Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) Trading Up 2.7% – Still a Buy?

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)’s share price rose 2.7% on Thursday . The stock traded as high as $238.95 and last traded at $236.5140. Approximately 19,252,224 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 29% from the average daily volume of 27,043,318 shares. The stock had previously closed at $230.33.

Key Stories Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Traders are betting Oracle will remain a major AI infrastructure winner ahead of its June 10 earnings report, fueling bullish options activity. Options Bulls Target Oracle Stock Before Earnings
• Positive Sentiment: UBS raised its Oracle price target to $285, saying AI momentum remains strong and could continue supporting the stock. Veteran Bank Revamps Oracle Price Target Ahead of Earnings
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple articles point to Oracle’s AI and OpenAI-related growth narrative as a major reason the stock has rallied sharply in recent weeks. Why Oracle Stock Zoomed 39.9% Higher in May
• Neutral Sentiment: Oracle remains in focus as investors wait for earnings, with analysts and market commentary framing the report as a key test of whether AI spending can keep accelerating. Oracle Stock Faces Earnings Test Next Week. Here’s What Analysts Expect Despite Price Swings
• Neutral Sentiment: Broader AI spending commentary is mixed: the boom is still supporting Oracle, but some investors are starting to question whether hyperscaler capex growth will stay this strong. Oracle Faces High Stakes as AI Spending Ramps
• Negative Sentiment: Some market coverage notes Oracle slipped ahead of earnings as investors grew cautious about how much of the AI buildout is already priced in. Oracle Slips Ahead of Earnings as Investors Watch AI Growth

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ORCL has been the subject of several research reports. TD Cowen decreased their target price on Oracle from $350.00 to $250.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, March 6th. Weiss Ratings raised Oracle from a “hold (c)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research report on Friday, May 29th. Guggenheim restated a “buy” rating and set a $400.00 price objective on shares of Oracle in a research note on Friday, March 13th. Arete Research set a $255.00 price objective on shares of Oracle and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, UBS Group boosted their target price on shares of Oracle from $250.00 to $285.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have assigned a Buy rating, nine have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Oracle presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $263.89.

Oracle Price Performance

The stock has a market capitalization of $680.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.46, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.30 and a beta of 1.65. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.66, a current ratio of 1.35 and a quick ratio of 1.35. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $176.08 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $178.21.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $1.79 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.71 by $0.08. Oracle had a net margin of 25.30% and a return on equity of 62.70%. The business had revenue of $17.19 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $16.91 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.47 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 21.7% on a year-over-year basis. Oracle has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 1.960-2.000 EPS. On average, equities research analysts predict that Oracle Corporation will post 6.08 earnings per share for the current year.

Oracle Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 24th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, April 9th were paid a $0.50 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 9th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.8%. Oracle’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 35.91%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Oracle

In other news, EVP Stuart Levey sold 15,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, April 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $176.19, for a total transaction of $2,642,850.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 3,429 shares in the company, valued at approximately $604,155.51. The trade was a 81.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Company insiders own 40.90% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Oracle

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in Oracle in the fourth quarter worth about $4,336,031,000. Capital Research Global Investors raised its position in shares of Oracle by 29.3% during the 4th quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 30,137,126 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $5,874,070,000 after buying an additional 6,826,299 shares in the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its stake in shares of Oracle by 3.5% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 174,802,084 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $34,070,674,000 after acquiring an additional 5,841,584 shares during the period. Cardano Risk Management B.V. boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 882.3% in the fourth quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. now owns 4,991,010 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $972,798,000 after acquiring an additional 4,482,934 shares in the last quarter. Finally, American Century Companies Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 333.7% in the third quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 5,238,006 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $1,473,137,000 after acquiring an additional 4,030,382 shares in the last quarter. 42.44% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

About Oracle

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.