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 Friday, March 15th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.24 per share on Thursday, April 25th. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.83%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, April 10th. This is a positive change from Oracle's previous quarterly dividend of $0.19. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Monday, September 17th 2018, which allows the company to buyback $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 5.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, September, 17th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.71 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.68 by $0.03. The enterprise software provider earned $9.20 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.26 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 34.03% and a net margin of 27.14%. The firm's revenue was up .8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.62 EPS. View Oracle's Earnings History.

Oracle is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, June 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Oracle.

Oracle will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, June 19th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

27 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Oracle's shares. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $60.00. On average, they anticipate Oracle's stock price to reach $52.7788 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Oracle.

27 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 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

News stories about ORCL stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Oracle earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Oracle.

Oracle saw a increase in short interest in May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 54,426,200 shares, an increase of 12.6% from the April 30th total of 48,341,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 12,460,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.4 days. Approximately 2.2% of the company's 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), VMware (VMW), Intuit (INTU), ServiceNow (NOW), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Autodesk (ADSK), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Shopify (SHOP), Square (SQ), Electronic Arts (EA), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) and Synopsys (SNPS).

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

Oracle's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (0.67%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.61%), Boston Partners (0.32%), Nordea Investment Management AB (0.37%), Yacktman Asset Management LP (0.23%) and Pendal Group Ltd (0.22%). Company insiders that own Oracle stock include Bruce R Chizen, 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 Yacktman Asset Management LP, FMR LLC, First Pacific Advisors LP, Nordea Investment Management AB, International Value Advisers LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, Factory Mutual Insurance Co. and Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research 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, 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Boston Partners, Clearbridge Investments LLC, Ellis Investment Partners LLC and Ellis Investment Partners LLC. 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 $52.4950.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $179.41 billion and generates $39.83 billion in revenue each year. The enterprise software provider earns $3.83 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.82 on an earnings per share basis. Oracle employs 137,000 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]