. Revenues for our cloud SaaS and PaaSservices offerings sold on a subscription basis are generally recognized ratably over the contract term commencing with the date the service is made available to customers andcustomers. Revenues for cloud services offerings sold on a usage basis are generally recognized as the customer consumes the service, provided all other revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.
Our cloud IaaS offerings provide deployment and management offerings for our software and hardware and related IT infrastructure including comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services arrangements for customer IT infrastructure for a stated term that is hosted at our data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on-premises at customer facilities generally for a term-based fee; and virtual machine instances that are subscription-based and designed for computing and reliable and secure object storage. Revenues for these cloud IaaS offerings are generally recognized ratably over the contract term commencing with the date the service is made available
Revenues from the sale of hardware systems products represent amounts earned primarily fromare generally recognized upon delivery of the sale of our Oracle Engineered Systems, computer servers, storage, networking and industry specific hardware.
Our hardware systems support offerings generally provide customers with software updates for the software components that are essentialproduct to the functionality of our hardware products and can also include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services.customer provided all other revenue recognition criteria are satisfied. Hardware systems support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net hardware systems products fees. Hardware systems support contracts are entered into at the customer’s option and are recognized ratably over the contractual term of the arrangements, which areis typically one year.year, provided all other revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element Arrangements—Cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSServices Offerings, Hardware Systems Products, Hardware Systems Support and Related Services (Nonsoftware(Non-software Arrangements)
We enter into arrangements with customers that purchase both nonsoftwarenon-software related products and services from us at the same time, or within close proximity of one another (referred to as nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangements). Each element within a nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangement is accounted for as a separate unit of accounting provided the following criteria are met: the delivered products or services have value to the customer on a standalone basis; and for an arrangement that includes a general right of return relative to the delivered products or services, delivery or performance of the undelivered product or service is considered probable and is substantially controlled by us. We consider a deliverable to have standalone value if the product or service is sold separately by us or another vendor or could be resold by the customer. Further, our revenue arrangements generally do not include a general right of return relative to the delivered products. Where the aforementioned criteria for a separate unit of accounting are not met, the deliverable is combined with the undelivered element(s) and treated as a single unit of accounting for the purposes of allocation of the arrangement consideration and revenue recognition. For those units of accounting that include more than one deliverable but are treated as a single unit of accounting, we generally recognize revenues over the contractual period of the arrangement, or in the case of our cloud services offerings, we generally recognize revenues over the contractual term of the cloud softwareservices subscription. For the purposes of revenue classification of the elements that are accounted for as a single unit of accounting, we allocate revenue to the respective revenue line items within our consolidated statements of operations based on a rational and consistent methodology utilizing our best estimate of relative selling prices of such elements.
For our nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangements, we allocate revenue to each element based on a selling price hierarchy at the arrangement’s inception. The selling price for each element is based upon the following selling price hierarchy: VSOEvendor-specific objective evidence (VSOE) if available, third partythird-party evidence (TPE) if VSOE is not available, or estimated selling price (ESP) if neither VSOE nor TPE are available (a description as to how we determine VSOE, TPE and ESP is provided below). If a tangible hardware systems product includes software, we determine whether the tangible hardware systems product and the software work together to deliver the product’s essential functionality and, if so, the entire product is treated as a nonsoftwarenon-software deliverable. The total arrangement consideration is allocated to each separate unit of accounting for each of the nonsoftwarenon-software deliverables using the relative selling prices of each unit based on the aforementioned selling price hierarchy. We limit the amount of revenue recognized for delivered elements to an amount that is not contingent upon future delivery of additional products or services or meeting of any specified performance conditions.
When possible, we establish VSOE of selling price for deliverables in software and nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangements using the price charged for a deliverable when sold separately and for software license updates and product support and hardware systems support, based on the renewal rates offered to customers.separately. TPE
is established by evaluating similar and interchangeable competitor products or services in standalone arrangements with similarly situated customers. If we are unable to determine the selling price because VSOE or TPE does not exist, we determine ESP for the purposes of allocating the arrangement by reviewing historical transactions, including transactions whereby the deliverable was sold on a standalone basis and considering several other external and internal factors including, but not limited to, pricing practices including discounting, margin objectives, competition, contractually stated prices,factors.
Revenue Recognition for Cloud License andOn-Premise License and License Related Services (Software Elements)
The basis for our cloud license andon-premise license revenues and related services revenue recognition is substantially governed by the geographiesaccounting guidance contained in which we offer our productsASC985-605,Software-Revenue Recognition. We exercise judgment and services,use estimates in connection with the type of customer (i.e., distributor, value added reseller, government agency and direct end user, among others) and the stagedetermination of the amount of cloud license andon-premise license revenues and related services revenues to be recognized in each accounting period.
For license arrangements that do not require significant modification or customization of the underlying license, we recognize cloud license andon-premise license revenues when: (1) we enter into a legally binding arrangement with a customer for the license of software; (2) we deliver the products; (3) the sale price is fixed or determinable and free of contingencies or significant uncertainties; and (4) collection is probable. Revenues that are not recognized at the time of license sale because the foregoing conditions are not met, are generally recognized when those conditions are subsequently met.
The vast majority of our cloud license andon-premise license arrangements include license support contracts, which are entered into at the customer’s option. We recognize the related fees ratably over the term of the arrangement, typically one year. License support contracts provide customers with rights to unspecified software product lifecycle. The determinationupgrades, maintenance releases and patches released during the term of ESP is made through consultation withthe support period and approval byinclude internet access to technical content, as well as internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. License support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net cloud license andon-premise license fees and are generally invoiced in full at the beginning of the support term. Substantially all of our management, taking into consideration our pricing model and go-to-market strategy. As our, or our competitors’, pricing and go-to-market strategies evolve, we may modify our pricing practices in the future, which could result in changes to our determination of VSOE, TPE and ESP. As a result, our future revenue recognition for multiple-element arrangements could differ materially from our results in the current period. Selling prices are analyzed on an annual basis or more frequently if we experience significant changes in our selling prices.customers renew their license support contracts annually.
Revenue Recognition Policies Applicable to both Software and Nonsoftware Elements
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element ArrangementsArrangements—Cloud License andOn-Premise License, Support and Related Services (Software Arrangements)—
We often enter into arrangements with customers that purchase cloud licenses andon-premise licenses, license support and related services from us at the same time, or within close proximity of one another (referred to as software related multiple-element arrangements). For those software related multiple-element arrangements, we have applied the residual method to determine the amount of cloud license andon-premise license revenues to be recognized pursuant to ASC985-605. Under the residual method, if VSOE exists for undelivered elements in a multiple-element arrangement, VSOE of the undelivered elements is deferred with the remaining portion of the arrangement consideration generally recognized upon delivery of the license. Where VSOE does not exist for the undelivered element in such arrangement, no revenue is recognized until the earlier of the point in time at which 1) VSOE has been established for such element; or 2) the element that does not have VSOE has been delivered.
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element Arrangements—Arrangements with Software and NonsoftwareNon-software Elements
We also enter into multiple-element arrangements that may include a combination of our various software related and nonsoftwarenon-software related products and services offerings including new softwarecloud licenses softwareandon-premise licenses, license updates and product support, cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSservices offerings, hardware systems products, hardware systems support, consulting, advanced customer support services and education. In such arrangements, we first allocate the total arrangement consideration based on the relative selling prices of the software group of elements as a whole and to the nonsoftwarenon-software group of elements. We then further allocate consideration within the software group to the respective elements within that group following the guidance in ASC985-605 and our policies as described above. In addition, we allocate the consideration within thenon-software group to each respective element within that group based on a selling price hierarchy at the arrangement’s inception as described above. After the arrangement consideration has been allocated to the software group of elements andnon-software group of elements, we account for each respective element in the arrangement as described above.above and below.
Other Revenue Recognition Policies Applicable to Software and NonsoftwareNon-software Elements
Many of our softwarecloud license andon-premise license arrangements include consulting implementation services sold separately under consulting engagement contracts and are included as a part of our services business. Consulting revenues from these arrangements are generally accounted for separately from new software licensescloud license andon-premise license revenues because the arrangements qualify as services transactions as defined in ASC985-605. The more significant factors considered in determining whether the revenues should be accounted for separately include the nature of services (i.e., consideration of whether the services are essential to the functionality of the licensed product), degree of risk, availability of services from other vendors, timing of payments and impact of milestones or acceptance criteria on the realizability of the software license fee. Revenues for consulting services are generally recognized as the services are performed. If there is a significant uncertainty about the project completion or receipt of payment for the consulting services, revenues are deferred until the uncertainty is sufficiently resolved. We estimate the proportional performance on contracts with fixed or “not
Our advanced customer support services are offered as standalone arrangements or as a part of arrangements to customers buying other software and non-software products and services. We offer these advanced support
services, both on-premises and remote, to Oracle customers to enable increased performance and higher availability of their products and services. Depending upon the nature of the arrangement, revenues from these services are recognized as the services are performed or ratably over the term of the service period, which is generally one year or less.
Education revenues are also a part of our services business and include instructor-led, media-based and internet-based training in the use of our software and hardware products. Education revenues are recognized as the classes or other education offerings are delivered.
If an arrangement contains multiple elements and does not qualify for separate accounting for the product and service transactions, then new software licensescloud license andon-premise license revenues and/or hardware systems products revenues, including the costs of hardware systems products, are generally recognized together with the services based on contract accounting using either thepercentage-of-completion or completed-contract method. Contract accounting is applied to any bundled software and cloud, hardware systems and services arrangements: (1) that include milestones or customer specific acceptance criteria that may affect collection of the software license or hardware systems product fees; (2) where consulting services include significant modification or customization of the software or hardware systems product or are of a specialized nature and generally performed only by Oracle; (3) where significant consulting services are provided for in the software license contract or hardware systems product contract without additional charge or are substantially discounted; or (4) where the software license or hardware systems product payment is tied to the performance of consulting services. For the purposes of revenue classification of the elements that are accounted for as a single unit of accounting, we allocate revenues to software and nonsoftware elements based on a rational and consistent methodology utilizing our best estimate of the relative selling price of such elements.
We also evaluate arrangements with governmental entities containing “fiscal funding” or “termination for convenience” provisions, when such provisions are required by law, to determine the probability of possible cancellation. We consider multiple factors, including the history with the customer in similar transactions, the “essential use” of the softwarelicense or hardware systems products and the planning, budgeting and approval processes undertaken by the governmental entity. If we determine upon execution of these arrangements that the likelihood of cancellation is remote, we then recognize revenues for such arrangements once all of the criteria described above have been met. If such a determination cannot be made, revenues are recognized upon the earlier of cash receipt or approval of the applicable funding provision by the governmental entity.entity for such arrangements.
We assess whether fees are fixed or determinable at the time of sale and recognize revenues if all other revenue recognition requirements are met. Our standard payment terms are net 30 days. However, payment terms may vary based on the country in which the agreement is executed. Payments that are due within six months are generally deemed to be fixed or determinableWe evaluatenon-standard payment terms based on ourwhether we have successful collection history on comparable arrangements (based upon similarity of customers, products, and arrangement economics) and, if so, generally conclude such arrangements,payment terms are fixed and determinable and thereby satisfy the required criteria for revenue recognition.
While most of our arrangements for sales within our businesses include short-term payment terms, we have a standard practice of providing long-term financing to creditworthy customers primarily through our financing division. Since fiscal 1989, when our financing division was formed, we have established a history of collection, without concessions, on these receivables with payment terms that generally extend up to five years from the contract date. Provided all other revenue recognition criteria have been met, we recognize new software licensescloud license andon-premise license revenues and hardware systems products revenues for these arrangements upon delivery, net of any payment discounts from financing transactions. We have generally sold receivables financed through our financing division on anon-recourse basis to third partythird-party financing institutions within 90 days of the contracts’ dates of execution and we classify the proceeds from these sales as cash flows from operating activities in our consolidated statements of cash flows. We account for the sales of these receivables as “true sales” as defined in ASC 860,Transfers and Servicing, as we are considered to have surrendered control of these financing receivables.
In addition, we enter into arrangements with leasing companies for the sale of our hardware systems products. These leasing companies, in turn, lease our products to end-users. The leasing companies generally have no recourse to us in the event of default by the end-user and we recognize revenue upon delivery, if all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.
Our customers include several of our suppliers and, occasionally, we have purchased goods or services for our operations from these vendors at or about the same time that we have sold our products to these same companies (Concurrent Transactions). SoftwareCloud license andon-premise license agreements, sales of hardware or sales of hardware systemsservices that occur within a three-month timecommon period from the date we have purchased goods or services from that same customer are reviewed for appropriate accounting treatment and disclosure. When we acquire goods or services from a customer, we negotiate the purchase separately from any sales transaction, at terms we consider to be at arm’s length and settle the purchase in cash. We recognize revenues from Concurrent Transactions if all of our revenue recognition criteria are met and the goods and services acquired are necessary for our current operations.
Business Combinations
We apply the provisions of ASC 805,Business Combinations, in the accounting for our acquisitions. It requires us to recognize separately from goodwill the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed at the acquisition date fair values. Goodwill as of the acquisition date is measured as the excess of consideration transferred over the net of the acquisition date fair values of the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. While we use our best estimates and assumptions to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date as well as any contingent consideration, where applicable, our estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, we record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed with the corresponding offset to
goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to our consolidated statements of operations.
Accounting for business combinations requires our management to make significant estimates and assumptions, especially at the acquisition date, including our estimates for intangible assets, contractual obligations assumed, restructuring liabilities, pre-acquisition contingencies and any contingent consideration, where applicable. Although we believe that the assumptions and estimates we have made in the past have been reasonable and appropriate, they are based in part on historical experience and information obtained from the management of the acquired companies and are inherently uncertain.
Examples of critical estimates in valuing certain of the intangible assets we have acquired include but are not limited to:
future expected cash flows from software license sales, cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS contracts, hardware systems product sales, support agreements, consulting contracts, other customer contracts, acquired developed technologies and patents;
expected costs to develop the in-process research and development into commercially viable products and estimated cash flows from the projects when completed;
the acquired company’s brand and competitive position, as well as assumptions about the period of time the acquired brand will continue to be used in the combined company’s product portfolio; and
discount rates.
Unanticipated events and circumstances may occur that may affect the accuracy or validity of such assumptions, estimates or actual results.
We estimate the fair values of our cloud SaaSservices and PaaS (collectively, cloud software subscriptions), software license updates and product support, and hardware systems support obligations assumed.assumed as part of an acquisition. The estimated fair values of these performance obligations are determined utilizing a costbuild-up approach. The costbuild-up approach determines fair value by estimating the costs related to fulfilling thethese assumed obligations plus a normal profit margin. The estimated costs to fulfill the assumed obligations are based on the historical direct costs related to providing the services including the correction of any errors in the products acquired. The sum of these costs and operating profit approximates, in theory, the amount that we would be required to pay a third party to assume the performance obligations. We do not include any costs associated with selling efforts or research and development or the related fulfillment margins on these costs. Profit associated with any selling efforts is excluded because the
acquired entities would have concluded those selling efforts on the performance obligations prior to the acquisition date. We also do not include the estimated research and development costs in our fair value determinations, as these costs are not deemed to represent a legal obligation at the time of acquisition. As a result of our fair value estimates for these obligations, we did not recognize certain cloud SaaSservices and PaaS revenues related to cloud SaaSlicense support revenue amounts and PaaS contracts in thehardware revenue amounts of $12 million, $17 million and $45 million that would have been otherwise recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. We did not recognize software license updates and product support revenues relatedupon delivery of the contractual obligations (refer to support contracts in the amounts of $11 million, $3 million and $14 million that would have been otherwise recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. In addition, we did not recognize hardware systems support revenues related“Supplemental Disclosure Related to hardware systems support contracts that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities in the amounts of $4 million, $11 million and $14 millionCertain Charges” below for fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Historically, substantially all of our customers, including customers from acquired companies, renew their software license updates and product support contracts when the contracts are eligible for renewal and we strive to renew cloud SaaS and PaaS, and hardware systems support contracts.further discussion). To the extent cloud SaaS and PaaS, software support or hardware systems supportcustomers to which these contractual obligations pertain renew these contracts are renewed,with us, we willexpect to recognize the revenues for the full contracts’ values ofover the contracts over their respective contractual periods, which are generally one year in duration.contracts’ renewal periods.
In connection with a business combination or other strategic initiative, we may estimate costs associated with restructuring plans committed to by our management. Restructuring costs are typically comprised of employee severance costs, costs of consolidating duplicate facilities and contract termination costs. Restructuring expenses are based upon plans that have been committed to by our management, but may be refined in subsequent periods. We account for costs to exit or restructure certain activities of an acquired company separately from the business combination pursuant to ASC 420,Exit or Disposal Cost Obligations. A liability for costs associated with an exit or disposal activity is recognized and measured at its fair value in our consolidated statement of operations in the period in which the liability is incurred. When estimating the fair value of facility restructuring activities, assumptions are applied regarding estimatedsub-lease payments to be received, which can differ materially from actual results. This may require us to revise our initial estimates which may materially affect our results of operations and financial position in the period the revision is made.
For a given acquisition, we may identify certainpre-acquisition contingencies as of the acquisition date and may extend our review and evaluation of thesepre-acquisition contingencies throughout the measurement period in order to obtain sufficient information to assess whether we include these contingencies as a part of the fair value estimates of assets acquired and liabilities assumed and, if so, to determine their estimated amounts.
If we cannot reasonably determine the fair value of apre-acquisition contingency (non-income(non-income tax related) by the end of the measurement period, which is generally the case given the nature of such matters, we will recognize an asset or a liability for suchpre-acquisition contingency if: (i)(1) it is probable that an asset existed or a liability had been incurred at the acquisition date and (ii)(2) the amount of the asset or liability can be reasonably estimated. Subsequent to the measurement period, changes in our estimates of such contingencies will affect earnings and could have a material effect on our results of operations and financial position.
In addition, uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances assumed in connection with a business combination are initially estimated as of the acquisition date. We reevaluate these items quarterly based upon facts and circumstances that existed as of the acquisition date with any adjustments to our preliminary estimates being recorded to goodwill if identified within the measurement period. Subsequent to the measurement period or our final determination of the tax allowance’s or contingency’s estimated value, whichever comes first, changes to these uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances will affect our provision for income taxes in our consolidated statement of operations and could have a material impact on our results of operations and financial position.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets—Impairment Assessments
We review goodwill for impairment annually and whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate its carrying value may not be recoverable in accordance with ASC 350,Intangibles—Goodwill and Other. According to ASC 350, we can opt to perform a qualitative assessment to test a reporting unit’s goodwill for
impairment or we can directly perform the two stepquantitative impairment test. Based on ourShould the qualitative assessment ifbe used for any given fiscal year, qualitative factors to consider include cost factors; financial performance; legal, regulatory, contractual, political, business, or other factors; entity specific factors; industry and market considerations, macroeconomic conditions, and other relevant events and factors affecting the reporting unit. If we determine that it is more likely than not that the fair value of athe reporting unit is more likely than not (i.e., a likelihood of more than 50 percent) to be less than its carrying amount, the two step impairmentvalue, a quantitative test prescribed by ASC 350 will be performed. In the first step,is then performed; otherwise, no further testing is required. For those reporting units tested using a quantitative approach, we compare the fair value of each reporting unit to itswith the carrying value.amount of the reporting unit, including goodwill. If the estimated fair value of the reporting unit exceedsis less than the carrying value of the net assets assigned to that unit, goodwill is not considered impaired and we are not required to perform further testing. If the carrying value of the net assets assigned to the reporting unit exceeds the fair valueamount of the reporting unit, then we must performgoodwill impairment is recognized for the second stepdifference, limited to the amount of the impairment test in order to determine the implied fair value ofgoodwill recognized for the reporting unit’s goodwill. If the carrying value of a reporting unit’s goodwill exceeds its implied fair value, then we would record an impairment loss equal to the difference.unit.
Determining the fair value of a reporting unit involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions. These estimates and assumptions include revenue growth rates and operating margins used to calculate projected future cash flows, risk-adjusted discount rates, future economic and market conditions and the determination of appropriate market comparables. We base our fair value estimates on assumptions which we believe to be reasonable but that are inherently uncertain. Actual future results may differ from those estimates. In addition, we make certain judgments and assumptions in allocating shared assets and liabilities to determine the carrying values for each of our reporting units.
Based upon our most recent annual goodwill impairment review which took place as of March 1, 2015, we recorded a goodwill impairment loss related to our hardware systems products reporting unit. We considered several approaches to determine the fair value of our hardware systems reporting unit and concluded the most appropriate to be the income approach. Based upon the completion of our annual forecasting process, the fair value of our hardware systems products reporting unit under the income approach was impacted by lower forecasted operating results, primarily caused by lower forecasted revenues and our continued investment in research and development activities. We compared the implied fair value of goodwill in our hardware systems products reporting unit to its carrying value, which resulted in a $186 million goodwill impairment loss, representing the aggregate amount of goodwill in our hardware systems products reporting unit. The aggregate hardware systems reporting unit goodwill that was impaired in fiscal 2015 resulted from our acquisitions of Pillar Data Systems, Inc., Xsigo Systems, Inc., GreenBytes, Inc. and MICROS Systems, Inc. Such impairment loss was recorded to acquisition related and other expenses in our fiscal 2015 consolidated statement of operations. We did not recognize any goodwill impairment losses in fiscal 2014 or 2013.
Our most recent annual goodwill impairment review for our other reporting units,analysis, which also took placewas performed on March 1, 2015,2018, did not result in a goodwill impairment loss. Other than our consulting reporting unit, all of our other reporting units had fair values that substantially exceeded their carrying values. Our consulting reporting unit had $1.8 billion of goodwill on March 1, 2015, and experienced revenue and operating margin declinescharge, nor did we recognize an impairment charge in fiscal 2015. As of our most recent annual goodwill impairment review, our consulting reporting unit’s fair value was 16% in excess of its carrying value. We estimate that should our consulting reporting unit’s projected margins and related cash flows unfavorably deviate from our projections by 20%2017 or more, our consulting reporting unit likely would incur a goodwill impairment loss.2016.
We make judgments about the recoverability of purchased finite lived intangible assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that an impairment may exist. Each period we evaluate the estimated remaining useful lives of purchased intangible assets and whether events or changes in circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining periods of amortization. Recoverability of finite lived intangible assets is measured by comparison of the carrying amount of the asset to the future undiscounted cash flows the asset is expected to generate. We review indefinite lived intangible assets for impairment annually and whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. Recoverability of indefinite lived intangible assets is measured by comparison of the carrying amount of the asset to its fair value. If the asset is considered to be impaired, the amount of any impairment is measured as the difference between the carrying value and the fair value of the impaired asset.
Assumptions and estimates about future values and remaining useful lives of our intangible and other long-lived assets are complex and subjective. They can be affected by a variety of factors, including external factors such as industry and economic trends and internal factors such as changes in our business strategy and our internal
forecasts. Although we believe that the historical assumptions and estimates we have made are reasonable and appropriate, different assumptions and estimates could materially impact our reported financial results. We did not recognize any intangible asset impairment charges in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 or 2013.2016.
Accounting for Income Taxes
Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide income tax provision. In the ordinary course of a global business, there are many transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax outcome is uncertain. Some of these uncertainties arise as a consequence of revenue sharing and cost reimbursement arrangements
among related entities, the process of identifying items of revenues and expenses that qualify for preferential tax treatment and segregation of foreign and domestic earnings and expenses to avoid double taxation. Although we believe that our estimates are reasonable, the final tax outcome of these matters could be different from that which is reflected in our historical income tax provisions and accruals. Such differences could have a material effect on our income tax provision and net income in the period in which such determination is made.
Our effective tax rate includesOn December 22, 2017 the impactU.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of certain undistributed foreign earnings for which no U.S. taxes have been provided because such earnings are planned to be indefinitely reinvested outside the United States. Remittances of foreign earnings2017 (the Tax Act), was signed into law. The net expense related to the United States are plannedenactment of the Tax Act has been accounted for during fiscal 2018 based on projected cash flow, working capital and investment needs of our foreign and domestic operations. Based on these assumptions, we estimateprovisional estimates pursuant to the amount thatSEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118. Subsequent adjustments, if any, will be distributed toaccounted for in the United Statesperiod such adjustments are identified. The provisional estimates incorporate, among other factors, assumptions made based on interpretations of the Tax Act and provide U.S. federal taxes on these amounts. Material changes in our estimates as to how muchexisting tax laws and a range of our foreign earnings will be distributed to the United States or tax legislation that limits or restrictshistorical and forecasted financial andtax-specific facts and information, including, without limitation, the amount of undistributedcash and other specified assets anticipated to be held by the company’s foreign earnings that we consider indefinitely reinvested outside the United States could materially impact our incomesubsidiaries on relevant dates and estimates of deferred tax provision and effective tax rate.balances during interim periods pending finalization of those balances.
We record a valuation allowance to reduce our deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. In order for us to realize our deferred tax assets, we must be able to generate sufficient taxable income in those jurisdictions where the deferred tax assets are located. We consider future growth, forecasted earnings, future taxable income, the mix of earnings in the jurisdictions in which we operate, historical earnings, taxable income in prior years, if carryback is permitted under the law and prudent and feasible tax planning strategies in determining the need for a valuation allowance. In the event we were to determine that we would not be able to realize all or part of our net deferred tax assets in the future, an adjustment to the deferred tax assets valuation allowance would be charged to earnings in the period in which we make such a determination, or goodwill would be adjusted at our final determination of the valuation allowance related to an acquisition within the measurement period. If we later determine that it is more likely than not that the net deferred tax assets would be realized, we would reverse the applicable portion of the previously provided valuation allowance as an adjustment to earnings at such time.
We record deferred tax assets for stock-based compensation awards that result in deductions on certain of our income tax returns based on the amount of stock-based compensation recognized and the fair values attributable to the vested portion of stock awards assumed in connection with a business combination at the statutory tax rates in the jurisdictions that we are able to recognize such tax deductions. The impacts of the actual tax deductions for stock-based awards that are realized in these jurisdictions are generally recognized to our consolidated statements of operations in the period that a restricted stock-based award vests or a stock option is exercised with any shortfall/windfall relative to the deferred tax asset established recorded as a discrete detriment/benefit to our provision for income taxes in this period. Such detriment/benefit can materially impact our reported effective tax rate for fiscal 2018 and prospective periods.
We calculate our current and deferred tax provision based on estimates and assumptions that could differ from the actual results reflected in income tax returns filed during the subsequent year. Adjustments based on filed returns are generally recorded in the period when the tax returns are filed and the global tax implications are known, which can materially impact our effective tax rate.
The amount of income tax we pay is subject to ongoing audits by federal, state and foreign tax authorities, which often result in proposed assessments. Our estimate of the potential outcome for any uncertain tax issue is highly judgmental. A description of our accounting policies associated with tax related contingencies assumed as a part of a business combination is provided under “Business Combinations” above. For those tax related contingencies that are not a part of a business combination, we account for these uncertain tax issues pursuant to ASC 740,Income Taxes,, which contains atwo-step approach to recognizing and measuring uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The first step is to determine if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained in an audit, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes. The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely to be realized upon ultimate settlement. Although we believe that
we have adequately reserved for our uncertain tax positions, no assurance can be given with respect to the final outcome of these matters. We adjust reserves for our uncertain tax positions due to changing facts and circumstances, such as the closing of a tax audit, judicial rulings, and refinement of estimates or realization of earnings or deductions that differ from
our estimates. To the extent that the final outcome of these matters is different than the amounts recorded, such differences generally will impact our provision for income taxes in the period in which such a determination is made. Our provisions for income taxes include the impact of reserve provisions and changes to reserves that are considered appropriate and also include the related interest and penalties.
In addition, as a part of our accounting for business combinations, intangible assets are recognized at fair values and goodwill is measured as the excess of consideration transferred over the net estimated fair values of assets acquired. Impairment charges associated with goodwill are generally not tax deductible and will result in an increased effective income tax rate in the period that any impairment is recorded. Amortization expenses associated with acquired intangible assets are generally not tax deductible pursuant to our existing tax structure; however, deferred taxes have been recorded fornon-deductible amortization expenses as a part of the accounting for business combinations. We have taken into account the allocation of these identified intangibles among different taxing jurisdictions, including those with nominal or zero percent tax rates, in establishing the related deferred tax liabilities.
Legal and Other Contingencies
We are currently involved in various claims and legal proceedings. Quarterly, we review the status of each significant matter and assess our potential financial exposure. A description of our accounting policies associated with contingencies assumed as a part of a business combination is provided under “Business Combinations” above. For legal and other contingencies that are not a part of a business combination, we accrue a liability for an estimated loss if the potential loss from any claim or legal proceeding is considered probable, and the amount can be reasonably estimated. Significant judgment is required in both the determination of probability and the determination as to whether the amount of an exposure is reasonably estimable. Because of uncertainties related to these matters, accruals are based only on the best information available at the time the accruals are made. As additional information becomes available, we reassess the potential liability related to our pending claims and litigation and may revise our estimates. Such revisions in the estimates of the potential liabilities could have a material impact on our results of operations and financial position.
Results of Operations
Stock-Based Compensation
We account for share-based payments to employees, including grants of service-based employee stock options, service-based restricted stock awards, performance-based restricted stock awards (PSUs) and purchases under employee stock purchase plans, in accordance with ASC 718,Compensation—Stock Compensation, which requires that share-based payments (to the extent they are compensatory) be recognized in our consolidated statements of operations based on their fair values and the estimated number of shares we ultimately expect will vest. For our service-based awards, we recognize stock-based compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the service periodImpacts of the award, which is generally four years. For our PSUs, we recognize stock-based compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the service period for each separately vesting tranche, as the performance conditions to evaluate attainmentU.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of each tranche for each participant are independent of the performance conditions for the other tranches.
We are required to estimate the stock awards that we ultimately expect to vest and to reduce stock-based compensation expense for the effects of estimated forfeitures of awards over the expense recognition period. Although we estimate the rate of future forfeitures based upon historical experience, actual forfeitures in the future may differ. To the extent our actual forfeitures are different than our estimates, we record a true-up for the difference in the period that a grantee terminates or the awards vest and such true-ups could materially affect our operating results. Additionally, we also consider on a quarterly basis whether there have been any significant changes in facts and circumstances that would affect our expected forfeiture rate.
We estimate the fair values of employee stock options using a Black-Scholes-Merton valuation model. The fair value of an award is affected by our stock price on the date of grant as well as other assumptions including the estimated volatility of our stock price over the term of the awards and the estimated period of time that we expect employees to hold their stock options. The risk-free interest rate assumption we use is based upon U.S. treasury interest rates appropriate for the expected life of the awards. We use the implied volatility of publicly traded
options in our stock in order to estimate future stock price trends as we believe that implied volatility is more representative of future stock price trends than historical volatility. In order to determine the estimated period of time that we expect employees to hold their stock options, we have used historical rates of employee groups by seniority of job classification. Our expected dividend rate is based upon an annualized dividend yield based on the per share dividend declared by our Board of Directors. The aforementioned inputs entered into the option valuation model we use to fair value our stock awards are subjective estimates and changes to these estimates will cause the fair values of our stock awards and related stock-based compensation expense that we record to vary.
We issue PSUs to certain key executives. We estimate the fair values of the PSUs based upon their intrinsic values as of the grant dates as the vesting conditions and related terms of the PSUs were communicated to each participating employee as of their respective grant dates and include attainment metrics that are defined, fixed and consistently determined based upon consistent U.S. GAAP metrics or internal metrics and that require the employee to render service. The performance conditions of the PSUs affect the number of PSUs that will ultimately vest and be issued to the grantee based upon a “target” that is subject to certain attainment maximums, with the possibility that none will vest if applicable performance conditions are not met. We update the amount of stock-based compensation expense, net of forfeitures, to record as of the end of each reporting period based on the expected attainment of performance targets, which is subject to change until a final determination is known. Changes to the target estimates are reflected in the amount of stock-based compensation expense that we recognize for each PSU tranche on a cumulative basis during the reporting period in which the target estimates are altered and may cause the amount of stock-based compensation expense that we record for such reporting period to vary.
We record deferred tax assets for stock-based compensation awards that result in deductions on our income tax returns, based on the amount of stock-based compensation recognized and the fair values attributable to the vested portion of stock awards assumed in connection with a business combination, at the statutory tax rate in the jurisdiction in which we will receive a tax deduction. Because the deferred tax assets we record are based upon the stock-based compensation expenses in a particular jurisdiction, the aforementioned inputs that affect the fair values of our stock awards may also indirectly affect our income tax expense. In addition, differences between the deferred tax assets recognized for financial reporting purposes and the actual tax deduction reported on our income tax returns are recorded in additional paid-in capital.
To the extent we change the terms of our employee stock-based compensation programs, experience market volatility in the pricing of our common stock that increases the implied volatility calculation of publicly traded options in our stock, refine different assumptions in future periods such as forfeiture rates or PSU target performance attainment that differ from our current estimates, or assume stock awards from acquired companies that are different in nature than our stock award arrangements, among other potential impacts, the stock-based compensation expense that we record in future periods and the tax benefits that we realize may differ significantly from what we have recorded in previous reporting periods.
Results of Operations
Impact of Acquisitions2017
The comparability of our operating results in fiscal 20152018 compared to fiscal 2014the corresponding prior year periods, and of our consolidated balance sheets as of May 31, 2018 relative to May 31, 2017, was impacted by the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Tax Act), which was signed into law on December 22, 2017. Effective January 1, 2018, the Tax Act reduces the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%; creates a quasi-territorial tax system that a) generally allows, among other provisions, companies to repatriate certain foreign source earnings without incurring additional U.S. income tax for such earnings generated after December 31, 2017 and b) generally requires companies to pay aone-time transition tax on certain foreign subsidiary earnings generated prior to December 31, 2017 that, in substantial part, were previously tax deferred; creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings; limits deductibility of certain future compensation arrangements to certain highly compensated employees; and provides tax incentives for the exportation of U.S. products to foreign jurisdictions and for the purchase of qualifying capital equipment, among other provisions.
Because we have a May 31 fiscal year end, our acquisitions,fiscal 2018 blended U.S. federal statutory tax rate was approximately 29%.
During fiscal 2018, our provision for income taxes increased and our net income decreased, primarily as a result of the following items related to the enactment of the Tax Act:
$7.8 billion of income tax expense, which we refined by a $166 million increase as of May 31, 2018 from our acquisitions of MICROSinitial estimate made in the second quarter of fiscal 2015 and Responsys in theour third quarter of fiscal 2014.2018 in accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (SAB 118), related to the application of theone-time transition tax to certain foreign subsidiary earnings that were generated prior to December 31, 2017 and for which such expense was substantially recorded tonon-current income taxes payable in our consolidated balance sheet and corresponds to the amount we currently expect to periodically settle over an eight year period as provided by the Tax Act;
partially offset by:
$820 million of income tax benefit, which we refined by a $76 million increase as of May 31, 2018 from our initial estimate made in our third quarter of fiscal 2018 in accordance with SAB 118, related to the remeasurement of our net deferred tax liabilities based on the rates at which they are expected to reverse in the future; and
the net favorable impacts of the Tax Act on our tax profile and effective tax rate beginning on January 1, 2018, which we generally expect will continue into future periods.
The net expense related to the enactment of the Tax Act has been accounted for during fiscal 2018 based on provisional estimates pursuant to SAB 118. Subsequent adjustments, if any, will be accounted for in the period such adjustments are identified. The provisional estimates incorporate, among other factors, assumptions made based on interpretations of the Tax Act and existing tax laws and a range of historical financial andtax-specific facts and information, including among other items, the amount of cash and other specified assets and liabilities of the company and its foreign subsidiaries on relevant dates and estimates of deferred tax balances pending finalization of those balances.
We expect the enactment of the Tax Act to generally provide greater flexibility for us to access and utilize our cash, cash equivalent and marketable securities balances held by certain of our foreign subsidiaries as of January 1, 2018, as well as for prospective assets generated by these foreign subsidiaries’ future earnings and profits. We believe we have sufficient cash, cash equivalent and marketable securities balances, as well as access to other capital resources, if required, to settle the $7.8 billionone-time transition tax described above.
Impacts of Acquisitions
The comparability of our operating results in fiscal 20142018 compared to fiscal 20132017 and in fiscal 2017 compared to fiscal 2016 was impacted by our recent acquisitions, primarilyincluding our acquisitionsacquisition of Responsys inNetSuite during the thirdsecond quarter of fiscal 2014, Tekelec in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 and Acme Packet in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.
2017. In our discussion of changes in our results of operations from fiscal 20152018 compared to fiscal 20142017 and fiscal 20142017 compared to fiscal 2013,2016, we may qualitatively disclose the impact of our acquired products and services (for the one yearone-year period subsequent to the acquisition date) to the growth in certain of our operating segments’businesses’ revenues where such qualitative discussions would be meaningful for an understanding of the factors that influenced the changes in our results of operations. When material, we may also provide quantitative disclosures related to such
acquired products and services. TheExpense contributions offrom our recent acquisitions to certain of our operating segments’ revenues, margins and expenses for each of the respective period comparisons generally aremay not provided in our discussions, as they either were notbe separately identifiable due to the integration of these businesses and operating segments into our existing operations, and/or were insignificant to our results of operations during the periods presented.
We caution readers that, whilepre- and post-acquisition comparisons, as well as any quantified amounts themselves, may provide indications of general trends, any acquisition information that we provide has inherent limitations for the following reasons:
any qualitative and quantitative disclosures cannot specifically address or quantify the substantial effects attributable to changes in business strategies, including our sales force integration efforts. We believe that if our acquired companies had operated independently and sales forces had not been integrated, the relative mix of products and services sold would have been different; and
although substantially all of our software license customers, including customers from acquired companies, renew their software license updates and product support contracts when the contracts are eligible for renewal and we strive to renew cloud SaaS and PaaS contracts and hardware systems support contracts, the amounts shown as cloud SaaSservices and PaaS deferred revenues, software license updates and product support deferred revenues and hardware systems support deferred revenues in our supplemental disclosure related“Supplemental Disclosure Related to certain chargesCertain Charges” (presented below) are not necessarily indicative of revenue improvements we will achieve upon contract renewals to the extent customers do not renew.
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 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 consolidated statement of operations that are not directly attributable to our three businesses.
In addition, we discuss below the results of each 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 business in the discussion below.
Consistent with our internal management reporting processes, the below operating segment presentation includes revenues adjustments related to cloud services and license support contracts and hardware contracts that would have otherwise been recorded by the acquired businesses as independent entities but were not recognized in our 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 15 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual 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 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 income, net and provision for 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 15 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for a reconciliation of the summations of total segment margin as presented in the discussion below to total income before provision of income taxes as presented per our consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented.
