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. Investors 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 yield of 1.70%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, October 9th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Wednesday, September 11th 2019, which allows the company to repurchase $15,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 8.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, September, 11th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.81 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.09. The enterprise software provider had revenue of $9.22 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.29 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 48.85% and a net margin of 27.71%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up .2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business 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 (EPS) guidance of $0.87-0.89 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.91.

29 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Oracle's stock. Their forecasts 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 that the stock has a possible downside of 0.7%. 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.

Media coverage about ORCL stock has been trending negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press 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 positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Oracle earned a daily sentiment score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Oracle.

Oracle saw a decrease in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 46,110,000 shares, a decrease of 6.0% from the August 30th total of 49,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 12,620,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.7 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's stock are short sold. 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), Netflix (NFLX), Workday (WDAY) and Walt Disney (DIS).

Oracle's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.02%), Country Trust Bank (0.02%), Gillespie Robinson & Grimm Inc. (0.02%), PM CAPITAL Ltd (0.01%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.01%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%). 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 LGT Capital Partners LTD., Artemis Investment Management LLP, Verity & Verity LLC, Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Stonebridge Capital Management Inc., Crossmark Global Holdings Inc., Pacer Advisors Inc. and Metropolis Capital Ltd. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Perpetual Ltd, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, PM CAPITAL Ltd, Altfest L J & Co. Inc., Cliftonlarsonallen Wealth Advisors LLC, Country Trust Bank, Cypress Capital Group and Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL. 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 $56.59.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $185.76 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]