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

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

Oracle declared 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 1.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, October 9th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Wednesday, September 11th 2019, which allows the company to buyback $15,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 8.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are usually a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, September, 11th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.81 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.09. The enterprise software provider earned $9.22 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.29 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 27.71% and a return on equity of 48.85%. The company's quarterly revenue was up .2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.71 EPS. 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 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Oracle's shares. Their predictions range from $42.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Oracle's share price to reach $56.3495 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.4% 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, 17 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Press coverage about ORCL stock has trended somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Oracle earned a daily sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news 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 drop in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 53,259,100 shares, a drop of 5.9% from the July 31st total of 56,608,300 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 14,290,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.4% of the company's shares 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), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Bank of America (BAC), Workday (WDAY) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Oracle's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (5.41%), BlackRock Inc. (5.20%), BlackRock Inc. (5.20%), Northern Trust Corp (1.14%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.03%) and Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.92%). 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, 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 Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., DNB Asset Management AS, Man Group plc, Mackenzie Financial Corp and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 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 bought 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ORCL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.47.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $175.83 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]