Constant Currency Presentation
Our international operations have provided and willare expected to continue to provide a significant portion of each of our totalbusinesses’ revenues and expenses. As a result, each 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 Annual 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, 2014,2017, 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 May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017, our financial statements would reflect reported revenues of $1.08$1.16 million in fiscal 20152018 (using 1.081.16 as themonth-end average exchange rate for the period) and $1.36$1.11 million in fiscal 20142017 (using 1.361.11 as themonth-end average exchange rate for the period). The constant currency presentation,
however, would translate the fiscal 20152018 results using the fiscal 20142017 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.
Total Revenues and Operating Expenses
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Americas | $ | 21,107 | 4% | 6% | $ | 20,323 | 3% | 4% | $ | 19,719 | $ | 22,088 | 5% | 5% | $ | 21,038 | 3% | 3% | $ | 20,466 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EMEA(1) | 11,380 | -5% | 4% | 11,946 | 7% | 4% | 11,158 | 11,410 | 7% | 1% | 10,630 | -2% | 2% | 10,881 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total Operating Expenses | 24,355 | 4% | 7% | 23,516 | 5% | 6% | 22,496 | 26,152 | 5% | 3% | 25,018 | 2% | 3% | 24,443 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total Operating Margin | $ | 13,871 | -6% | 0% | $ | 14,759 | 1% | 1% | $ | 14,684 | $ | 13,679 | 8% | 5% | $ | 12,710 | 1% | 2% | $ | 12,604 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Software and Cloud | $ | 29,475 | 1% | 5% | $ | 29,199 | 5% | 5% | $ | 27,920 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware Systems | 5,205 | -3% | 2% | 5,372 | 0% | 2% | 5,346 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud and license | $ | 32,444 | 7% | 5% | $ | 30,218 | 4% | 5% | $ | 28,990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware | 3,993 | -4% | -6% | 4,152 | -11% | -10% | 4,668 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Services | 3,546 | -4% | 0% | 3,704 | -5% | -4% | 3,914 | 3,394 | 1% | -1% | 3,358 | -1% | 1% | 3,389 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014: 2017:Our results of operations for fiscal 2015 compared to fiscal 2014 were significantly impacted by movements in international currencies relative to the U.S. Dollar, which decreased our total revenues by 4 percentage points, total operating expenses by 3 percentage points and total operating income by 6 percentage points.
Excluding the effects of unfavorable currency variations of 4 percentage points,rate fluctuations, our total revenues increased in fiscal 20152018 primarily due to revenue increasesgrowth in our software and cloud and license revenues, partially offset by decreases in our hardware systems businesses.revenues and services revenues. The constant currency growthincrease in our softwarecloud and cloudlicense revenues during fiscal 2018 was attributable to growth in our softwarecloud services and license updates and product support revenues growth inas customers purchased our SaaS, PaaSapplications, platform and IaaSinfrastructure technologies via cloud and license deployment models and renewed their related contracts to continue to gain access to our latest technology and support services. To a lesser extent, our cloud and license revenues andalso increased due to revenue contributions from our recent acquisitions. The constant currency decrease in our hardware revenues during fiscal 2018 was due to the reduction in our hardware products revenues and hardware support revenues primarily due to the emphasis we placed on the marketing and sale of our cloud and license technologies. The constant currency decrease in our services revenues during fiscal 2018 was attributable to declines in our education and advanced customer support services revenues. In constant currency, the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions contributed 78%, 10% and 12%, respectively, to the growth in our hardware systems business was attributable to growth in our hardware systems support revenues, which were primarily attributable to revenue contributions from our recent acquisitions. fiscal 2018 total revenues.
Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, our total operating expenses increased during fiscal 2018 primarily due to higher cloud services and license support expenses resulting primarily from increased headcount and infrastructure expenses to support the increases in our revenues; higher sales and marketing expenses related to our cloud and license business; increased stock-based compensation expenses; higher general and administrative expenses; increased restructuring expenses; and higher intangible asset amortization. These constant currency expense increases were partially offset by certain expense decreases in fiscal 2018, which primarily consisted of lower research and development expenses primarily related to lower
employee expenses; and lower hardware products costs and a related decrease in hardware sales and marketing costs, both of which aligned to lower hardware revenues.
In constant currency, our total operating margin increased during fiscal 2018 primarily due to the increase in revenues and total operating margin as a percentage of total revenues remained flat.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate variations, our total revenues increased in fiscal 2017 due to growth in our cloud and license revenues and our services revenues, partially offset by a decrease in our hardware revenues. The constant currency increases in our cloud and license revenues during fiscal 2017 and constant currency decreases in our hardware revenues during fiscal 2017 were primarily attributable to similar reasons as noted above for the fiscal 2018 changes of each. The constant currency services revenues increase during fiscal 2017 was primarily attributable to certain acquisitions. In constant currency, the Americas region contributed 69%54%, the EMEA region contributed 28%24% and the Asia Pacific region contributed 3%22% to the growth in our total revenues during fiscal 2015.2017.
Excluding the effects of favorableforeign currency rate variations, of 3 percentage points, our total operating expenses increased during fiscal 20152017 relative to the prior year period due to expense increases across all of our lines of business, the largest of which were due to increasedhigher sales and marketing and research and development expenses, which were primarily attributable to increased headcount and increased stock-based compensation expenses; and higher cloud services and license support expenses resulting primarily from increased headcount increased cloud SaaS and PaaSinfrastructure expenses to support the increase in our cloud SaaSrevenues. These constant currency expense increases were partially offset by certain expense decreases in fiscal 2017, primarily lower hardware expenses due to similar reasons noted for the fiscal 2018 decrease above and PaaS revenues, and increased acquisition related and other expenses.lower intangible asset amortization in fiscal 2017 due to certain of our intangible assets that became fully amortized.
Excluding the effects of unfavorable foreignIn constant currency, rate fluctuations of 6 percentage points, our fiscal 2015 operating margin was flat in comparison to the prior year, while our operating margin as a percentage of revenues decreased during fiscal 2015 as our total operating expenses increased at a faster rate than our total revenues.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: On a constant currency basis, our total revenuesmargin increased in fiscal 20142017 due to increases in our software and cloud business revenues and our hardware systems business revenues, partially offset by a decrease in our services business revenues. The constant currency revenue growth in our
software and cloud business was substantially attributable to growth in our software license updates and product support revenues and, to a lesser extent, growth in our cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues due to incremental revenues from our acquisitions. The constant currency revenue growth in our hardware business was due to an increase in our hardware systems support revenues due substantially to incremental revenues from our acquisitions and due to increases in our hardware revenues attributable to our Oracle Engineered Systems. On a constant currency basis, the Americas contributed 61%, EMEA contributed 30% and Asia Pacific contributed 9% to our total revenues growth during fiscal 2014.
Total constant currency operating expenses increased during fiscal 2014 primarily due to an increase in sales and marketing and research and development expenses resulting from increased headcount, increased sales-based variable compensation expenses due to revenues growth, and increased cloud SaaS and PaaS expenses to support the increase in our cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues. These expense increases in fiscal 2014 were partially offset by lower constant currency expenses in fiscal 2014 from our hardware systems support and services segments due to decreased headcount, lower restructuring expenses, and lower intangible assets amortization. In fiscal 2013, we recognized a $387 million acquisition related benefit related to changes in estimates for contingent consideration payable (refer to Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information) and a $306 million benefit relating to certain litigation (refer to Note 18 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information), both of which decreased our acquisition related and other expenses during this period.
Excluding the effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations, our operating margin increased during fiscal 2014 due to ourtotal revenues growth, while ourtotal operating margin as a percentage of revenues was flat.
Supplemental Disclosure Related to Certain Charges
To supplement our 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. You should review the introduction under “Impact of Acquisitions” (above) for a discussion of the inherent limitations in comparingpre- and post-acquisition information.
Our operating results reported pursuant to GAAP included the following business combination accounting adjustments and expenses related to acquisitions as well asand certain other significant expense and income items:items that affected our GAAP net income:
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Cloud software as a service and platform as a service deferred revenues(1) | $ | 12 | $ | 17 | $ | 45 | ||||||
Software license updates and product support deferred revenues(1) | 11 | 3 | 14 | |||||||||
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Amortization of intangible assets(2) | 2,149 | 2,300 | 2,385 | |||||||||
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Represents the amortization of intangible assets, substantially all of which were acquired in connection with our acquisitions. As of May 31, |
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Fiscal 2018 | 848 | |||||||
Fiscal 2019 | 742 | $ | 1,605 | |||||
Fiscal 2020 | 598 | 1,400 | ||||||
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Sales and marketing | $ | 180 | $ | 165 | $ | 137 | 361 | 306 | 220 | |||||||||||||||
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SoftwareCloud and CloudLicense Business
Our softwarecloud and license business engages in the sale, marketing and delivery of our applications, platform and infrastructure technologies through various deployment models including license support offerings; Oracle
Cloud Services offerings; and cloud business consistslicense andon-premise license offerings. License support revenues are typically generated through the sale of license support contracts related to cloud license andon-premise licenses purchased by our customers at their option and are generally recognized as revenues ratably over the contractual term. Our Oracle Cloud Services offerings deliver certain of our new software licensesapplications, platform and cloud software subscriptions segment, our cloud infrastructure astechnologies on a service segmentsubscription basis via cloud-based deployment models that we host, manage and our softwaresupport, and revenues are generally recognized over the subscription period. Cloud license updates and product support segment.
New Software Licenses and Cloud Software Subscriptions: New software licenseson-premise license revenues represent fees earned from granting customers licenses, generally on a perpetual basis, to use our database and middleware and our applicationapplications software products. Cloud software subscriptions includeproducts within cloud andon-premise IT environments and are generally recognized as revenues from our cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings, which grant customerswhen unrestricted access to a broad range of our software offerings on a subscription basis in a secure, standards-based, cloud computing environment that includes access, hosting, infrastructure management, the use of software updates, and support.license is granted, provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met. We continue to place significant emphasis, both domestically and internationally, on direct sales through our own sales force. We also continue to market our productsofferings through indirect channels. Costs associated with our new software licensescloud and cloud software subscriptions segmentlicense business are included in cloud services and license support expenses, and sales and marketing expenses, cloud SaaS and PaaS expenses and amortization of intangible assets.expenses. These costs are largely personnel and infrastructure related including the cost of providing our cloud services and includelicense support offerings, salaries and commissions earned by our sales force for the sale of our softwarecloud and license offerings, and marketing program costs, the cost of providing our cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings and amortization of intangible assets.costs.
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Americas | $ | 5,742 | 4% | 6% | $ | 5,544 | 1% | 3% | $ | 5,465 | ||||||||||||||||||
EMEA | 2,715 | -16% | -8% | 3,249 | 10% | 6% | 2,959 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Asia Pacific | 1,563 | -10% | -5% | 1,744 | -8% | -2% | 1,897 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Cloud software as a service and platform as a service(1) | 763 | 71% | 76% | 447 | 41% | 42% | 317 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sales and marketing(1) | 6,474 | 2% | 6% | 6,350 | 7% | 8% | 5,935 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation | 179 | 8% | 8% | 166 | 17% | 17% | 142 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization of intangible assets(2) | 1,008 | 3% | 3% | 977 | -1% | -1% | 986 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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New software licenses | $ | 8,535 | -9% | -4% | $ | 9,416 | 0% | 1% | $ | 9,411 | ||||||||||||||||||
Cloud software as a service and platform as a service | 1,485 | 32% | 35% | 1,121 | 23% | 24% | 910 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Cloud software as a service and platform as a service | 15% | 11% | 9% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Americas(1) | $ | 18,472 | 6% | 6% | $ | 17,395 | 6% | 6% | $ | 16,344 | ||||||||||||||||||
EMEA(1) | 9,164 | 9% | 3% | 8,422 | -1% | 4% | 8,475 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Cloud services and license support(2) | 3,447 | 20% | 18% | 2,885 | 13% | 15% | 2,545 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sales and marketing(2) | 7,219 | 5% | 3% | 6,886 | 5% | 6% | 6,570 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Cloud services and license support(1) | $ | 26,301 | 10% | 7% | $ | 23,971 | 10% | 11% | $ | 21,721 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014: 2017:Excluding the effects of unfavorable currency rate fluctuations, of 5 percentage points, total new software licensesrevenues from our cloud and cloud software subscriptions revenues remained flat duringlicense business increased in fiscal 2015 as2018 due to growth in our cloud SaaSservices and PaaSlicense support revenues and revenue contributions from our recent acquisitionsacquisitions. The increases in our constant currency cloud
services and license support revenues during fiscal 2018 were primarily due to the purchase and renewal of our cloud-based services and license support services, and due to contributions from our recent acquisitions. These revenues increases were partially offset by a declinedecreases in our new software licenses revenues.cloud license andon-premise license revenues during fiscal 2018. In constant currency, our total applications revenues and total platform and infrastructure revenues grew during fiscal 2015 revenue growth in2018 as customers continued to deploy our applications, platform and infrastructure technologies through a wide array of different deployment models that we offer that enable customer choice. In constant currency, the Americas region was offset by revenue declines incontributed 71%, the EMEA region contributed 15% and Asia Pacific regions.
As a result of our acquisitions, we recorded adjustments to reduce assumed cloud SaaS and PaaS obligations to their estimated fair values at the acquisition dates. Due to our application of business combination accounting rules, cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues in the amounts of $12 million, $17 million and $45 million that would have
been otherwise recorded by our acquired businesses as independent entities were not recognized in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. To the extent underlying cloud SaaS and PaaS contracts are renewed with us following an acquisition, we will recognize the revenues for the full valuesregion contributed 14% of the cloud SaaS and PaaS contracts over the respective contractual periods.constant currency revenues growth for this business during fiscal 2018.
In reportedconstant currency, new software licenses revenues earned from transactions of $3 million or greater decreased by 15% in fiscal 2015total cloud and represented 31% of our new software licenses revenues in fiscal 2015 in comparison to 33% in fiscal 2014.
Excluding the effects of favorable currency rate fluctuations of 4 percentage points, total new software licenses and cloud software subscriptionslicense expenses increased in fiscal 20152018 primarily due to higher cloud services and license support expenses and higher sales and marketing expenses, both of which increased primarily due to higher employee related expenses from higher headcount. In addition, our constant currency cloud services and license support expenses increased headcount,during fiscal 2018 due to higher variable compensationtechnology infrastructure expenses and higher cloud SaaS and PaaS expenses incurred to supportthat supported the related revenues increase.growth in our revenues.
Excluding the effects of unfavorablecurrency rate fluctuations, our cloud and license segment’s total margin increased during fiscal 2018 primarily due to the increase in revenues for this segment while total margin as a percentage of revenues decreased slightly due to expenses growth for this segment.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, total new software licensesrevenues, total expenses and total margin from our cloud software subscriptions margin and license business each increased in fiscal 2017 relative to fiscal 2016 due to similar reasons as noted above for the increases in fiscal 2018 relative to fiscal 2017. During fiscal 2017, the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions contributed 63%, 20% and 17%, respectively, of the constant currency revenues growth for this business.
Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, our cloud and license business’ total margin as a percentage of revenues decreased in fiscal 2015 due to the growth in total expenses for this operating segment.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: Excluding the effects of unfavorable currency rate fluctuations, total new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues increased during fiscal 2014 primarily due to incremental revenues from our cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings resulting from our recent acquisitions. In constant currency, total new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues growth in fiscal 2014 in the Americas and EMEA region was partially offset by a decline in revenues in the Asia Pacific region.
As described above, the amount of new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues that we recognized in fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2013 were affected by business combination accounting rules. In reported currency, new software licenses revenues earned from transactions of $3 million or greater increased by 3% in fiscal 2014 and represented 33% of our new software licenses revenues in fiscal 2014 in comparison to 32% in fiscal 2013.
Excluding the effects of favorable currency rate fluctuations, total new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions expenses increased in fiscal 2014 primarily due to higher employee related expenses from increased headcount, higher variable compensation expenses due to revenues growth, and higher cloud SaaS and PaaS expenses incurred to support the related revenues increase.
Excluding the effects of unfavorable currency rate fluctuations, total new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions margin and margin as a percentage of revenues decreased in fiscal 20142017 as our total expenses increasedgrew at a faster rate than our total revenues for this operating segment.
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service: Our cloud infrastructure as a service segment provides comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services for customer IT infrastructure for a fee for a stated term that is hosted at our Oracle data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on-premises at customer facilities; virtual machine instance services that are subscription-based in which we deploy, secure, provision, manage and maintain certain of our hardware products for our customers to provide them with a set of cloud-based core infrastructure capabilities like elastic compute and storage services to run workloads in the cloud; and hardware and related support offerings for certain of our Oracle Engineered Systems that are deployed in our customers’ data centers for a monthly fee. Cloud infrastructure as a service expenses consist primarily of personnel related expenditures, technology infrastructure expenditures and facilities costs. For all periods presented, our cloud-infrastructure as a service segment’s revenues and expenses were substantially attributable to our comprehensive software and hardware management, maintenance and hosting services.business.
(Dollars in millions) Cloud Infastructure as a Service Revenues: Americas EMEA Asia Pacific Total revenues Expenses: Cloud infastructure as a service(1) Sales and marketing(1) Stock-based compensation Amortization of intangible assets(2) Total expenses Total Margin Total Margin % % Revenues by Geography: Americas EMEA Asia Pacific Year Ended May 31, Percent Change Percent Change 2015 Actual Constant 2014 Actual Constant 2013 $ 444 33% 35% $ 335 -6% -5% $ 355 129 37% 41% 94 32% 27% 72 35 28% 39% 27 -12% 3% 30 �� 608 33% 36% 456 0% 1% 457 339 12% 14% 304 3% 5% 296 90 46% 50% 61 0% 1% 61 5 27% 27% 4 -52% -52% 8 4 * * — * * — 438 19% 21% 369 1% 3% 365 $ 170 97% 103% $ 87 -6% -9% $ 92 28% 19% 20% 73% 73% 77% 21% 21% 16% 6% 6% 7%
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Fiscal 2014: On a constant currency basis, total cloud IaaS revenues increased during fiscal 2015 primarily due to growth in our comprehensive software and hardware management, maintenance and hosting services and due to revenue contributions from our recent acquisitions. Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, the Americas contributed 70%, EMEA contributed 24% and Asia Pacific contributed 6% to the increase in IaaS revenues during fiscal 2015.
On a constant currency basis, total cloud IaaS expenses increased in fiscal 2015 primarily due to increased employee related expenses associated with increased headcount and increased infrastructure expenses to support our increase in IaaS revenues.
Excluding the effects of unfavorable currency exchange variances, total margin and margin as a percentage of revenues increased during fiscal 2015 as total revenues increased at a faster rate than our total expenses for this operating segment.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: On a constant currency basis, total cloud IaaS revenues increased slightly in fiscal 2014 primarily due to incremental revenues from our on-premises Oracle Engineered Systems subscription offerings. In constant currency, total cloud IaaS revenues growth in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions were partially offset by a decline in revenues in the Americas region.
On a constant currency basis, total cloud IaaS expenses increased during fiscal 2014 primarily due to increased employee related expenses associated with increased headcount, which reduced the total margin and margin as a percentage of revenues for this segment in comparison to fiscal 2013.
Software License Updates and Product Support: Software license updates grant customers rights to unspecified software product upgrades and maintenance releases and patches released during the support period. Product support includes internet access to technical content as well as internet and telephone access to technical support personnel in our global support centers. Expenses associated with our software license updates and product support line of business include the cost of providing the support services, largely personnel related expenses, and the amortization of our intangible assets associated with software support contracts and customer relationships obtained from acquisitions.
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Americas | $ | 10,418 | 6% | 7% | $ | 9,858 | 6% | 7% | $ | 9,322 | ||||||||||||||||||
EMEA | 5,920 | 0% | 9% | 5,906 | 10% | 7% | 5,363 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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As a result of our acquisitions, we recorded adjustments to reduce assumed software support obligations to their estimated fair values at the acquisition dates. Due to our application of business combination accounting rules, software license updates and product support revenues related to software support contracts in the amounts of $11 million, $3 million and $14 million that would have been otherwise recorded by our acquired businesses as independent entities were not recognized in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. Historically, substantially all of our software license customers, including customers from acquired companies, renew their software support contracts when such contracts are eligible for renewal. To the extent these underlying support contracts are renewed, we will recognize the revenues for the full values of these contracts over the support periods, the substantial majority of which are one year in duration.
Excluding the effects of favorable foreign currency rate fluctuations, total software license updates and product support expenses increased during fiscal 2015 due to higher employee related expenses and facilities costs associated with increased headcount that was primarily attributable to our recent acquisitions, and also increased due to higher bad debt expenses. These fiscal 2015 expense increases were partially offset by fiscal 2015 expense decreases related to lower statutory obligation expenses in the jurisdictions in which we operate and lower amortization of intangible assets.
In constant currency, total margin and margin as a percentage of revenues for this segment increased during fiscal 2015 as our total revenues for this segment increased at a faster rate than our total expenses for this segment, each during fiscal 2015 and in comparison to fiscal 2014.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: Excluding the effects of unfavorable currency rate fluctuations, software license updates and product support revenues increased in fiscal 2014 for reasons similar to those notedabove forour fiscal 2015 revenues increase. Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, the Americas contributed 55%, EMEA contributed 30% and Asia Pacific contributed 15% to the increase in software license updates and product support revenues during fiscal 2014.
As described above, the amounts of software license updates and product support revenues that we recognized in fiscal 2014 and 2013 were affected by business combination accounting rules.
Excluding the effects of favorable foreign currency rate fluctuations, total software license updates and product support expenses during fiscal 2014 decreased slightly due to a modest decrease in headcount and a decrease in amortization of intangible assets. Total margin and total margin as a percentage of revenues increased during fiscal 2014 as our total revenues for this segment increased while our total expenses slightly decreased, each during fiscal 2014 and in comparison to fiscal 2013.
Hardware Systems Business
Our hardware systems business consists of our hardware systems products segment and hardware systems support segment.
Hardware Systems Products: Hardware systems productsbusiness’ revenues are primarily generated from the sales of our Oracle Engineered Systems, computer server, storage, networking, workstations and related devicesindustry-specific hardware products that are generally recognized as revenues upon delivery to the customer, provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met. Our hardware business also earns revenues from the sale of hardware support contracts purchased by our customers at their option and industry specificare generally recognized as revenues ratably as the hardware products. We market and sellsupport services are delivered over the contractual term. The majority of our hardware systems products are sold through our direct sales force and indirect channels such as independent distributors and value added resellers.value-added resellers and we also market and sell our hardware products through our direct sales force. Operating expenses associated with our hardware systems productsbusiness include the cost of hardware systems products, which consists of expenses for materials and labor used to produce these products by our internal manufacturing operations or by third partythird-party manufacturers, warranty expenses and the impact of periodic changes in inventory valuation, including the impact of inventory determined to be excess and obsolete. Operating expenses associated with our hardware systems products also includeobsolete; 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 products, and amortization of intangible assets.
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Sales and marketing | 911 | -8% | -3% | 991 | 7% | 7% | 929 | 635 | -23% | -25% | 820 | -5% | -4% | 867 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiscal 2015 Compared to Fiscal 2014: Excluding the effects of unfavorable currency rate fluctuations of 5 percentage points, total hardware systems products revenues were flat in fiscal 2015 in comparison to the prior year as revenues from our recently acquired companies, including MICROS, and increases in hardware revenues attributable to our Oracle Engineered Systems products were offset by reductions in the sales volumes of certain of our other hardware product offerings. On a constant currency basis, revenue increases in the Americas region and EMEA region were offset by declines in the Asia Pacific region.
Excluding the effects of favorable currency rate fluctuations of 5 percentage points, total hardware systems products expenses decreased in fiscal 2015 primarily due to lower bad debt expenses and a reduction in amortization of intangible assets. These fiscal 2015 expense decreases were partially offset by higher fiscal 2015 employee related expenses due to increased headcount from our recent acquisitions and higher direct product costs that were primarily attributable to higher revenues from recently acquired companies.
In constant currency, total margin and margin as a percentage of revenues increased in fiscal 2015 due to the decrease in total expenses for this segment.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, total hardware systems products revenues modestly decreased in fiscal 2014.2018 and 2017, each relative to the corresponding prior year period, due to lower hardware products revenues and, to a lesser extent, lower hardware support revenues. The decreasedecreases in hardware products revenues duringin both fiscal 2014, which was2018 and 2017, each relative to the corresponding prior year period, were primarily attributable to reductionsour continued emphasis on the marketing and sale of our cloud-based infrastructure technologies, which resulted in thereduced sales volumes of certain of our hardware product lines was partially offset by incremental revenues from our acquired companies and increases inalso impacted the volume of customers that purchased hardware revenues attributable to the sales of our Oracle Engineered Systems.
In constant currency, total hardware systems products expenses increased in fiscal 2014 primarily due to an increase in employee related expenses due primarily to an increase in sales and marketing headcount, partially offset by a decrease in amortization of intangible assets.
Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, total margin and margin as a percentage of revenues decreased in fiscal 2014 due to a decrease in our total revenues and increase in our total expenses for this segment.
Hardware Systems Support: Our hardware systems support offerings provide customers with software updates for software components that are essential to the functionality of our hardware products, such as Oracle Solaris and certain other software products, and can include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services. Expenses associated with our hardware systems support operating segment include the cost of materials used to repair customer products, the cost of providing support services, largely personnel related expenses, and the amortization of our intangible assets primarily associated with hardware systems support contracts and customer relationships obtained from our acquisitions.
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Americas | $ | 1,245 | 1% | 3% | $ | 1,229 | 11% | 12% | $ | 1,109 | ||||||||||||||||||
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As a result of our acquisitions, we recorded adjustments to reduce assumed hardware systems support obligations to their estimated fair values at the acquisition dates. Due to our application of business combination accounting rules, hardware systems support revenues related to hardware systems support contracts in the amounts of $4 million, $11 million and $14 million were not recognized in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. To the extent these underlying hardware systems support contracts are renewed, we will recognize the revenues for the full values of these contracts over the future support periods.
In constant currency, total hardware systems support expenses decreased in fiscal 2015 primarily due to reduced service delivery costs due to operational initiatives and a decrease in amortization of intangible assets, partially offset by higher employee related expenses resulting from increased headcount from our recent acquisitions, higher external contractor expenses and higher bad debt expenses.
In constant currency, total hardware systems support margin and margin as a percentage of total revenues increased in fiscal 2015 due to the increase in total revenues and decrease in total expenses for this operating segment.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: Excluding the impacts of unfavorable currency rate fluctuations, hardware systems support revenues increased in fiscal 2014 primarily due to incremental revenues from our acquisitions. In constant currency, hardware systems support revenues growth in the Americas and Asia Pacific region was partially offset by a decline in revenues in the EMEA region.
As described above, the amounts of hardware systems support revenues that we recognized in fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2013 were affected by business combination accounting rules.
In constant currency, total hardware systems support expenses decreased in fiscal 2014 primarily due to a reduction in employee related expenses attributable to operational initiatives including decreased headcount and reduced service delivery costs, partially offset by an increase in amortization of intangible assets.contracts.
Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, total hardware systems supportexpenses decreased in fiscal 2018 and 2017, each relative to the corresponding prior year period, primarily due to lower hardware products costs and lower employee related expenses, which aligned to lower hardware revenues.
In constant currency, total margin and total margin as a percentage of total revenues increased in fiscal 2014 as our total revenues for thisour hardware segment increased while our total expenses for this segment decreased.during fiscal 2018 and 2017, each relative to the corresponding prior year period, due to expense decreases in each of these periods.
Services Business
Our services business consists of consulting, advanced customer support services and education services. Consulting revenues are earned by providingWe offer services to customers and partners to help to maximize the performance of their investments in businessOracle applications, platform and IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial product implementation and integration, and ongoing product enhancements and upgrades. Advanced customer supportinfrastructure technologies. Services revenues are generally recognized as the services are provided on-premises and remotely to our customers to enable increased performance and higher availability of their Oracle products and services. Education revenues are earned by providing instructor-led, live virtual training, self-paced online training, private events and custom training in the use of our software and hardware offerings.performed. The cost of providing our services consists primarily of personnel related expenses, technology infrastructure expenditures, facilities expenses and external contractor expenses.
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Americas | $ | 1,766 | -5% | -2% | $ | 1,850 | -6% | -5% | $ | 1,973 | $ | 1,653 | -4% | -4% | $ | 1,725 | 0% | 0% | $ | 1,728 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EMEA | 1,097 | -2% | 6% | 1,125 | -4% | -7% | 1,170 | 1,046 | 6% | 0% | 987 | -4% | 2% | 1,028 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asia Pacific | 683 | -6% | -1% | 729 | -5% | 2% | 771 | 695 | 7% | 5% | 646 | 2% | 0% | 635 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Excluding the effects of favorable currency rate fluctuations of 5 percentage points, our total services expenses increased during fiscal 2015 due to higher employee related expenses resulting from increased headcount from our recent acquisitions and were partially offset by lower variable compensation and lower external contractor costs, each in comparison to fiscal 2014.
In constant currency, total margin and margin as a percentage of total revenues decreased during fiscal 2015 due to the increase in total expenses for this business.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013:Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, our total services revenues decreased during fiscal 2018 due primarily to revenue declines in our advanced customer services and education revenues. Constant currency decreases in our services revenues in the Americas region were partially offset by a constant currency services revenues increase in the Asia Pacific region, while services revenues in the EMEA region were flat.
In constant currency, total services expenses were flat during fiscal 2018. Total margin and total margin as a percentage of total services revenues decreased in fiscal 20142018 due to the revenue decreases in each of our services business’ segments. The largest services revenues decrease wasfor this segment.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to our consulting segment’s revenues.
Fiscal 2016: Excluding the effects of currency rate fluctuations, our total services expenses decreasedrevenues were flat in fiscal 2017. Constant currency increases in our consulting revenues during fiscal 20142017, which were primarily dueattributable to expenseour recent acquisitions, were substantially offset by constant currency decreases in our consultingeducation revenues. On a constant currency basis, modest services segment primarily due to decreased headcount, lower external contractor costs and lower intangible asset amortization.revenues growth in the EMEA region during fiscal 2017 was offset by services revenues declines in the Asia Pacific region, while the Americas region was flat.
In constant currency, total services margin and total margin as a percentage of total services revenues decreased and total services expenses increased during fiscal 20142017, primarily due to an increase in expenses associated with our consulting offerings, primarily higher consulting expense reductions for this business.contributions from our recent acquisitions.
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.Index to Financial Statements
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Research and development(1) | $ | 5,002 | 5% | 6% | $ | 4,766 | 6% | 7% | $ | 4,498 | $ | 5,170 | -4% | -5% | $ | 5,389 | 4% | 5% | $ | 5,178 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiscal 2018 Compared to Fiscal 2017: On a constant currency basis, total research and development expenses decreased during fiscal 2018, primarily due to lower fiscal 2018 employee related expenses related to lower headcount resulting from the restructuring of certain of our research and development operations during fiscal 2018. These fiscal 2018 cost savings were partially offset by investments in the development of our cloud-based offerings and by higher stock-based compensation during fiscal 2018.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: On a constant currency basis, total research and development expenses increased duringin fiscal 2015 and 2014, each relative to the respective prior year period,2017, primarily due to increased employee related expenses resulting from increased headcount, including additional headcount from our recent acquisitions.and higher stock-based compensation.
General and Administrative Expenses: General and administrative expenses primarily consist of personnel related expenditures for information technology,IT, finance, legal and human resources support functions.
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General and administrative(1) | $ | 929 | 7% | 10% | $ | 867 | -4% | -3% | $ | 908 | $ | 1,109 | 6% | 4% | $ | 1,046 | 1% | 3% | $ | 1,035 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014:2017: On a constantExcluding the effects of currency basis,rate fluctuations, total general and administrative expenses increased duringin fiscal 2015 primarily2018 due to higherincreased employee related expenses resulting from increased headcount and higher professional fees.stock-based compensation.
Fiscal 20142017 Compared to Fiscal 2013:2016: On a constantExcluding the effects of currency basis,rate fluctuations, total general and administrative expenses decreased duringincreased in fiscal 20142017 primarily due to lower professional fees and lower variable compensation expenses, partially offset by slightly increased salaries and benefits expenses due to an increase in headcount.
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Software support agreements and related relationships | $ | 531 | -7% | -7% | $ | 571 | -2% | -2% | $ | 582 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Acquisition Related and Other Expenses: Acquisition related and other expenses consist of personnel related costs and stock-based compensation for transitional and certain other employees, stock-based compensation expenses, integration related professional services, and certain business combination adjustments including certain adjustments after the measurement period has ended and certain other operating items, net. Stock-based compensation expenses included in acquisition related and other expenses resultresulted from unvested stock options and restricted stock-based awards and stock options assumed from acquisitions whereby vesting was accelerated generally upon termination of the employees pursuant to the original terms of those stock options and restricted stock-based awards.awards and stock options.
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Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014:2017: On a constant currency basis, acquisition related and other expenses decreased in fiscal 2018 primarily due to lower stock-based compensation expenses and were also offset by certain benefits we recorded to professional fees and other, net during fiscal 2018.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: On a constant currency basis, acquisition related and other expenses increased duringin fiscal 20152017 primarily due to higher stock-based compensation expenses as a $186result of our acquisition of NetSuite and higher professional fees. In addition, we recognized an acquisition related benefit of $19 million goodwillin fiscal 2016, which decreased acquisition related and other expenses during this period.
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 loss (refer tobased upon relevant facts and circumstances. Note 76 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report forhas additional information)information regarding our intangible assets and an increaserelated amortization.
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Fiscal 2018 Compared to Fiscal 2017: Amortization of intangible assets increased in certain transitional employee related costs,fiscal 2018 due to additional amortization from intangible assets that we acquired in connection with our acquisitions, primarily related to our acquisition of MICROS. TheseNetSuite.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: Amortization of intangible assets decreased in fiscal 2015 expense increases were2017 due to a reduction in expenses associated with certain of our intangible assets that became fully amortized, partially offset by a $53 million benefit recorded in the second quarter of fiscal 2015 related to certain litigation (refer to Note 18 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information).
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: On a constant currency basis, the increase in our acquisition related and other expenses in fiscal 2014 was primarily due to certain benefitsamortization from intangible assets that we recorded during fiscal 2013, which reduced our expenses during this period. We recorded a net benefit of $387 million during fiscal 2013 related to the change in fair value of contingent consideration payableacquired in connection with an acquisition (refer to Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information). We also recorded a $306 million benefitour acquisitions made in fiscal 2013 to professional fees and other, net related to certain litigation (refer to Note 182017, including those associated with our acquisition of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information).NetSuite.
Restructuring Expenses: Restructuring expenses resultresulted 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 may also include charges for duplicate facilities and other contract termination costs to improve our
cost structure prospectively. For additional information regarding our restructuring plans, see Note 98 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in thisour Annual Report.
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Restructuring expenses in fiscal 20152018 and fiscal 2017 primarily related to our 2017 Restructuring Plan which is substantially complete. Restructuring expenses in fiscal 2016 primarily related to our 2015 Restructuring Plan and our 2013 Restructuring Plan. Restructuring expenses in fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2013 primarily related to our 2013 Restructuring Plan.which is complete. Our management approved, committed to and initiated these plans in order to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations. The totalWe may incur additional restructuring expenses in future periods due to the initiation of new restructuring plans or from changes in estimated restructuring costs associated with existing restructuring plans.
The majority of the 2015 Restructuring Plan are up to $626 million and will be recorded to the restructuring expense line item withininitiatives undertaken by our consolidated statements of operations as they are incurred. The total estimated remaining restructuring costs associated with the 20152017 Restructuring Plan were approximately $526 million aseffected to implement our continued move toward developing, marketing and selling our cloud-based offerings. These initiatives impacted certain of May 31, 2015our sales and the majority of the remaining costs are expected to be incurred through the end of fiscal 2016. Actionsmarketing and research and development operations. Cost savings realized pursuant to the 2013our 2017 Restructuring Plan initiatives were substantially completeprimarily offset by investments in resources and geographies that address the development, marketing and sale of our cloud-based offerings as of May 31, 2015 (refercustomer preferences pivot to Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information pertaining to our 2013 Restructuring Plan). Our estimated costs are subject to change in future periods.the Oracle Cloud.
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Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014: 2017:Interest expense increased in fiscal 20152018 primarily due to higher average borrowings resulting from our issuance of $10.0 billion of senior notes in May 2015 and $10.0 billion of senior notes in July 2014. The increase in interest expense in fiscal 2015November 2017, which was partially offset by a reduction in interest expense during fiscal 2015 resulting from the maturity and repayment of $1.5$6.0 billion of senior notes and the related fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements in July 2014.fiscal 2018. See Recent Financing Activities below and Note 87 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information regarding our fiscal 2015 borrowings.
Fiscal 20142017 Compared to Fiscal 2013:2016: Interest expense increased in fiscal 20142017 primarily due to higher average borrowings resulting from our issuance of $3.0 billion and €2.0$14.0 billion of senior notes in July 2013 and our issuance of $5.0 billion of senior notes2016. This increase in October 2012,interest expense during fiscal 2017 was partially offset by a reduction in interest expense resulting from the maturity and repayment of $1.25$2.0 billion of senior notes in April 2013.
Non-Operating Income, (Expense), net: Non-operating income, (expense), net consists primarily of interest income, net foreign currency exchange gains (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 (losses), including net realized gains and losses related to all of our investments and net unrealized gains and losses related to the small portion of our investment portfolio that we classify as trading.
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Interest income | $ | 349 | 33% | 33% | $ | 263 | 10% | 17% | $ | 237 | $ | 1,201 | 50% | 49% | $ | 802 | 49% | 50% | $ | 538 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign currency losses, net | (157 | ) | -58% | -59% | (375 | ) | 131% | 127% | (162 | ) | (74 | ) | -51% | -58% | (152 | ) | 38% | 49% | (110 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiscal Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: On a constant currency basis, ournon-operating income, net for fiscal 2017 increased Index to Financial Statements
20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014:2017: On a constant currency basis, ournon-operating income, net for fiscal 2018 increased primarily due to higher interest income in fiscal 2018 resulting from higher cash, cash equivalent and short-term investment balances and higher interest rates, lower foreign currency losses in fiscal 2018, and an increase in other income, net in fiscal 20152018 related to higher net realized gains on the sale of certain marketable securities.due to lower net foreign currency losses andprimarily due to higher interest income resulting from higher cash, cash equivalent and short-term investment balances. Includedbalances and higher interest rates. In addition, we incurred higher other income, net during fiscal 2017 related to investment gains for our deferred compensation plan investments that we held and classified as trading in comparison to net losses for such investments during fiscal 2016. The aforementioned favorable movements innon-operating income, net during fiscal 2017 were partially offset by higher foreign currency losses, net induring fiscal 2015 was a remeasurement loss of $23 million related to our Venezuelan subsidiary. We recorded non-operating expense, net in fiscal 2014 primarily due to a foreign currency remeasurement loss of $213 million that also related to our Venezuelan subsidiary. Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report contains additional information regarding the foreign currency remeasurement losses we incurred in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013 related to our Venezuelan subsidiary.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: We recorded non-operating expense, net in fiscal 2014 in comparison to non-operating income, net in fiscal 2013 primarily due to an increase in foreign currency losses, net that were incurred in fiscal 2014 including foreign currency remeasurement losses of $213 million that related to our Venezuelan subsidiary (see Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information).
