Oracle Corporation $ORCL Shares Acquired by CCM Investment Advisers LLC

CCM Investment Advisers LLC increased its holdings in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) by 74.9% in the 1st quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 68,215 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 29,217 shares during the quarter. CCM Investment Advisers LLC’s holdings in Oracle were worth $10,035,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in ORCL. FSA Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Oracle in the 3rd quarter valued at $28,000. Mpwm Advisory Solutions LLC grew its position in shares of Oracle by 76.9% in the 3rd quarter. Mpwm Advisory Solutions LLC now owns 115 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $32,000 after buying an additional 50 shares during the last quarter. Turning Point Benefit Group Inc. acquired a new stake in Oracle during the 3rd quarter worth $35,000. HFM Investment Advisors LLC lifted its position in Oracle by 290.9% in the fourth quarter. HFM Investment Advisors LLC now owns 129 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $25,000 after acquiring an additional 96 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Basepoint Wealth LLC purchased a new stake in Oracle in the fourth quarter valued at $26,000. 42.44% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Buying and Selling at Oracle

In other news, Vice Chairman Jeffrey Henley sold 400,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $159.16, for a total transaction of $63,664,000.00. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 400,000 shares in the company, valued at $63,664,000. The trade was a 50.00% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 40.90% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Key Headlines Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Expanded Google Cloud AI partnership: Oracle and Google Cloud will make Google’s Gemini models available across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and NetSuite. The integration is expected to help enterprise customers automate workflows, improve decision-making and build agentic applications, strengthening Oracle’s AI software proposition and potentially supporting demand for its cloud infrastructure. Oracle to Make Gemini Models Available to Thousands of Enterprise Applications
• Positive Sentiment: Broader AI-cloud rebound: Oracle participated in a sharp recovery across AI infrastructure stocks after the group’s prior-session selloff. Microsoft’s strong cloud results also helped reinforce investor confidence in enterprise AI spending and cloud growth. Why Oracle Stock Just Jumped
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst sees AI backlog upside: DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria argued that Wall Street is assigning little or no value to Oracle’s reported $630 billion AI backlog, including potential long-term OpenAI compute commitments. If contracts convert into revenue, the backlog could improve Oracle’s growth outlook and valuation. Wall Street Is Valuing Oracle’s $630B AI Backlog at Zero
• Neutral Sentiment: Valuation debate continues: Some coverage views Oracle as undervalued after its significant decline and highlights its Pentagon contract, while other analysis warns that consensus price targets may not fully reflect execution and financing risks. Oracle Stock Looks Undervalued on Earnings While Risks Still Weigh
• Negative Sentiment: Debt and credit concerns remain: Oracle’s elevated credit-default-swap costs and heavy borrowing to finance AI infrastructure continue to raise questions about leverage, refinancing costs and whether future AI returns will justify the investment. Oracle Stock Drops as Default Insurance Hits 200 Basis Points
• Negative Sentiment: Governance and concentration risk: Larry Ellison’s personal guarantee connected to a large Warner Bros. Discovery transaction has prompted concern among some investors because of his substantial ownership and the potential financial exposure. Larry Ellison’s Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Backstop

Analyst Ratings Changes

ORCL has been the topic of several research reports. Wedbush dropped their price objective on Oracle from $275.00 to $240.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, June 11th. Piper Sandler boosted their target price on Oracle from $210.00 to $225.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, June 11th. Scotiabank reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Mizuho set a $320.00 price target on Oracle in a research note on Wednesday, June 3rd. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed a “sector perform” rating and set a $190.00 price target on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have given a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $265.03.

Oracle Price Performance

Oracle stock opened at $127.59 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21, a current ratio of 1.12 and a quick ratio of 1.12. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $165.10 and a 200-day simple moving average of $164.66. Oracle Corporation has a 12 month low of $114.50 and a 12 month high of $345.72. The stock has a market capitalization of $367.53 billion, a PE ratio of 21.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.74 and a beta of 1.72.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, June 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.11 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.96 by $0.15. The firm had revenue of $19.18 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $19.10 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 25.37% and a return on equity of 58.62%. Oracle’s quarterly revenue was up 20.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.70 EPS. Oracle has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 1.720-1.760 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 8.050-8.050 EPS. Equities analysts predict that Oracle Corporation will post 6.47 earnings per share for the current year.

Oracle Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 10th were issued a $0.50 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, July 10th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.6%. Oracle’s payout ratio is presently 34.31%.

Oracle Profile

Oracle Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops and sells database software, cloud engineered systems, enterprise software applications and related services. The company is widely known for its flagship Oracle Database and a portfolio of enterprise-grade software products that support data management, application development, analytics and middleware. Over recent years Oracle has expanded its focus to include cloud infrastructure and cloud applications, positioning itself as a provider of both platform and software-as-a-service solutions for large organizations.

Oracle’s product and service offerings include Oracle Database and the Autonomous Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM) and supply chain management (SCM) cloud applications (often grouped under Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications), middleware such as WebLogic, and developer technologies including Java and MySQL.