Oracle Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:ORCL)

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

Oracle declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, September 11th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, October 10th will be given a dividend of $0.24 per share on Thursday, October 24th. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.80%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, October 9th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Wednesday, September 11th 2019, which permits the company to buyback $15,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase up to 8.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Oracle Co. (NYSE:ORCL) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, September, 11th. The enterprise software provider reported $0.81 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.72 by $0.09. The enterprise software provider earned $9.22 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.29 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 27.71% and a return on equity of 48.85%. The business's revenue was up .2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.71 EPS. View Oracle's Earnings History.

Oracle is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, December 16th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Oracle.

Oracle issued an update on its second quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, September, 11th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.87-0.89 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.91.

29 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for Oracle's shares. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate Oracle's stock price to reach $56.3495 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.4% 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 3 sell ratings, 17 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Media stories about ORCL stock have trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Oracle earned a media sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the enterprise software provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Oracle.

Oracle saw a decline in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 53,259,100 shares, a decline of 5.9% from the July 31st total of 56,608,300 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 14,290,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 2.4% 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), Intuit (INTU), VMware (VMW), Uber Technologies (UBER), ServiceNow (NOW), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Dassault Systemes (DASTY), Shopify (SHOP), Autodesk (ADSK), Electronic Arts (EA), Electronic Arts (EA), Square (SQ) and Veeva Systems (VEEV).

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

Oracle's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (5.41%), BlackRock Inc. (5.20%), BlackRock Inc. (5.20%), Northern Trust Corp (1.14%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.03%) and Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.92%). Company insiders that own Oracle stock include Dorian Daley, Edward Screven, George H Conrades, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey Berg, Jeffrey Henley, 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 Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., DNB Asset Management AS, Man Group plc, Mackenzie Financial Corp and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 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, Michael J Boskin, Naomi O Seligman, Renee Jo James and W Corey West. View Insider Buying and Selling for Oracle.

ORCL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Longview Partners Guernsey LTD, Renaissance Technologies LLC, LSV Asset Management, Beutel Goodman & Co Ltd., PGGM Investments, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and APG Asset Management N.V.. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of ORCL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $53.47.

Oracle has a market capitalization of $175.83 billion and generates $39.51 billion in revenue each year. The enterprise software provider earns $11.08 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.16 on an earnings per share basis. Oracle employs 136,000 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]