Provision for Income Taxes: Our effective tax rate in allrates for each of the periods ispresented were the result of the mix of income earned in various tax jurisdictions that apply a broad range of income tax rates. In fiscal 2018, the Tax Act was signed into law. The more significant provisions of the Tax Act as applicable to us are described above under “Impacts of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017”. Our provision for income taxes differsfor the fiscal 2018 presented varied from the 21% U.S. statutory rate imposed by the Tax Act due primarily to the January 1, 2018 effective date of the Tax Act, the impacts of the Tax Act upon adoption, state taxes, the U.S. research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation, and the U.S. domestic production activity deduction. Prior to the January 1, 2018 effective date of the Tax Act, our provision for income taxes historically differed from the tax computed at the previous U.S. federal statutory income tax rate due primarily to certain earnings considered as indefinitely reinvested in foreign operations, state taxes, the U.S. research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation and the U.S. domestic production activity deduction. Future effective tax rates could be adversely affected ifby an unfavorable shift of earnings are lower than anticipated in countries where we have lower statutoryweighted to jurisdictions with higher tax rates, by unfavorable changes in tax laws and regulations, or by adverse rulings in tax related litigation.litigation, or by shortfalls in stock-based compensation realized by employees relative to stock-based compensation that was recorded for book purposes, among others.
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Provision for income taxes | $ | 2,896 | 5% | 13% | $ | 2,749 | -7% | -6% | $ | 2,973 | $ | 9,066 | 315% | 315% | $ | 2,182 | -14% | -15% | $ | 2,541 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014:2017: Provision for income taxes increased in fiscal 2018, relative to fiscal 2017, primarily due to the net unfavorable impacts due to our initial accounting for the enactment of the Tax Act on January 1, 2018 (refer to “Impacts of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” above for additional information) and, to a lesser extent, by the tax effect of higher income before provision for income taxes (determined after taking into account the net favorable impact of the Tax Act on our tax profile) during fiscal 2018; an unfavorable shift in jurisdiction mix of earnings in fiscal 2018; and a decrease in unrecognized tax benefits due to settlements with tax authorities and other events during fiscal 2018. These unfavorable impacts to our provision for income taxes were partially offset by higher fiscal 2018 realized excess tax benefits related to stock-based compensation expense.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: Provision for income taxes in fiscal 2015 increased,2017 decreased relative to fiscal 2016 primarily due to the favorable impact of excess tax benefits recognized in fiscal 2017 that related to stock-based compensation, which were recorded as a benefit to provision for income taxes in fiscal 2017, in comparison to fiscal 2016 when such benefits were recognized as an increase to additional paid in capital. To a lesser extent, the provision for income taxes in fiscal 2014, due in substantial part to an unfavorable change in the2017 also benefited from a favorable jurisdictional mix of our fiscal 2015 earnings, and due to the effects of acquisition related settlements with tax authoritiesas well as net favorable changes in fiscal 2014 that were not present in fiscal 2015, which together were partially offset by lower fiscal 2015 income before provision for income taxes.
Fiscal 2014 Compared2017 relating to Fiscal 2013: Provision for income taxes in fiscal 2014 decreased, relative to the provision for income taxes in fiscal 2013, due to aunrecognized tax favorable change in the jurisdictional mixbenefits from audit settlements, statute of our fiscal 2014 earningslimitation releases, and the effects of acquisition related settlements with tax authorities during fiscal 2014.other events.
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Working capital | $ | 47,892 | 42% | $ | 33,739 | 17% | $ | 28,813 | $ | 56,769 | 13% | $ | 50,337 | 7% | $ | 47,105 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Working capital: The increase in working capital as of May 31, 20152018 in comparison to May 31, 20142017 was primarily due to our issuance of $20.0$10.0 billion of long-term senior notes during fiscal 2015,in November 2017 (refer to Recent Financing Activities Below for additional information), the favorable impactimpacts to our net current assets resulting from our net income during fiscal 2015,2018 and to a lesser extent, cash proceeds from stock option exercises. These favorable working capital increasesmovements were partially offset by $6.2 billion of net cash used for our acquisitions of MICROS and others, $8.1 billion of cash used for repurchases of our common stock, the reclassification of $2.0 billion of senior notes due January 2016 from long-term to current, and $2.3 billion of cash used to pay dividends to our stockholders, allcash used for capital expenditures and cash used for acquisitions in fiscal 2018.
The increase in working capital as of which occurredMay 31, 2017 in comparison to May 31, 2016 was primarily due to our issuance of $14.0 billion of long-term senior notes in July 2016, the favorable impacts to our net current assets resulting from our net income during fiscal 2015. 2017 and cash proceeds from stock option exercises. These favorable working capital movements were partially offset by cash used for acquisitions, including $9.0 billion of net cash used for our acquisition of NetSuite in the second quarter of fiscal 2017, cash used for repurchases of our common stock, cash used to pay dividends to our stockholders and cash used for capital expenditures.
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.
The increase in working capital as of May 31, 2014 in comparison to May 31, 2013 was primarily due to our issuance of €2.0 billion and $3.0 billion of long-term senior notes in July 2013, the favorable impact to our net current assets resulting from our net income during fiscal 2014, and, to a lesser extent, cash proceeds from stock option exercises. These working capital increases were partially offset by the reclassification of $1.5 billion of senior notes due July 2014 from long-term to current, $9.8 billion of cash used for repurchases of our common stock, cash used to pay dividends to our stockholders, and cash used for acquisitions.
Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities: Cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of deposits held at major banks,Tier-1 commercial paper and other securities with original maturities of 90 days or less. Marketable securities primarily consist of time deposits held at major banks, Tier-1 commercial paper debt securities, corporate notesdebt securities and certain other securities. The increase in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at May 31, 20152018 in comparison to May 31, 20142017 was primarily due to an increase in cash generated from our operating activities, ourthe issuance of $20.0$12.5 billion of senior notes incash inflows from fiscal 2015,2018 debt issuances (refer to Recent Financing Activities Below for additional information), cash inflows generated by our operations and to a lesser extent, cash proceedsinflows from stock option exercises. These increasescash inflows were partially offset by $6.2 billion of netcertain fiscal 2018 cash paid for our acquisitions of MICROS and others, $8.1outflows, primarily $11.3 billion of repurchases of our common stock, the repayment of $1.5$9.8 billion of senior notes and $2.3 billion used for the paymentborrowings, payments of cash dividends to our stockholders. Cash,stockholders and cash equivalentsused for capital expenditures.
As a result of the enactment of the Tax Act on January 1, 2018, we expect greater flexibility in accessing and utilizing our cash, cash equivalent and marketable securities included $42.7 billionbalances held by certain of our foreign subsidiaries, as of May 31, 2015.well as prospective assets generated by these foreign subsidiaries’ future earnings and profits. We consider $38.0believe we have sufficient cash, cash equivalent and marketable securities balances and access to additional capital resources, if required, to settle the $7.8 billion of our undistributed earnings as indefinitely reinvested in our foreign operations outside the United States. These undistributed earnings would be subject to U.S. incomeone-time transition tax if repatriated to the United States. Assuming a full utilizationdescribed under “Impacts of the foreign tax credits, the potential deferred tax liability associated with these undistributed earnings would be approximately $11.8 billion asU.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of May 31, 2015 should the amounts be repatriated to the United States. 2017” above.
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 consolidated balance sheets and is also presented as a line item in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income included elsewhere in this Annual Report). As the U.S. Dollar generally strengthenedweakened against certain major international currencies during fiscal 2015,2018, the amount of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities that we reported in U.S. Dollars for these subsidiaries decreasedincreased on a net basis as of May 31, 20152018 relative to what we would have reported using constant currency rates from our May 31, 20142017 balance sheet date.
The increase in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at May 31, 20142017 in comparison to May 31, 20132016 was primarily due to an increase in cash inflows generated fromby our operating activities, our issuance of €2.0 billion and $3.0operations during fiscal 2017, $13.6 billion of senior notes in July 2013,net cash inflows from fiscal 2017 debt issuances, net of debt repayments, and to a lesser extent, cash proceedsinflows from fiscal 2017 stock option
exercises. These increasesfiscal 2017 cash inflows were partially offset by $9.8 billioncertain fiscal 2017 cash outflows, primarily acquisitions, including our acquisition of NetSuite, repurchases of our common stock, $3.5 billion of net cash paid for acquisitions and $2.2 billion used for the paymentpayments of cash dividends to our stockholders.stockholders, and cash used for capital expenditures. Additionally, our reported cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balances as of May 31, 20142017 decreased on a net basis in comparison to May 31, 2013 due to the modest strengthening of2016 as the U.S. Dollar generally strengthened in comparison to certainmost major international currencies during fiscal 2014.
Days sales outstanding, which we calculate by dividing period end accounts receivable by average daily sales for the quarter, was 47 days at May 31, 2015 compared with 48 days at May 31, 2014. The days sales outstanding calculation excludes the impact of revenue adjustments resulting from business combinations that reduced our acquired cloud SaaS and PaaS obligations, software license updates and product support obligations and hardware systems support obligations to fair value.2017.
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Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 14,336 | -4% | $ | 14,921 | 5% | $ | 14,224 | $ | 15,386 | 9% | $ | 14,126 | 3% | $ | 13,685 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net cash used for investing activities | $ | (19,047 | ) | 153% | $ | (7,539 | ) | 27% | $ | (5,956 | ) | $ | (5,625 | ) | -74% | $ | (21,494 | ) | 317% | $ | (5,154 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 software license updates and product support agreements. Payments from customers for these 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 software licenses, cloud SaaS and PaaSservices, hardware offerings hardware systems products, hardware systems support arrangements, and 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 systems products, taxes and leased facilities.
Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014:2017: Net cash provided by operating activities decreased in fiscal 2015 in comparison to fiscal 2014 primarily due to the cash unfavorable effects of foreign currency exchange rate variances on our fiscal 2015 net income of 7 percentage points.
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013:Net cash provided by operating activities increased induring fiscal 2014 in comparison2018 primarily due to higher net income after adjusting for theone-time income tax accounting effects of our adoption of the Tax Act (refer to “Impacts of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” for additional discussion).
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016: Net cash provided by operating activities increased during fiscal 20132017 primarily due to the following: the fiscal 2013 non-recurring impactscash favorable effects of a $387 million reduction of contingent consideration payable in connection with an acquisition (refer to Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information) and the impact of a $306 million non-current receivable related to certain litigation (refer to Note 18 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information), both of which increased ourhigher net income in fiscal 2013 without the corresponding operating cash flow benefits. These items did not recur during2017 in relation to fiscal 2014.2016.
Cash flows from investing activities: The changes in cash flows from investing activities primarily relate to our acquisitions, and the timing of our purchases, maturities and sales of our investments in marketable debt securities. We also use cash to investsecurities and investments in capital and other assets, including certain intangible assets, to support our growth.
Fiscal 2018 Compared to Fiscal 2017:Net cash used for investing activities decreased in fiscal 2018 relative to fiscal 2017 primarily due to a decrease in net cash used for acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and a decrease in cash used to purchase marketable securities and other investments, net of proceeds received from sales and maturities.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016:Net cash used for investing activities increased in fiscal 2015 and 2014, each2017 relative to the respective prior year period,fiscal 2016 primarily due to an increase in cash used for acquisitions, net of cash acquired andin fiscal 2017, an increase in net cash used to purchase marketable securities and other investments (net of proceeds received from sales and maturities). in fiscal 2017 and increased capital expenditures primarily related to our fiscal 2017 real estate purchases and investments in equipment to support our infrastructure to deliver our cloud services.
Cash flows from financing activities: The changes in cash flows from financing activities primarily relate to borrowings and repayments related to our debt instruments as well as stock repurchases, dividend payments and net proceeds fromrelated to employee stock option exercises.programs.
Fiscal 20152018 Compared to Fiscal 2014:2017:Net cash used for financing activities in fiscal 2018 was $10.0 billion in comparison to net cash provided by financing activities of $9.1 billion during fiscal 2017. The increase in cash used for financing activities during fiscal 2018 was primarily due to increased stock repurchase activity in fiscal 2018 (we used $11.3 billion in fiscal 2018 for stock repurchases in comparison to $3.6 billion in fiscal 2017) and debt related cash flows for which we had $2.6 billion of cash inflows from borrowings, net of repayments, in fiscal 2018 in comparison to $13.6 billion of cash inflows from borrowings, net of repayments, in fiscal 2017.
Fiscal 2017 Compared to Fiscal 2016:Net cash provided by financing activities in fiscal 2015 increased2017 was $9.1 billion in comparison to net cash used byfor financing activities in fiscal 2014 primarily due to a net increase in borrowings in fiscal 2015 (we issued $20.0of $10.0 billion of senior notes during fiscal 20152016. The change in comparison to €2.0 billion and $3.0 billion of senior notes during fiscal 2014) as well as lower stock repurchase activity during fiscal 2015. These favorable impacts to our financing activities cash flows during fiscal 2015 were partially offset by the repayment of $1.5 billion of borrowings pursuant to senior notes maturities during fiscal 2015 (no repayments during fiscal 2014).
Fiscal 2014 Compared to Fiscal 2013: Net cash used for financing activities in fiscal 2014 decreased2017 in comparison to fiscal 20132016 was primarily duerelated to the repaymentborrowing activities,
net of $3.0debt repayments and stock repurchase activity. We received $13.6 billion of borrowings pursuant to senior notes maturities and certain expired revolving credit facilities in fiscal 2013 (no repaymentsnet cash inflows from borrowing activities during fiscal 2014), a net increase in borrowings during fiscal 2014 (we issued €2.0 billion and $3.0 billion of senior notes during fiscal
20142017 in comparison to $5.0$1.8 billion of senior notes issued duringnet cash inflows from fiscal 2013), lower2016 borrowing activities. In addition, we significantly reduced our stock repurchase activity during fiscal 2014 and higher proceeds from stock option exercises during fiscal 2014. These fiscal 2014 cash favorable variances were partially offset by an increase in payments of cash dividends to stockholders in fiscal 20142017, using $3.6 billion, in comparison to fiscal 2013.2016 when we used $10.4 billion.
Free cash flow: To supplement our statements of cash flows presented on a GAAP basis, we usenon-GAAP measures of cash flows on a trailing4-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 ofnon-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 flowsflow as follows:
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Recent Financing Activities:
Senior NotesCash Dividends: In fiscal 2018, we declared and paid cash dividends of $0.76 per share that totaled $3.1 billion. In June 2018, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per share of our outstanding common stock payable on July 31, 2018 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 17, 2018. Future declarations of dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to the final determination of our Board of Directors.
Swap Agreements: In May 2018, we entered into certain cross-currency interest rate swap agreements to manage the foreign currency exchange risk and interest rate risk associated with our€750 million of 3.125% senior notes due July 2025 (July 2025 Notes) by effectively converting the fixed-rate, Euro denominated July 2025 Notes, including the annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to variable-rate, U.S. Dollar denominated debt. The economic effect of the swap agreement was to eliminate the uncertainty of the principal balance in U.S. Dollars associated with the July 2025 Notes by fixing the principal amount of the July 2025 Notes at $868 million and modify the related fixed interest obligations so that the interest payable on these notes became variable based on LIBOR. As of May 31, 2015, we had $42.0 billion of senior notes outstanding ($24.1 billion outstanding as of May 31, 2014). In fiscal 2015, we issued $20.0 billion of senior notes comprised of $1.0 billion of floating rate notes due2018, our July 2017 (2017 Notes), $750 million of floating rate notes due October 2019 (2019 Floating Rate Notes), $2.0 billion of 2.25% notes due October 2019 (2019 Notes), $1.5 billion of 2.80% notes due July 2021 (2021 Notes), $2.5 billion of 2.50% notes due May 2022 (2022 Notes), $2.0 billion of 3.40% notes due July 2024 (2024 Notes), $2.5 billion of 2.95% notes due May 2025 (2025 Notes), $500 million of 3.25% notes due May 2030 (2030 Notes), $1.75 billion of 4.30% notes due July 2034 (2034 Notes), $1.25 billion of 3.90% notes due May 2035 (2035 Notes), $1.0 billion of 4.50% notes due July 2044 (2044 Notes), $2.0 billion of 4.125% notes due May 2045 (2045 Notes) and $1.25 billion of 4.375% notes due May 2055 (2055 Notes, and together with the 2017 Notes, 2019 Floating Rate Notes, 2019 Notes, 2021 Notes, 2022 Notes, 2024 Notes, 2025 Notes 2030 Notes, 2034 Notes, 2035 Notes, 2044 Notes and 2045 Notes,had an effective interest rate of 5.17% after considering the Senior Notes).
effects of the aforementioned cross-currency interest rate swap arrangement. We issued the Senior Notesare accounting for general corporate purposes, which may include stock repurchases, payment of cash dividends on our common stock, future acquisitions and repayment of indebtedness. Additional details regarding our Senior Notes and relatedthese cross-currency interest rate swap agreements are included in Notes 8as fair value hedges pursuant to ASC 815,Derivatives and 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.Hedging(ASC 815).
In July 2014, our 3.75% senior notes due July 2014 for $1.5 billion matured and were repaid, and we settled the fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements associated with such fixed rate senior notes.
Interest Rate Swap Agreements: In July 2014,April 2018, we entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effect of modifying the fixed interest obligations associated with our 2019 Notes and 2021 Notes$1.5 billion of 6.50% senior notes due April 2038 (April 2038 Notes), so that the interest payable on these notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR. As of May 31, 2015,2018, our 2019 Notes and 2021April 2038 Notes had effective interest rates of 0.76% and 0.91%, respectively,5.65% after considering the effects of the aforementioned interest rate swap arrangements. We are accounting for these interest rate swap agreements as fair value hedges pursuant to ASC 815,Derivatives and Hedging. 815.
Additional details regarding our Senior Notessenior notes and related interest rate swap agreements are included in Notes 87 and 1110 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Cash DividendsRevolving Credit Agreements:: In fiscal 2015,May 2018, we declaredentered into three revolving credit agreements with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as initial lender and paid cash dividends of $0.51 per share that totaled $2.3administrative agent (the 2018 Credit Agreements) and borrowed $2.5 billion an increase of $0.03 per share overpursuant to these agreements. The 2018 Credit Agreements provided us with short-term borrowings for working capital and other general corporate purposes. Interest for the cash dividends declared2018 Credit Agreements is based on either (1) a LIBOR-based formula or (2) the Base Rate formula, each as set forth in the 2018 Credit Agreements. The borrowings are due and paid in fiscal 2014. In June 2015, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share of outstanding common stock payable on July 29, 2015 to stockholders of record asJune 28, 2018, which is the termination date of the close2018 Credit Agreements. Additional details regarding the 2018 Credit Agreements are included in Note 7 of business on July 8, 2015. Future declarations of dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subjectNotes to the final determination of our Board of Directors.Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Common Stock RepurchasesRepurchase Program:: Our Board of Directors has approved a program for us to repurchase shares of our common stock. On September 18, 2014, we announced thatDuring fiscal 2018, our Board of Directors approved an expansionexpansions of our stock repurchase program by an additional $13.0totaling $24.0 billion. As of May 31, 2015,2018, approximately $9.2$17.8 billion remained available for stock repurchases under thepursuant to our stock repurchase program. We repurchased 193.7238.0 million shares for $8.1$11.5 billion, 280.485.6 million shares for $9.8$3.5 billion, and 346.1271.9 million shares for $11.0$10.4 billion in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively. 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 (described further below),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 orand pursuant to a Rule10b5-1 plan. Our stock repurchase program may be accelerated, suspended, delayed or discontinued at any time.
Senior Notes: In November 2017, we issued $10.0 billion of senior notes comprised of the following:
$1.25 billion of 2.625% senior notes due February 2023;
$2.00 billion of 2.95% senior notes due November 2024;
$2.75 billion of 3.25% senior notes due November 2027;
$1.75 billion of 3.80% senior notes due November 2037; and
$2.25 billion of 4.00% senior notes due November 2047.
We issued the senior notes for general corporate purposes, which may include stock repurchases, payment of cash dividends on our common stock, repayment of indebtedness and future acquisitions. Additionally, in fiscal 2018, we repaid $3.5 billion of senior notes pursuant to their terms. Additional details regarding our senior notes are included in Note 7 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Contractual Obligations: The contractual obligations presented in the table below represent our estimates of future payments under our fixed contractual obligations and commitments. Changes in our business needs, cancellation provisions, changing interest rates and other factors may result in actual payments differing from these estimates. We cannot provide certainty regarding the timing and amounts of payments. We have presented below a summary of the most significant assumptions used in preparing this information within the context of our consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows. The following is a summary of certain of our contractual obligations as of May 31, 2015:2018:
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Principal payments on borrowings(1) | $ | 42,466 | $ | 2,000 | $ | — | $ | 6,000 | $ | 2,000 | $ | 4,500 | $ | 27,966 | $ | 60,927 | $ | 4,500 | $ | 4,500 | $ | 2,446 | $ | 8,250 | $ | 3,750 | $ | 37,481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest payments on borrowings(1) | 20,166 | 1,439 | 1,334 | 1,315 | 1,154 | 1,083 | 13,841 | 26,959 | 1,938 | 1,805 | 1,732 | 1,629 | 1,492 | 18,363 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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certain interest rate swap agreements for certain series of senior notes that have the economic effect of modifying the fixed-interest obligations associated with these senior notes so that they effectively became variable pursuant to a LIBOR-based index. Interest payments on these senior notes have been presented in the table above after consideration of these fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements based upon the interest rates applicable as of May 31, 2018 and are subject to change in future periods;
interest payments on our floating-rate senior notes that are based upon the interest rates applicable to the senior notes as of May 31, 2018 and are subject to change in future periods;
certain cross-currency swap agreements for our€1.25 billion 2.25% senior notes due 2021 that have the economic effect of converting our fixed-rate, Euro-denominated debt, including annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to a fixed-rate, U.S. Dollar-denominated debt with a fixed annual interest rate. Principal and interest payments for these senior notes were calculated and presented in the table above based on the terms of these cross-currency swap agreements; and
certain cross-currency interest rate swap agreements for our€750 million 3.125% senior notes due July 2025 that have the economic effect of converting our fixed-rate, Euro-denominated debt, including annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to a variable-rate, U.S. Dollar-denominated debt. Principal and interest payments for these senior notes were calculated and presented in the table above based on the terms of these cross-currency interest rate swap agreements.
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| (3) | Primarily represents amounts associated with agreements that are enforceable and legally binding and specify terms, including: fixed or minimum quantities to be purchased; fixed, minimum or variable price provisions; and the approximate timing of the payment. We utilize several external manufacturers to manufacturesub-assemblies for our hardware products and to perform final assembly and testing of finished hardware products. We also obtain individual hardware components for our products from a variety of individual suppliers based on projected demand information. Such purchase commitments are based on our forecasted component and manufacturing requirements and typically provide for fulfillment within agreed upon lead-times and/or commercially standard lead-times for the particular part or product and have been included in the amount presented in the above contractual obligations table. Routine arrangements for other materials and goods that are not related to our external manufacturers and certain other suppliers and that are entered into in the ordinary course of business are not included in the amounts presented above, as they are generally entered into in order to secure pricing or other negotiated terms and are difficult to quantify in a meaningful way. |
As of May 31, 2015,2018, we had $4.8$6.6 billion of gross unrecognized income tax benefits, including related interest and penalties, recorded on our consolidated balance sheet, and all such obligations have been excluded from the contractual obligations table above due to the uncertainty as to when they might be settled. We cannot make a reasonably reliable estimate of the period in which the remainder of our unrecognized income tax benefits will be settled or released with the relevant tax authorities, although we believe it is reasonably possible that certain of these liabilities could be settled or released during fiscal 2016.2019. We are involved in claims and legal proceedings. All such claims and obligations have been excluded from the contractual obligations table above due to the uncertainty of claims and legal proceedings and associated estimates and assumptions, all of which are inherently unpredictable and many aspects of which are out of our control. Notes 14 and 17 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report includes additional information regarding these contingencies.
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.requirements, including the $7.8 billionone-time transition tax described under “Impacts of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” above. In addition, we believe that we could fund anyour 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 anyoff-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 isare material to investors.
Selected Quarterly Financial DataIndex to Financial Statements
Quarterly revenues, expenses and operating income have historically been affected by a variety of seasonal factors, including the structure of sales force incentive compensation plans. In addition, our European operations generally provide lower revenues in our first fiscal quarter because of the reduced economic activity in Europe during the summer. These seasonal factors are common in the high technology industry. These factors have historically caused a decrease in our first quarter revenues as compared to revenues in the immediately preceding fourth quarter, which historically has been our highest revenue quarter within a particular fiscal year. Similarly, the operating income of our business is affected by seasonal factors in a consistentsimilar manner as our revenues (in particular, our new software licensescloud and cloud software subscriptions segment)license business and hardware business) as certain expenses within our cost structure are relatively fixed in the short-term.short term. We expect these trends to continue in fiscal 2016.2019.
The following tables set forth selected unaudited quarterly information for our last eight fiscal quarters. We believe that all necessary adjustments, which consisted only of normal recurring adjustments, have been included in the amounts stated below to present fairly the results of such periods when read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report. The sum of the quarterly financial information may vary from the annual data due to rounding.
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Revenues | $ | 9,187 | $ | 9,621 | $ | 9,771 | $ | 11,251 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gross profit | $ | 7,254 | $ | 7,656 | $ | 7,769 | $ | 9,071 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income | $ | 2,821 | $ | 3,069 | $ | 3,410 | $ | 4,380 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Revenues | $ | 8,596 | $ | 9,598 | $ | 9,327 | $ | 10,706 | $ | 8,595 | $ | 9,035 | $ | 9,205 | $ | 10,892 | ||||||||||||||||
Gross profit | $ | 6,878 | $ | 7,657 | $ | 7,394 | $ | 8,611 | $ | 6,819 | $ | 7,237 | $ | 7,314 | $ | 8,889 | ||||||||||||||||
Operating income | $ | 2,963 | $ | 3,542 | $ | 3,383 | $ | 3,982 | $ | 2,641 | $ | 3,037 | $ | 2,959 | $ | 4,073 | ||||||||||||||||
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Stock Options and 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 stock options and restricted stock-based awards and stock options dilute existing stockholders and have sought to control the number of stock options and restricted stock-based awards granted while providing competitive compensation packages. Consistent with these dual goals, our cumulative potential dilution since June 1, 20122015 has been a weighted averageweighted-average annualized rate of 1.9%1.7% per year. The potential dilution percentage is calculated as the average annualized new stock options or restricted stock-based awards or stock options granted and assumed, net of stock options and restricted stock-based awards and stock options forfeited by employees leaving the company, divided by the weighted averageweighted-average outstanding shares during the calculation period. This maximum potential dilution will only result if all restricted stock-based awards vest and stock options are exercised and restricted stock-based awards vest.exercised. Of the outstanding stock options at May 31, 2015,2018, which generally have a 10-yearten-year exercise period, less than 1.0%approximately 19% have exercise prices higher 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,program. However, we may reducemodify the levellevels of our stock repurchases in the future asdepending on a number of factors, including the amount of cash we may use ourhave available cash for acquisitions, to pay dividends, to repay or repurchase indebtedness or for other purposes. At May 31, 2015,2018, the maximum potential dilution from all outstanding restricted stock-based awards and
unexercised stock options, and restricted stock-based awards, regardless of when granted and regardless of whether vested or unvested and including stock options where the strike price is higher than the market price as of such date, was 10.2%9.8%.
TheDuring fiscal 2018, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors reviewsreviewed and approvesapproved the annual organization-wide stock-based award grants to selected employees, all stock-based award grants to executive officers and any individual grant of stock-based awards in excessrestricted stock units of 100,000 stock option equivalent shares. A62,500 or greater. Each member of a separate Plan Committee, which is an executive officer committee, approves individualreferred to as the Plan Committee, was allocated a fiscal 2018 equity budget that could be used throughout the fiscal year to grant equity within his or her organization, subject to certain limitations established by the Compensation Committee.
Restricted stock-based award grants of up to 100,000and stock option equivalent shares to non-executive officers and employees. Stock option and restricted stock-based award activity from June 1, 20122015 through May 31, 20152018 is summarized as follows (shares in millions):
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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 Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities and Interest Income Risk
Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities were $67.3 billion and $66.1 billion as of May 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Our bank deposits and time deposits are generally held with large, diverse financial institutions worldwide with high investment gradeinvestment-grade credit ratings or financial institutions that meet investment gradeinvestment-grade ratings criteria, which we believe mitigates credit risk and certain other risks. In addition, as of May 31, 2015,2018, substantially all of our marketable securities arewere high quality with approximately 28%26% having maturity dates within one year and 72%74% having maturity dates within one to sixfive years (see a(a description of our marketable securities held is included in NoteNotes 3 and Note 4 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report and “Liquidity and Capital Resources” above). We holdheld a mix of both fixed and floating-rate debt securities. Fixed rate securities may have their market value adversely impacted as interest rates increase,
while floating rate debt securities. Our floating ratesecurities may produce less income than expected if interest rates fall. Due in part to these factors, our future investment income may vary due to changes in interest rates or we may realize losses if we are forced to sell securities that decline in market value due to changes in interest rates. However because we classify our debt securities serveas “available for sale,” no gains or losses are recognized due to lower the overall riskchanges in interest rates unless such securities are sold prior to our investments portfolio associated with the risk of rising interest rates.maturity or declines in fair value are determined to be other-than-temporary. The fair values of our fixed ratefixed-rate debt securities are impacted by interest rate movements and if interest rates increasedwould have been higher by 50 basis points as of May 31, 2015,2018 and 2017 we estimate the change would decreasehave decreased the fair
values of our marketable securities holdings by $191 million.$308 million and $348 million, respectively. Substantially all of our marketable securities are designated asavailable-for-sale. We generally do not use our investments for trading purposes.
Changes in the overall level of interest rates affect the interest income that is generated from our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. For fiscal 2015,2018 and 2017, total interest income was $349$1.2 billion and $802 million, respectively, with our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities investments yielding an average 0.79%1.73% and 1.47%, respectively, on a worldwide basis. The table below presents the approximate fair values of our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities and the related weighted average interest rates for our investment portfolio at May 31, 2015 and 2014.
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Interest Expense Risk—Fixed to VariableInterest Rate Swap Agreements and Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swap Agreements
Our total borrowings were $42.0$60.9 billion as of May 31, 2015,2018, consisting of $39.7$56.9 billion of fixed ratefixed-rate borrowings, and $2.3$1.2 billion of floating ratefloating-rate borrowings (Floating Rate(Floating-Rate Notes). During fiscal 2015, we issued $20.0 and $2.8 billion of senior notes comprised of $1.75 billion of floating rate notes and $18.25 billion of fixed rate notes as described inother borrowings, primarily under the “Recent Financing Activities” section of Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Item 7) in this Annual Report.
In July 2014, we2018 Credit Agreements. We have entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effect of modifying the fixed interest obligations associated with our $2.0 billion of 2.25% senior notes due October 2019 (2019 Notes) and our $1.5 billion of 2.80% senior notes due July 2021 (2021 Notes) so that the interest payable on the 2019 Notes and the 2021 Notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR. In July 2013, we entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effect of modifying the fixed interestfixed-interest obligations associated with our $1.5 billion of 2.375% senior notes due January 2019 (January 2019 Notes), our $2.0 billion of 2.25% senior notes due October 2019 (October 2019 Notes), our $1.5 billion of 2.80% senior notes due July 2021 (July 2021 Notes), and our April 2038 Notes, so that the interest payable on the January 2019 Notesthese senior notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR. We have also entered into cross-currency interest rate swap agreements to manage the foreign currency exchange rate risk associated with our July 2025 Notes by effectively converting the fixed-rate, Euro denominated debt, including the annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to variable-rate, U.S. Dollar denominated debt based on LIBOR. The critical terms of the interest rate swap agreements match the critical terms of the 2019 Notes, 2021 Notes and the January 2019 Notes, October 2019 Notes, July 2021 Notes, April 2038 Notes and July 2025 Notes that the interest rate swap agreements pertain to, including the notional amounts and maturity dates. We do not use these interest rate swap arrangements or our fixed rate borrowings for trading purposes. We are accounting for these interest rate swap agreements as fair value hedges pursuant to ASC 815,Derivatives and Hedging (ASC 815). The total fair value gainvalues of these fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements as of May 31, 2015 was $74 million.2018 and 2017 were a $26 million net loss and a $40��million gain, respectively. We estimate that the changes in the fair values of these swap agreements during fiscal 2018 and 2017 were primarily attributable to an increase in forward interest rate prices. If LIBOR-based interest rates increasedwould have been higher by 100 basis points as of May 31, 2015,2018 and 2017, the change would decreasehave decreased the fair values of the fixed to variable swap agreements by $221 million. Additional details regarding our senior notes$315 million and related interest rate swap agreements are included in Notes 8 and 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.$153 million, respectively.
By issuing the Floating RateFloating-Rate Notes and by entering into the aforementioned interest rate swap arrangements, we have assumed risks associated with variable interest rates based upon LIBOR. As of May 31, 2015, the weighted average interest rate associated with our Floating Rate Notes and January 2019 Notes, 2019 Notes and 2021 Notes, after considering the effects of the aforementioned interest rate swap arrangements, was 0.79%. Changes in the overall level of interest rates affect the interest expense that we recognize in our consolidated statements of operations. An interest rate risk sensitivity analysis is used to measure interest rate risk by computing estimated changes in cash flows as a result of assumed changes in market interest rates. As of May 31, 2015,2018 and 2017, if LIBOR-based interest rates increasedwould have been higher by 100 basis points, the change would increasehave increased our interest expense annually by approximately $86 million and $73 million, respectively, as it relates to our fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements and floating ratefloating-rate borrowings.
In July 2014, our 3.75% senior notes due July 2014 for $1.5 billion matured and were repaid, and we settled the fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements associated with such fixed rate senior notes.
Currency Risk
Foreign Currency Transaction and Translation Risks—Foreign Currency Borrowings and Related Hedges
In July 2013, we issued €1.25 billion of 2.25% notes due January 2021 (January 2021 Notes) and we entered into certain cross-currency swap agreements to manage the related foreign exchange risk by effectively converting the fixed-rate Euro denominated debt, including the annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to a fixed-rate, U.S. Dollar denominated debt. The economic effect of the swap agreements was to eliminate the uncertainty of the cash flows in U.S. Dollars associated with the January 2021 Notes by fixing the principal amount of the January 2021 Notes at $1.6 billion with an annual interest rate of 3.53%. The critical terms of the cross-currency swap agreements match the critical terms of January 2021 Notes, including the notional amounts and maturity dates. We do not use these cross-currency swap arrangements for trading purposes. We are accounting for these interest rate swap agreements as cash flow hedges pursuant to ASC 815. The fair values of these cross-currency swap agreements as of May 31, 2015 and 2014 were a $(244) million loss and a $74 million gain, respectively. The changes in the fair values of the cross-currency swap agreements during fiscal 2015 were primarily attributable to the decline in the value of the Euro relative to the U.S. Dollar. If the Euro weakened by 10% as of May 31, 2015, we estimate the change would decrease the fair values of the cross-currency swap agreements by $174 million. If interest rates that correspond to the remaining term of the January 2021 Notes decreased by 100 basis points as of May 31, 2015, we estimate the change would decrease the fair values of the cross-currency swap agreements by $91 million. Additional details regarding our senior notes and related cross-currency swap agreements are included in Notes 87 and 1110 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report.
In July 2013, we also issued €750 million of 3.125% notes due July 2025 (2025 Notes). We designated the 2025 Notes as a net investment hedge of our investments in certain of our international subsidiaries that use the Euro as their functional currency in order
Currency Risk
Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the Euro and the U.S. Dollar will impact the amount of U.S. Dollars that we will require to settle the 2025 Notes at maturity. If the U.S. Dollar weakened by 10% in comparison to the Euro as of May 31, 2015, we estimate our obligation to cash settle the principal portion of the 2025 Notes in U.S. Dollars would increase by approximately $81 million.
Foreign Currency Transaction Risk—Risk—Foreign Currency Forward Contracts
We transact business in various foreign currencies and have established a program that primarily utilizes foreign currency forward contracts to offset the risks associated with the effects of certain foreign currency exposures. Under this program, our strategy is to enter into foreign currency forward contracts so that increases or decreases in our foreign currency exposures are offset by gains or losses on the foreign currency forward contracts in order to mitigate the risks and volatility associated with our foreign currency transactions. We may suspend this program from time to time. Our foreign currency exposures typically arise from intercompany sublicense fees, intercompany loans and other intercompany transactions. Our foreign currency forward contracts are generally short-term in duration.
We neitherNeither do we use these foreign currency forward contracts for trading purposes nor do we designate these forward contracts as hedging instruments pursuant to ASC 815. Accordingly, we record the fair values of these contracts as of the end of our reporting period to our consolidated balance sheet with changes in fair values recorded to our consolidated statement of operations. Given the short duration of the forward contracts, the amountamounts recorded is
generally are not significant. The balance sheet classification for the fair values of these forward contracts is prepaid expenses and other current assets for a netforward contracts in an unrealized gain position and other current liabilities for a netforward contracts in an unrealized loss position. The statement of operations classification for changes in fair values of these forward contracts isnon-operating income, (expense), net for both realized and unrealized gains and losses.
