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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.82%. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program on Monday, September 17th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 5.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, June, 19th. The enterprise software provider reported $1.16 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.98 by $0.18. The enterprise software provider earned $11.14 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $10.93 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 27.14% and a return on equity of 34.03%. Oracle's quarterly revenue was up 1.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.99 earnings per share. View Oracle's Earnings History.

Oracle issued an update on its first quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, June, 19th. The company provided 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.

27 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Oracle's stock. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect Oracle's stock price to reach $52.7788 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.2% 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 headlines about ORCL stock have trended somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. 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 coverage optimism score of -1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 6.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several 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 trading volume of 12,460,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 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 retail and institutional 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 bought 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 $52.68.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $180.04 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]