NYSE:ORCL - Oracle Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Oracle announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 19th. Stockholders 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 dividend yield of 1.79%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, July 16th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle declared that its board has approved a share buyback program on Monday, September 17th 2018, which permits the company to buyback $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 5.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, June, 19th. The enterprise software provider reported $1.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.98 by $0.18. The enterprise software provider earned $11.14 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $10.93 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 40.95% and a net margin of 28.06%. Oracle's revenue was up 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $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 earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.80-0.82 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share 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.

28 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for Oracle's stock. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Oracle's stock price to reach $54.4871 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.

28 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 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Media stories about ORCL stock have trended negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. 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 news impact score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Oracle.

Oracle saw a decline in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 56,608,300 shares, a decline of 8.6% from the June 30th total of 61,932,200 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 14,430,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.9 days. Currently, 2.3% of the company's shares 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), Shopify (SHOP), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Autodesk (ADSK), Square (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV) and Cadence Design Systems (CDNS).

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

Oracle's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail 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 acquired 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 $53.59.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $178.77 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]