We expect that we will continue to realize gains or losses with respect to our foreign currency exposures, net of gains or losses from our foreign currency forward contracts. Our ultimate realized gain or loss with respect to foreign currency exposures will generally depend on the size and type of cross-currency transactions that we enter into, the currency exchange rates associated with these exposures and changes in those rates, the net realized gain or loss on our foreign currency forward contracts and other factors. As of May 31, 2015 and 2014, theThe notional amounts of the forward contracts we held to purchase U.S. Dollars in exchange for other major international currencies were $2.2$3.4 billion and $3.6 billion, respectively. Asas of each of May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017 and the notional amounts of forward contracts we held to sell U.S. Dollars in exchange for other major international currencies were $1.2$1.4 billion as of each of May 31, 2018 and $2.0 billion, respectively.2017. The fair values of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts were nominal at May 31, 20152018 and 2014.2017. Net foreign exchange transaction losses included innon-operating income, (expense), net in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations were $157$74 million, $375$152 million and $162$110 million in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively. Included in the net foreign exchange transaction losses for fiscal 2015, fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2013 were foreign currency remeasurement losses relating to our Venezuelan subsidiary’s operations of $23 million, $213 million and $64 million, respectively (see Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report for additional information). As a large portion of our consolidated operations are international, we could experience additional foreign currency volatility in the future, the amounts and timing of which are unknown.
Foreign Currency Translation Risk—Impact on Cash, Cash Equivalents and Marketable Securities
Fluctuations in foreign currencies impact the amount of total assets and liabilities that we report for our foreign subsidiaries upon the translation of these amounts into U.S. Dollars. In particular, the amount of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities that we report in U.S. Dollars for a significant portion of the cash held by these subsidiaries is subject to translation variance 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 on our consolidated balance sheetsheets and is also presented as a line item in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income included elsewhere in this Annual Report).
As the U.S. Dollar fluctuated against certain international currencies as of the end of fiscal 2015,2018, the amount of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities that we reported in U.S. Dollars for foreign subsidiaries that hold international currencies as of May 31, 2015 decreased2018 increased relative to what we would have reported using a constant currency rate as offrom May 31, 2014.2017. As reported in our consolidated statements of cash flows, the estimated effects of exchange rate changes on our reported cash and cash equivalents balances in U.S. Dollars was an increase of $57 million for fiscal 2015, 20142018, and 2013 were decreases of $1.2 billion, $158$86 million and $110$115 million in fiscal 2017 and 2016, respectively. The following table includes estimates of the U.S. Dollar equivalent of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities denominated in certain major foreign currencies that we held as of May 31, 2015:
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Euro | $ | 2,190 | ||
Japanese Yen | 1,143 | |||
Indian Rupee | 674 | |||
Saudi Arabian Riyal | 445 | |||
Chinese Renminbi | 427 | |||
Australian Dollar | 397 | |||
South African Rand | 344 | |||
Canadian Dollar | 231 | |||
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If overall foreign currency exchange rates in comparison to the U.S. Dollar uniformly weakenedwould have been weaker by 10%, as of May 31, 2018 and May 31, 2017 the amount of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities we would report in U.S. Dollars would decreasehave decreased by approximately $765$555 million and $518 million, respectively, assuming constant foreign currency cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities balances.
The response to this item is submitted as a separate section of this Annual Report. See Part IV, Item 15.
Item 9. Changes In and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form10-K, we carried out an evaluation under the supervision and with the participation of our Disclosure Committee and our management, including our Principal Executive Officers and(one of whom is our Principal Financial Officer,Officer), of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rules13a-15(e) and15d-15(e). Disclosure controls are procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, such as this Annual Report on Form 10-K, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Disclosure controls are also designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officers and our Principal Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our quarterly evaluation of disclosure controls includes an evaluation of some components of our internal control over financial reporting. We also perform a separate annual evaluation of internal control over financial reporting for the purpose of providing the management report below.
The evaluation of our disclosure controls included a review of their objectives and design, our implementation of the controls and the effect of the controls on the information generated for use in this Annual Report onForm 10-K. In the course of the controls evaluation, we reviewed data errors or control problems identified and sought to confirm that appropriate corrective actions, including process improvements, were being undertaken. This type of evaluation is performed on a quarterly basis so that the conclusions of management, including our Principal Executive Officers and our Principal Financial Officer, concerning the effectiveness of the disclosure controls can be reported in our periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K. Many of the components of our disclosure controls are also evaluated on an ongoing basis by both our internal audit and finance organizations. The overall goals of these various evaluation activities are to monitor our disclosure controls and to modify them as necessary. We intend to maintain our disclosure controls as dynamic processes and procedures that we adjust as circumstances merit.
Based on our management’s evaluation (with the participation of our Principal Executive Officers, andone of whom is our Principal Financial Officer), as of the end of the period covered by this report, our Principal Executive Officers and our Principal Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.effective as of May 31, 2018 to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is (i) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officers (one of whom is our Principal Financial Officer) as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules13a-15(f) and15d-15(f). Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Principal Executive Officers and(one of whom is our Principal Financial Officer,Officer), we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 20152018 based on the guidelines established inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission’s 2013 framework. Our internal control over financial reporting includes policies and procedures that provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.GAAP.
Based on the results of our evaluation, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of May 31, 2015.2018. We reviewed the results of management’s assessment with our Finance and Audit Committee.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 20152018 has been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is included in Part IV, Item 15 of this Annual Report.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by paragraph (d) of Exchange Act Rules13a-15 or15d-15 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 Officers and(one of whom is our Principal Financial Officer,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 makingdecision-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 effectivecost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
None.
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
| Item 10. | Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance |
Pursuant to General Instruction G(3) of Form10-K, the information required by this item relating to our executive officers is included under the caption “Executive Officers of the Registrant” in Part I of this Annual Report.
The other information required by this Item 10 is incorporated by reference from the information contained in our Proxy Statement to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the solicitation of proxies for our 20152018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2015(2018 Proxy Statement”)Statement) under the sections entitled “Board of Directors—Nominees for Directors,” “Board of Directors—Committees, Membership and Meetings—Committee Memberships,Meetings,” “Board of Directors—Committees, Membership and Meetings—The Finance and Audit Committee,” “Corporate Governance—Employee Matters—Code of Conduct,” and “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance”.Compliance.”
Item 11. Executive Compensation
| Item 11. | Executive Compensation |
The information required by this Item 11 is incorporated by reference from the information to be contained in our 20152018 Proxy Statement under the sections entitled “Board of Directors—Committees, Membership and Meetings—The Compensation Committee—Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation,” “Board of Directors—Director Compensation,” and “Executive Compensation”.Compensation.”
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder
Matters
| Item 12. | Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters |
The information required by this Item 12 is incorporated herein by reference from the information to be contained in our 20152018 Proxy Statement under the sections entitled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Executive Compensation—Equity Compensation Plan Information”.Information.”
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
| Item 13. | Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence |
The information required by this Item 13 is incorporated herein by reference from the information to be contained in our 20152018 Proxy Statement under the sections entitled “Corporate Governance—Board of Directors and Director Independence” and “Transactions with Related Persons”.Persons.”
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
| Item 14. | Principal Accounting Fees and Services |
The information required by this Item 14 is incorporated herein by reference from the information to be contained in our 20152018 Proxy Statement under the section entitled “Ratification of Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm”.Firm.”
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
(a) 1. Financial1.Financial Statements
The following financial statements are filed as a part of this report:
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All other schedules are omitted because they are not required or the required information is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.
(b) Exhibits
The information required by this Item is set forth in the Index of Exhibits that follows the signature pageis after Item 16 of this Annual Report.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
TheTo the Stockholders and the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Oracle Corporation
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Oracle Corporation (the Company) as of May 31, 20152018 and 2014, and2017, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended May 31, 2015. Our audits also included2018, and the related notes and the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a) 2. These financial statements and schedule are2 (collectively referred to as the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)“financial statements”). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Oracle Corporationthe Company at May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended May 31, 2015,2018, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), Oracle Corporation’sthe Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 2015,2018, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) and our report dated June 25, 201522, 2018 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2002.
San Jose, California
June 25, 201522, 2018
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
TheTo the Stockholders and the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Oracle Corporation
Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited Oracle Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 2015,2018, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the(the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Oracle Corporation’sCorporation (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 2018, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of May 31, 2018 and 2017, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended May 31, 2018, and the related notes and the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a)2 and our report June 22, 2018 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the company’sCompany’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, Oracle Corporation maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 2015, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of Oracle Corporation as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended May 31, 2015 of Oracle Corporation and our report dated June 25, 2015 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
San Jose, California
June 25, 201522, 2018
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
As of May 31, 20152018 and 20142017
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Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 21,716 | $ | 17,769 | $ | 21,620 | $ | 21,784 | ||||||||
Marketable securities | 32,652 | 21,050 | 45,641 | 44,294 | ||||||||||||
Trade receivables, net of allowances for doubtful accounts of $285 and $306 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 5,618 | 6,087 | ||||||||||||||
Inventories | 314 | 189 | ||||||||||||||
Deferred tax assets | 663 | 914 | ||||||||||||||
Trade receivables, net of allowances for doubtful accounts of $370 and $319 as of May 31, 2018 and May 31, 2017, respectively | 5,279 | 5,300 | ||||||||||||||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 2,220 | 2,119 | 3,424 | 3,137 | ||||||||||||
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Property, plant and equipment, net | 3,686 | 3,061 | 5,897 | 5,315 | ||||||||||||
Intangible assets, net | 6,406 | 6,137 | 6,670 | 7,679 | ||||||||||||
Goodwill, net | 34,087 | 29,652 | 43,755 | 43,045 | ||||||||||||
Deferred tax assets | 795 | 837 | 1,491 | 1,143 | ||||||||||||
Other assets | 2,746 | 2,451 | ||||||||||||||
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Notes payable, current | $ | 1,999 | $ | 1,508 | ||||||||||||
Notes payable and other borrowings, current | $ | 4,491 | $ | 9,797 | ||||||||||||
Accounts payable | 806 | 471 | 529 | 599 | ||||||||||||
Accrued compensation and related benefits | 1,839 | 1,940 | 1,789 | 1,966 | ||||||||||||
Income taxes payable | 532 | 416 | ||||||||||||||
Deferred revenues | 7,245 | 7,269 | 8,429 | 8,233 | ||||||||||||
Other current liabilities | 2,870 | 2,785 | 3,957 | 3,583 | ||||||||||||
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Notes payable, non-current | 39,959 | 22,589 | ||||||||||||||
Notes payable and other borrowings,non-current | 56,128 | 48,112 | ||||||||||||||
Income taxes payable | 4,386 | 4,184 | 13,422 | 5,681 | ||||||||||||
Other non-current liabilities | 2,169 | 1,657 | 2,295 | 2,774 | ||||||||||||
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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: 4,343 shares and 4,464 shares as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 23,156 | 21,077 | ||||||||||||||
Common stock, $0.01 par value and additional paid in capital—authorized: 11,000 shares; outstanding: 3,997 shares and 4,137 shares as of May 31, 2018 and May 31, 2017, respectively | 28,950 | 27,065 | ||||||||||||||
Retained earnings | 26,503 | 25,965 | 18,412 | 27,598 | ||||||||||||
Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (996 | ) | (164 | ) | (1,636 | ) | (803 | ) | ||||||||
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Total Oracle Corporation stockholders’ equity | 48,663 | 46,878 | 45,726 | 53,860 | ||||||||||||
Noncontrolling interests | 435 | 569 | 498 | 386 | ||||||||||||
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Total equity | 49,098 | 47,447 | 46,224 | 54,246 | ||||||||||||
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Total liabilities and equity | $ | 110,903 | $ | 90,266 | $ | 137,264 | $ | 134,991 | ||||||||
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For the Years Ended May 31, 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 20132016
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(in millions, except per share data) | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
New software licenses | $ | 8,535 | $ | 9,416 | $ | 9,411 | ||||||||||||||||||
Cloud software as a service and platform as a service | 1,485 | 1,121 | 910 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud infrastructure as a service | 608 | 456 | 457 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Software license updates and product support | 18,847 | 18,206 | 17,142 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Software and cloud revenues | 29,475 | 29,199 | 27,920 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems products | 2,825 | 2,976 | 3,033 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems support | 2,380 | 2,396 | 2,313 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Hardware systems revenues | 5,205 | 5,372 | 5,346 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Services revenues | 3,546 | 3,704 | 3,914 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud services and license support | $ | 26,254 | $ | 23,800 | $ | 21,714 | ||||||||||||||||||
Cloud license andon-premise license | 6,190 | 6,418 | 7,276 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware | 3,993 | 4,152 | 4,668 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Services | 3,394 | 3,358 | 3,389 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Total revenues | 38,226 | 38,275 | 37,180 | 39,831 | 37,728 | 37,047 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Cloud services and license support(1) | 3,612 | 3,015 | 2,664 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware(1) | 1,581 | 1,653 | 2,064 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Services(1) | 2,888 | 2,801 | 2,751 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sales and marketing(1) | 7,655 | 7,567 | 7,062 | 8,431 | 8,197 | 7,884 | ||||||||||||||||||
Cloud software as a service and platform as a service(1) | 773 | 455 | 327 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud infrastructure as a service(1) | 344 | 308 | 304 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Software license updates and product support(1) | 1,199 | 1,162 | 1,175 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems products(1) | 1,471 | 1,521 | 1,501 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems support(1) | 816 | 836 | 890 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Services(1) | 2,929 | 2,954 | 3,182 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Research and development | 5,524 | 5,151 | 4,850 | 6,091 | 6,159 | 5,787 | ||||||||||||||||||
General and administrative | 1,077 | 1,038 | 1,072 | 1,289 | 1,176 | 1,155 | ||||||||||||||||||
Amortization of intangible assets | 2,149 | 2,300 | 2,385 | 1,620 | 1,451 | 1,638 | ||||||||||||||||||
Acquisition related and other | 211 | 41 | (604 | ) | 52 | 103 | 42 | |||||||||||||||||
Restructuring | 207 | 183 | 352 | 588 | 463 | 458 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Total operating expenses | 24,355 | 23,516 | 22,496 | 26,152 | 25,018 | 24,443 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Operating income | 13,871 | 14,759 | 14,684 | 13,679 | 12,710 | 12,604 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Interest expense | (1,143 | ) | (914 | ) | (797 | ) | (2,025 | ) | (1,798 | ) | (1,467 | ) | ||||||||||||
Non-operating income (expense), net | 106 | (141 | ) | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Non-operating income, net | 1,237 | 605 | 305 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Income before provision for income taxes | 12,834 | 13,704 | 13,898 | 12,891 | 11,517 | 11,442 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Net income | $ | 9,938 | $ | 10,955 | $ | 10,925 | $ | 3,825 | $ | 9,335 | $ | 8,901 | ||||||||||||
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Basic | 4,404 | 4,528 | 4,769 | 4,121 | 4,115 | 4,221 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Dividends declared per common share | $ | 0.51 | $ | 0.48 | $ | 0.30 | $ | 0.76 | $ | 0.64 | $ | 0.60 | ||||||||||||
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See notes to consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
For the Years Ended May 31, 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 20132016
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Net income | $ | 9,938 | $ | 10,955 | $ | 10,925 | ||||||
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax: | ||||||||||||
Net foreign currency translation losses | (770 | ) | (78 | ) | (123 | ) | ||||||
Net unrealized (losses) gains on defined benefit plans | (151 | ) | 23 | (68 | ) | |||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on marketable securities | 59 | (15 | ) | (20 | ) | |||||||
Net unrealized gains on cash flow hedges | 30 | 5 | — | |||||||||
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Net income | $ | 3,825 | $ | 9,335 | $ | 8,901 | ||||||
Other comprehensive (loss) income, net of tax: | ||||||||||||
Net foreign currency translation (losses) gains | (295 | ) | 99 | 73 | ||||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on defined benefit plans | 34 | (102 | ) | 50 | ||||||||
Net unrealized (losses) gains on marketable securities | (609 | ) | (9 | ) | 72 | |||||||
Net unrealized gains (losses) on cash flow hedges | 37 | 25 | (15 | ) | ||||||||
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY
For the Years Ended May 31, 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 20132016
| Common Stock and Additional Paid in Capital | Retained Earnings | Accumulated Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income | Total Oracle Corporation Stockholders’ Equity | Noncontrolling Interests | Total Equity | Common Stock and Additional Paid in Capital | Retained Earnings | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | Total Oracle Corporation Stockholders’ Equity | Noncontrolling Interests | Total Equity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(in millions) | Number of Shares | Amount | Number of Shares | Amount | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of May 31, 2012 | 4,905 | $ | 17,489 | $ | 26,087 | $ | 112 | $ | 43,688 | $ | 399 | $ | 44,087 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of May 31, 2015 | 4,343 | $ | 23,156 | $ | 26,503 | $ | (996 | ) | $ | 48,663 | $ | 435 | $ | 49,098 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock-based compensation plans | 84 | 1,417 | — | — | 1,417 | — | 1,417 | 60 | 1,304 | — | — | 1,304 | — | 1,304 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock purchase plans | 3 | 110 | — | — | 110 | — | 110 | 3 | 121 | — | — | 121 | — | 121 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumption of stock-based compensation plan awards in connection with acquisitions | — | 15 | — | — | 15 | — | 15 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation | — | 755 | — | — | 755 | — | 755 | — | 1,037 | — | — | 1,037 | — | 1,037 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Repurchase of common stock | (346 | ) | (1,269 | ) | (9,725 | ) | — | (10,994 | ) | — | (10,994 | ) | (272 | ) | (1,464 | ) | (8,975 | ) | — | (10,439 | ) | — | (10,439 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared ($0.30 per share) | — | — | (1,433 | ) | — | (1,433 | ) | — | (1,433 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares repurchased for tax withholdings upon vesting of restricted stock-based awards | (3 | ) | (89 | ) | — | — | (89 | ) | — | (89 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared ($0.60 per share) | — | — | (2,541 | ) | — | (2,541 | ) | — | (2,541 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tax benefit from stock plans | — | 257 | — | — | 257 | — | 257 | — | 141 | — | — | 141 | — | 141 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other, net | — | 10 | — | — | 10 | 9 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | — | — | — | — | (85 | ) | (85 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other comprehensive income, net | — | — | — | 180 | 180 | 26 | 206 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income | — | — | 8,901 | — | 8,901 | 116 | 9,017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Balances as of May 31, 2016 | 4,131 | 24,217 | 23,888 | (816 | ) | 47,289 | 501 | 47,790 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common stock issued under stock-based compensation plans | 95 | 2,063 | — | — | 2,063 | — | 2,063 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock purchase plans | 3 | 118 | — | — | 118 | — | 118 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumption of stock-based compensation plan awards in connection with acquisitions | — | 90 | — | — | 90 | — | 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation | — | 1,350 | — | — | 1,350 | — | 1,350 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Repurchase of common stock | (86 | ) | (504 | ) | (2,988 | ) | — | (3,492 | ) | — | (3,492 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares repurchased for tax withholdings upon vesting of restricted stock-based awards | (6 | ) | (283 | ) | — | — | (283 | ) | — | (283 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared ($0.64 per share) | — | — | (2,631 | ) | — | (2,631 | ) | — | (2,631 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other, net | — | 14 | (6 | ) | — | 8 | 11 | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | — | — | — | — | (258 | ) | (258 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other comprehensive income, net | — | — | — | 13 | 13 | 14 | 27 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income | — | — | 9,335 | — | 9,335 | 118 | 9,453 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Balances as of May 31, 2017 | 4,137 | 27,065 | 27,598 | (803 | ) | 53,860 | 386 | 54,246 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common stock issued under stock-based compensation plans | 105 | 2,277 | — | — | 2,277 | — | 2,277 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock purchase plans | 3 | 125 | — | — | 125 | — | 125 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumption of stock-based compensation plan awards in connection with acquisitions | — | 3 | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation | — | 1,607 | — | — | 1,607 | — | 1,607 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Repurchase of common stock | (238 | ) | (1,632 | ) | (9,871 | ) | — | (11,503 | ) | — | (11,503 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares repurchased for tax withholdings upon vesting of restricted stock-based awards | (10 | ) | (506 | ) | — | — | (506 | ) | — | (506 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared ($0.76 per share) | — | — | (3,140 | ) | — | (3,140 | ) | — | (3,140 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other, net | — | 119 | — | — | 119 | 66 | 185 | — | 11 | — | — | 11 | 11 | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | — | — | — | — | (31 | ) | (31 | ) | — | — | — | — | — | (34 | ) | (34 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other comprehensive loss, net | — | — | — | (211 | ) | (211 | ) | (49 | ) | (260 | ) | — | — | — | (833 | ) | (833 | ) | — | (833 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income | — | — | 10,925 | — | 10,925 | 112 | 11,037 | — | — | 3,825 | — | 3,825 | 135 | 3,960 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Balances as of May 31, 2013 | 4,646 | 18,893 | 25,854 | (99 | ) | 44,648 | 497 | 45,145 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock-based compensation plans | 95 | 2,026 | — | — | 2,026 | — | 2,026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock purchase plans | 3 | 109 | — | — | 109 | — | 109 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumption of stock-based compensation plan awards in connection with acquisitions | — | 148 | — | — | 148 | — | 148 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation | — | 805 | — | — | 805 | — | 805 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Repurchase of common stock | (280 | ) | (1,160 | ) | (8,638 | ) | — | (9,798 | ) | — | (9,798 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared ($0.48 per share) | — | — | (2,178 | ) | — | (2,178 | ) | — | (2,178 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tax benefit from stock plans | — | 254 | — | — | 254 | — | 254 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other, net | — | 2 | (28 | ) | — | (26 | ) | 12 | (14 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | — | — | — | — | (28 | ) | (28 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other comprehensive loss, net | — | — | — | (65 | ) | (65 | ) | (10 | ) | (75 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income | — | — | 10,955 | — | 10,955 | 98 | 11,053 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of May 31, 2018 | 3,997 | $ | 28,950 | $ | 18,412 | $ | (1,636 | ) | $ | 45,726 | $ | 498 | $ | 46,224 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Balances as of May 31, 2014 | 4,464 | 21,077 | 25,965 | (164 | ) | 46,878 | 569 | 47,447 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock-based compensation plans | 70 | 1,688 | — | — | 1,688 | — | 1,688 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock issued under stock purchase plans | 3 | 114 | — | — | 114 | — | 114 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumption of stock-based compensation plan awards in connection with acquisitions | — | 12 | — | — | 12 | — | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation | — | 933 | — | — | 933 | — | 933 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Repurchase of common stock | (194 | ) | (943 | ) | (7,145 | ) | — | (8,088 | ) | — | (8,088 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared ($0.51 per share) | — | — | (2,255 | ) | — | (2,255 | ) | — | (2,255 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tax benefit from stock plans | — | 267 | — | — | 267 | — | 267 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other, net | — | 8 | — | — | 8 | 15 | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | — | — | — | — | — | (196 | ) | (196 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other comprehensive loss, net | — | — | — | (832 | ) | (832 | ) | (66 | ) | (898 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income | — | — | 9,938 | — | 9,938 | 113 | 10,051 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
For the Years Ended May 31, 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 20132016
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Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income | $ | 9,938 | $ | 10,955 | $ | 10,925 | $ | 3,825 | $ | 9,335 | $ | 8,901 | ||||||||||||
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation | 712 | 608 | 546 | 1,165 | 1,000 | 871 | ||||||||||||||||||
Amortization of intangible assets | 2,149 | 2,300 | 2,385 | 1,620 | 1,451 | 1,638 | ||||||||||||||||||
Allowances for doubtful accounts receivable | 56 | 122 | 118 | 146 | 129 | 130 | ||||||||||||||||||
Deferred income taxes | (548 | ) | (248 | ) | (117 | ) | (611 | ) | (486 | ) | (105 | ) | ||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation | 933 | 805 | 755 | 1,607 | 1,350 | 1,037 | ||||||||||||||||||
Tax benefits on the exercise of stock options and vesting of restricted stock-based awards | 396 | 480 | 410 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Excess tax benefits on the exercise of stock options and vesting of restricted stock-based awards | (244 | ) | (250 | ) | (241 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Other, net | 327 | 311 | 155 | (26 | ) | 123 | 143 | |||||||||||||||||
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Decrease in trade receivables | 208 | 24 | 267 | |||||||||||||||||||||
(Increase) decrease in inventories | (96 | ) | 57 | (66 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
(Increase) decrease in trade receivables, net | (117 | ) | 18 | 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Increase in prepaid expenses and other assets | (387 | ) | (143 | ) | (555 | ) | (276 | ) | (24 | ) | (2 | ) | ||||||||||||
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable and other liabilities | 247 | 48 | (541 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
(Decrease) increase in income taxes payable | (10 | ) | (320 | ) | 35 | |||||||||||||||||||
Decrease in accounts payable and other liabilities | (264 | ) | (37 | ) | (13 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Proceeds from maturities and sales of marketable securities and other investments | 20,004 | 28,845 | 30,159 | 23,117 | 17,615 | 21,247 | ||||||||||||||||||
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired | (6,239 | ) | (3,488 | ) | (3,305 | ) | (1,724 | ) | (11,221 | ) | (650 | ) | ||||||||||||
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Payments for repurchases of common stock | (8,087 | ) | (9,813 | ) | (11,021 | ) | (11,347 | ) | (3,561 | ) | (10,440 | ) | ||||||||||||
Proceeds from issuances of common stock | 1,802 | 2,135 | 1,527 | 2,402 | 2,181 | 1,425 | ||||||||||||||||||
Shares repurchased for tax withholdings upon vesting of restricted stock-based awards | (506 | ) | (283 | ) | (89 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Payments of dividends to stockholders | (2,255 | ) | (2,178 | ) | (1,433 | ) | (3,140 | ) | (2,631 | ) | (2,541 | ) | ||||||||||||
Proceeds from borrowings, net of issuance costs | 19,842 | 5,566 | 4,974 | 12,443 | 17,732 | 3,750 | ||||||||||||||||||
Repayments of borrowings | (1,500 | ) | — | (2,950 | ) | (9,800 | ) | (4,094 | ) | (2,000 | ) | |||||||||||||
Excess tax benefits on the exercise of stock options and vesting of restricted stock-based awards | 244 | 250 | 241 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Distributions to noncontrolling interests | (196 | ) | (28 | ) | (31 | ) | (34 | ) | (258 | ) | (85 | ) | ||||||||||||
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Increase (decrease) in unsettled repurchases of common stock | $ | 1 | $ | (15 | ) | $ | (27 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Increase in unsettled investment purchases | $ | 264 | $ | 78 | $ | — | ||||||||||||||||||
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Change in unsettled repurchases of common stock | $ | 154 | $ | (69 | ) | $ | (1 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Change in unsettled investment purchases | $ | (303 | ) | $ | 73 | $ | (112 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
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Cash paid for income taxes | $ | 3,055 | $ | 2,841 | $ | 2,644 | $ | 1,562 | $ | 1,983 | $ | 2,331 | ||||||||||||
Cash paid for interest | $ | 1,022 | $ | 827 | $ | 781 | $ | 1,910 | $ | 1,612 | $ | 1,616 | ||||||||||||
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| 1. | ORGANIZATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, sells, hostsprovides products and supports database and middleware software, application software, cloud infrastructure, hardware systems—including Oracle Engineered Systems, computer server, storage, networking and industry specific hardware products—and related services that are engineered to work together in cloud-based and on-premisesaddress all aspects of corporate information technology (IT) environments. We offer ourenvironments—applications, platform and infrastructure. Our applications, platform and infrastructure offerings are delivered to customers worldwide through a variety of flexible and interoperable IT deployment models, including cloud-based,on-premise, or hybrid, which enable customer choice and flexibility. Our Oracle Cloud offerings provide a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of applications, platform, compute, storage and networking services in all three primary layers of the option to purchase our software and hardware systems products and related services to manage their own cloud-based or on-premises IT environments, or to deploy our comprehensive set of cloud service offerings including Oraclecloud: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Our Oracle Cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings (collectively, “Oracle Cloud Services”) integrate the software, hardware and services on customers’ behalf in IT environments that we deploy, support and manage for the customer. We offer our customers the option to deploy our comprehensive set of cloud offerings including Oracle Cloud Services or to purchase our software and hardware products and related services to manage their own cloud-based oron-premise IT environments. Customers that purchase our software products may elect to purchase software license updates and product support contracts, which provide our customers with rights to unspecified productlicense upgrades and maintenance releases issued during the support period as well as technical support assistance. Customers that purchase our hardware products may elect to purchase hardware systems support contracts, which provide customers with software updates for software components that are essential to the functionality of our hardware products, such as Oracle Solaris and certain other software products, and can include product repairs, maintenance services, and technical support services. We also offer customers a broad set of services offerings including consulting services, advancedthat are designed to improve customer support servicesutilization of their investments in Oracle applications, platform and education services.infrastructure technologies.
Oracle Corporation conducts business globally and was incorporated in 2005 as a Delaware corporation and is the successor to operations originally begun in June 1977.
Basis of Financial Statements
The consolidated financial statements included our accounts and the accounts of our wholly- and majority-owned subsidiaries. Noncontrolling interest positions of certain of our consolidated entities are reported as a separate component of consolidated equity from the equity attributable to Oracle’s stockholders for all periods presented. The noncontrolling interests in our net income were not significant to our consolidated results for the periods presented and therefore have been included as a component ofnon-operating income, (expense), net in our consolidated statements of operations. Intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. Certain other prior year balances have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. Such reclassifications did not affect total revenues, operating income or net income.
Acquisition related and other expenses as presented in our consolidated statements of operations for fiscal 2015 included $186 million related to a goodwill impairment loss (refer to Note 7 below for additional information) and for fiscal 2015 and 2013 included benefits of $53 million and $306 million, respectively, related to certain litigation (refer to Note 18 below for additional information). Further, acquisition related and other expenses for fiscal 2013 included a change in fair value of contingent consideration payable, which resulted in a net benefit of $387 million in fiscal 2013 (refer to Note 2 below for additional information).
In fiscal 2015,2018, we adopted Accounting Standards Update (ASU)No. 2015-03,2017-04,Interest—Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30)Intangibles-Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the PresentationTest for Goodwill Impairment(ASU2017-04). The ASU simplifies the accounting for goodwill impairment by removing Step 2 of Debt Issuance Costs (ASU 2015-03). In connection with the adoptiongoodwill impairment test. Under the legacy guidance, Step 2 of ASU 2015-03, we reclassified debt issuance costs relatedthe goodwill impairment test required entities to our senior notes from othercalculate the implied fair value of goodwill in the same manner as the amount of goodwill recognized in a business combination by assigning the fair value of a reporting unit to all of the assets to notes payable, non-currentand liabilities of the reporting unit. The carrying value in excess of the implied fair value was recognized as a deductiongoodwill impairment. Under the new standard, goodwill impairment is recognized as the carrying value in excess of the reporting unit’s fair value, limited to the carrying amountstotal amount of our senior notes in our May 31, 2015 and 2014 consolidated balance sheets. The adoption ofgoodwill allocated to the reporting unit. ASU 2015-032017-04 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
InImpacts of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
The comparability of our operating results in fiscal 2015, we also adopted ASU 2015-02,Amendments2018 compared to the Consolidation Analysiscorresponding prior year periods, and of our consolidated balance sheets as of May 31, 2018 relative to May 31, 2017, was impacted by the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the Tax Act), ASU 2015-01,Simplifying Income Statement Presentation by Eliminatingwhich was signed into law on December 22, 2017. Effective January 1, 2018, the Concept of Extraordinary Items, ASU 2014-15,Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s AbilityTax Act reduces the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 35% to Continue as21%; creates a Going Concern, ASU 2014-12,Accounting for Share-Based Payments When the Terms of an Award Provide That a Performance Target Could Be Achieved after the Requisite Service Period, and ASU 2014-08,Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity, none of which had an impact on our reported financial position or results of operations and cash flows.quasi-territorial tax
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system that a) generally allows, among other provisions, companies to repatriate certain foreign source earnings without incurring additional U.S. income tax for such earnings generated after December 31, 2017 and b) generally requires companies to pay aone-time transition tax on certain foreign subsidiary earnings generated prior to December 31, 2017 that, in substantial part, were previously tax deferred; creates new taxes on certain foreign sourced earnings; limits deductibility of certain future compensation arrangements to certain highly compensated employees; and provides tax incentives for the exportation of U.S. products to foreign jurisdictions and for the purchase of qualifying capital equipment, among other provisions.
Because we have a May 31 fiscal year end, our fiscal 2018 blended U.S. federal statutory tax rate was approximately 29%.
During fiscal 2018, our provision for income taxes increased and our net income decreased, primarily as a result of the following items related to the enactment of the Tax Act:
$7.8 billion of income tax expense, which we refined by a $166 million increase as of May 31, 2018 from our initial estimate made in our third quarter of fiscal 2018 in accordance with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118 (SAB 118), related to the application of theone-time transition tax to certain foreign subsidiary earnings that were generated prior to December 31, 2017 and for which such expense was substantially recorded tonon-current income taxes payable in our consolidated balance sheet and corresponds to the amount we currently expect to periodically settle over an eight year period as provided by the Tax Act;
partially offset by:
$820 million of income tax benefit, which we refined by a $76 million increase as of May 31, 2018 from our initial estimate made in our third quarter of fiscal 2018 in accordance with SAB 118, related to the remeasurement of our net deferred tax liabilities based on the rates at which they are expected to reverse in the future; and
the net favorable impacts of the Tax Act on our tax profile and effective tax rate beginning on January 1, 2018, which we generally expect will continue into future periods.
The net expense related to the enactment of the Tax Act has been accounted for during fiscal 2018 based on provisional estimates pursuant to SAB 118. Subsequent adjustments, if any, will be accounted for in the period such adjustments are identified. The provisional estimates incorporate, among other factors, assumptions made based on interpretations of the Tax Act and existing tax laws and a range of historical financial andtax-specific facts and information, including among other items, the amount of cash and other specified assets and liabilities of the company and its foreign subsidiaries on relevant dates and estimates of deferred tax balances pending finalization of those balances.
Use of 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 (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), and we consider the various staff accounting bulletins and other applicable guidance issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).SEC. These accounting principles require 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 consolidated financial statements will be affected. In many cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by GAAP and does not require management’s judgment in its
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application. There are also areas in which management’s judgment in selecting among available alternatives would not produce a materially different result.
Revenue Recognition
Our sources of revenues include: (1) software
cloud and license revenues, which include the sale of: cloud services and license support; and cloud revenues, including new softwarelicense andon-premise licenses, revenues earned from grantingwhich represent licenses topurchased by customers for use our software productsin both cloud and industry specific software; cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues generated from fees for granting customers access to a broad range of our software and related support offerings on a subscription basis in a secure, standards-based cloud computing environment; cloud IaaS revenues generated from fees for deployment and management offerings for our software and on-premise deployments;
hardware and related IT infrastructure generally on a subscription basis; and software license updates and product support revenues (described further below); (2) hardware systems revenues, which include the sale of hardware systems products including Oracle Engineered Systems, computer servers, and storage products, networking and data center fabric products, and industry specificindustry-specific hardware; and hardware systems support revenues; and (3)
services revenues, which include softwareare earned from providing cloud-, license- and hardware relatedhardware-related services including consulting, advanced customer support and education revenues. Revenues generally are recognized net of any taxes collected from customers and subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.services.
Revenue Recognition for Software Products and Software Related Services (Software Elements)
New software licenses revenues primarily represent fees earned from granting customers licenses to use our database, middleware and application software and exclude cloud SaaS and PaaS revenues and revenues derived from software license updates, which are included in software license updates and product support revenues. The basis for our new software licenses revenue recognition is substantially governed by the accounting guidance contained in ASC 985-605,Software-Revenue Recognition. We exercise judgment and use estimates in connection with the determination of the amount of software and software related services revenues to be recognized in each accounting period.
For software license arrangements that do not require significant modification or customization of the underlying software, we recognize new software licenses revenues when: (1) we enter into a legally binding arrangement with a customer for the license of software; (2) we deliver the products; (3) the sale price is fixed or determinable and free of contingencies or significant uncertainties; and (4) collection is probable. Revenues that are not recognized at the time of sale because the foregoing conditions are not met, are recognized when those conditions are subsequently met.
Substantially all of our software license arrangements do not include acceptance provisions. However, if acceptance provisions exist as part of public policy, for example, in agreements with government entities where acceptance periods are required by law, or within previously executed terms and conditions that are referenced in the current agreement and are short-term in nature, we generally recognize revenues upon delivery provided the
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acceptance terms are perfunctory and all other revenue recognition criteria have been met. If acceptance provisions are not perfunctory (for example, acceptance provisions that are long-term in nature or are not included as standard terms of an arrangement), revenues are recognized upon the earlier of receipt of written customer acceptance or expiration of the acceptance period.
The vast majority of our software license arrangements include software license updates and product support contracts, which are entered into at the customer’s option and are recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement, typically one year. Software license updates provide customers with rights to unspecified software product upgrades, maintenance releases and patches released during the term of the support period. Product support includes internet access to technical content, as well as internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. Software license updates and product support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net new software licenses fees. Substantially all of our customers renew their software license updates and product support contracts annually.
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element Arrangements—Software Products and Software Related Services (Software Arrangements)
We often enter into arrangements with customers that purchase both software related products and software related services from us at the same time, or within close proximity of one another (referred to as software related multiple-element arrangements). Such software related multiple-element arrangements include the sale of our software products, software license updates and product support contracts and other software related services whereby software license delivery is followed by the subsequent or contemporaneous delivery of the other elements. For those software related multiple-element arrangements, we have applied the residual method to determine the amount of new software license revenues to be recognized pursuant to ASC 985-605. Under the residual method, if fair value exists for undelivered elements in a multiple-element arrangement, such fair value of the undelivered elements is deferred with the remaining portion of the arrangement consideration generally recognized upon delivery of the software license. We allocate the fair value of each element of a software related multiple-element arrangement based upon its fair value as determined by our vendor specific objective evidence (VSOE—described further below), with any remaining amount allocated to the software license.
Revenue Recognition for Cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSServices Offerings, Hardware Systems Products, Hardware Systems Support and Related Services (Nonsoftware(Non-software Elements)
Our revenue recognition policy for nonsoftwarenon-software deliverables including our cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSservices offerings, hardware systems products, hardware support and related services is based upon the accounting guidance contained in ASC605-25,Revenue Recognition,,Multiple-Element Arrangements, and we exercise judgment and use estimates in connection with the determination of the amount of cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSservices revenues, hardware systems products revenues, hardware support and related services revenues to be recognized in each accounting period.
Revenues from the sales of our nonsoftwarenon-software elements are recognized when: (1) persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists; (2) we deliver the products and passage of the title to the buyer occurs;or services; (3) the sale price is fixed or determinable; and (4) collection is reasonably assured. Revenues that are not recognized at the time of sale because the foregoing conditions are not met are recognized when those conditions are subsequently met. When applicable, we reduce revenues for estimated returns or certain other incentive programs where we have the ability to sufficiently estimate the effects of these items. Where an arrangement is subject to acceptance criteria and the acceptance provisions are not perfunctory (for example, acceptance provisions that are long-term in nature or are not included as standard terms of an arrangement), revenues are recognized upon the earlier of receipt of written customer acceptance or expiration of the acceptance period.
