NYSE:ORCL - Oracle Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

Oracle trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ORCL."

Oracle announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, June 19th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, July 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Tuesday, July 31st. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.59%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, July 16th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle declared that its board has approved a stock repurchase program on Monday, February 5th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, June, 19th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.99 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.05. The enterprise software provider had revenue of $11.26 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $11.17 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 9.61% and a return on equity of 23.14%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.89 earnings per share. View Oracle's Earnings History.

Oracle is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, September, 13th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Oracle.

30 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Oracle's stock. Their forecasts range from $47.71 to $65.00. On average, they expect Oracle's stock price to reach $55.8471 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 16.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Oracle.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Oracle in the last year. There are currently 12 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Oracle saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 45,007,779 shares, an increase of 9.9% from the July 13th total of 40,965,947 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 18,181,088 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.6% of the company's shares are sold short. View Oracle's Current Options Chain.

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Headlines about ORCL stock have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Oracle earned a daily sentiment score of 0.21 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the enterprise software provider an impact score of 46.77 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View Recent Headlines for Oracle.

Oracle's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (4.91%), FMR LLC (1.15%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.00%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.67%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.61%) and Vulcan Value Partners LLC (0.60%). Company insiders that own Oracle stock include Bruce R Chizen, Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, George H Conrades, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, John F Fowler, Mark V Hurd, Michael J Boskin, Naomi O Seligman, Renee Jo James, Safra Catz, Thomas Kurian and W Corey West. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Oracle.

ORCL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., Standard Life Aberdeen plc, American Century Companies Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Hexavest Inc. and Bank of Montreal Can. Company insiders that have sold Oracle company stock in the last year include Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, George H Conrades, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, Naomi O Seligman, Safra Catz, Thomas Kurian and W Corey West. View Insider Buying and Selling for Oracle.

ORCL stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Charles Schwab Investment Advisory Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD, Putnam Investments LLC, DnB Asset Management AS, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Vulcan Value Partners LLC and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Oracle.

Shares of ORCL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ORCL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $47.84.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $200.03 billion and generates $39.83 billion in revenue each year. The enterprise software provider earns $3.83 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.82 on an earnings per share basis. Oracle employs 137,000 workers across the globe.

Oracle's mailing address is 500 ORACLE PARKWAY, REDWOOD CITY CA, 94065. The enterprise software provider can be reached via phone at 650-506-7000 or via email at [email protected]