NYSE:ORCL - Oracle Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Oracle declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 19th. Investors of record on Wednesday, July 17th will be given a dividend of $0.24 per share on Wednesday, July 31st. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.80%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, July 16th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase plan on Monday, September 17th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy up to 5.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, June, 19th. The enterprise software provider reported $1.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.98 by $0.18. The enterprise software provider earned $11.14 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $10.93 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 28.06% and a return on equity of 40.95%. The firm's revenue was up 1.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.99 earnings per share. View Oracle's Earnings History.

Oracle is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, September 16th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Oracle.

Oracle updated its first quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, June, 19th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.80-0.82 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.80. The company issued revenue guidance of ~$9.2-9.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.36 billion.

29 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Oracle's shares. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $66.00. On average, they expect Oracle's stock price to reach $54.9076 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Oracle.

29 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Oracle in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 18 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Headlines about ORCL stock have trended positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Oracle earned a coverage optimism score of 2.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Oracle.

Oracle saw a drop in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 56,608,300 shares, a drop of 8.6% from the June 30th total of 61,932,200 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 14,430,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.9 days. Currently, 2.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Oracle's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Oracle investors own include Intel (INTC), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Micron Technology (MU), Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Bank of America (BAC), Workday (WDAY) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Oracle's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (5.41%), BlackRock Inc. (5.20%), Northern Trust Corp (1.14%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.03%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.92%) and Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (0.77%). Company insiders that own Oracle stock include Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, George H Conrades, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, Mark V Hurd, Michael J Boskin, Naomi O Seligman, 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 Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., DNB Asset Management AS, Man Group plc, Mackenzie Financial Corp, Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo & Co. LLC. Company insiders that have sold Oracle company stock in the last year include Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, Mark V Hurd, Michael J Boskin, Naomi O Seligman and W Corey West. View Insider Buying and Selling for Oracle.

ORCL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Longview Partners Guernsey LTD, Renaissance Technologies LLC, LSV Asset Management, Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd., PGGM Investments, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and APG Asset Management N.V.. 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 $53.24.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $177.60 billion and generates $39.51 billion in revenue each year. The enterprise software provider earns $11.08 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.16 on an earnings per share basis. Oracle employs 136,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Oracle.

The official website for Oracle is http://www.oracle.com/.

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]