Our cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings generally provide customers access to certain of our software within a cloud-based IT environment that we manage, host and support and offer to customers on a subscription basis. Revenues for our cloud SaaS and PaaSservices offerings sold on a subscription basis are generally recognized ratably over the contract term commencing with the date the service is made available to customers and all other revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.
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Our cloud IaaS offerings provide deployment and management offerings for our software and hardware and related IT infrastructure including comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services arrangements for customer IT infrastructure for a stated term that is hosted at our data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on-premises at customer facilities generally for a term-based fee; and virtual machine instances that are subscription-based and designed for computing and reliable and secure object storage.customers. Revenues for these cloud IaaSservices offerings sold on a usage basis are generally recognized ratably overas the contract term commencing with the datecustomer consumes the service, is made available to customers andprovided all other revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.
Revenues from the sale of hardware systems products represent amounts earned primarily fromare generally recognized upon delivery of the sale of our Oracle Engineered Systems, computer servers, storage, networking and industry specific hardware.
Our hardware systems support offerings generally provide customers with software updates for the software components that are essentialproduct to the functionality of our hardware products and can also include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services.customer provided all other revenue recognition criteria are satisfied. Hardware systems support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net hardware systems products fees. Hardware systems support contracts are entered into at the customer’s option and are recognized ratably over the contractual term of the arrangements, which areis typically one year.year, provided all other revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element Arrangements—Cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSServices Offerings, Hardware Systems Products, Hardware Systems Support and Related Services (Nonsoftware(Non-software Arrangements)
We enter into arrangements with customers that purchase both nonsoftwarenon-software related products and services from us at the same time, or within close proximity of one another (referred to as nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangements). Each element within a nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangement is accounted for as a separate unit of accounting provided the following criteria are met: the delivered products or services have value to the customer on a standalone basis; and for an arrangement that includes a general right of return relative to the delivered products or services, delivery or performance of the undelivered product or service is considered probable and is substantially controlled by us. We consider a deliverable to have standalone value if the product or service is sold separately by us or another vendor or could be resold by the customer. Further, our revenue arrangements generally do not include a general right of return relative to the delivered products.
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Where the aforementioned criteria for a separate unit of accounting are not met, the deliverable is combined with the undelivered element(s) and treated as a single unit of accounting for the purposes of allocation of the arrangement consideration and revenue recognition. For those units of accounting that include more than one deliverable but are treated as a single unit of accounting, we generally recognize revenues over the contractual period of the arrangement, or in the case of our cloud services offerings, we generally recognize revenues over the contractual term of the cloud softwareservices subscription. For the purposes of revenue classification of the elements that are accounted for as a single unit of accounting, we allocate revenue to the respective revenue line items within our consolidated statements of operations based on a rational and consistent methodology utilizing our best estimate of relative selling prices of such elements.
For our nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangements, we allocate revenue to each element based on a selling price hierarchy at the arrangement’s inception. The selling price for each element is based upon the following selling price hierarchy: VSOEvendor-specific objective evidence (VSOE) if available, third partythird-party evidence (TPE) if VSOE is not available, or estimated selling price (ESP) if neither VSOE nor TPE are available (a description as to how we determine VSOE, TPE and ESP is provided below). If a tangible hardware systems product includes software, we determine whether the tangible hardware systems product and the software work together to deliver the product’s essential functionality and, if so, the entire product is treated as a nonsoftwarenon-software deliverable. The total arrangement consideration is allocated to each separate unit of accounting for each of the nonsoftwarenon-software deliverables using the relative selling prices of each unit based on the aforementioned selling price hierarchy. We limit the amount of revenue recognized for delivered elements to an amount that is not contingent upon future delivery of additional products or services or meeting of any specified performance conditions.
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When possible, we establish VSOE of selling price for deliverables in software and nonsoftwarenon-software multiple-element arrangements using the price charged for a deliverable when sold separately and for software license updates and product support and hardware systems support, based on the renewal rates offered to customers.separately. TPE is established by evaluating similar and interchangeable competitor products or services in standalone arrangements with similarly situated customers. If we are unable to determine the selling price because VSOE or TPE does not exist, we determine ESP for the purposes of allocating the arrangement by reviewing historical transactions, including transactions whereby the deliverable was sold on a standalone basis and considering several other external and internal factors including, but not limited to, pricing practices including discounting, margin objectives, competition, contractually stated prices,factors.
Revenue Recognition for Cloud License andOn-Premise License and License Related Services (Software Elements)
The basis for our cloud license andon-premise license revenues and related services revenue recognition is substantially governed by the geographiesaccounting guidance contained in which we offer our productsASC985-605,Software-Revenue Recognition. We exercise judgment and services,use estimates in connection with the type of customer (i.e., distributor, value added reseller, government agency and direct end user, among others) and the stagedetermination of the amount of cloud license andon-premise license revenues and related services revenues to be recognized in each accounting period.
For license arrangements that do not require significant modification or customization of the underlying license, we recognize cloud license andon-premise license revenues when: (1) we enter into a legally binding arrangement with a customer for the license of software; (2) we deliver the products; (3) the sale price is fixed or determinable and free of contingencies or significant uncertainties; and (4) collection is probable. Revenues that are not recognized at the time of license sale because the foregoing conditions are not met, are generally recognized when those conditions are subsequently met.
The vast majority of our cloud license andon-premise license arrangements include license support contracts, which are entered into at the customer’s option. We recognize the related fees ratably over the term of the arrangement, typically one year. License support contracts provide customers with rights to unspecified software product lifecycle. The determinationupgrades, maintenance releases and patches released during the term of ESP is made through consultationthe support period and include internet access to technical content, as well as internet and telephone access to technical support personnel. License support contracts are generally priced as a percentage of the net cloud license and
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on-premise license fees and are generally invoiced in full at the beginning of the support term. Substantially all of our customers renew their license support contracts annually.
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element Arrangements—Cloud License andOn-Premise License, Support and Related Services (Software Arrangements)
We often enter into arrangements with customers that purchase cloud licenses andon-premise licenses, license support and approval by our management, taking into consideration our pricing model and go-to-market strategy. As our,related services from us at the same time, or our competitors’, pricing and go-to-market strategies evolve, we may modify our pricing practices in the future, which could result in changeswithin close proximity of one another (referred to our determination of VSOE, TPE and ESP. As a result, our future revenue recognition foras software related multiple-element arrangements). For those software related multiple-element arrangements, could differ materially from our resultswe have applied the residual method to determine the amount of cloud license andon-premise license revenues to be recognized pursuant to ASC985-605. Under the residual method, if VSOE exists for undelivered elements in a multiple-element arrangement, VSOE of the current period. Selling prices are analyzed on an annual basisundelivered elements is deferred with the remaining portion of the arrangement consideration generally recognized upon delivery of the license. Where VSOE does not exist for the undelivered element in such arrangement, no revenue is recognized until the earlier of the point in time at which 1) VSOE has been established for such element; or more frequently if we experience significant changes in our selling prices.2) the element that does not have VSOE has been delivered.
Revenue Recognition Policies Applicable to both Software and Nonsoftware Elements
Revenue Recognition for Multiple-Element Arrangements—Arrangements with Software and NonsoftwareNon-software Elements
We also enter into multiple-element arrangements that may include a combination of our various software related and nonsoftwarenon-software related products and services offerings including new softwarecloud licenses softwareandon-premise licenses, license updates and product support, cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaSservices offerings, hardware systems products, hardware systems support, consulting, advanced customer support services and education. In such arrangements, we first allocate the total arrangement consideration based on the relative selling prices of the software group of elements as a whole and to the nonsoftwarenon-software group of elements. We then further allocate consideration within the software group to the respective elements within that group following the guidance in ASC985-605 and our policies as described above. In addition, we allocate the consideration within thenon-software group to each respective element within that group based on a selling price hierarchy at the arrangement’s inception as described above. After the arrangement consideration has been allocated to the software group of elements andnon-software group of elements, we account for each respective element in the arrangement as described above.above and below.
Other Revenue Recognition Policies Applicable to Software and NonsoftwareNon-software Elements
Many of our softwarecloud license andon-premise license arrangements include consulting implementation services sold separately under consulting engagement contracts and are included as a part of our services business. Consulting revenues from these arrangements are generally accounted for separately from new software licensescloud license andon-premise license revenues because the arrangements qualify as services transactions as defined in ASC985-605. The more significant factors considered in determining whether the revenues should be accounted for separately include the nature of services (i.e., consideration of whether the services are essential to the functionality of the licensed product), degree of risk, availability of services from other vendors, timing of payments and impact of milestones or acceptance criteria on the realizability of the software license fee. Revenues for consulting services are generally recognized as the services are performed. If there is a significant uncertainty about the project completion or receipt of payment for the consulting services, revenues are deferred until the uncertainty is sufficiently resolved. We estimate the proportional performance on contracts with fixed or “not to exceed” fees on a monthly basis utilizing hours incurred to date as a percentage of total estimated hours to complete the project. If we do not have a sufficient basis to measure progress towards completion, revenues are recognized when we receive final acceptance from the customer that the services have been completed. When total cost estimates exceed revenues, we accrue for the estimated losses immediately using cost estimates that are based upon an average fully
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burdened daily rate applicable to the consulting organization delivering the services. The complexity of the estimation process and factors relating to the assumptions, risks and uncertainties inherent with the application of the proportional performance method of accounting affects the amounts of revenues and related expenses reported in our consolidated financial statements. A number of internal and external factors can affect our estimates, including labor rates, utilization and efficiency variances and specification and testing requirement changes.
Our advanced customer support services are offered as standalone arrangements or as a part of arrangements to customers buying other software and non-software products and services. We offer these advanced support services, both on-premises and remote, to Oracle customers to enable increased performance and higher availability of their products and services. Depending upon the nature of the arrangement, revenues from these services are recognized as the services are performed or ratably over the term of the service period, which is generally one year or less.
Education revenues are also a part of our services business and include instructor-led, media-based and internet-based training in the use of our software and hardware products. Education revenues are recognized as the classes or other education offerings are delivered.
If an arrangement contains multiple elements and does not qualify for separate accounting for the product and service transactions, then new software licensescloud license andon-premise license revenues and/or hardware systems products revenues, including the costs of hardware systems products, are generally recognized together with the services based on contract accounting using either thepercentage-of-completion or completed-contract method. Contract accounting is applied to any bundled software and cloud, hardware systems and services arrangements: (1) that include milestones or customer specific acceptance criteria that may affect collection of the software license or hardware systems product fees; (2) where consulting services include significant modification or customization of the software or hardware systems product or are of a specialized nature and generally performed only by Oracle; (3) where significant consulting services are provided for in the software license contract or hardware systems product contract without additional charge or are substantially discounted; or (4) where the software license or hardware systems product payment is tied to the performance of consulting services. For the purposes of revenue classification of the elements that are accounted for as a single unit of accounting, we allocate revenues to software and nonsoftware elements based on a rational and consistent methodology utilizing our best estimate of the relative selling price of such elements.
We also evaluate arrangements with governmental entities containing “fiscal funding” or “termination for convenience” provisions, when such provisions are required by law, to determine the probability of possible
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cancellation. We consider multiple factors, including the history with the customer in similar transactions, the “essential use” of the softwarelicense or hardware systems products and the planning, budgeting and approval processes undertaken by the governmental entity. If we determine upon execution of these arrangements that the likelihood of cancellation is remote, we then recognize revenues for such arrangements once all of the criteria described above have been met. If such a determination cannot be made, revenues are recognized upon the earlier of cash receipt or approval of the applicable funding provision by the governmental entity.entity for such arrangements.
We assess whether fees are fixed or determinable at the time of sale and recognize revenues if all other revenue recognition requirements are met. Our standard payment terms are net 30 days. However, payment terms may vary based on the country in which the agreement is executed. Payments that are due within six months are generally deemed to be fixed or determinableWe evaluatenon-standard payment terms based on ourwhether we have successful collection history on comparable arrangements (based upon similarity of customers, products, and arrangement economics) and, if so, generally conclude such arrangements,payment terms are fixed and determinable and thereby satisfy the required criteria for revenue recognition.
While most of our arrangements for sales within our businesses include short-term payment terms, we have a standard practice of providing long-term financing to creditworthy customers primarily through our financing division. Since fiscal 1989, when our financing division was formed, we have established a history of collection, without concessions, on these receivables with payment terms that generally extend up to five years from the
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contract date. Provided all other revenue recognition criteria have been met, we recognize new software licensescloud license andon-premise license revenues and hardware systems products revenues for these arrangements upon delivery, net of any payment discounts from financing transactions. We have generally sold receivables financed through our financing division on anon-recourse basis to third partythird-party financing institutions within 90 days of the contracts’ dates of execution and we classify the proceeds from these sales as cash flows from operating activities in our consolidated statements of cash flows. We account for the sales of these receivables as “true sales” as defined in ASC 860,Transfers and Servicing, as we are considered to have surrendered control of these financing receivables. During fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, $1.8 billion, $2.0 billion and $2.2 billion of our financing receivables were sold to financial institutions, respectively.
In addition, we enter into arrangements with leasing companies for the sale of our hardware systems products. These leasing companies, in turn, lease our products to end-users. The leasing companies generally have no recourse to us in the event of default by the end-user and we recognize revenue upon delivery, if all other revenue recognition criteria have been met.
Our customers include several of our suppliers and, occasionally, we have purchased goods or services for our operations from these vendors at or about the same time that we have sold our products to these same companies (Concurrent Transactions). Software licenseLicense agreements, sales of hardware or sales of hardware systemsservices that occur within a three-monthcommon time period from the date we have purchased goods or services from that same customer are reviewed for appropriate accounting treatment and disclosure. When we acquire goods or services from a customer, we negotiate the purchase separately from any sales transaction, at terms we consider to be at arm’s length and settle the purchase in cash. We recognize revenues from Concurrent Transactions if all of our revenue recognition criteria are met and the goods and services acquired are necessary for our current operations.
Business Combinations
We apply the provisions of ASC 805,Business Combinations, in the accounting for our acquisitions. ItASC 805 requires us to recognize separately from goodwill the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed at the acquisition date fair values. Goodwill as of the acquisition date is measured as the excess of consideration transferred over the net of the acquisition date fair values of the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. While we use our best estimates and assumptions to accurately value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date as well as any contingent consideration, where applicable, our estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, we record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to our consolidated statements of operations.
ORACLE CORPORATION NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued) May 31, 2018 Costs to exit or restructure certain activities of an acquired company or our internal operations are accounted for as termination and exit costs pursuant to ASC 420,Exit or Disposal Cost Obligations, and are accounted for separately from the business combination. A liability for costs associated with an exit or disposal activity is recognized and measured at its fair value in our consolidated statement of operations in the period in which the liability is incurred. When estimating the fair value of facility restructuring activities, assumptions are applied regarding estimatedsub-lease payments to be received, which can differ materially from actual results. This may require us to revise our initial estimates which may materially affect our results of operations and financial position in the period the revision is made.Index to Financial Statements
For a given acquisition, we may identify certainpre-acquisition contingencies as of the acquisition date and may extend our review and evaluation of thesepre-acquisition contingencies throughout the measurement period in order to obtain sufficient information to assess whether we include these contingencies as a part of the fair value estimates of assets acquired and liabilities assumed and, if so, to determine their estimated amounts.
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If we cannot reasonably determine the fair value of apre-acquisition contingency (non-income(non-income tax related) by the end of the measurement period, which is generally the case given the nature of such matters, we will recognize an asset or a liability for suchpre-acquisition contingency if: (i)(1) it is probable that an asset existed or a liability had been incurred at the acquisition date and (ii)(2) the amount of the asset or liability can be reasonably estimated. Subsequent to the measurement period, changes in our estimates of such contingencies will affect earnings and could have a material effect on our results of operations and financial position.
In addition, uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances assumed in connection with a business combination are initially estimated as of the acquisition date. We reevaluate these items quarterly based upon facts and circumstances that existed as of the acquisition date with any adjustments to our preliminary estimates being recorded to goodwill if identified within the measurement period. Subsequent to the measurement period or our final determination of the tax allowance’s or contingency’s estimated value, whichever comes first, changes to these uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances will affect our provision for income taxes in our consolidated statement of operations and could have a material impact on our results of operations and financial position.
Marketable andNon-Marketable Securities
In accordance with ASC 320,Investments—Debt and Equity Securities,and based on our intentions regarding these instruments, we classify substantially all of our marketable debt and equity securities asavailable-for-sale. Marketable debt and equity securities classified asavailable-for-sale are reported at fair value, with all unrealized gains (losses) reflected net of tax in stockholders’ equity on our consolidated balance sheets, and as a line item in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income. If we determine that an investment has an other than temporary decline in fair value, we recognize the investment loss innon-operating income, (expense), net in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. We periodically evaluate our investments to determine if impairment charges are required. Substantially all of our marketable debt and equity investments are classified as current based on the nature of the investments and their availability for use in current operations.
We hold investments in certainnon-marketable equity securities in which we do not have a controlling interest or significant influence. These equity securities are recorded at cost and included in othernon-current assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. If based on the terms of our ownership of thesenon-marketable securities, we determine that we exercise significant influence on the entity to which thesenon-marketable securities relate, we apply the requirements of ASC 323,Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures,to account for such investments. Ournon-marketable securities are subject to periodic impairment reviews.
ORACLE CORPORATION NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued) May 31, 2018 Fair Values of Financial InstrumentsIndex to Financial Statements
We apply the provisions of ASC 820,Fair Value Measurement(ASC 820), to our assets and liabilities that we are required to measure at fair value pursuant to other accounting standards, including our investments in marketable debt and equity securities and our derivative financial instruments.
The additional disclosures regarding our fair value measurements are included in Note 4.
Allowances for Doubtful Accounts
We record allowances for doubtful accounts based upon a specific review of all significant outstanding invoices. For those invoices not specifically reviewed, provisions are provided at differing rates, based upon the age of the receivable, the collection history associated with the geographic region that the receivable was recorded in and current economic trends. Wewrite-off a receivable and charge it against its recorded allowance when we have exhausted our collection efforts without success.
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Concentrations of Risk
Financial instruments that are potentially subject to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, derivatives and trade receivables. Our cash and cash equivalents are generally held with large, diverse financial institutions worldwide to reduce the amount of exposure to any single financial institution. Investment policies have been implemented that limit purchases of marketable debt securities to investment gradeinvestment-grade securities. Our derivative contracts are transacted with various financial institutions with high credit standings.standings and any exposure to counterparty credit-related losses in these contracts is largely mitigated with collateral security agreements that provide for collateral to be received or posted when the net fair values of these contracts fluctuate from contractually established thresholds. We generally do not require collateral to secure accounts receivable. The risk with respect to trade receivables is mitigated by credit evaluations we perform on our customers, the short duration of our payment terms for the significant majority of our customer contracts and by the diversification of our customer base. No single customer accounted for 10% or more of our total revenues in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 or 2013.2016.
We outsource the design, manufacturing, assembly and delivery of certain of our hardware products to a variety of companies, many of which are located outside the United States. Further, we have simplified our supply chain processes by reducing the number of third partythird-party manufacturing partners and the number of locations where these third partythird-party manufacturers build our hardware systems products. TheAny inability of these third partythird-party manufacturing partners to fulfill ordersdeliver the contracted services for our hardware products could adversely impact future operating results of our hardware systems business.
Inventories
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or marketnet realizable value. Cost is computed using standard cost, which approximates actual cost, on afirst-in,first-out basis. We evaluate our ending inventories for estimated excess quantities and obsolescence. This evaluation includes analysis of sales levels by product and projections of future demand within specific time horizons (generally six to nine months). Inventories in excess of future demand are written down and charged to hardware systems products expenses. In addition, we assess the impact of changing technology to our inventories and we write down inventories that are considered obsolete. At the point of loss recognition, a new, lower-cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration or increase in that newly established cost basis. Inventories are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets in our consolidated balance sheets and totaled $398 million and $300 million at May 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
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Other receivables represent value-added tax and sales tax receivables associated with the sale of our products and services to third parties. Other receivables are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets in our consolidated balance sheets and totaled $817$802 million and $906$794 million at May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017, respectively.
Deferred Sales Commissions
We defer sales commission expenses associated with our cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings, and recognize the related expenses over thenon-cancelable term terms of the related contracts, which are typically one to three years. The current portion of the deferred sales commissions balances are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets and thenon-current portion of the deferred sales commissions balances are included in other assets as of May 31, 2018 and 2017. Amortization of deferred sales commissions is included as a component of sales and marketing expenseexpenses in our consolidated statements of operations.
Property, Plant and Equipment
Property, plant and equipment are stated at the lower of cost or realizable value, net of accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method based on estimated useful lives of the assets, which range from one to fifty40 years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the lesser of the estimated useful lives of the improvements or the lease terms, as appropriate. Property, plant and equipment are periodically reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. We did not recognize any significant property impairment charges in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 or 2013.
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Goodwill, Intangible Assets and Impairment Assessments
Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price in a business combination over the fair value of net tangible and intangible assets acquired. Intangible assets that are not considered to have an indefinite useful life are amortized over their useful lives, which generally range from one to ten10 years. Each period we evaluate the estimated remaining useful lives of purchased intangible assets and whether events or changes in circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining periods of amortization.
The carrying amounts of our goodwill and intangible assets are periodically reviewed for impairment (at least annually for goodwill and indefinite lived intangible assets) and whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of these assets may not be recoverable. According to ASC 350,Intangibles—Goodwill and Other,When goodwill is assessed for impairment, we can opthave the option to perform an assessment of qualitative factors of impairment (optional assessment) prior to necessitating a qualitative assessment to test a reporting unit’s goodwill for impairment or we can directly perform the two stepquantitative impairment test. Based on ourShould the optional assessment be used for any given fiscal year, qualitative assessment, iffactors to consider include cost factors; financial performance; legal, regulatory, contractual, political, business, or other factors; entity specific factors; industry and market considerations, macroeconomic conditions, and other relevant events and factors affecting the reporting unit. If we determine that it is more likely than not that the fair value of athe reporting unit is more likely than not (i.e., a likelihood of more than 50 percent) to be less than its carrying amount, the two step impairmentvalue, a quantitative test will beis then performed. In the first step,Otherwise, no further testing is required. For those reporting units tested using a quantitative approach, we compare the fair value of each reporting unit with the carrying amount of the reporting unit, including goodwill. To determine the fair value of each reporting unit we utilize estimates, judgments and assumptions including estimated future cash flows the reporting unit is expected to its carrying value.generate on a discounted basis, future economic and market conditions, and market comparable of peer companies, among others. If the estimated fair value of the reporting unit exceedsis less than the carrying value of the net assets assigned to that unit, goodwill is not considered impaired and we are not required to perform further testing. If the carrying value of the net assets assigned to the reporting unit exceeds the fair valueamount of the reporting unit, then we must performimpairment is recognized for the second stepdifference, limited to the amount of the impairment test in order to determine the implied fair value ofgoodwill recognized for the reporting unit’s goodwill. If the carrying value of a reporting unit’s goodwill exceeds its implied fair value, then we would record an impairment loss equal to the difference. During fiscal 2015, we recognized a $186 million goodwill impairment loss (refer to Note 7 below for additional information).unit. We did not recognize any goodwill impairment charges in fiscal 20142018, 2017 or 2013.2016.
Recoverability of finite lived intangible assets is measured by comparison of the carrying amount of the asset to the future undiscounted cash flows the asset is expected to generate. Recoverability of indefinite lived
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intangible assets is measured by comparison of the carrying amount of the asset to its fair value. If the asset is considered to be impaired, the amount of any impairment is measured as the difference between the carrying value and the fair value of the impaired asset. We did not recognize any intangible asset impairment charges in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 or 2013.2016.
Derivative Financial Instruments
During fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, we used derivative andnon-derivative financial instruments to manage foreign currency and interest rate risks (see Note 1110 below for additional information). We account for these instruments in accordance with ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging(ASC 815), which requires that every derivative instrument be recorded on the balance sheet as either an asset or liability measured at its fair value as of the reporting date. ASC 815 also requires that changes in our derivatives’ fair values be recognized in earnings, unless specific hedge accounting and documentation criteria are met (i.e., the instruments are accounted for as hedges).
The accounting for changes in the fair value of a derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation. For a derivative instrument designated as a fair value hedge, the gain or loss is recognized in earnings in the period of change. The loss or gain attributable to the risk being hedged is recognized in earnings in the period of change with ana corresponding offset recorded to the item for which the risk is being hedged. For a derivative instrument designated as a cash flow hedge, each reporting period we record the change in fair value on the effective portion of the derivative to accumulated other comprehensive loss in our consolidated balance sheets, and an amount is reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive loss into earnings to offset the earnings impact that is attributable to the risk being hedged. For thenon-derivative financial instrument that was designated as a net investment hedge offor our investments in certain of our international subsidiaries, the change on account of remeasurement of the effective portion for each reporting period iswas recorded to accumulated other comprehensive loss in our consolidated balance sheets.
sheets until the net investment is sold, at which time the amounts are reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss toORACLE CORPORATIONnon-operating
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income, net.
We perform the effectiveness testing of our aforementioned designated hedges on a quarterly basis and thematerial changes in ineffective portions of the derivatives, if any, are recognized immediately in earnings.
Legal and Other Contingencies
We are currently involved in various claims and legal proceedings. Quarterly, we review the status of each significant matter and assess our potential financial exposure. A descriptionDescriptions of our accounting policies associated with contingencies assumed as a part of a business combination isare provided under “Business Combinations” above. For legal and other contingencies that are not a part of a business combination or related to income taxes, we accrue a liability for an estimated loss if the potential loss from any claim or legal proceeding is considered probable, and the amount can be reasonably estimated. Note 1817 below provides additional information regarding certain of our legal contingencies.
Shipping and Handling Costs
Our shipping and handling costs for hardware systems products sales are included in hardware systems products expenses for all periods presented.
Foreign Currency
We transact business in various foreign currencies. In general, the functional currency of a foreign operation is the local country’s currency. Consequently, revenues and expenses of operations outside the United States are translated into U.S. Dollars using weighted averageweighted-average exchange rates while assets and liabilities of operations outside the United States are translated into U.S. Dollars using exchange rates at the balance sheet date.dates. The
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effects of foreign currency translation adjustments are included in stockholders’ equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and related periodic movements are summarized as a line item in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income. Net foreign exchange transaction losses included innon-operating income, (expense), net in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations were $157$74 million, $375$152 million and $162$110 million in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively.
Stock-Based Compensation
We account for share-based payments to employees, including grants of service-based employee stock options, service-based restricted stock awards, performance-based restricted stock awards (PSUs), service-based employee stock options, performance-based stock options (PSOs), and purchases under employee stock purchase plans in accordance with ASC 718,Compensation—Stock Compensation, which requires that share-based payments (to the extent they are compensatory) be recognized in our consolidated statements of operations based on their fair values and the estimated numbervalues. We account for forfeitures of shares we ultimately expect will vest. stock-based awards as they occur.
For our service-based stock awards, we recognize stock-based compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the service period of the award, which is generally four years.
For our PSUs and PSOs, we recognize stock-based compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the longer of the derived, explicit or implicit service period for each separately vesting tranche, which(which is generally twelve months, asthe period of time expected for the performance conditionscondition to evaluatebe satisfied). During our interim and annual reporting periods, stock-based compensation expense is recorded based on expected attainment of each tranche for each participant are independentperformance targets. Changes in our estimates of the expected attainment of performance conditions fortargets that result in a change in the other tranches. We updatenumber of shares that are expected to vest, or changes in our estimates of implicit service periods may cause the amount of stock-based compensation expense net of forfeitures,that we record for each interim reporting period to record asvary. Any changes in estimates that impact our expectation of the endnumber of each reporting period based on theshares that are expected attainment of performance targets, which is subject to change until a final determination is known. Changes to the target estimatesvest are reflected in the amount of stock-based compensation expense that we recognize for each PSU or PSO tranche on a cumulative catch up basis during theeach interim reporting period in which the targetsuch estimates are altered and may causealtered. Changes in estimate of the amount of stock-based compensation expense that we record for such reportingimplicit service period to vary.
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are recognized prospectively.
We record deferred tax assets for stock-based compensation awards that result in deductions on certain of our income tax returns based on the amount of stock-based compensation recognized and the fair valuevalues attributable to the vested portion of stock awards assumed in connection with a business combination at the statutory tax raterates in the jurisdictionjurisdictions that we are able to recognize such tax deductions. The impacts of the actual tax deductions for stock-based awards that are realized in which we will receivethese jurisdictions are generally recognized in the reporting period that a restricted stock-based award vests or a stock option is exercised with any shortfall/windfall relative to the deferred tax deduction.asset established recorded as a discrete detriment/benefit to our provision for income taxes in such period.
Advertising
All advertising costs are expensed as incurred. Advertising expenses, which arewere included within sales and marketing expenses, were $55$138 million, $79$95 million and $85$68 million in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively.
Research and Development and Software Development Costs
All research and development costs are expensed as incurred.
Software development costs required to be capitalized under ASC985-20,Costs of Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed, and under ASC350-40,Internal-Use Software, were not material to our consolidated financial statements in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013.2016.
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Acquisition related and other expenses consist of personnel related costs and stock-based compensation for transitional and certain other employees, stock-based compensation expenses, integration related professional services, and certain business combination adjustments including certain adjustments after the measurement period has ended and certain other operating items, net. Stock-based compensation included in acquisition related and other expenses result from unvested options and restricted stock-based awards assumed from acquisitions whereby vesting was accelerated upon termination of the employees pursuant to the original terms of those options and restricted stock-based awards.
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Included in acquisition related and other expenses for fiscal 2015 was a goodwill impairment loss of $186 million (refer to Note 7 below for additional information). Included in acquisition related and other expenses for fiscal 2015 and 2013 were benefits of $53 million and $306 million, respectively, related to certain litigation (refer to Note 18 below for additional information). Also included in acquisition related and other expenses for fiscal 2013 were changes in estimates for contingent consideration payable, which reduced acquisition related and other expenses by $387 million during fiscal 2013 (refer to Note 2 below for additional information).
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Non-Operating Income (Expense), net
Non-operating income, (expense), net consists primarily of interest income, net foreign currency exchange gains (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 (losses), including net realized gains and losses related to all of our investments and net unrealized gains and losses related to the small portion of our investment portfolio that we classify as trading.
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Included in foreign currency losses, net for fiscal 2015 were foreign currency remeasurement losses of $23 million, related to our Venezuelan subsidiary due to the continued “highly inflationary” designation of the Venezuelan economy in accordance with ASC 830,Foreign Currency Matters; the introduction of currency exchange legislation in Venezuela in February 2015 to create a new foreign exchange mechanism known as SIMADI; and the remeasurement of certain assets and liabilities of our Venezuelan subsidiary pursuant to the SIMADI rate, which we determined, based upon our specific facts and circumstances, was the most appropriate for the reporting of our Venezuelan subsidiary’s Bolivar based transactions and net monetary assets in U.S. Dollars. We incurred losses related to our Venezuelan subsidiary of $213 million and $64 million during fiscal 2014 and 2013, respectively, for generally similar reasons.
Income Taxes
We account for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740,Income Taxes(ASC 740). Deferred income taxes are recorded for the expected tax consequences of temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and amounts recognized for income tax purposes. We record a valuation allowance to reduce our deferred tax assets to the amount of future tax benefit that is more likely than not to be realized.
Atwo-step approach is applied pursuant to ASC 740 in the recognition and measurement of uncertain tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The first step is to determine if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained in an audit, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes. The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely to be realized upon ultimate settlement. We recognize interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions in our provision for income taxes line of our consolidated statements of operations.
A description of our accounting policies associated with tax related contingencies and valuation allowances assumed as a part of a business combination is provided under “Business Combinations” above.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Cloud Computing Arrangements that Include a Software Element: In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement(ASU 2015-05). ASU 2015-05 provides guidanceIndex to
customers about whether a cloud computing arrangement includes software. If a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license, the customer should account for the software license element of the arrangement
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consistent withRecent Accounting Pronouncements
Comprehensive Income: In February 2018, the acquisitionFASB issued ASU2018-02,Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income(ASU2018-02), which allows companies to reclassify stranded tax effects resulting from the Tax Act, from accumulated other software licenses. If a cloud computing arrangement does not include a software license,comprehensive income to retained earnings. The guidance also requires certain new disclosures regardless of the customer should account for the arrangement as a service contract. The new guidance does not change the accounting for a customer’s accounting for service contracts.election. ASU 2015-052018-02 is effective for us in ourthe first quarter of fiscal 2017 with early2020, and earlier adoption permitted using either of two methods: (i) prospective to all arrangements entered into or materially modified after the effective date and represent a change in accounting principle; or (ii) retrospectively.is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of ASU 2015-052018-02 on our consolidated financial statements.
Derivatives and Hedging: In August 2017, the FASB issued ASU2017-12,Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities (ASU2017-12), which amends and simplifies existing guidance in order to allow companies to more accurately present the economic effects of risk management activities in the financial statements. ASU2017-12 is effective for us in the first quarter of fiscal 2020, and earlier adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of ASU2017-12 on our consolidated financial statements.
Retirement Benefits: In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU2017-07,Compensation—Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost (ASU2017-07), which provides guidance on the capitalization, presentation and disclosure of net benefit costs. ASU2017-07 is effective for us in the first quarter of fiscal 2019. We currently do not expect that our pending adoption of ASU2017-07 will have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
Income Taxes: In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU2016-16,Income Taxes (Topic 740): Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets Other Than Inventory(ASU2016-16), which changes the timing of when certain intercompany transactions are recognized within the provision for income taxes. ASU2016-16 is effective for us in our first quarter of fiscal 2019 on a modified retrospective basis, and earlier adoption is permitted. We currently do not expect that our pending adoption of ASU2016-16 will have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
Financial Instruments: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU2016-13,Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (ASU2016-13), which requires measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held. ASU2016-13 is effective for us in our first quarter of fiscal 2021, and earlier adoption is permitted beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2020. We are currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of ASU2016-13 on our consolidated financial statements.
In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU2016-01,Financial Instruments—Overall (Subtopic825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (ASU2016-01), which addresses certain aspects of recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of financial instruments. ASU2016-01 is effective for us in our first quarter of fiscal 2019, and earlier adoption is not permitted except for certain provisions. We currently do not expect that our pending adoption of ASU2016-01 will have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.
Leases: In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU2016-02,Leases (Topic 842)and issued subsequent amendments to the initial guidance in September 2017 within ASU2017-13 (collectively, Topic 842). Topic 842 requires companies to generally recognize on the balance sheet operating and financing lease liabilities and correspondingright-of-use assets. Topic 842 is effective for us in our first quarter of fiscal 2020 on a modified retrospective basis, and earlier adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of our pending adoption of Topic 842 on our consolidated financial statements. We currently expect that most of our operating lease commitments will be subject to the new standard and recognized as operating lease liabilities andright-of-use assets upon our adoption of Topic 842, which will increase our total assets and total liabilities that we report relative to such amounts prior to adoption.
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Revenue Recognition: In May 2014, the FASB issued ASUNo. 2014-09,Revenue from Contracts with Customers:Customers, Topic 606 and subsequent amendments to the initial guidance: ASU2015-14,ASU 2016-08, ASU2016-10, ASU2016-12, ASU2016-20, ASU2017-10, ASU2017-13 and ASU2017-14, (collectively, Topic 606), which is effective for us in our first quarter of fiscal 2019. Topic 606 (ASU 2014-09), to supersedesupersedes nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance under U.S. GAAP. The core principle of ASU 2014-09Topic 606 is to recognize revenues when promised goods or services are transferred to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration that is expected to be received for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09Topic 606 defines a five stepfive-step process to achieve this core principle and, in doing so, it is possible more judgment and estimates may be required within the revenue recognition process than are required under existing U.S. GAAP, including identifying performance obligations in the contract, estimating the amount of variable consideration to include in the transaction price and allocating the transaction price to each separate performance obligation. ASU 2014-09 is effectiveobligation, among others. Topic 606 also provides guidance on the recognition of costs related to obtaining customer contracts, which will result in additional costs that will be capitalized. We will adopt the requirements of the new standard as of June 1, 2018, utilizing the full retrospective method of transition and will adjust our consolidated financial statements from amounts previously reported for us in our first quarter ofthe fiscal 2018 using eitherand 2017 periods. We do not believe there will be a material impact to our revenues or operating expenses upon adoption of two methods: (i) retrospective application of ASU 2014-09 to each prior reporting period presented with the option to elect certain practical expedients as defined within ASU 2014-09; or (ii) retrospective application of ASU 2014-09 with the cumulative effect of initially applying ASU 2014-09 recognized at the date of initial application and providing certain additional disclosures as defined per ASU 2014-09.Topic 606. We are currently evaluatingcontinuing to evaluate the impact ofrelated to our pending adoption of ASU 2014-09 onTopic 606 and our consolidated financial statements.preliminary assessments are subject to change.
| 2. | ACQUISITIONS |
Fiscal 2018 Acquisitions
Acquisition of MICROS Systems, Inc.Aconex Limited
On June 22, 2014,March 28, 2018, we entered into an Agreement and Plancompleted our acquisition of Merger (Merger Agreement) with MICROS Systems, Inc. (MICROS)Aconex Limited (Aconex), a provider of integratedcloud-based collaboration software hardware and services solutions to the hospitality and retail industries. On July 3, 2014, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, we commenced a tender offer to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of MICROS at a purchase price of $68.00 per share, net to the holder in cash, without interest thereon, based upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement. Between September 3, 2014 and September 8, 2014, pursuant to the terms of the tender offer, we accepted and paid for the substantial majority of outstanding shares of MICROS common stock. On September 8, 2014, we effectuated the merger of MICROS with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement and applicable Maryland law and MICROS became an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle. Pursuant to the merger, shares of MICROS common stock that remained outstanding and were not acquired by us were converted into, and cancelled in exchange for, the right to receive $68.00 per share in cash. The unvested equity awards to acquire MICROS common stock that were outstanding immediately prior to the conclusion of the merger were converted into equity awards denominated in shares of Oracle common stock based on formulas contained in the Merger Agreement. We acquired MICROS to, among other things, expand our software and cloud, hardware and related services offerings for hotels, food and beverage industries, facilities, and retailers.construction projects. We have included the financial results of MICROSAconex in our consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition.
