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    Derek Wood

    Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at TD Cowen

    Derrick Wood is a Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at TD Cowen, specializing in technology sector coverage with a focus on software, cloud infrastructure, and communications services. He covers major publicly traded companies including Snowflake, Twilio, Samsara, Salesforce, and Workday, with a documented analyst success rate of approximately 58% and an average return of 17.2% on his stock recommendations; his best-performing call was on Twilio, yielding an 8.98% profit in just three days. Beginning his analyst career at Cowen and now at TD Cowen, Wood has issued over 560 price targets and ratings since at least 2017 and has built a reputation for credible, high-performing calls with 71% of price targets met, often within five months. He holds FINRA registration and securities licenses typical for senior research analysts, recognized as one of the top Wall Street analysts in technology coverage.

    Derek Wood's questions to ORACLE (ORCL) leadership

    Derek Wood's questions to ORACLE (ORCL) leadership • Q3 2025

    Question

    Derek Wood of TD Cowen inquired about the specific growth drivers behind Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) bookings, seeking to understand the demand mix across AI contracts, multi-cloud database services, and dedicated sovereign clouds.

    Answer

    CEO Safra Catz responded that growth is strong across all fronts, highlighting that multi-cloud revenue is up more than tenfold year-over-year and is expanding from 18 to 58 live regions with partners. Executive Chairman and CTO Lawrence Ellison added that the new AI data platform is a major catalyst, enabling customers to apply AI models to their vast, existing, and private data stored in Oracle databases.

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    Derek Wood's questions to ServiceNow (NOW) leadership

    Derek Wood's questions to ServiceNow (NOW) leadership • Q3 2024

    Question

    Derek Wood asked for details on the key technologies unlocking the new autonomous agent capabilities, such as Raptor DB, Data Fabric, and NVIDIA's NIM advancements, and inquired about the general availability timeline for these new features.

    Answer

    CEO Bill McDermott highlighted three key pillars driving this new chapter. First is Now Assist, where ServiceNow has a first-mover advantage. Second is Raptor DB and the workflow data platform, which uniquely connect any data source to automated workflows. Third is a renewed focus on the front office, which he sees as a major catalyst. He confirmed that these products are not just future concepts but are rolling out now, with Now Assist and Raptor DB in 'full flight' in Q4.

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