Oracle Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:ORCL)

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

Oracle announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 11th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, October 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.24 per share on Thursday, October 24th. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.74%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, October 9th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle announced that its board has approved a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, September 11th 2019, which permits the company to repurchase $15,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 8.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, September, 11th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.81 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.09. The enterprise software provider earned $9.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.29 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 48.85% and a net margin of 27.71%. The business's quarterly revenue was up .2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.71 earnings per share. View Oracle's Earnings History.

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

Oracle updated its second quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, September, 11th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.87-0.89 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.91.

29 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Oracle's shares. Their predictions range from $42.00 to $66.00. On average, they expect Oracle's stock price to reach $56.17 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.7% 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.

News articles about ORCL stock have been trending negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Oracle earned a coverage optimism score of -2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Oracle.

Oracle saw a decline in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 46,110,000 shares, a decline of 6.0% from the August 30th total of 49,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 12,620,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Oracle's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Oracle include SAP (SAP), Adobe (ADBE), salesforce.com (CRM), Intuit (INTU), VMware (VMW), Uber Technologies (UBER), ServiceNow (NOW), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Shopify (SHOP), Autodesk (ADSK), Electronic Arts (EA), Electronic Arts (EA), Square (SQ) and Veeva Systems (VEEV).

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), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Bank of America (BAC), Workday (WDAY), Netflix (NFLX) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Oracle's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include DNB Asset Management AS (0.12%), CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC (0.12%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.11%), PGGM Investments (0.09%), Douglas Lane & Associates LLC (0.04%) and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.04%). Company insiders that own Oracle stock include Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., LGT Capital Partners LTD., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Verity & Verity LLC, Gulf International Bank UK Ltd and Stonebridge Capital Management Inc.. 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, Renee Jo James 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 DNB Asset Management AS, PGGM Investments, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Perpetual Ltd, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, PM CAPITAL Ltd, United Capital Management of KS Inc. and CHURCHILL MANAGEMENT Corp. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ORCL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $55.24.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $181.31 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]