Pursuant These results were not individually material to our business combinations accounting policy, we estimatedconsolidated financial statements. The total preliminary purchase price for Aconex was approximately $1.2 billion, which consisted of approximately $1.2 billion in cash and $1 million for the preliminary fair values of net tangiblestock options and intangible assets acquired andrestricted stock-based awards assumed. In connection with the excess of the consideration transferred over the aggregate of such fair values wasAconex acquisition, we have preliminarily recorded as goodwill. The preliminary fair values$32 million of net tangible assets and $368 million of identifiable intangible assets acquired were based upon preliminary valuationson their estimated fair values, and $832 million of residual goodwill. Goodwill generated from our estimates and assumptions are subjectacquisition of Aconex was primarily attributable to change within the measurement period (upsynergies expected to one year fromarise after the acquisition date). The primary areas that remain preliminary relate to the fair values of intangible assets acquired, certain tangible assets and liabilities acquired, certain legal
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matters, income and non-income based taxes and residual goodwill. We expect to continue to obtain information to assist us in determining the fair values of the net assets acquired during the measurement period. The following table summarizes the estimated preliminary fair values of net assets acquired from MICROS:
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Other Fiscal 20152018 Acquisitions
During fiscal 2015,2018, we acquired certain other 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.
Fiscal 2017 Acquisitions
Acquisition of NetSuite Inc., a Related Party
On November 7, 2016, we completed our acquisition of NetSuite Inc. (NetSuite), a provider of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and related applications and a related party to Oracle. We acquired NetSuite to, among other things, expand our cloud software as a service offerings with a complementary set of cloud ERP and related cloud software applications for customers.
Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer and Oracle’s largest stockholder, was an affiliate of NetSuite’s largest stockholder, NetSuite Restricted Holdings LLC (a single
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member LLC investment entity whose interests are beneficially owned by a trust controlled by Mr. Ellison), which owned approximately 40% of the issued and outstanding NetSuite Shares immediately prior to the conclusion of the merger.
The total purchase price for NetSuite was approximately $9.1 billion, which consisted of approximately $9.0 billion in cash and $78 million for the fair values of restricted stock-based awards and stock options assumed. In allocating the purchase price based on estimated fair values, we recorded approximately $6.7 billion of goodwill, $3.2 billion of identifiable intangible assets and $763 million of net tangible liabilities. Goodwill generated from our acquisition of NetSuite was primarily attributable to synergies expected to arise after the acquisition and was not tax deductible.
Other Fiscal 2017 Acquisitions
During fiscal 2017, we acquired certain companies and purchased certain technology and development assets primarily to expand our products and services offerings. These acquisitions were not individually or in the aggregate significant. We have included the financial results of the acquired companies in our consolidated financial statements from their respective acquisition dates, and the results from each of these companies were not individually material to our consolidated financial statements. In the aggregate, the total preliminary purchase price for these acquisitions was approximately $1.7$3.0 billion, which consisted of approximately $1.7$3.0 billion in cash and $7$13 million for the fair values of stock options and restricted stock-based awards and stock options assumed. We have preliminarilyBased on their estimated fair values, we recorded $14$243 million of net tangible assets and $388 million of identifiable intangible assets, based on their estimated fair values, and $1.3 billion of residual goodwill.
The initial purchase price calculation and related accounting for our acquisitions completed during fiscal 2015 is preliminary. The preliminary fair value estimates for the assets acquired and liabilities assumed for our acquisitions completed during fiscal 2015 were based upon preliminary calculations and valuations and our estimates and assumptions for these acquisitions are subject to change as we obtain additional information during the respective measurement periods (up to one year from the respective acquisition dates). The primary areas of those preliminary estimates that are not yet finalized relate to certain tangible assets and liabilities acquired, identifiable intangible assets, certain legal matters and income and non-income based taxes.
Fiscal 2014 Acquisitions
Acquisition of Responsys, Inc.
On February 6, 2014, we completed our acquisition of Responsys, Inc. (Responsys), a provider of enterprise-scale cloud-based business-to-consumer marketing software. We have included the financial results of Responsys in our consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition. The total purchase price for Responsys was approximately $1.6 billion, which consisted of approximately $1.4 billion in cash and $147 million for the fair values of stock options and restricted stock-based awards assumed. We recorded $32 million of net tangible liabilities, related primarily to deferred tax liabilities, $580$948 million of identifiable intangible assets and $14 million of in-process research and development, based on their estimated fair values, and $1.0$1.8 billion of residual goodwill.
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Other Fiscal 20142016 Acquisitions
During fiscal 2014,2016, we acquired certain other companies and purchased certain technology and development assets primarily to expand our products and services offerings. These acquisitions were not individually significant. We have included the financial results of these companies in our consolidated financial statements from their respective acquisition dates and the results from each of these companies were not individually material to our consolidated financial statements. In the aggregate, the total purchase price for these acquisitions was approximately $2.3 billion, which consisted primarily of cash consideration, and we recorded $230 million of net tangible liabilities, related primarily to deferred tax liabilities, $1.1 billion of identifiable intangible assets, and $99 million of in-process research and development, based on their estimated fair values, and $1.3 billion of residual goodwill.
Fiscal 2013 Acquisitions
Acquisition of Acme Packet, Inc.
On March 28, 2013, we completed our acquisition of Acme Packet, Inc. (Acme Packet), a provider of session border control technology. We have included the financial results of Acme Packet in our consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition. The total purchase price for Acme Packet was approximately $2.1 billion, which consisted of approximately $2.1 billion in cash and $12 million for the fair value of stock options and restricted stock-based awards assumed. We have recorded $247 million of net tangible assets, $525 million of identifiable intangible assets, and $45 million of in-process research and development, based on their estimated fair values, and $1.3 billion of residual goodwill.
Acquisition of Eloqua, Inc.
On February 8, 2013, we completed our acquisition of Eloqua, Inc. (Eloqua), a provider of cloud-based marketing automation and revenue performance management software. We have included the financial results of Eloqua in our consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition. The total purchase price for Eloqua was approximately $935 million, which consisted of approximately $933 million in cash and $2 million for the fair value of stock options assumed. We have recorded $1 million of net tangible assets and $327 million of identifiable intangible assets, based on their estimated fair values, and $607 million of residual goodwill.
Other Fiscal 2013 Acquisitions
During fiscal 2013, we acquired certain other 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.
Contingent Consideration Related to the Acquisition of Pillar Data Systems, Inc.
In fiscal 2012, we acquired Pillar Data Systems, Inc. (Pillar Data), a provider of enterprise storage systems solutions. Pursuant to the agreement and plan of merger dated as of June 29, 2011, we acquired all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Pillar Data from the stockholders in exchange for Pillar Data’s former stockholders to have rights to receive contingent cash consideration (Earn-Out), if any, pursuant to an Earn-Out calculation. During fiscal 2013, we estimated that no amount of contingent consideration was to be payable pursuant to the Earn-Out calculation and we recognized a benefit of $387 million. The Earn-Out period ended at the conclusion of our first quarter of fiscal 2015 and no amounts were paid to Pillar Data’s former stockholders, including Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle’s Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer and largest stockholder.
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Unaudited Pro Forma Financial Information
The unaudited pro forma financial information in the table below summarizes the combined results of operations for Oracle, MICROS, Responsys,NetSuite, Aconex and certain other companies that we acquired since the beginning of fiscal 2014 (which2017 that were considered relevant for the purposes of unaudited pro forma financial information disclosure)disclosure as thoughif the companies were combined as of the beginning of fiscal 2014.2017. The unaudited pro forma financial information for all periods presented also included the business combination accounting effects resulting from these acquisitions, including our amortization charges from acquired intangible assets (certain of which are preliminary), stock-based compensation charges for unvested stock options and restricted stock-based awards and stock options assumed, if any, and the related tax effects as though the aforementioned companies were combined as of the beginning of fiscal 2014.2017. The unaudited pro forma financial information as presented below is for informational purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of the results of operations that would have been achieved if the acquisitions had taken place at the beginning of fiscal 2014.2017.
The unaudited pro forma financial information for fiscal 20152018 combined the historical results of Oracle for fiscal 2015,2018 and the historical results of MICROSAconex for the six monthstwelve month period ended June 30, 2014December 31, 2017 (adjusted due to differences in reporting periods and considering the date we acquired MICROS), the historical results ofAconex) and certain other companies that we acquired since the beginning of fiscal 20152018 based upon their respective previous reporting periods and the dates these companies were acquired by us, and the effects of the pro forma adjustments listed above.
The unaudited pro forma financial information for fiscal 20142017 combined the historical results of Oracle for fiscal 2014,2017, the historical results of MICROSNetSuite for the year ended June 30, 2014 (due to differences in reporting periods), the historical results of Responsys for the nine monthssix month period ended September 30, 20132016 (adjusted due to differences in reporting periods and considering the date we acquired Responsys),NetSuite) and the historical results of
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Aconex and certain other companies that we acquired since the beginning of fiscal 20142017 based upon their respective previous reporting periods and the dates these companies were acquired by us, and the effects of the pro forma adjustments listed above. The unaudited pro forma financial information was as follows for fiscal 2015 and 2014:follows:
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| 3. | CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND MARKETABLE SECURITIES |
Cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of deposits held at major banks,Tier-1 commercial paper and other securities with original maturities of 90 days or less. Marketable securities primarily consist of time deposits held at major banks, Tier-1 commercial paper debt securities, corporate notesdebt securities and certain other securities.
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The amortized principal amounts of our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities approximated their fair values at May 31, 20152018 and 2014.2017. We use the specific identification method to determine any realized gains or losses from the sale of our marketable securities classified asavailable-for-sale. Such realized gains and losses were insignificant for fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013.2016. The following table summarizes the components of our cash equivalents and marketable securities held, substantially all of which were classified asavailable-for-sale:
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Restricted cash that was included within cash and cash equivalents as presented within our consolidated balance sheets as of May 31, 2018 and 2017 and our consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 was nominal.
| 4. | FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS |
We perform fair value measurements in accordance with ASC 820. 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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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:
Level 1: quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
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
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.
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Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
Our assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis, excluding accrued interest components, consisted of the following (Level 1 and Level 2 inputs are defined above):
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Our valuation techniques used to measure the fair values of our marketable securities 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, the counterparties to which have high credit ratings, were derived from the following:non-binding market consensus prices that arewere 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.
Based on the trading prices of our $42.0the $58.0 billion and $24.1$54.0 billion of borrowings, which consisted of senior notes and the related fair value hedges that werewe had outstanding as of May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017, respectively, the estimated fair values of our borrowingsthe senior notes and the related fair value hedges using Level 2 inputs at May 31, 20152018 and 20142017 were $44.1$59.0 billion and $26.4$56.5 billion, respectively.
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INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND GOODWILL |
The changes in intangible assets for fiscal 20152018 and the net book value of intangible assets atas of May 31, 20152018 and 20142017 were as follows:
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(Dollars in millions) | May 31, 2014 | Additions(1) | Retirements | May 31, 2015 | May 31, 2014 | Expense | Retirements | May 31, 2015 | May 31, 2014 | May 31, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Software support agreements and related relationships | $ | 5,218 | $ | 1,206 | $ | (2,234 | ) | $ | 4,190 | $ | (4,403 | ) | $ | (531 | ) | $ | 2,234 | $ | (2,700 | ) | $ | 815 | $ | 1,490 | 13 years | |||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems support agreements and related relationships | 969 | 63 | (20 | ) | 1,012 | (530 | ) | (144 | ) | 20 | (654 | ) | 439 | 358 | 10 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developed technology | 4,387 | 736 | (521 | ) | 4,602 | (2,176 | ) | (700 | ) | 521 | (2,355 | ) | 2,211 | 2,247 | 7 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core technology | 1,617 | — | (1,065 | ) | 552 | (1,294 | ) | (182 | ) | 1,065 | (411 | ) | 323 | 141 | N.A. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Customer relationships and contract backlog | 2,054 | 204 | (61 | ) | 2,197 | (1,459 | ) | (312 | ) | 61 | (1,710 | ) | 595 | 487 | 6 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SaaS, PaaS and IaaS agreements and related relationships and other. | 1,789 | 204 | — | 1,993 | (305 | ) | (203 | ) | — | (508 | ) | 1,484 | 1,485 | 10 years | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trademarks | 516 | 35 | (50 | ) | 501 | (276 | ) | (77 | ) | 50 | (303 | ) | 240 | 198 | 10 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total intangible assets subject to amortization | 16,550 | 2,448 | (3,951 | ) | 15,047 | (10,443 | ) | (2,149 | ) | 3,951 | (8,641 | ) | 6,107 | 6,406 | 10 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In-process research and development | 30 | (30 | ) | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 | — | N.A. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total intangible assets, net | $ | 16,580 | $ | 2,418 | $ | (3,951 | ) | $ | 15,047 | $ | (10,443 | ) | $ | (2,149 | ) | $ | 3,951 | $ | (8,641 | ) | $ | 6,137 | $ | 6,406 | ||||||||||||||||||
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(Dollars in millions) | May 31, 2017 | Additions | Retirements | May 31, 2018 | May 31, 2017 | Expense | Retirements | May 31, 2018 | May 31, 2017 | May 31, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developed technology | $ | 5,397 | $ | 153 | $ | (241 | ) | $ | 5,309 | $ | (2,295 | ) | $ | (758 | ) | $ | 239 | $ | (2,814 | ) | $ | 3,102 | $ | 2,495 | 3 years | |||||||||||||||||
Cloud services and license support agreements and related relationships | 5,670 | 423 | (94 | ) | 5,999 | (1,648 | ) | (731 | ) | 94 | (2,285 | ) | 4,022 | 3,714 | 5 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other | 1,998 | 37 | (413 | ) | 1,622 | (1,443 | ) | (131 | ) | 413 | (1,161 | ) | 555 | 461 | 5 years | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total intangible assets, net | $ | 13,065 | $ | 613 | $ | (748 | ) | $ | 12,930 | $ | (5,386 | ) | $ | (1,620 | ) | $ | 746 | $ | (6,260 | ) | $ | 7,679 | $ | 6,670 | 4 years | |||||||||||||||||
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Total amortization expense related to our intangible assets was $2.1$1.6 billion, $2.3$1.5 billion and $2.4$1.6 billion in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively. As of May 31, 2015,2018, estimated future amortization expenses related to intangible assets were as follows (in millions):
Fiscal 2016 | $ | 1,624 | ||||||
Fiscal 2017 | 995 | |||||||
Fiscal 2018 | 848 | |||||||
Fiscal 2019 | 742 | $ | 1,605 | |||||
Fiscal 2020 | 598 | 1,400 | ||||||
Fiscal 2021 | 1,174 | |||||||
Fiscal 2022 | 966 | |||||||
Fiscal 2023 | 613 | |||||||
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ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 20152018
The changes in the carrying amounts of goodwill, net, which is generally not deductible for tax purposes, for our operating segments for fiscal 20152018 and 20142017 were as follows:
(in millions) | New Software Licenses and Cloud Software Subscriptions | Software License Updates and Product Support | Hardware Systems Support | Consulting | Other, net(4) | Total Goodwill, net | ||||||||||||||||||
Balances as of May 31, 2013 | $ | 10,533 | $ | 12,474 | $ | 1,259 | $ | 1,584 | $ | 1,493 | $ | 27,343 | ||||||||||||
Allocation of goodwill(1) | 875 | — | 380 | 13 | (1,268 | ) | — | |||||||||||||||||
Goodwill from acquisitions | 1,721 | 4 | 436 | 134 | — | 2,295 | ||||||||||||||||||
Goodwill adjustments, net(2) | 10 | (6 | ) | 7 | 2 | 1 | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
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Balances as of May 31, 2014 | 13,139 | 12,472 | 2,082 | 1,733 | 226 | 29,652 | ||||||||||||||||||
Goodwill from acquisitions | 2,086 | 1,991 | 269 | 27 | 240 | 4,613 | ||||||||||||||||||
Goodwill adjustments, net(2) | (8 | ) | (2 | ) | 19 | (1 | ) | — | 8 | |||||||||||||||
Goodwill impairment(3) | — | — | — | — | (186 | ) | (186 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
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Balances as of May 31, 2016 | $ | 30,336 | $ | 2,367 | $ | 1,887 | $ | 34,590 | ||||||||
Goodwill from acquisitions | 8,543 | — | — | 8,543 | ||||||||||||
Goodwill adjustments, net(1) | (88 | ) | — | — | (88 | ) | ||||||||||
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ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 20152018
NOTES PAYABLE AND OTHER BORROWINGS |
Notes payable and other borrowings consisted of the following:
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3.75% senior notes due July 2014, net of fair value adjustment of $8 as of May 31, 2014(1) | $ | — | $ | 1,508 | ||||
5.25% senior notes due January 2016, net of discount of $1 and $2 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 1,999 | 1,998 | ||||||
Floating rate senior notes due July 2017, net of debt issuance cost of $1 as of May 31, 2015 | 999 | — | ||||||
1.20% senior notes due October 2017, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $6 and $9 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 2,494 | 2,491 | ||||||
5.75% senior notes due April 2018, net of debt issuance costs of $7 and $8 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 2,493 | 2,492 | ||||||
Floating rate senior notes due January 2019, net of debt issuance costs of $1 each as of May 31, 2015 and 2014 | 499 | 499 | ||||||
2.375% senior notes due January 2019, net of fair value losses of $21 and $15 and discount and debt issuance costs of $7 and $9 as of May 31, 2015 and May 31, 2014, respectively(1) | 1,514 | 1,506 | ||||||
5.00% senior notes due July 2019, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $11 and $12 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 1,739 | 1,738 | ||||||
Floating rate senior notes due October 2019, net of debt issuance cost of $2 as of May 31, 2015 | 748 | — | ||||||
2.25% senior notes due October 2019, net of fair value loss of $22 and discount and debt issuance cost of $7 as of May 31, 2015(1) | 2,015 | — | ||||||
3.875% senior notes due July 2020, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $4 and $5 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 996 | 995 | ||||||
2.25% senior notes due January 2021, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $11 and $14 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively(2) | 1,341 | 1,685 | ||||||
2.80% senior notes due July 2021, net of fair value loss of $31 and discount and debt issuance cost of $6 as of May 31, 2015(1) | 1,525 | — | ||||||
2.50% senior notes due May 2022, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $17 as of May 31, 2015 | 2,483 | — | ||||||
2.50% senior notes due October 2022, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $10 and $11 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 2,490 | 2,489 | ||||||
3.625% senior notes due July 2023, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $11 and $12 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 989 | 988 | ||||||
3.40% senior notes due July 2024, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $12 as of May 31, 2015 | 1,988 | — | ||||||
2.95% senior notes due May 2025, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $22 as of May 31, 2015 | 2,478 | — | ||||||
3.125% senior notes due July 2025, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $6 and $9 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively(2) | 804 | 1,013 | ||||||
3.25% senior notes due May 2030, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $6 as of May 31, 2015 | 494 | — | ||||||
4.30% senior notes due July 2034, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $13 as of May 31, 2015 | 1,737 | — | ||||||
3.90% senior notes due May 2035, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $18 as of May 31, 2015 | 1,232 | — | ||||||
6.50% senior notes due April 2038, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $5 and $6 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 1,245 | 1,244 | ||||||
6.125% senior notes due July 2039, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $12 and $14 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 1,238 | 1,236 | ||||||
5.375% senior notes due July 2040, net of discount and debt issuance costs of $34 and $35 as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively | 2,216 | 2,215 | ||||||
4.50% senior notes due July 2044, net of debt issuance cost of $8 as of May 31, 2015 | 992 | — | ||||||
4.125% senior notes due May 2045, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $24 as of May 31, 2015 | 1,976 | — | ||||||
4.375% senior notes due May 2055, net of discount and debt issuance cost of $16 as of May 31, 2015 | 1,234 | — | ||||||
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$2,500, 1.20%, due October 2017 | October 2012 | $ | — | N.A. | $ | 2,500 | 1.24% | |||||||||||
$2,500, 5.75%, due April 2018 | April 2008 | — | N.A. | 2,500 | 5.76% | |||||||||||||
$1,500, 2.375%, due January 2019(1) | July 2013 | 1,500 | 2.44% | 1,500 | 2.44% | |||||||||||||
$1,750, 5.00%, due July 2019 | July 2009 | 1,750 | 5.05% | 1,750 | 5.05% | |||||||||||||
$2,000, 2.25%, due October 2019(1) | July 2014 | 2,000 | 2.27% | 2,000 | 2.27% | |||||||||||||
$1,000, 3.875%, due July 2020 | July 2010 | 1,000 | 3.93% | 1,000 | 3.93% | |||||||||||||
€1,250, 2.25%, due January 2021(2)(3) | July 2013 | 1,446 | 2.33% | 1,395 | 2.33% | |||||||||||||
$1,500, 2.80%, due July 2021(1) | July 2014 | 1,500 | 2.82% | 1,500 | 2.82% | |||||||||||||
$4,250, 1.90%, due September 2021(5) | July 2016 | 4,250 | 1.94% | 4,250 | 1.94% | |||||||||||||
$2,500, 2.50%, due May 2022 | May 2015 | 2,500 | 2.56% | 2,500 | 2.56% | |||||||||||||
$2,500, 2.50%, due October 2022 | October 2012 | 2,500 | 2.51% | 2,500 | 2.51% | |||||||||||||
$1,250, 2.625%, due February 2023(6) | November 2017 | 1,250 | 2.64% | — | N.A. | |||||||||||||
$1,000, 3.625%, due July 2023 | July 2013 | 1,000 | 3.73% | 1,000 | 3.73% | |||||||||||||
$2,500, 2.40%, due September 2023(5) | July 2016 | 2,500 | 2.40% | 2,500 | 2.40% | |||||||||||||
$2,000, 3.40%, due July 2024 | July 2014 | 2,000 | 3.43% | 2,000 | 3.43% | |||||||||||||
$2,000, 2.95%, due November 2024(6) | November 2017 | 2,000 | 2.98% | — | N.A. | |||||||||||||
$2,500, 2.95%, due May 2025 | May 2015 | 2,500 | 3.00% | 2,500 | 3.00% | |||||||||||||
€750, 3.125%, due July 2025(2)(4) | July 2013 | 868 | 3.17% | 837 | 3.17% | |||||||||||||
$3,000, 2.65%, due July 2026(5) | July 2016 | 3,000 | 2.69% | 3,000 | 2.69% | |||||||||||||
$2,750, 3.25%, due November 2027(6) | November 2017 | 2,750 | 3.26% | — | N.A. | |||||||||||||
$500, 3.25%, due May 2030 | May 2015 | 500 | 3.30% | 500 | 3.30% | |||||||||||||
$1,750, 4.30%, due July 2034 | July 2014 | 1,750 | 4.30% | 1,750 | 4.30% | |||||||||||||
$1,250, 3.90%, due May 2035 | May 2015 | 1,250 | 3.95% | 1,250 | 3.95% | |||||||||||||
$1,250, 3.85%, due July 2036(5) | July 2016 | 1,250 | 3.85% | 1,250 | 3.85% | |||||||||||||
$1,750, 3.80%, due November 2037(6) | November 2017 | 1,750 | 3.83% | — | N.A. | |||||||||||||
$1,250, 6.50%, due April 2038(1) | April 2008 | 1,250 | 6.52% | 1,250 | 6.52% | |||||||||||||
$1,250, 6.125%, due July 2039 | July 2009 | 1,250 | 6.19% | 1,250 | 6.19% | |||||||||||||
$2,250, 5.375%, due July 2040 | July 2010 | 2,250 | 5.45% | 2,250 | 5.45% | |||||||||||||
$1,000, 4.50%, due July 2044 | July 2014 | 1,000 | 4.50% | 1,000 | 4.50% | |||||||||||||
$2,000, 4.125%, due May 2045 | May 2015 | 2,000 | 4.15% | 2,000 | 4.15% | |||||||||||||
$3,000, 4.00%, due July 2046(5) | July 2016 | 3,000 | 4.00% | 3,000 | 4.00% | |||||||||||||
$2,250, 4.00%, due November 2047(6) | November 2017 | 2,250 | 4.03% | — | N.A. | |||||||||||||
$1,250, 4.375%, due May 2055 | May 2015 | 1,250 | 4.40% | 1,250 | 4.40% | |||||||||||||
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$1,000, three-month LIBOR plus 0.20%, due July 2017 | July 2014 | — | N.A. | 1,000 | 1.35% | |||||||||||||
$500, three-month LIBOR plus 0.58%, due January 2019 | July 2013 | 500 | 2.93% | 500 | 1.74% | |||||||||||||
$750, three-month LIBOR plus 0.51%, due October 2019 | July 2014 | 750 | 2.84% | 750 | 1.67% | |||||||||||||
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$3,800, LIBOR plus 0.50%, due June 2017 | May 2017 | — | N.A. | 3,800 | 1.54% | |||||||||||||
$2,500, LIBOR plus 0.50%, due June 2018 | May 2018 | 2,500 | 2.48% | — | N.A. | |||||||||||||
Other borrowings due August 2025 | November 2016 | 113 | 3.53% | 113 | 3.53% | |||||||||||||
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Notes payable and other borrowings,non-current | $ | 56,128 | $ | 48,112 | ||||||||||||||
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ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 2018
| (1) | We have entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effects of modifying the fixed-interest obligations associated with the 2.375% senior notes due January 2019 (January 2019 Notes), the 2.25% senior notes due October 2019 (October 2019 Notes), the 2.80% senior notes due July 2021 (July 2021 Notes), and the 6.50% senior notes due April 2038 (April 2038 Notes) so that the interest payable on these notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR. The effective interest rates after consideration of these fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements were 3.00% and 1.81%, respectively, for the January 2019 Notes, 2.81% and 1.64%, respectively, for the October 2019 Notes, and 2.96% and 1.79%, respectively, for the July 2021 Notes as of May 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The effective interest rate as of May 31, 2018 after consideration of the fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements was 5.65% for the April 2038 Notes. Refer to |
| (2) | In July 2013, we issued€2.0 billion of fixed-rate senior notes comprised of€1.25 billion of 2.25% senior notes due January 2021 (January 2021 Notes) and€750 million of 3.125% senior notes due July 2025 (July 2025 Notes, and together with the January 2021 Notes, the Euro |
| (3) | In connection with the issuance of the January 2021 Notes, we entered into certain cross-currency swap agreements that have the economic effect of converting our fixed-rate, Euro-denominated debt, including annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to a fixed-rate, U.S. Dollar-denominated debt of $1.6 billion with a fixed annual interest rate of 3.53% (see |
Senior Notes and Other
In May 2015, we issued $10.0 billion of senior notes comprised of $2.5 billion of 2.50% notes due May 2022 (2022 Notes), $2.5 billion of 2.95% notes due May 2025 (2025 Notes), $500 million 3.25% notes due May 2030 (2030 Notes), $1.25 billion of 3.90% notes due May 2035 (2035 Notes), $2.0 billion of 4.125% notes due May 2045 (2045 Notes) and $1.25 billion of 4.375% notes due May 2055 (2055 Notes, and together with the 2022 Notes, 2025 Notes, 2030 Notes, 2035 Notes
ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
We designated the July 2025 Notes as a net investment hedge of our investments in certain of our international subsidiaries that use the Euro as their functional currency in order to reduce the volatility in stockholders’ equity caused by the changes in foreign currency exchange rates of the Euro with respect to the U.S. Dollar in connection with the issuance of the July 2025 Notes. In our fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 wede-designated the 2025 Notes as a net investment hedge and entered into certain cross-currency interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effect of converting our fixed-rate, Euro-denominated debt, including annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to a variable-rate, U.S. Dollar-denominated debt of $0.9 billion based on LIBOR. The effective interest rate as of May 31, 2018 after consideration of the cross-currency interest rate swap agreements was 5.17% for the July 2025 Notes. Refer to Notes 1 and 10 for a description of our accounting for fair value hedges. In July 2016, we issued $14.0 billion of senior notes for general corporate purposes, which may include stock repurchases, payment of cash dividends on our common stock and repayment of indebtedness and future acquisitions. The interest is payable semi-annually. We may redeem some or all of the senior notes of each series prior to their maturity, subject to certain restrictions, and the payment of an applicable make-whole premium in certain instances. In November 2017, we issued $10.0 billion of senior notes for general corporate purposes, which may include stock repurchases, payment of cash dividends on our common stock and repayment of indebtedness and future acquisitions. The interest is payable semi-annually. We may redeem some or all of the senior notes of each series prior to their maturity, subject to certain restrictions, and the payment of an applicable make-whole premium in certain instances. Future principal payments (adjusted for May 31, 2015(4) (5) and 2045 Notes, the May 2015 Senior Notes). We issued the May 2015 Senior Notes(6) general corporate purposes, which may include stock repurchases, payment of cash dividends on our common stock and future acquisitions, and repayment of indebtedness.In July 2014, we issued $10.0 billion of senior notes comprised of $1.0 billion of floating rate notes due July 2017 (2017 Floating Rate Notes), $750 million of floating rate notes due October 2019 (2019 Floating Rate Notes), $2.0 billion of 2.25% notes due October 2019 (2019 Notes), $1.5 billion of 2.80% notes due July 2021 (2021 Notes), $2.0 billion of 3.40% notes due July 2024 (2024 Notes), $1.75 billion of 4.30% notes due July 2034 (2034 Notes) and $1.0 billion of 4.50% notes due July 2044 (2044 Notes and, together with the 2017 Floating Rate Notes, 2019 Floating Rate Notes, 2019 Notes, 2021 Notes, 2024 Notes and 2034 Notes, the July 2014 Senior Notes). The floating rate notes bear interest at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.20% for the 2017 Floating Rate Notes and 0.51% for the 2019 Floating Rate Notes (0.47% and 0.78% as of May 31, 2015, respectively) with interest payable quarterly. We issued the July 2014 Senior Notes for general corporate purposes, which may include stock repurchases, payment of cash dividends on our common stock, our acquisition of MICROS and future acquisitions, and repayment of indebtedness.In July 2013, we issued €2.0 billion ($2.2 billion and $2.7 billion as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively) of fixed rate senior notes comprised of €1.25 billion of 2.25% notes due January 2021 (January 2021 Notes) and €750 million of 3.125% notes due July 2025 (July 2025 Notes, and together with the January 2021 Notes, the Euro Notes). The Euro Notes are registered and trade on the New York Stock Exchange.In connection with the issuance of the January 2021 Notes, we entered into certain cross-currency swap agreements that have the economic effect of converting our fixed rate, Euro denominated debt, including annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to a fixed rate, U.S. Dollar denominated debt of $1.6 billion with a fixed annual interest rate of 3.53% (see Note 11 for additional information). Further, we designated the July 2025 Notes as a net investment hedge of our investments in certain of our international subsidiaries that use the Euro as their functional currency in order to reduce the volatility in stockholders’ equity caused by the changes in foreign currency exchange rates of the Euro with respect to the U.S. Dollar (see Note 11 for additional information).In July 2013, we also issued $3.0 billion of senior notes comprised of $500 million of floating rate notes due January 2019 (January 2019 Floating Rate Notes), $1.5 billion of 2.375% notes due January 2019 (January 2019 Notes) and $1.0 billion of 3.625% notes due July 2023 (2023 Notes). The January 2019 Floating Rate Notes bear interest at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus 0.58% (0.86% and 0.81% as of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively) with interest payable quarterly.In October 2012, we issued $5.0 billion of fixed rate senior notes comprised of $2.5 billion of 1.20% notes due October 2017 (2017 Notes) and $2.5 billion of 2.50% notes due October 2022 (October 2022 Notes).In July 2010, we issued $3.25 billion of fixed rate senior notes comprised of $1.0 billion of 3.875% notes due July 2020 (2020 Notes) and $2.25 billion of 5.375% notes due July 2040 (2040 Notes).In July 2009, we issued $4.5 billion of fixed rate senior notes of which $1.5 billion of 3.75% notes (2014 Notes) was due and paid in July 2014 (we also settled the fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements associated with the 2014 Notes) and $1.75 billion of 5.00% notes due July 2019 (July 2019 Notes) and $1.25 billion of 6.125% notes due July 2039 (2039 Notes) remained outstanding as of May 31, 2015.In April 2008, we issued $5.0 billion of fixed rate senior notes, of which $1.25 billion of 4.95% senior notes was due and paid in April 2013, and $2.5 billion of 5.75% senior notes due April 2018 (2018 Notes) and $1.25 billion of 6.50% senior notes due April 2038 (2038 Notes) remained outstanding as of May 31, 2015.In January 2006, we issued $5.75 billion of senior notes, of which $2.0 billion of 5.25% senior notes due January 2016 (2016 Notes) remained outstanding as of May 31, 2015.
ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 2015
The effective interest yields of the 2016 Notes, 2017 Notes, 2018 Notes, January 2019 Notes, July 2019 Notes, 2019 Notes, 2020 Notes, 2021 Notes, 2022 Notes, October 2022 Notes, 2023 Notes, 2024 Notes, 2025 Notes, July 2025 Notes, 2030 Notes, 2034 Notes, 2035 Notes, 2038 Notes, 2039 Notes, 2040 Notes, 2044 Notes, 2045 Notes and 2055 Notes (collectively and together with the January 2021 Notes, the Senior Notes) at May 31, 2015 were 5.32%, 1.24%, 5.76%, 2.44%, 5.05%, 2.27%, 3.93%, 2.82%, 2.56%, 2.51%, 3.73%, 3.43%, 3.00%, 3.17%, 3.30%, 4.30%, 3.95%, 6.52%, 6.19%, 5.45%, 4.50%, 4.15%, and 4.40%, respectively. In July 2014 and July 2013, we entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effects of modifying the fixed interest obligations associated with the 2019 Notes, January 2019 Notes and 2021 Notes so that the interest payable on these notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR (0.76%, 0.93% and 0.91%, respectively, at May 31, 2015; and 0.88% for the January 2019 Notes at May 31, 2014; see Note 11 for additional information). The effective interest yield of the January 2021 Notes was 2.33% (3.53% after the economic effects of the cross-currency swap agreements described aboveassociated with the January 2021 Notes and in Note 11). July 2025 Notes) for all of our borrowings at May 31, 2018 were as follows (in millions):
Fiscal 2019 | $ | 4,500 | ||
Fiscal 2020 | 4,500 | |||
Fiscal 2021 | 2,446 | |||
Fiscal 2022 | 8,250 | |||
Fiscal 2023 | 3,750 | |||
Thereafter | 37,481 | |||
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Total | $ | 60,927 | ||
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Senior Notes
Interest is payable semi-annually for the Senior Notessenior notes listed in the above table except for the Euro Notes for which interest is payable annually.annually and the floating-rate senior notes for which interest is payable quarterly. We may redeem some or all of the Senior Notessenior notes of each series prior to their maturity, subject to certain restrictions, and the payment of an applicable make-whole premium in certain instances. The 2017 Floating Rate Notes, January 2019 Floating Rate Notes and 2019 Floating Rate Notes (collectivelyinstances except for the Floating Rate Notes)floating-rate senior notes which may not be redeemed prior to their maturity.
ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 2018
The Senior Notes and the Floating Rate Notessenior notes rank pari passu with any other notes we may issue in the future pursuant to our commercial paper program (see additional discussion regarding our commercial paper program below) and all existing and future unsecured senior indebtedness of Oracle Corporation. All existing and future liabilities of the subsidiaries of Oracle Corporation are or will be effectively senior to the Senior Notes and the Floating Rate Notessenior notes and any future issuances of commercial paper notes. We were in compliance with all debt-related covenants at May 31, 2015.2018.
Future principal paymentsRevolving Credit Agreements
In May 2018, we entered into three revolving credit agreements with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as initial lender and administrative agent (the 2018 Credit Agreements) and borrowed $2.5 billion pursuant to these agreements. The 2018 Credit Agreements provided us with short-term borrowings for allworking capital and other general corporate purposes. Interest for the 2018 Credit Agreements is based on either (1) a LIBOR-based formula or (2) the Base Rate formula, as set forth in the 2018 Credit Agreements. The borrowings are due and payable on June 28, 2018, which is the termination date of our borrowings atthe 2018 Credit Agreements.
In May 2017, we borrowed $3.8 billion pursuant to four revolving credit agreements with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as initial lender and administrative agent (the 2017 Credit Agreements). In June 2017, we repaid the $3.8 billion and the 2017 Credit Agreements expired pursuant to their terms.
In May 2016, we borrowed $3.8 billion pursuant to three revolving credit agreements with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as initial lender and administrative agent (the 2016 Credit Agreements). In June 2016, we repaid the $3.8 billion and the 2016 Credit Agreements expired pursuant to their terms.
In April 2013, we entered into a $3.0 billion Revolving Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Bank of America, N.A., BNP Paribas, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and certain other lenders (the 2013 Credit Agreement). The 2013 Credit Agreement provided for an unsecured5-year revolving credit facility to be used for general corporate purposes including back-stopping any commercial paper notes that we may issue. In April 2018, the 2013 Credit Agreement expired. No amounts were outstanding as of the expiration date nor as of May 31, 2015 were as follows (in millions):2017.
Fiscal 2016 | $ | 2,000 | ||
Fiscal 2017 | — | |||
Fiscal 2018 | 6,000 | |||
Fiscal 2019 | 2,000 | |||
Fiscal 2020 | 4,500 | |||
Thereafter | 27,966 | |||
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Total | $ | 42,466 | ||
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Commercial Paper Program and Commercial Paper Notes
OnIn April 22, 2013, pursuant to our existing $3.0 billion commercial paper program which allows us to issue and sell unsecured short-term promissory notes pursuant to a private placement exemption from the registration requirements under federal and state securities laws, we entered into new dealer agreements with various banks and a new Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement with JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.N.A (JP Morgan). Effective on December 22, 2014, Deutsche Bank Trust Companies Americas became the Successor Issuing and Paying Agent replacing JP Morgan. Since that time, we have entered into new dealer agreements with additional banks. As of May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017, we did not have any outstanding commercial paper notes. We intend to back-stop any commercial paper notes that we may issue
Other Borrowings Activities
In connection with our acquisition of NetSuite in the future withsecond quarter of fiscal 2017 (see Note 2 above), we assumed $310 million par value of legacy NetSuite convertible notes (NetSuite Debt), which had a fair value of $342 million as of the 2013 Credit Agreement (see additional details below).
Revolving Credit Agreementsacquisition date. In December 2016, we repurchased and settled for cash substantially all of the NetSuite Debt.
