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4:44pm 03/22/05 [ORCL] ORACLE UPS 2005 PRO FORMA EPS OF 64-65C FROM 62C
4:43pm 03/22/05 [ORCL] ORACLE FIRST CALL Q3 EPS EST 15C
4:43pm 03/22/05 [ORCL] ORACLE FIRST CALL Q3 REV EST $3.08B
4:42pm 03/22/05 [ORCL] ORACLE Q3 REV $2.95B VS $2.51B
4:41pm 03/22/05 [ORCL] ORACLE Q3 EPS 10C VS 12C
For the three months ended Feb. 28, Oracle (ORCL: news, chart, profile) earned a profit of $540 million, or 10 cents a share, down from $635 million, or 12 cents, a year earlier.
Excluding restructuring costs and other charges stemming from the PeopleSoft buyout, the company said it earned 16 cents a share.
On that basis, which doesn't conform to generally accepted accounting principles, the company beat the estimates of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call, who forecast a profit of 15 cents a share.
Sales rose 18 percent to $2.95 billion from $2.51 billion a year ago.
Oracle said total software revenue rose 15 percent to $2.34 billion from a year ago, while new license sales of its key database software grew 12 percent to $782 million.
Amid slowing growth in its primary business of selling database software to large corporations, Chief Executive Larry Ellison has gone on an acquisition binge to jump-start sales
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