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. Stockholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.62%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 16th. View Oracle's Dividend History.

Oracle declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase plan on Monday, February 5th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's management 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 had revenue of $9.78 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.77 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 9.25% and a return on equity of 21.77%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 5.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous 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 Wednesday, June, 20th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Oracle.

36 equities research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Oracle's shares. Their predictions range from $46.00 to $65.00. On average, they anticipate Oracle's stock price to reach $56.5777 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Oracle.

Oracle saw a increase in short interest during 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 short-interest ratio is presently 2.7 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

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Media stories about ORCL stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing 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 media sentiment score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the enterprise software provider an impact score of 46.66 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Oracle's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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]