In April 2013,the second quarter of fiscal 2017, we entered into a $3.0 billion Revolving Credit Agreementassumed $113 million of debt that bears interest at 3.53% and matures in August 2025 in connection with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Bankour acquisition of America, N.A., BNP Paribas, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.certain land and buildings.
| 8. | RESTRUCTURING ACTIVITIES |
Fiscal 2017 Oracle Restructuring Plan
During the first quarter of fiscal 2017, our management approved, committed to and initiated plans to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations due to our recent acquisitions and certain other lenders (the 2013 Credit Agreement). The 2013 Credit Agreement provides for an unsecured 5-year revolving credit facility
ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 20152018
2013 Credit Agreement at any time duringoperational activities (2017 Restructuring Plan). Restructuring costs associated with the term2017 Restructuring Plan were recorded to the restructuring expense line item within our consolidated statements of operations as they were incurred. We recorded $601 million and $486 million of restructuring expenses in connection with the 2013 Credit Agreement. Interest under the 2013 Credit Agreement is based on either (a) a LIBOR-based formula or (b) the Base Rate formula, each as set forth2017 Restructuring Plan in the 2013 Credit Agreement. Any amounts drawnfiscal 2018 and 2017, respectively. Actions pursuant to the 2013 Credit Agreement are due on April 20, 2018. No amounts2017 Restructuring Plan were outstanding pursuant to the 2013 Credit Agreementsubstantially complete as of May 31, 2015 and 2014.2018.
The 2013 Credit Agreement contains certain customary representations and warranties, covenants and events of default, including the requirement that our total net debt to total capitalization ratio not exceed 45% on a consolidated basis. If any of the events of default occur and are not cured within applicable grace periods or waived, any unpaid amounts under the 2013 Credit Agreement may be declared immediately due and payable and the 2013 Credit Agreement may be terminated. We were in compliance with the 2013 Credit Agreement’s covenants as of May 31, 2015.
On May 29, 2012, we borrowed $1.7 billion pursuant to a revolving credit agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as initial lender and administrative agent; and J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC, as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner (the 2012 Credit Agreement). During fiscal 2013, we repaid the $1.7 billion and the 2012 Credit Agreement expired pursuant to its terms.
Fiscal 2015 Oracle Restructuring Plan
During the second quarter of fiscal 2015, our management approved, committed to and initiated plans to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations due to our acquisition of MICROS Systems, Inc. and certain other operational activities (2015 Restructuring Plan). The total estimated restructuringRestructuring costs associated with the 2015 Restructuring Plan are up to $626 million and will be recorded to the restructuring expense line item within our consolidated statements of operations as they are incurred. We recorded $100 million of restructuring expenses in connection with the 2015 Restructuring Plan in fiscal 2015 and we expect to incur the majority of the estimated remaining $526 million through the end of fiscal 2016. Any changes to the estimates of executing the 2015 Restructuring Plan will be reflected in our future results of operations.
Fiscal 2013 Oracle Restructuring Plan
During the first quarter of fiscal 2013, our management approved, committed to and initiated plans to restructure and further improve efficiencies in our operations (2013 Restructuring Plan). Restructuring costs associated with the 2013 Restructuring Plan were recorded to the restructuring expense line item within our consolidated statements of operations as they were incurred. We recorded $119 million, $174 million and $325$462 million of restructuring expenses in connection with the 20132015 Restructuring Plan in fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.2016. Actions pursuant to the 20132015 Restructuring Plan were substantially complete as of May 31, 2015.
Summary of All Plans
Fiscal 2018 Activity
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Cloud and license | $ | 85 | $ | 156 | $ | (12 | ) | $ | (150 | ) | $ | 3 | $ | 82 | ||||||||||
Hardware | 31 | 167 | (15 | ) | (122 | ) | — | 61 | ||||||||||||||||
Services | 25 | 48 | (4 | ) | (54 | ) | 1 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||
Other(6) | 44 | 267 | (6 | ) | (208 | ) | (7 | ) | 90 | |||||||||||||||
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Total Fiscal 2017 Oracle Restructuring Plan | $ | 185 | $ | 638 | $ | (37 | ) | $ | (534 | ) | $ | (3 | ) | $ | 249 | |||||||||
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Total other restructuring plans(7) | $ | 79 | $ | 1 | $ | (14 | ) | $ | (37 | ) | $ | 4 | $ | 33 | ||||||||||
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Total restructuring plans | $ | 264 | $ | 639 | $ | (51 | ) | $ | (571 | ) | $ | 1 | $ | 282 | ||||||||||
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Fiscal 2017 Activity
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Cloud and license | $ | — | $ | 184 | $ | (6 | ) | $ | (100 | ) | $ | 7 | $ | 85 | ||||||||||
Hardware | — | 91 | (3 | ) | (57 | ) | — | 31 | ||||||||||||||||
Services | — | 59 | (1 | ) | (34 | ) | 1 | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
Other(6) | — | 166 | (4 | ) | (118 | ) | — | 44 | ||||||||||||||||
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Total Fiscal 2017 Oracle Restructuring Plan | $ | — | $ | 500 | $ | (14 | ) | $ | (309 | ) | $ | 8 | $ | 185 | ||||||||||
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Total other restructuring plans(7) | $ | 283 | $ | 8 | $ | (31 | ) | $ | (169 | ) | $ | (12 | ) | $ | 79 | |||||||||
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Total restructuring plans | $ | 283 | $ | 508 | $ | (45 | ) | $ | (478 | ) | $ | (4 | ) | $ | 264 | |||||||||
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ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 20152018
Summary of All Plans
Fiscal 20152016 Activity
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New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions | $ | — | $ | 26 | $ | 1 | $ | (16 | ) | $ | — | $ | 11 | $ | 27 | $ | 110 | |||||||||||||||
Software license updates and product support | — | 7 | — | (2 | ) | — | 5 | 7 | 209 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems business | — | 22 | (2 | ) | (13 | ) | (1 | ) | 6 | 20 | 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Services | — | 21 | — | (12 | ) | — | 9 | 21 | 101 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
General and administrative and other | — | 27 | (2 | ) | (20 | ) | — | 5 | 25 | 141 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Total Fiscal 2015 Oracle Restructuring Plan | $ | — | $ | 103 | $ | (3 | ) | $ | (63 | ) | $ | (1 | ) | $ | 36 | $ | 100 | $ | 626 | |||||||||||||
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Total Fiscal 2013 Oracle Restructuring Plan(6) | $ | 61 | $ | 128 | $ | (9 | ) | $ | (138 | ) | $ | (11 | ) | $ | 31 | |||||||||||||||||
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Total other restructuring plans(6) | $ | 108 | $ | 7 | $ | (19 | ) | $ | (43 | ) | $ | — | $ | 53 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Total restructuring plans | $ | 169 | $ | 238 | $ | (31 | ) | $ | (244 | ) | $ | (12 | ) | $ | 120 | |||||||||||||||||
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New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions | $ | 16 | $ | 57 | $ | (8 | ) | $ | (55 | ) | $ | 2 | $ | 12 | ||||||||||
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Hardware systems business | 24 | 48 | (3 | ) | (52 | ) | 1 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||
Services | 18 | 39 | (7 | ) | (39 | ) | — | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
General and administrative and other | 12 | 42 | (5 | ) | (39 | ) | 5 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
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Total Fiscal 2013 Oracle Restructuring Plan | $ | 71 | $ | 197 | $ | (23 | ) | $ | (195 | ) | $ | 11 | $ | 61 | ||||||||||
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Total other restructuring plans(6) | $ | 179 | $ | 24 | $ | (15 | ) | $ | (58 | ) | $ | (22 | ) | $ | 108 | |||||||||
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Total restructuring plans | $ | 250 | $ | 221 | $ | (38 | ) | $ | (253 | ) | $ | (11 | ) | $ | 169 | |||||||||
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ORACLE CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)
May 31, 2015
Fiscal 2013 Activity
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New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions | $ | — | $ | 85 | $ | (8 | ) | $ | (60 | ) | $ | (1 | ) | $ | 16 | |||||||||
Software license updates and product support | — | 13 | (6 | ) | (11 | ) | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems business | — | 99 | (5 | ) | (68 | ) | (2 | ) | 24 | |||||||||||||||
Services | — | 72 | (5 | ) | (50 | ) | 1 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||
General and administrative and other | — | 81 | (1 | ) | (52 | ) | (16 | ) | 12 | |||||||||||||||
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Total Fiscal 2013 Oracle Restructuring Plan | $ | — | $ | 350 | $ | (25 | ) | $ | (241 | ) | $ | (13 | ) | $ | 71 | |||||||||
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Total other restructuring plans(6) | $ | 337 | $ | 53 | $ | (26 | ) | $ | (185 | ) | $ | — | $ | 179 | ||||||||||
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Total restructuring plans | $ | 337 | $ | 403 | $ | (51 | ) | $ | (426 | ) | $ | (13 | ) | $ | 250 | |||||||||
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Cloud and license | $ | 16 | $ | 263 | $ | (8 | ) | $ | (129 | ) | $ | 4 | $ | 146 | ||||||||||
Hardware | 6 | 67 | (8 | ) | (43 | ) | 1 | 23 | ||||||||||||||||
Services | 9 | 44 | (4 | ) | (35 | ) | — | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
Other(6) | 5 | 108 | — | (56 | ) | (2 | ) | 55 | ||||||||||||||||
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Total Fiscal 2015 Oracle Restructuring Plan | $ | 36 | $ | 482 | $ | (20 | ) | $ | (263 | ) | $ | 3 | $ | 238 | ||||||||||
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Total other restructuring plans(7) | $ | 84 | $ | 2 | $ | (6 | ) | $ | (27 | ) | $ | (8 | ) | $ | 45 | |||||||||
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Total restructuring plans | $ | 120 | $ | 484 | $ | (26 | ) | $ | (290 | ) | $ | (5 | ) | $ | 283 | |||||||||
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| (1) | Restructuring costs recorded for individual line items primarily related to employee severance |
| (2) | The balances at May 31, |
| (3) | Costs recorded for the respective restructuring plans during the |
| (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 facilities related restructuring costs. |
| (7) | Other restructuring plans presented in the tables above included condensed information for |
DEFERRED REVENUES |
Deferred revenues consisted of the following:
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Software license updates and product support | $ | 5,635 | $ | 5,909 | ||||
Hardware systems support and other | 703 | 664 | ||||||
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Cloud SaaS, PaaS and IaaS | 404 | 248 | ||||||
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Cloud services and license support | $ | 7,292 | $ | 7,144 | ||||
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as the services are performed. Deferred new cloud software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS)license and infrastructure as a service (IaaS)on-premise license revenues generally resulttypically resulted from customer payments made in advance for our cloud-based offerings that are recognized over the corresponding contractual term. Deferred new software licenses revenues typically result fromrelate to undelivered products or specified enhancements, customer customer-
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specific acceptance provisions, customer payments made in advance for time-based license arrangements and software license transactions that cannot be separated from undelivered consulting or other services.
In connection with our acquisitions, we have estimated the fair values of the cloud SaaSservices and PaaS, software license updates and product support, and hardware systems support obligations, among others, assumed from our acquired companies. We generally have estimated the fair values of these obligations assumed using a costbuild-up approach. The costbuild-up approach determines fair value by estimating the costs related to fulfilling the obligations plus a normal profit margin. The sum of the costs and operating profit approximates, in theory, the amount that we would be required to pay a third party to assume these acquired obligations. These aforementioned fair value adjustments recorded for obligations assumed from our acquisitions reduced the cloud SaaSservices and PaaS, software license updates and product support and hardware systems support deferred revenues balances that we recorded as liabilities from these acquisitions and also reduced the resulting revenues that we recognized or will recognize over the terms of the acquired obligations during the post-combination periods.
DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS |
Fair Value Hedges—Hedges—Interest Rate Swap Agreements and Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swap Agreements
In May 2018, we entered into certain cross-currency interest rate swap agreements to manage the foreign currency exchange rate risk associated with our July 2025 Notes by effectively converting the fixed-rate, Euro denominated 2025 Notes, including the annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to variable-rate, U.S. Dollar denominated debt based on LIBOR. In April 2018, we entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effect of modifying the fixed-interest obligations associated with our April 2038 Notes so that the interest payable on these senior notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR. In July 2014, we entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effect of modifying the fixed interestfixed-interest obligations associated with our October 2019 Notes and our July 2021 Notes so that the interest payable on these senior notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR. In July 2013, we entered into certain interest rate swap agreements that have the economic effect of modifying the fixed interestfixed-interest obligations associated with our January 2019 Notes so that the interest payable on these senior notes effectively became variable based on LIBOR. The critical terms of the interest rate swap agreements match the critical terms of the July 2025 Notes, April 2038 Notes, October 2019 Notes, July 2021 Notes and the January 2019 Notes that the interest rate swap agreements pertain to, including the notional amounts and maturity dates.
We have designated the aforementioned interest rate swap agreements as qualifying hedging instruments and are accounting for them as fair value hedges pursuant to ASC 815. These transactions are characterized as fair value hedges for financial accounting purposes because they protect us against changes in the fair values of certain of our fixed ratefixed-rate borrowings due to benchmark interest rate movements. The changes in fair values of these interest rate swap agreements are recognized as interest expense in our consolidated statements of operations with the corresponding amounts included in other assets or othernon-current liabilities in our consolidated balance sheets. The amount of net gain (loss) attributable to the risk being hedged is recognized as interest expense in our consolidated statements of operations with the corresponding amount included in notes payable,non-current. The periodic interest settlements for the interest rate swap agreements for the July 2025 Notes, April 2038 Notes, October 2019 Notes, July 2021 Notes and the January 2019 Notes are recorded as interest expense and are included as a part of cash flows from operating activities.
In July 2014, we settled the fixed to variable interest rate swap agreements associated with the 2014 Notes. We do not use any interest rate swap agreements for trading purposes.
Cash Flow Hedges—Cross CurrencyCross-Currency Swap Agreements
In connection with the issuance of ourthe January 2021 Notes, we entered into certain cross-currency swap agreements to manage the related foreign currency exchange risk by effectively converting the fixed-rate, Euro denominatedEuro-denominated January 2021 Notes, including the annual interest payments and the payment of principal at
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maturity, to fixed-rate, U.S. Dollar denominatedDollar-denominated debt. The economic effect of the swap agreements was to eliminate the uncertainty of the cash flows in U.S. Dollars associated with the January 2021 Notes by fixing the
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principal amount of the January 2021 Notes at $1.6 billion with a fixed annual interest rate of 3.53%. We have designated these cross-currency swap agreements as qualifying hedging instruments and are accounting for these as cash flow hedges pursuant to ASC 815. The critical terms of the cross-currency swap agreements correspond to the January 2021 Notes including the annual interest payments being hedged, and the cross-currency swap agreements mature at the same time as the January 2021 Notes.
We used the hypothetical derivative method to measure the effectiveness of our cross-currency swap agreements. The fair values of these cross-currency swap agreements are recognized as other assets or othernon-current liabilities in our consolidated balance sheets. The effective portions of the changes in fair values of these cross-currency swap agreements are reported in accumulated other comprehensive loss in our consolidated balance sheets and an amount is reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive loss intonon-operating income, (expense), net in the same period that the carrying valuevalues of the Euro denominatedEuro-denominated January 2021 Notes isare remeasured and the interest expense is recognized. The ineffective portion of the unrealized gains and losses on these cross-currency swaps, if any, isare recorded immediately tonon-operating income, (expense), net. We evaluate the effectiveness of our cross-currency swap agreements on a quarterly basis. We did not record any ineffectiveness for fiscal 20152018, 2017 or 2014.2016. The cash flows related to the cross-currency swap agreements that pertain to the periodic interest settlements are classified as operating activities and the cash flows that pertain to the principal balance are classified as financing activities.
We do not use any cross-currency swap agreements for trading purposes.
Net Investment Hedge—Foreign Currency Borrowings
In July 2013, we designated our July 2025 Notes as a net investment hedge of our investments in certain of our international subsidiaries that use the Euro as their functional currency in order to reduce the volatility in stockholders’ equity caused by the changes in foreign currency exchange rates of the Euro with respect to the U.S. Dollar.
We used the spot method to measure the effectiveness of our net investment hedge. Under this method, for each reporting period, the change in the carrying value of the Euro denominatedEuro-denominated July 2025 Notes due to remeasurement of the effective portion is reported in accumulated other comprehensive loss onin our consolidated balance sheet and the remaining change in the carrying value of the ineffective portion, if any, iswas recognized innon-operating income, (expense), net in our consolidated statements of operations. We evaluateevaluated the effectiveness of our net investment hedge at the beginning of every quarter. We did not record any ineffectiveness for fiscal 20152018, 2017 or 2014.2016. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, wede-designated the July 2025 Notes as a net investment hedge, and as noted above, we entered into cross-currency interest rate swap agreements to manage the foreign currency exchange risk associated with our July 2025 Notes by effectively converting the fixed-rate, Euro denominated debt, including the annual interest payments and the payment of principal at maturity, to variable-rate, U.S. Dollar denominated debt.
Foreign Currency Forward Contracts Not Designated as Hedges
We transact business in various foreign currencies and have established a program that primarily utilizes foreign currency forward contracts to offset the risks associated with the effects of certain foreign currency exposures. Under this program, our strategy is to enter into foreign currency forward contracts so that increases or decreases in our foreign currency exposures are offset by gains or losses on the foreign currency forward contracts in order to mitigate the risks and volatility associated with our foreign currency transactions. We may suspend this program from time to time. Our foreign currency exposures typically arise from intercompany sublicense fees, intercompany loans and other intercompany transactions that are generally expected to be cash settled in the near term. Our foreign currency forward contracts are generally short-term in duration. Our ultimate realized gain or loss with respect to currency fluctuations will generally depend on the size and type of
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cross-currency exposures that we enter into, the currency exchange rates associated with these exposures and changes in those rates, the net realized and unrealized gains or losses on foreign currency forward contracts to offset these exposures and other factors.
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We neitherNeither do we use these foreign currency forward contracts for trading purposes nor do we designate these forward contracts as hedging instruments pursuant to ASC 815. Accordingly, we recorded the fair values of these contracts as of the end of oureach reporting period to our consolidated balance sheetsheets with changes in fair values recorded to our consolidated statementstatements of operations. The balance sheet classification for the fair values of these forward contracts is prepaid expenses and other current assets for a netforward contracts in an unrealized gain position and other current liabilities for a netforward contracts in an unrealized loss position. The statement of operations classification for changes in fair values of these forward contracts isnon-operating income, (expense), net, for both realized and unrealized gains and losses.
As of May 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, theThe notional amounts of the forward contracts we held to purchase U.S. Dollars in exchange for other major international currencies were $2.2was $3.4 billion as of each of May 31, 2018 and $3.6 billion, respectively,2017 and the notional amounts of forward contracts we held to sell U.S. Dollars in exchange for other major international currencies were $1.2was $1.4 billion as of each of May 31, 2018 and $2.0 billion, respectively.2017. The fair values of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts were nominal at May 31, 20152018 and 2014.
Included in our non-operating income (expense), net were $60 million, $(69) million and $(64) million of net gains (losses) related to these forward contracts for the years ended May 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.2017. The cash flows related to these foreign currency contracts are classified as operating activities. Net gains or losses related to these forward contracts are included innon-operating income, net.
The effects of derivative andnon-derivative instruments designated as hedges on certain of our consolidated financial statements were as follows as of or for each of the respective periods presented below (amounts presented exclude any income tax effects):
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COMMITMENTS AND CERTAIN CONTINGENCIES |
Lease Commitments
We lease certain facilities, furniture and equipment under operating leases. As of May 31, 2015,2018, future minimum annual operating lease payments and future minimum payments to be received fromnon-cancelable subleases were as follows:
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Lease commitments included future minimum rent payments for facilities that we have vacated pursuant to our restructuring and merger integration activities, as discussed in Note 9.8. We have approximately $61 million in facility obligations, net of estimated sublease income and other costs, in accrued restructuring for these locations in our consolidated balance sheet at May 31, 2015.2018.
Rent expense was $290$292 million, $278$273 million and $313$283 million for fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively, net of sublease income of approximately $104 million, $87 million and $45 million $55 millionfor fiscal 2018, 2017 and $69 million,2016, respectively. Certain lease agreements contain renewal options providing for extensions of the lease terms.
Unconditional Obligations
In the ordinary course of business, we enter into certain unconditional purchase obligations with our suppliers, which are agreements that are enforceable and legally binding and specify terms, including: fixed or minimum
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quantities to be purchased; fixed, minimum or variable price provisions; and the approximate timing of the payment. We utilize several external manufacturers to manufacturesub-assemblies for our hardware products and to perform final assembly and testing of finished hardware products. We also obtain individual components for our hardware systems products from a variety of individual suppliers based on projected demand information. Such purchase commitments are based on our forecasted component and manufacturing requirements and typically provide for fulfillment within agreed upon lead-times and/or commercially standard lead-times for the particular part or product and have been included in the amounts below. Routine arrangements for other materials and goods that are not related to our external manufacturers and certain other suppliers and that are entered into in the ordinary course of business are not included in the amounts below, as they are generally entered into in order to secure pricing or other negotiated terms and are difficult to quantify in a meaningful way.
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As of May 31, 2015,2018, our unconditional purchase and certain other obligations were as follows (in millions):
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As described in Note 8Notes 7 and Note 1110 above, as of May 31, 20152018 we have senior notes and other borrowings of $42.0$60.9 billion that mature at various future dates and derivative financial instruments outstanding that we leverage to manage certain risks and exposures.
Guarantees
Our software, cloud, license and hardware systems product sales agreements generally include certain provisions for indemnifying customers against liabilities if our products infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights. To date, we have not incurred any material costs as a result of such indemnifications and have not accrued any material liabilities related to such obligations in our consolidated financial statements. Certain of our product sales agreements also include provisions indemnifying customers against liabilities in the event we breach confidentiality or service level requirements. It is not possible to determine the maximum potential amount under these indemnification agreements due to our limited and infrequent history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement.
Our softwareOracle Cloud Services agreements generally include a warranty that the cloud services will be performed in all material respects as defined in the agreement during the service period. Our license and hardware systems products agreements also generally include a warranty that our products will substantially operate as described in the applicable program documentation for a period of one year after delivery. Our software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service agreements generally include a warranty that the cloud services will be performed in all material respects as defined in the agreement during the service period. We also warrant that services we perform will be provided in a manner consistent with industry standards for a period of 90 days from performance of the services.
We occasionally are required, for various reasons, to enter into financial guarantees with third parties in the ordinary course of our business including, among others, guarantees related to foreign exchange trades, taxes, import licenses and letters of credit on behalf of parties with whom we conduct business. Such agreements have not had a material effect on our results of operations, financial position or cash flows.
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In connection with certain litigation, we posted certain court-mandated surety bonds with a court and entered into related indemnification agreements with each of the surety bond issuing companies. Additional information is provided in Note 17 below.
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY |
Common Stock Repurchases
Our Board of Directors has approved a program for us to repurchase shares of our common stock. On September 18, 2014, we announced thatDuring fiscal 2018, our Board of Directors approved an expansionexpansions of our stock repurchase program by an additional $13.0totaling $24.0 billion. Approximately $9.2As of May 31, 2018, approximately $17.8 billion remained available for stock repurchases as of May 31, 2015, pursuant to our stock repurchase program. We repurchased 193.7238.0 million shares for $8.1$11.5 billion (including 2.23.8 million shares for $95$180 million that were repurchased but not settled), 280.485.6 million shares for $9.8$3.5 billion and 346.1271.9 million shares for $11.0$10.4 billion in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively, 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 repurchaserepurchases of our debt, our stock price, and economic and market
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conditions. Our stock repurchases may be effected from time to time through open market purchases orand pursuant to a Rule10b5-1 plan. Our stock repurchase program may be accelerated, suspended, delayed or discontinued at any time.
Dividends on Common Stock
During fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, our Board of Directors declared cash dividends of $0.51, $0.48$0.76, $0.64 and $0.30$0.60 per share of our outstanding common stock, respectively, which we paid during the same period.
In June 2015,2018, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15$0.19 per share of our outstanding common stockstock. The dividend is payable on July 29, 201531, 2018 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 8, 2015.17, 2018. Future declarations of dividends and the establishment of future record and payment dates are subject to the final determination of our Board of Directors.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
The following table summarizes, as of each balance sheet date, the components of our accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of income taxes:
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EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS |
Stock-basedStock-Based Compensation Plans
Stock Plans
In fiscal 2001, we adopted the 2000 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan, which provides for the issuance of long-term performance awards, including restricted stock-based awards,non-qualified stock options and incentive stock options, as well as stock purchase rights and stock appreciation rights, and long-term performance awards, including restricted stock-based awards, to our eligible employees, officers and directors who are also employees or consultants, independent consultants and advisers.
In fiscal 2011, our stockholders, upon the recommendation of our Board of Directors (the Board), approved the adoption of the Amended and Restated 2000 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (the 2000 Plan), which extended the termination date of the 2000 Plan by ten10 years and increased the number of authorized shares of stock that may be issued by 388,313,015 shares.
In fiscal 2014, our stockholders, upon the recommendation of ourthe Board, approved a further increase in the number of authorized shares of stock that may be issued under the 2000 Plan by 305,000,000 shares.
Under the terms of the 2000 Plan, options to purchase common stock are granted at not less than fair market value, become exercisable as established by the Compensation Committee of the Board (generally 25% annually over four years under our current practice) and generally expire no more than ten years from the date of grant. Long-termlong-term full value awards are granted in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs) and performance stock units (PSUs). The vesting schedule for RSUs is established by the Compensation Committee and generally requires vesting 25% annually over four years. The vesting schedule for PSUs is also established by the Compensation Committee and currently requires vesting over four fiscal years, if at all, based on relative performance. For each share granted as a full value award under the 2000 Plan, an equivalent of 2.5 shares is deducted from our pool of shares available for grant.
In fiscal 2018, our stockholders, upon the recommendation of the Board, approved a further increase in the number of authorized shares of stock that may be issued under the 2000 Plan by 330,000,000 shares, and approved material terms of the performance goals under which PSUs and performance-based stock options (PSOs) could be granted.
As of May 31, 2015,2018, the 2000 Plan had 83 million unvested RSUs outstanding, 3 million unvested PSUs outstanding, 69 million PSOs outstanding and service-based stock options (SOs) to purchase 401231 million shares of common stock outstanding of which 215197 million shares were vested, 24 million unvested RSUs outstanding and
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3 million unvested PSUs outstanding.vested. As of May 31, 2015,2018, approximately 409376 million shares of common stock were available for future awards under the 2000 Plan. To date, we have not issued any stock purchase rights or stock appreciation rights under the 2000 Plan.
The vesting schedule for all awards grated under the 2000 Plan are established by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. RSUs generally require vesting 25% annually over four years. The vesting schedule for PSUs currently requires achieving performance targets and providing service over four fiscal years. SOs are granted at not less than fair market value, become exercisable generally 25% annually over four years under our current practice, and generally expire 10 years from the date of grant. PSOs granted to four of our executive officers in fiscal 2018 consist of seven numerically equivalent vesting tranches that potentially may vest. One tranche vests solely on attainment of a market-based metric. The remaining six tranches require the attainment of both a performance metric and a market capitalization metric. In each case, the market-based metric, performance metrics and market capitalization metrics may be achieved at any time during a five year performance period, assuming continued employment and service through the date the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors certifies that performance has been achieved. The PSOs have contractual lives of eight years in comparison to the typical ten year contractual lives for SOs. For the six tranches of the PSOs with both performance and market conditions, stock-based compensation expense is to be recognized once each vesting tranche becomes probable of achievement over the longer of the estimated implicit service period or derived service. We have preliminarily estimated service periods for those tranches that have been deemed probable of achievement to be approximately three to five years. Stock-based compensation for the market-based tranche will be recognized using the derived service period for the market-based metric achievement, which we have initially estimated to be approximately three years.
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In fiscal 1993, the Board adopted the 1993 Directors’ Stock Plan (the Directors’ Plan), which provides for the issuance of non-qualified stock optionsRSUs and other stock-based awards, including RSUs,non-qualified stock options, tonon-employee directors. The Directors’ Plan has from time to time been amended and restated. Under the terms of the Directors’ Plan, 10 million shares of common stock are reserved for issuance (including a fiscal 2013 amendment to increase the number of shares of our common stock reserved for issuance by 2 million shares). Options areIn prior years, we granted stock options at not less than fair market value, that vest over four years, and expire no more than ten10 years from the date of grant. RSUs granted under the Directors’ Plan also vest over four years. The Directors’ Plan provides forwas most recently amended on April 29, 2016 and permits the Compensation Committee of the Board to determine the amount and form of automatic grants of stock awards to eachnon-employee director upon first becoming a director and thereafter on an annual basis, as well as automatic nondiscretionary grants for chairing or vice chairing certain Board committees. The Board will determine the particular terms of any such stock awards at the time of grant, but the terms will be consistent with those of stock awards granted undercommittees, subject to certain stockholder approved limitations set forth in the Directors’ Plan with respect to vesting or forfeiture schedules and treatment on termination of status as a director.Plan. As of May 31, 2015,2018, approximately 109,000 unvested RSUs and stock options to purchase approximately 41 million shares of common stock (of which approximately 21 million were vested) and 64,000 unvested RSUs were outstanding under the 1993 Directors’ Plan. As of May 31, 2015,2018, approximately 21 million shares were available for future stock awards under this plan.
In connection with certain of our acquisitions, we assumed certain outstanding stock options and other restricted stock-based awards and stock options under each acquired company’s respective stock plans.plans, or we substituted substantially similar awards under the 2000 Plan. These restricted stock-based awards and stock options and other restricted stock-based awardsassumed or substituted generally retain all of the rights, terms and conditions of the respective plans under which they were originally granted. As of May 31, 2015, stock options to purchase 8 million shares of common stock and 12018, approximately 3 million shares of restricted stock-based awards and stock options to purchase 3 million shares of common stock were outstanding under these plans.
The following table summarizes stock optionrestricted stock-based award activity, including service based awards and includesperformance-based awards, granted pursuant to Oracle-based stock plans and stock plans assumed from our acquisitions for our last three fiscal years ended May 31, 2015:2018:
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Balance, May 31, 2012 | 422 | $ | 22.66 | |||||
Granted | 119 | $ | 29.90 | |||||
Assumed | 9 | $ | 32.52 | |||||
Exercised | (83 | ) | $ | 17.38 | ||||
Canceled | (20 | ) | $ | 28.94 | ||||
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Granted | 131 | $ | 31.02 | |||||
Assumed | 5 | $ | 9.02 | |||||
Exercised | (95 | ) | $ | 21.51 | ||||
Canceled | (26 | ) | $ | 30.60 | ||||
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Granted | 34 | $ | 40.54 | |||||
Assumed | 3 | $ | 21.98 | |||||
Exercised | (70 | ) | $ | 24.49 | ||||
Canceled | (16 | ) | $ | 33.76 | ||||
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Options outstanding that have vested and that are expected to vest as of May 31, 2015 were as follows:
| Outstanding Options (in millions) | Weighted Average Exercise Price | Weighted Average Remaining Contract Term (in years) | In-the-Money Options as of May 31, 2015 (in millions) | Aggregate Intrinsic Value(1) (in millions) | ||||||||||||||||
Vested | 223 | $ | 25.53 | 5.07 | 222 | $ | 4,034 | |||||||||||||
Expected to vest(2) | 175 | $ | 32.17 | 7.77 | 175 | 1,986 | ||||||||||||||
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Restricted stock-based award activity and the number of restricted stock-based awards outstanding were not significant prior to fiscal 2015. The following table summarizes restricted stock-based awards activity, including service-based awards and performance-based awards and including awards granted pursuant to Oracle-based stock plans and stock plans assumed from our acquisitions for our fiscal year ended May 31, 2015:
| Restricted Stock-Based Awards Outstanding | Restricted Stock-Based Awards Outstanding | |||||||||||||||
(in millions, except fair value) | Number of Shares | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value | Number of Shares | Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value | ||||||||||||
Balance, May 31, 2014 | 1 | $ | 35.29 | |||||||||||||
Balance, May 31, 2015 | 28 | $ | 40.63 | |||||||||||||
Granted | 28 | $ | 40.73 | 34 | $ | 38.50 | ||||||||||
Vested and Issued | (7 | ) | $ | 40.39 | ||||||||||||
Canceled | (1 | ) | $ | 39.52 | (3 | ) | $ | 39.73 | ||||||||
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Balance, May 31, 2016 | 52 | $ | 39.29 | |||||||||||||
Granted | 42 | $ | 39.40 | |||||||||||||
Assumed | 14 | $ | 37.83 | |||||||||||||
Vested and Issued | (18 | ) | $ | 40.39 | ||||||||||||
Canceled | (7 | ) | $ | 39.73 | ||||||||||||
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Granted | 44 | $ | 47.42 | |||||||||||||
Vested and Issued | (27 | ) | $ | 39.10 | ||||||||||||
Canceled | (11 | ) | $ | 41.97 | ||||||||||||
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The total grant date fair value of restricted stock-based awards that were vested and issued in fiscal 20152018, 2017 and 2016 was $28 million.$1.0 billion, $715 million and $261 million, respectively. As of May 31, 2015,2018, total unrecognized stockstock-based compensation expense related tonon-vested restricted stock-based awards was $774 million$2.5 billion and is expected to be recognized over the remaining weighted-average vesting period of 3.222.70 years.
In each of fiscal 2015, 32017 and 2016, 2 million PSUs were granted which vest upon the attainment of certain performance metrics and service-based vesting. Based upon actual attainment relative to the “target”
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performance metric, certain participants have the ability to be issued up to 150% of the target number of PSUs originally granted, or to be issued no PSUs at all. AsIn fiscal 2018, 2.4 million PSUs vested and 1.6 million PSUs remained outstanding as of May 31, 2015, no PSUs had2018.
The following table summarizes stock option activity, including SOs and PSOs, and includes awards granted pursuant to the 2000 Plan and stock plans assumed from our acquisitions for our last three fiscal years ended May 31, 2018:
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(in millions, except exercise price) | Shares Under Stock Option | Weighted-Average Exercise Price | ||||||
Balance, May 31, 2015 | 413 | $ | 28.64 | |||||
Granted(1) | 25 | $ | 40.34 | |||||
Assumed | 1 | $ | 4.97 | |||||
Exercised | (53 | ) | $ | 25.13 | ||||
Canceled | (11 | ) | $ | 35.19 | ||||
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Balance, May 31, 2016 | 375 | $ | 29.66 | |||||
Granted(1) | 18 | $ | 40.90 | |||||
Assumed | 2 | $ | 13.06 | |||||
Exercised | (77 | ) | $ | 26.65 | ||||
Canceled | (6 | ) | $ | 36.28 | ||||
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Granted(2) | 77 | $ | 50.95 | |||||
Exercised | (78 | ) | $ | 28.78 | ||||
Canceled | (7 | ) | $ | 45.70 | ||||
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| (1) | 7 million SOs were granted in total during each of fiscal 2017 and 2016 to our Chief Executive Officers and Chief Technology Officer and have contractual lives of five years versus theten-year contractual lives for most of the other SOs granted. |
| (2) | Awards granted in fiscal 2018 included 69 million PSOs granted in total to our Chief Executive Officers, Chief Technology Officer, and President, Product Development, the contractual terms of which are described in greater detail above. |
Stock options outstanding that have vested and 3 million remained outstanding.
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that are expected to vest as of May 31, 20152018 were as follows:
| Outstanding Stock Options (in millions) | Weighted- Average Exercise Price | Weighted- Average Remaining Contract Term (in years) | Aggregate Intrinsic Value(1) (in millions) | |||||||||||||
Vested | 201 | $ | 30.06 | 3.89 | $ | 3,344 | ||||||||||
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| (2) | The unrecognized compensation expense calculated under the fair value method for shares expected to vest (unvested shares net of expected forfeitures) as of May 31, 2018 was approximately $375 million and is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 3.33 years. Approximately 43 million shares outstanding as of May 31, 2018 were not expected to vest. |
Stock-Based Compensation Expense and ValuationValuations of Stock Awards
We estimated the fair values of our stock options using the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model, which was developed for use in estimating the fair values of stock options. Option valuation models, including the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model, require the input of assumptions, including stock price volatility. Changes in the input assumptions can materially affect the fair value estimates and ultimately how much we recognize as stock-based compensation expense. The fair values of our stock options were estimated at the grant dates or at the acquisition dates for options assumed in a business combination. The weighted average input assumptions used and resulting fair values of our stock options were as follows for fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013:
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Expected life (in years) | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.0 | |||||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 1.7% | 1.3% | 0.7% | |||||||||
Volatility | 23% | 27% | 31% | |||||||||
Dividend yield | 1.2% | 1.5% | 0.8% | |||||||||
Weighted-average fair value per share | $ | 9.62 | $ | 7.47 | $ | 7.99 | ||||||
The expected life input is based on historical exercise patterns and post-vesting termination behavior, the risk-free interest rate input is based on U.S. Treasury instruments, the annualized dividend yield input is based on the per share dividend declared by our Board of Directors and the volatility input is calculated based on the implied volatility of our publicly traded options.
We estimated the fair values of our restricted stock-based awards that are solely subject to service-based vesting requirements based upon their intrinsicmarket values as of the grant dates.dates, discounted for the present values of expected dividends.
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The fair values of our PSUs were also measured atbased upon their intrinsicmarket values as of their respective grant dates.dates, discounted for the present values of expected dividends. The vesting conditions and related terms of our PSUs were communicated to each participating employee as of their respective grant dates and included attainment metrics that were defined, fixed and based upon consistent U.S. GAAP metrics or internal metrics that are defined, fixed and consistently determined, and that require the employee to render service. Therefore, these awards meetmet the performance-based award classification criteria as defined within ASC 718.
We estimated the fair values of our stock options that were solely subject to service-based vesting requirements using the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model, which was developed for use in estimating the fair values of stock options. Option valuation models, including the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model, require the input of assumptions, including stock price volatility. Changes in the input assumptions can affect the fair value estimates and ultimately how much we recognize as stock-based compensation expense. The fair values of our stock options were estimated at the grant dates or at the acquisition dates for options assumed in a business combination. The weighted-average input assumptions used and resulting fair values of our stock options were as follows for fiscal 2018, 2017 and 2016:
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Expected life (in years) | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | |||||||||
Risk-free interest rate | 2.0% | 1.0% | 1.6% | |||||||||
Volatility | 22% | 23% | 24% | |||||||||
Dividend yield | 1.5% | 1.5% | 1.5% | |||||||||
Weighted-average fair value per share | $ | 9.34 | $ | 8.18 | $ | 8.49 | ||||||
The expected life input is based on historical exercise patterns and post-vesting termination behavior, the risk-free interest rate input is based on U.S. Treasury instruments, the annualized dividend yield input is based on the per share dividend declared by the Board and the volatility input is calculated based on the implied volatility of our publicly traded options.
