NYSE:ORCL - Oracle Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Oracle declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, March 19th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, April 17th will be given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Tuesday, May 1st. This represents a $0.76 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.62%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, April 16th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Monday, February 5th 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 purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, March, 19th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.83 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.11. The enterprise software provider earned $9.78 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.77 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 21.77% and a net margin of 9.25%. Oracle's revenue was up 5.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.69 earnings per share. View Oracle's Earnings History.

Oracle is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, June, 19th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Oracle.

36 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Oracle's stock. Their predictions range from $46.00 to $65.00. On average, they expect Oracle's share price to reach $56.5777 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Oracle saw a increase in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 33,753,230 shares, an increase of 12.1% from the April 13th total of 30,102,806 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 12,667,771 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.7 days. Currently, 1.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short.

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Media stories about ORCL stock have been trending somewhat positive on Friday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Oracle earned a daily sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the enterprise software provider an impact score of 47.20 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days.

Oracle's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (5.00%), Northern Trust Corp (1.01%), First Eagle Investment Management LLC (0.99%), Loomis Sayles & Co. L P (0.87%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (0.76%) and Franklin Resources Inc. (0.70%). 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 BlackRock Inc., Platinum Investment Management Ltd., Prudential Financial Inc., Neuberger Berman Group LLC, CI Investments Inc., First Pacific Advisors LLC, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and OppenheimerFunds Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Oracle company stock in the last year include Bruce R Chizen, Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, George H Conrades, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Mark V Hurd, Michael J Boskin, Naomi O Seligman, Safra Catz, Thomas Kurian 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 Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Ceredex Value Advisors LLC, Flossbach Von Storch AG, Fiduciary Management Inc. WI, Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Mackay Shields LLC, Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. and Amundi Pioneer Asset Management 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 $47.00.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $194.15 billion and generates $37.73 billion in revenue each year. The enterprise software provider earns $9.34 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.49 on an earnings per share basis. Oracle employs 138,000 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]