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 Monday, September 17th. Investors of record on Tuesday, October 16th will be given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Tuesday, October 30th. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.54%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, October 15th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback plan on Monday, September 17th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy up to 5.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, September, 17th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.71 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.68 by $0.03. The enterprise software provider earned $9.20 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.26 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 9.61% and a return on equity of 23.14%. The firm's revenue was up .8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.62 EPS. View Oracle's Earnings History.

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

Oracle issued an update on its second quarter earnings guidance on Monday, September, 17th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.78-0.80 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.79. The company issued revenue guidance of growth of 0-2% to about $9.212-9.396 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.82 billion.

29 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Oracle's stock. Their forecasts range from $47.71 to $62.00. On average, they expect Oracle's share price to reach $54.2535 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Oracle.

29 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Oracle in the last year. There are currently 13 hold ratings and 16 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Oracle saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 48,935,899 shares, an increase of 4.3% from the August 15th total of 51,142,676 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 13,343,726 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.7 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Oracle's Current Options Chain.

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Media headlines about ORCL stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. Accern rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of 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 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the enterprise software provider an impact score of 46.57 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for Oracle.

Oracle's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (4.91%), FMR LLC (1.15%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.00%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.00%), Northern Trust Corp (1.00%) and Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.67%). 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, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., Standard Life Aberdeen plc, American Century Companies Inc., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA and Hexavest Inc.. 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, Royal London Asset Management Ltd., DnB Asset Management AS, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and Vulcan Value 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 $49.43.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $203.88 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]