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 Tuesday, June 19th. Investors of record on Tuesday, July 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Tuesday, July 31st. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.57%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, July 16th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Monday, February 5th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, June, 19th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.99 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.05. The enterprise software provider earned $11.26 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $11.17 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 9.61% and a return on equity of 23.14%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 2.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.89 EPS. View Oracle's Earnings History.

Oracle is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, September, 13th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Oracle.

30 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Oracle's stock. Their predictions range from $47.71 to $65.00. On average, they anticipate Oracle's share price to reach $55.8471 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Oracle.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Oracle in the last year. There are currently 12 hold ratings and 18 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Oracle saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 45,007,779 shares, an increase of 9.9% from the July 13th total of 40,965,947 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 18,181,088 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Oracle's Current Options Chain.

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Press coverage about ORCL stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Oracle earned a daily sentiment score of 0.05 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the enterprise software provider an impact score of 45.68 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View Recent Headlines for Oracle.

Oracle's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (4.91%), FMR LLC (1.15%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.00%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.67%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.61%) and Vulcan Value Partners LLC (0.60%). Company insiders that own Oracle stock include Bruce R Chizen, Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, George H Conrades, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, John F Fowler, 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 Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., Standard Life Aberdeen plc, American Century Companies Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, Hexavest Inc. and Bank of Montreal Can. Company insiders that have sold Oracle company stock in the last year include Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, George H Conrades, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, Naomi O Seligman, Safra Catz, Thomas Kurian 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 FMR LLC, Charles Schwab Investment Advisory Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company LTD, Putnam Investments LLC, DnB Asset Management AS, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Vulcan Value Partners LLC and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. 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 $48.49.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $200.03 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.

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]