We estimated the fair values of the PSOs issued during fiscal 2018 using a Monte Carlo simulation approach as of the grant date with the following assumptions: risk-free interest rate of 2.14%, expected term of 7 years, expected volatility of 22.44% and dividend yield of 1.49%. Stock-based compensation expense is included in the following operating expense line items in our consolidated statements of operations:
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Cloud services and license support | $ | 82 | $ | 54 | $ | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hardware | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Services | 52 | 44 | 29 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sales and marketing | $ | 180 | $ | 165 | $ | 137 | 361 | 306 | 220 | |||||||||||||||
Cloud software as a service and platform as a service | 10 | 8 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud infrastructure as a service | 5 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Software license updates and product support | 21 | 22 | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems products | 6 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hardware systems support | 6 | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Services | 30 | 29 | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Research and development | 522 | 385 | 352 | 921 | 770 | 609 | ||||||||||||||||||
General and administrative | 148 | 171 | 164 | 180 | 130 | 120 | ||||||||||||||||||
Acquisition related and other | 5 | 10 | 33 | 1 | 35 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tax Benefits from ExerciseExercises of Stock Options and Vesting of Restricted Stock-Based Awards
Total cash received as a result of option exercises was approximately $1.7$2.3 billion, $2.0 billion and $1.4 billion for fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. The aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised and vesting of restricted stock-based awards was $1.3 billion, $1.5$2.1 billion and $1.3 billion for fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively. The total aggregate intrinsic value of restricted stock-based awards that vested and were issued and stock options that were exercised was $3.0 billion, $2.0 billion and $1.0 billion for fiscal 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. In connection with these exercisesthe vesting and vestingissuance of restricted stock-based awards and stock options that were exercised, the tax benefits realized by us were $396$860 million, $480$614 million and $410$311 million for fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013, respectively. Of the total tax benefits received, we classified excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation of $244 million, $250 million and $241 million as cash flows from financing activities rather than cash flows from operating activities for fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013,2016, respectively.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
We have an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (Purchase Plan) that allows employees to purchase shares of common stock at a price per share that is 95% of the fair market value of Oracle stock as of the end of the semi-annual option period. As of May 31, 2015, 572018, 48 million shares were reserved for future issuances under the Purchase Plan. We issued 3 million shares under the Purchase Plan in each of fiscal 2015, fiscal 20142018, 2017 and fiscal 2013.2016, respectively, under the Purchase Plan.
Defined Contribution and Other Postretirement Plans
We offer various defined contribution plans for our U.S. andnon-U.S. employees. Total defined contribution plan expense was $362$384 million, $357$366 million and $353$387 million for fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively. The number of plan participants in our benefit plans has generally increased in recent years primarily as a result ofwe have hired additional employees and assumed eligible employees from our acquisitions.
In the United States, regular employees can participate in the Oracle Corporation 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan (Oracle 401(k) Plan). Participants can generally contribute up to 40% of their eligible compensation on aper-pay-period basis as defined by the Oracle 401(k) Plan document or by the section 402(g) limit as defined by the United StatesU.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We match a portion of employee contributions, currently 50% up to 6% of compensation each pay period, subject to maximum aggregate matching amounts. Our contributions to the Oracle 401(k) Plan, net of forfeitures, were $144$151 million, $134$157 million and $129$153 million in fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively.
We also offernon-qualified deferred compensation plans to certain key employees whereby they may defer a portion of their annual base and/or variable compensation until retirement or a date specified by the employee in accordance with the plans. Deferred compensation plan assets and liabilities were each approximately $408$555 million as of May 31, 20152018 and were each approximately $367$487 million as of May 31, 20142017 and were presented in other assets and othernon-current liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
We sponsor certain defined benefit pension plans that are offered primarily by certain of our foreign subsidiaries. Many of these plans were assumed through our acquisitions or are required by local regulatory requirements. We may deposit funds for these plans with insurance companies, third partythird-party trustees, or into government-managed accounts consistent with local regulatory requirements, as applicable. Our total defined benefit plan pension expenses were $69$102 million, $64$85 million and $81$95 million for fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively. The aggregate projected benefit obligation and aggregate net liability (funded status) of our defined benefit plans as of May 31, 20152018 was $1.0$1.1 billion and $599$711 million, respectively, and as of May 31, 20142017 was $853 million$1.1 billion and $436$712 million, respectively.
| 14. | INCOME TAXES |
Our effective 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. In the third quarter of fiscal 2018 the Tax Act was signed into law. The more significant provisions of the Tax Act as applicable to us are described in Note 1 above under “Impacts of the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017”. Our provision for income taxes for fiscal 2018 varied from the 21% U.S. statutory rate imposed by the Tax Act due primarily to the January 1, 2018 effective date of
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the Tax Act, the impacts of the Tax Act upon adoption, state taxes, the U.S. research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation and the U.S. domestic production activity deduction. Prior to the January 1, 2018 effective date of the Tax Act, our provision for income taxes historically differed from the tax computed at the previous U.S. federal statutory income tax rate due primarily to certain earnings considered as indefinitely reinvested in foreign operations, state taxes, the U.S. research and development tax credit, settlements with tax authorities, the tax effects of stock-based compensation and the U.S. domestic production activity deduction.
The following is a geographical breakdown of income before the provision for income taxes:
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Domestic | $ | 5,136 | $ | 5,397 | $ | 6,614 | $ | 3,816 | $ | 3,533 | $ | 4,033 | ||||||||||||
Foreign | 7,698 | 8,307 | 7,284 | 9,075 | 7,984 | 7,409 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Federal | $ | 2,153 | $ | 1,613 | $ | 1,720 | $ | 8,329 | $ | 936 | $ | 1,301 | ||||||||||||
State | 310 | 337 | 254 | 264 | 257 | 271 | ||||||||||||||||||
Foreign | 981 | 1,047 | 1,116 | 1,084 | 1,475 | 1,074 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Federal | $ | (408 | ) | $ | (68 | ) | $ | (179 | ) | $ | (614 | ) | $ | (201 | ) | $ | (123 | ) | ||||||
State | (46 | ) | (100 | ) | 82 | (13 | ) | (36 | ) | (21 | ) | |||||||||||||
Foreign | (94 | ) | (80 | ) | (20 | ) | 16 | (249 | ) | 39 | ||||||||||||||
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Effective income tax rate | 22.6% | 20.1% | 21.4% | 70.3% | 18.9% | 22.2% | ||||||||||||||||||
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The provision for income taxes differed from the amount computed by applying the federal statutory rate to our income before provision for income taxes as follows:
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Tax provision at statutory rate | $ | 4,492 | $ | 4,796 | $ | 4,865 | ||||||
Foreign earnings at other than United States rates | (1,627 | ) | (1,790 | ) | (1,637 | ) | ||||||
State tax expense, net of federal benefit | 176 | 154 | 299 | |||||||||
Settlements and releases from judicial decisions and statute expirations, net | (85 | ) | (168 | ) | (144 | ) | ||||||
Domestic production activity deduction | (188 | ) | (174 | ) | (155 | ) | ||||||
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U.S. federal statutory tax rate | 29.2% | 35.0% | 35.0% | |||||||||
Tax provision at statutory rate | $ | 3,765 | $ | 4,031 | $ | 4,005 | ||||||
Impact of the Tax Act of 2017 | ||||||||||||
One-time transition tax | 7,781 | — | — | |||||||||
Deferred tax effects | (820 | ) | — | — | ||||||||
Foreign earnings at other than United States rates | (1,006 | ) | (1,299 | ) | (1,284 | ) | ||||||
State tax expense, net of federal benefit | 155 | 150 | 176 | |||||||||
Settlements and releases from judicial decisions and statute expirations, net | (252 | ) | (189 | ) | (150 | ) | ||||||
Domestic production activity deduction | (87 | ) | (119 | ) | (155 | ) | ||||||
Stock-based compensation | (302 | ) | (149 | ) | 74 | |||||||
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We recorded a provisional adjustment to our U.S. deferred income taxes as of May 31, 2015
2018 to reflect the reduction in the U.S statutory tax rate from 35% to 21% resulting from the Tax Act. The components of our deferred tax liabilities and assets were as follows:
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Deferred tax liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||
Unrealized gain on stock | $ | (130 | ) | $ | (130 | ) | $ | (78 | ) | $ | (130 | ) | ||||
Acquired intangible assets | (1,879 | ) | (1,804 | ) | (1,254 | ) | (2,502 | ) | ||||||||
Unremitted earnings | (646 | ) | (510 | ) | — | (1,515 | ) | |||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | (158 | ) | (180 | ) | ||||||||||||
Other | (11 | ) | — | (48 | ) | (23 | ) | |||||||||
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Accruals and allowances | $ | 421 | $ | 440 | $ | 567 | $ | 532 | ||||||||
Employee compensation and benefits | 1,123 | 1,062 | 789 | 1,251 | ||||||||||||
Differences in timing of revenue recognition | 335 | 210 | 310 | 385 | ||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 155 | 243 | ||||||||||||||
Tax credit and net operating loss carryforwards | 2,649 | 2,810 | 2,614 | 4,029 | ||||||||||||
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Current deferred tax assets | $ | 663 | $ | 914 | ||||||||||||
Non-current deferred tax assets | 795 | 837 | $ | 1,491 | $ | 1,143 | ||||||||||
Current deferred tax liabilities (in other current liabilities) | (85 | ) | (129 | ) | ||||||||||||
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We provide for United States income taxes on the undistributed earnings and the other outside basis temporary differences of foreign subsidiaries unless they are considered indefinitely reinvested outside the United States. At May 31, 2015,2018, the
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amount of temporary differences related to undistributed earnings and other outside basis temporary differences of investments in foreign subsidiaries upon which United States income taxes have not been provided was approximately $38.0 billion and $8.4 billion, respectively.$7.9 billion. If these undistributed earnings were repatriated to the United States, or if the other outside basis differences were recognized in a taxable transaction, they would generate foreign tax credits that would reduce the federal tax liability associated with the foreign dividend or the otherwise taxable transaction. At May 31, 2015,2018, assuming a full utilization of the foreign tax credits, the potential net deferred tax liability associated with these temporary differences of undistributed earnings and other outside basis temporary differences would be approximately $11.8 billion and $2.7 billion, respectively.$1.5 billion.
Our net deferred tax assets were $993 million and $1.4 billion and $683 million as of May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017, 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.
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The valuation allowance was $1.0$1.3 billion and $1.1$1.2 billion at each of May 31, 20152018 and 2014,2017, respectively. Substantially all of the valuation allowances as of May 31, 20152018 and 2014 relate2017 related to tax assets established in purchase accounting. Any subsequent reduction of that portion of the valuation allowance and the recognition of the associated tax benefits associated with our acquisitions will be recorded to our provision for income taxes subsequent to our final determination of the valuation allowance or the conclusion of the measurement period (as defined above), whichever comes first.
At May 31, 2015,2018, we had federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $958 million. These$806 million, which are subject to limitation on their utilization. Approximately $802 million of these federal net operating losses expire in various years between fiscal 20162019 and fiscal 2034, and2036. An immaterial amount of these federal net operating losses are not currently subject to limitations on their utilization.expiration dates. We had state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $2.9$2.4 billion at May 31, 2015,2018, which expire between fiscal 20162019 and fiscal 2034,2036 and are subject to limitations on their utilization. We had total foreign net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $1.6$1.8 billion at May 31, 2015,2018, which are subject to limitations on their utilization. Approximately $1.4$1.8 billion of these foreign net operating losses are not currently subject to expiration dates. The remainder of the foreign net operating losses, approximately $216$92 million, expire between fiscal 20162019 and fiscal 2035. We had tax credit carryforwards of approximately $904$893 million at May 31, 2015,2018, which are subject to limitations on their utilization. Approximately $573$738 million of these tax credit carryforwards are not currently subject to expiration dates. The remainder of the tax credit carryforwards, approximately $331$155 million, expire in various years between fiscal 20162019 and fiscal 2034.2038.
We classify our unrecognized tax benefits as either current ornon-current income taxes payable in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. The aggregate changes in the balance of our gross unrecognized tax benefits, including acquisitions, were as follows:
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Gross unrecognized tax benefits as of June 1 | $ | 3,838 | $ | 3,601 | $ | 3,276 | $ | 4,919 | $ | 4,561 | $ | 4,038 | ||||||||||||
Increases related to tax positions from prior fiscal years | 119 | 94 | 279 | 200 | 128 | 350 | ||||||||||||||||||
Decreases related to tax positions from prior fiscal years | (17 | ) | (116 | ) | (125 | ) | (65 | ) | (218 | ) | (111 | ) | ||||||||||||
Increases related to tax positions taken during current fiscal year | 316 | 307 | 312 | 833 | 595 | 461 | ||||||||||||||||||
Settlements with tax authorities | (30 | ) | (2 | ) | (71 | ) | (42 | ) | (85 | ) | (73 | ) | ||||||||||||
Lapses of statutes of limitation | (54 | ) | (53 | ) | (71 | ) | (273 | ) | (47 | ) | (73 | ) | ||||||||||||
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As of May 31, 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013, $2.82016, $4.2 billion, $2.6$3.4 billion and $3.6$3.1 billion, respectively, of unrecognized tax benefits would affect our effective tax rate if recognized. We recognized interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions in our provision for income taxes line of our consolidated statements of operations of $102$127 million, $24$125 million and $31$26 million during fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 and 2013,2016, respectively. Interest and penalties accrued as of May 31, 20152018 and 20142017 were $756$992 million and $693$885 million, respectively.
Domestically, U.S. federal and state taxing authorities are currently examining income tax returns of Oracle and various acquired entities for years through fiscal 2013.2017. Many issues are at an advanced stage in the examination process, the most significant of which include the deductibility of certain royalty payments, transfer pricing, extraterritorial income exemptions, domestic production activity, foreign tax credits, and research and development credits taken. Other issues are related to years with expiring statutes of limitation. With all of these domestic audit issues considered in the aggregate, we believe that it was reasonably possible that, as of May 31, 2015,2018, the gross unrecognized tax benefits related to these audits could decrease (whether by payment, release, or a combination of both) in the next 12 months by as much as $426$665 million ($358611 million net of offsetting tax benefits). Our U.S. federal and, with some exceptions, our state income tax returns have been examined for all years prior to fiscal 20032007 and we are no longer subject to audit for those periods.
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Our U.S. state income tax returns, with some exceptions, have been examined for all years prior to fiscal 2004, and we are no longer subject to audit for those periods.
Internationally, tax authorities for numerousnon-U.S. jurisdictions are also examining returns affecting our unrecognized tax benefits. We believe that it was reasonably possible that, as of May 31, 2015,2018, the gross unrecognized tax benefits, could decrease (whether by payment, release, or a combination of both) by as much as $172$162 million ($8668 million net of offsetting tax benefits) in the next 12 months, related primarily to transfer pricing. Other issues are related to years with expiring statutes of limitation. With some exceptions, we are generally no longer subject to tax examinations innon-U.S. jurisdictions for years prior to fiscal 1997.
We believe that we have adequately provided under U.S. GAAP for outcomes related to our tax audits. However, there can be no assurances as to the possible outcomes or any attendantrelated financial statement effect thereof. On July 27, 2015, inAltera Corp. v. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court issued an opinion related to the treatment of stock-based compensation expense in an intercompany cost-sharing arrangement. At this time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has not withdrawn the requirement to include stock-based compensation from its regulations. We have reviewed this case and its impact on Oracle and concluded that no adjustment to the consolidated financial statements is appropriate at this time. We will continue to monitor ongoing developments and potential impacts to our consolidated financial statements.
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 particular, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom, 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.
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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
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available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker, or decision makingdecision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. Our chief operating decision makers (CODMs) are our Chief Executive Officers.Officers and Chief Technology Officer. We are organized geographically and by line of business.business and geographically. While our Chief Executive OfficersCODMs 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 footnote 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—softwarecloud and license, hardware and services—each of which are comprised of a single operating segment.
Our cloud and license business engages in the sale, marketing and delivery of our applications, platform and infrastructure technologies through various deployment models including license support offerings; Oracle Cloud Services offerings; and cloud hardware systemslicense and services—whichon-premise license offerings. License support revenues are further divided intotypically generated through the sale of license support contracts related to cloud license andon-premise licenses purchased by our customers at their option and are generally recognized as revenues ratably over the contractual term. Our Oracle Cloud Services offerings deliver certain operating segments. Our softwareof our applications, platform and cloud business is comprised of three operating segments: (1) new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions, which includes our cloud SaaS and PaaS offerings, (2) cloud infrastructure astechnologies on a service and (3) software license updates and product support. Our hardware systems business is comprised of two operating segments: (1) hardware systems products and (2) hardware systems support. All other operating segments are combined under our services business.
Our new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions line of business markets, sells and delivers our application and platform technologies, including our SaaS and PaaS offerings (our SaaS and PaaS offerings are collectively referred to as cloud software subscriptions), which provide customers a choice of software applications and platforms that are deliveredsubscription basis via a cloud-based IT environmentdeployment models that we host, manage and support and revenues generally are recognized over the licensing ofsubscription period. Cloud license andon-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 including Oracle Applications, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middlewarewithin cloud and Java, among others.
The cloud infrastructureon-premise IT environments and are generally recognized as a service line of business provides comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services for customer IT infrastructure for a fee for a stated term that is hosted at our Oracle data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on-premises at customer facilities; deployment and management offerings for our software and hardware and related IT infrastructure including virtual machine instances that are subscription-based and designed for computing and reliable and secure object storage; and certain of our Oracle Engineered Systems and related support offerings that are deployed in our customers’ data centers for a monthly fee.
The software license updates and product support line of business provides customers with rights to software product upgrades and maintenance releases, patches released, internetrevenues when unrestricted access to technical content, as well as internet and telephone access to technical support personnel during the support period.license is granted, provided all other revenue recognition criteria are met.
TheOur hardware systems products line of business provides Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking, industry specificindustry-specific hardware, virtualization software, operating systems, including the Oracle Solaris Operating Systemvirtualization, management and managementother hardware-related software to support diverse IT environments, including cloud computing environments.
Our hardware systemsbusiness also includes hardware support, line of businesswhich provides customers with software updates for the software components that are essential to the functionality of ourthe hardware products, such as Oracle Solaris and certain other software, products, and can include product repairs, maintenance services and technical support services.
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Our services business is comprised of the remainder of our operating segments and offers consulting, advanced customer support services and education services. Our consulting line of business primarily provides services to customers in business and IT strategy alignment, enterprise architecture planning and design, initial product implementation and integration and ongoing product enhancements and upgrades. Advanced customer support provides support services, both on-premises and remote,partners to our customers to enable increasedhelp maximize the performance and higher availability of their productsinvestments in Oracle applications, platform and services. Education services provide training to customers, partners and employees as a part of our mission of accelerating the adoption and use of our software and hardware products and to create opportunities to grow our product revenues.infrastructure technologies.
We do not track our assets by operating segments.for each business. Consequently, it is not practical to show assets by operating segment.
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The following table presents summary results for each of our three businesses for each of fiscal 2018, 2017 and for the operating segments of our software and cloud and hardware systems businesses:2016:
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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:
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Total revenues for operating segments | $ | 38,253 | $ | 38,306 | $ | 37,253 | ||||||
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Product development | (4,812 | ) | (4,590 | ) | (4,321 | ) | ||||||
Marketing and partner program expenses | (520 | ) | (564 | ) | (591 | ) | ||||||
Corporate, general and administrative and information technology expenses | (1,496 | ) | (1,384 | ) | (1,421 | ) | ||||||
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Geographic Information
Disclosed in the table below is geographic information for each country that comprised greater than three percent of our total revenues for any of fiscal 2015, 20142018, 2017 or 2013.2016.
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United States | $ | 17,325 | $ | 3,341 | $ | 16,809 | $ | 2,993 | $ | 16,003 | $ | 2,921 | $ | 19,077 | $ | 4,976 | $ | 17,770 | $ | 4,680 | $ | 17,264 | $ | 3,646 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
United Kingdom | 2,388 | 309 | 2,309 | 236 | 2,165 | 203 | 2,172 | 510 | 1,999 | 402 | 2,349 | 334 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japan | 1,693 | 388 | 1,618 | 380 | 1,465 | 375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Germany | 1,466 | 33 | 1,483 | 35 | 1,308 | 44 | 1,375 | 179 | 1,417 | 116 | 1,438 | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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EARNINGS PER SHARE |
Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income for the period by the weighted averageweighted-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 averageweighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period, plus the dilutive effect of outstanding stock options, restricted stock-based awards, stock options, and shares issuable under the employee stock purchase plan using the treasury stock method. The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:
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Basic earnings per share | $ | 2.26 | $ | 2.42 | $ | 2.29 | $ | 0.93 | $ | 2.27 | $ | 2.11 | ||||||||||||
Diluted earnings per share | $ | 2.21 | $ | 2.38 | $ | 2.26 | $ | 0.90 | $ | 2.21 | $ | 2.07 | ||||||||||||
Shares subject to anti-dilutive stock options and restricted stock-based awards excluded from calculation(1) | 37 | 76 | 208 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Shares subject to anti-dilutive restricted stock-based awards and stock options excluded from calculation(1) | 64 | 74 | 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (1) | These weighted shares relate to anti-dilutive |
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS |
Hewlett-Packard Company Litigation
On June 15, 2011, Hewlett-Packard Company, (“HP”)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,
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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 between HP and Mark Hurd (the “HurdHurd Settlement Agreement”)Agreement), who is our Chief Executive Officer and was both HP’s former chief executive officer and chairman of HP’s board of directors. HP sought a judicial declaration of the parties’ rights and obligations under the Hurd Settlement Agreement and other equitable and monetary relief.
Oracle answered the complaint and filed a cross-complaint, which was amended on December 2, 2011. The amended cross-complaint alleged claims including violation of the Lanham Act. Oracle alleged that HP had secretly agreed to pay Intel to continue to develop and manufacture the Itanium microprocessor, and had misrepresented to customers that the Itanium microprocessor had a long roadmap, among other claims. Oracle sought equitable rescission of the Hurd Settlement Agreement, and other equitable and monetary relief.
The court bifurcated the trial and tried HP’s causes of action for declaratory relief and promissory estoppel without a jury in June 2012. The court issued a final statement of decision on August 28, 2012, finding that the Hurd Settlement Agreement required Oracle to continue to develop certain of its software products for use on HP’s Itanium-based servers and to port such products at no cost to HP for as long as HP sells those servers.servers (the Phase One Ruling). A jury trial began on May 23, 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
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against Oracle has announcedon its claim for violation of the Lanham Act (the Phase Two Jury Verdict). The jury awarded HP damages in the amount of $3.0 billion, and HP is entitled to post-judgment interest on this award. On August 30, 2016, the court denied HP’s motion forpre-judgment interest. Judgment was entered on October 20, 2016. Oracle posted certain court-mandated surety bonds with the court in order to proceed with its motion for a new trial and entered into related indemnification agreements with each of the surety bond issuing companies. Oracle filed a motion for a new trial on November 14, 2016, which was denied.
Oracle filed its notice of appeal on January 17, 2017, specifying that it iswas appealing this decision. The issues of breach, HP’s performance, causation and damages, HP’s tort claims, and Oracle’s cross-claims will all be tried before a jury. As of April 8, 2013, the trial is stayed pending Oracle’scourt’s Phase One Ruling and Phase Two Jury Verdict. On February 2, 2017, HP filed a notice of appeal of the trial court’s denial of its anti-SLAPP motion, whichpre-judgment interest. No amounts have been paid or recorded to our results of operations either prior to or subsequent to the Phase One Ruling or Phase Two Jury Verdict. We continue to believe that we have meritorious defenses against HP’s claims, and we intend to present these defenses to the appellate court. Among the arguments we expect to make on appeal are the following: the trial court misapplied fundamental principles of contract law and misinterpreted the Hurd Settlement Agreement, including by disregarding the context of the Hurd Settlement Agreement and the evidence of the parties’ mutual intentions; that HP’s breach of contract claim should fail as a matter of law because HP does not claim and did not prove that Oracle failed to deliver any software under the trial court’s interpretation of the contract; that awarding HP both damages for breach of the Hurd Settlement Agreement and specific performance of that agreement constitutes an improper double recovery; and that the damages award is fully briefed, although oral argument has not yet been scheduled.excessive, unsupported by the evidence, and contrary to law. We cannot currently estimate a reasonably possible range of loss for this action. We believe that we have meritorious defenses againstaction 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 and we will continue to vigorously defend it.
SAP Intellectual Property Litigation
On March 22, 2007, Oracle Corporation, Oracle USA, Inc. and Oracle International Corporation (collectively, Oracle) filedis uncertain. It is possible that the resolution of this action could have a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against SAP AG, its wholly-owned subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary, TomorrowNow, Inc., (the SAP Subsidiary, and collectively, the SAP Defendants) alleging that SAP unlawfully accessed Oracle’s Customer Connection support website and improperly took and used Oracle’s intellectual property.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, including a jury verdict in Oracle’s favor, on August 2, 2012, Oracle and the SAP Defendants stipulated to a judgment of $306 million against the SAP Defendants. We recorded a $306 million receivable in our consolidated balance sheet and we recognized a corresponding benefitmaterial impact to our results of operations for the first quarter of fiscal 2013. After further proceedings, including an appeal, on November 14, 2014, final judgment was entered in Oracle’s favor in the amount of $356.7 million plus post-judgment interest of approximately $2.5 million. During the second quarter of fiscal 2015, Oracle received the total payment of approximately $359.2 million, of which $306 million was applied against the receivable recorded in the first quarter of fiscal 2013future cash flows and the excess of $53 million was recorded as a benefit to our results of operations. This action
Derivative Litigation
On May 3, 2017, a stockholder derivative lawsuit was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware. The derivative suit is now concluded.brought by an alleged stockholder of Oracle, purportedly on Oracle’s behalf, against Oracle, our Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Technology Officer in his capacities as a director, officer and an alleged controlling stockholder, one of our Chief Executive Officers (who is also a director), three other directors, and Oracle as a nominal defendant. Plaintiff alleges that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by causing Oracle to agree to purchase NetSuite Inc. (NetSuite) at an excessive price. Plaintiff seeks declaratory relief, an order rescinding or reforming the NetSuite transaction, unspecified monetary damages (including interest), attorneys’ fees and costs, and disgorgement of various unspecified profits, fees, compensation, and benefits.
On July 18, 2017, a second stockholder derivative lawsuit was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, brought by another alleged stockholder of Oracle, purportedly on Oracle’s behalf. The suit is brought against all current members and one former member of our Board of Directors, and Oracle as a nominal defendant. Plaintiff alleges that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by causing Oracle to agree to purchase NetSuite at an excessive price. Plaintiff seeks declaratory relief, unspecified monetary damages (including interest), and attorneys’ fees and costs.
On August 9, 2017, the court consolidated the two derivative cases. In a September 7, 2017 order, the court appointed plaintiff’s counsel in the second case as lead plaintiffs’ counsel and designated the July 18, 2017 complaint as the operative complaint. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss on October 27, 2017, and after briefing and argument, the court denied this motion on March 19, 2018. The parties stipulated that all of the individual defendants, except for our Chief Technology Officer and one of our Chief Executive Officers, should be dismissed from this case without prejudice, and on March 28, 2018, the court approved this stipulation. On May 4, 2018, the remaining defendants answered plaintiff’s complaint.
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On May 4, 2018, the Board of Directors established a Special Litigation Committee (the SLC) to investigate the allegations in this derivative action. Three outside directors serve on the SLC.
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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VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
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INDEX OF EXHIBITS
The following exhibits are filed herewith or are incorporated by reference to exhibits previously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Form | File No. | Exhibit | Filing Date | Filed By | ||||||||
| 2.01 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 99.1 | 8/1/16 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 3.01 | 8-K 12G3 | 000-51788 | 3.01 | 2/6/06 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 3.02 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 3.02 | 6/16/16 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.01 | S-3 ASR | 333-166643 | 4.04 | 5/7/10 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.02 | Indenture dated January 13, 2006, among Ozark Holding Inc., Oracle Corporation and Citibank, N.A. | 8-K | 000-14376 | 10.34 | 1/20/06 | Oracle Systems Corporation | ||||||
| 4.03 | S-3 ASR | 333-142796 | 4.3 | 5/10/07 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.04 | 8-K | 000-51788 | 4.09 | 4/8/08 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.05 | 8-K | 000-51788 | 4.08 | 7/8/09 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.06 | 10-Q | 000-51788 | 4.08 | 9/20/10 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.07 | S-4 | 333-176405 | 4.5 | 8/19/11 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.08 | 8-K | 000-51788 | 4.10 | 10/25/12 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.09 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 4.11 | 7/10/13 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.10 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 4.12 | 7/16/13 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.11 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 4.13 | 7/8/14 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| Exhibit No. | Exhibit Description | Incorporated by Reference | ||||||||||
| Form | File No. | Exhibit | Filing Date | Filed By | ||||||||
| 4.12 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 4.13 | 5/5/15 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.13 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 4.1 | 7/7/16 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 4.14 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 4.1 | 11/9/17 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.01* | Oracle Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended and restated as of July 1, 2015 | 10-Q | 001-35992 | 10.01 | 9/18/15 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||
| 10.02* | 10-K | 000-51788 | 10.02 | 7/1/10 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.03* | 10-K | 001-35992 | 10.03 | 6/22/16 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.04* | Amended and Restated 2000 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan, as approved on November 15, 2017 | 8-K | 001-35992 | 10.04 | 11/17/17 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||
| 10.05* | 10-Q | 001-35992 | 10.05 | 9/18/17 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.06* | 10-K | 001-35992 | 10.06 | 06/25/15 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.07* | Form of Indemnity Agreement for Directors and Executive Officers | 10-Q | 000-51788 | 10.07 | 12/23/11 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||
| 10.08* | 8-K | 000-51788 | 10.28 | 9/8/10 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.09* | 8-K | 000-51788 | 10.29 | 10/13/10 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.10 | 8-K | 000-51788 | 10.14 | 4/26/13 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.11* | 10-Q | 001-35992 | 10.15 | 9/18/15 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.12* | 10-Q | 001-35992 | 10.16 | 9/23/14 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
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| 10.13* | 10-K | 001-35992 | 10.17 | 06/25/15 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.14* | 10-Q | 001-35992 | 10.16 | 9/18/17 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
| 10.15* | 10-Q | 001-35992 | 10.17 | 9/18/17 | Oracle Corporation | |||||||
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| 31.01‡ | Rule13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive Officer | |||||||||||
| 31.02‡ | Rule13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive and Financial Officer | |||||||||||
| 32.01† | Section 1350 Certification of Principal Executive Officers and Principal Financial Officer | |||||||||||
| 101‡ | Interactive Data Files Pursuant to Rule 405 of RegulationS-T: (1) Consolidated Balance Sheets as of May 31, 2018 and 2016, (2) Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, (3) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, (4) Consolidated Statements of Equity for the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, (5) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended May 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, (6) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and (7) Financial Statement Schedule II | |||||||||||
| * | Indicates management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement. |
| ‡ | Filed herewith. |
| † | Furnished herewith. |
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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Date: June | By: | /S/ SAFRA A. CATZ | ||||
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Date: June 22, 2018 | By: | /S/ MARK V. HURD | ||||
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.
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/S/ SAFRA A. CATZ Safra A. Catz | Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive and Financial Officer) | June | ||
/S/ MARK V. HURD Mark V. Hurd | Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer) | June | ||
/S/ WILLIAM COREY WEST William Corey West | Executive Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) | June | ||
/S/ LAWRENCE J. ELLISON Lawrence J. Ellison | June | |||
/S/ JEFFREY O. HENLEY Jeffrey O. Henley | June | |||
/S/ JEFFREY S. BERG Jeffrey S. Berg | Director | June | ||
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/S/ MICHAEL J. BOSKIN Michael J. Boskin | Director | June | ||
/S/ BRUCE R. CHIZEN Bruce R. Chizen | Director | June | ||
/S/ GEORGE H. CONRADES George H. Conrades | Director | June | ||
/S/ HECTOR GARCIA-MOLINA Hector Garcia-Molina | Director | June | ||
/S/ RENÉE J. JAMES Renée J. James | Director | June 22, 2018 | ||
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/S/ CHARLES W. MOORMAN IV Charles W. Moorman IV | Director | June 22, 2018 | ||
/S/ LEON E. PANETTA Leon E. Panetta | Director | June | ||
/S/ WILLIAM G. PARRETT William G. Parrett | Director | June 22, 2018 | ||
/S/ NAOMI O. SELIGMAN Naomi O. Seligman | Director | June | ||
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INDEX OF EXHIBITS
The following exhibits are filed herewith or are incorporated by reference to exhibits previously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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3.01 | Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Oracle Corporation and Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Oracle Corporation | 8-K 12G3 | 000-51788 | 3.1 | 2/6/06 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
3.02 | Amended and Restated Bylaws of Oracle Corporation | 8-K | 000-51788 | 3.02 | 7/14/06 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
4.01 | Specimen Certificate of Registrant’s Common Stock | S-3 ASR | 333-166643 | 4.04 | 5/7/10 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
4.02 | Indenture dated January 13, 2006, among Ozark Holding Inc., Oracle Corporation and Citibank, N.A. | 8-K | 000-14376 | 10.34 | 1/20/06 | Oracle Systems Corporation | ||||||||
4.03 | Form of Old 2016 Note, together with the Officers’ Certificate issued January 13, 2006 pursuant to the Indenture dated January 13, 2006, among Oracle Corporation (formerly known as Ozark Holding Inc.) and Citibank, N.A. | 8-K | 000-14376 | 10.35 | 1/20/06 | Oracle Systems Corporation | ||||||||
4.04 | Form of New 5.25% Note due 2016 | S-4/A | 333-132250 | 4.4 | 4/14/06 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
4.05 | First Supplemental Indenture dated May 9, 2007 among Oracle Corporation, Citibank, N.A. and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. | S-3 ASR | 333-142796 | 4.3 | 5/10/07 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
4.06 | Forms of 5.75% Note due 2018 and 6.50% Note due 2038, together with Officers’ Certificate issued April 9, 2008 setting forth the terms of the Notes | 8-K | 000-51788 | 4.09 | 4/8/08 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
4.07 | Forms of 3.75% Note due 2014, 5.00% Note due 2019 and 6.125% Note due 2039, together with Officers’ Certificate issued July 8, 2009 setting forth the terms of the Notes | 8-K | 000-51788 | 4.08 | 7/8/09 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
4.08 | Forms of Original 2020 Note and Original 2040 Note, together with Officers’ Certificate issued July 19, 2010 setting forth the terms of the Notes | 10-Q | 000-51788 | 4.08 | 9/20/10 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
4.09 | Forms of New 2020 Note and New 2040 Note | S-4 | 333-176405 | 4.5 | 8/19/11 | Oracle Corporation | ||||||||
Exhibit Exhibit Description Incorporated by Reference Filed Herewith Form File No. Exhibit Filing Date Filed By 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 10.01* 10.02* 10.03* 10.04* 10.05*
No. Forms of 1.20% Note due 2017 and 2.50% Note due 2022, together with Officers’ Certificate issued October 25, 2012 setting forth the terms of the Notes 8-K 000-51788 4.10 10/25/12 Oracle Corporation Forms of 2.25% Note due 2021 and 3.125% Note due 2025, together with Officers’ Certificate issued July 10, 2013 setting forth the terms of the Notes 8-K 001-35992 4.11 7/10/13 Oracle Corporation Forms of Floating Rate Note due 2019, 2.375% Note due 2019 and 3.625% Note due 2023, together with Officers’ Certificate issued July 16, 2013 setting forth the terms of the Notes 8-K 001-35992 4.12 7/16/13 Oracle Corporation Forms of Floating Rate Note due 2017, Floating Rate Note due 2019, 2.25% Note due 2019, 2.80% Note due 2021, 3.40% Note due 2024, 4.30% Note due 2034 and 4.50% Note due 2044, together with Officers’ Certificate issued July 8, 2014 setting forth the terms of the Notes 8-K 001-35992 4.13 7/8/14 Oracle Corporation Forms of 2.50% Notes due 2022, 2.95% Notes due 2025, 3.25% Notes due 2030, 3.90% Notes due 2035, 4.125% Notes due 2045 and 4.375% Notes due 2055, together with Officers’ Certificate issued May 5, 2015 setting forth the terms of the Notes 8-K 001-35992 4.13 5/5/15 Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation 1993 Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended and restated as of January 1, 2008 10-Q 000-51788 10.01 3/23/09 Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan (1992), as amended and restated as of October 1, 2009 10-K 000-51788 10.02 7/1/10 Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation Amended and Restated 1993 Directors’ Stock Plan, as amended and restated on September 4, 2013 10-Q 001-35992 10.03 12/20/13 Oracle Corporation Amended and Restated 2000 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan, as approved on October 31, 2013 10-Q 001-35992 10.04 12/20/13 Oracle Corporation Form of Stock Option Agreement under the Amended and Restated 2000 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan for U.S. Executive Vice Presidents and Section 16 Officers 10-Q 000-51788 10.05 12/23/11 Oracle Corporation
Exhibit Exhibit Description Incorporated by Reference Filed Herewith Form File No. Exhibit Filing Date Filed By 10.06* 10.07* 10.08 10.09 10.10* 10.11* 10.12* 10.13* 10.14 10.15* 10.16* 10.17* 12.01 21.01 23.01 31.01
No. Form of Stock Option Agreement under the Oracle Corporation Amended and Restated 1993 Directors’ Stock Plan X Form of Indemnity Agreement for Directors and Executive Officers 10-Q 000-51788 10.07 12/23/11 Oracle Corporation Form of Commercial Paper Dealer Agreement relating to the $3,000,000,000 Commercial Paper Program 8-K 000-51788 10.2 2/9/06 Oracle Corporation Issuing and Paying Agency Agreement between Oracle Corporation and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association dated as of April 23, 2013 8-K 000-51788 10.09 4/26/13 Oracle Corporation Offer letter dated February 2, 2010 to John Fowler and employment agreement dated February 2, 2010 10-Q 000-51788 10.26 3/29/10 Oracle Corporation Offer letter dated September 2, 2010 to Mark V. Hurd and employment agreement dated September 3, 2010 8-K 000-51788 10.28 9/8/10 Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation Executive Bonus Plan 8-K 000-51788 10.29 10/13/10 Oracle Corporation Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2007 Omnibus Incentive Plan 10-Q 000-15086 10.1 2/6/08 Sun Microsystems, Inc. $3,000,000,000 5-Year Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of April 22, 2013 among Oracle Corporation and the lenders and agents named therein 8-K 000-51788 10.14 4/26/13 Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation Stock Unit Award Deferred Compensation Plan 10-Q 001-35992 10.15 9/23/14 Oracle Corporation Form of Performance-Based Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Amended and Restated 2000 Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan for Section 16 Officers 10-Q 001-35992 10.16 9/23/14 Oracle Corporation Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Oracle Corporation Amended and Restated 1993 Directors’ Stock Plan X Consolidated Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges X Subsidiaries of the Registrant X Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm X Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive Officer X
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