K.J. Harrison & Partners Inc Invests $667,000 in Oracle Corporation $ORCL

K.J. Harrison & Partners Inc purchased a new stake in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm purchased 4,551 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock, valued at approximately $667,000.

A number of other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. Ltd. bought a new stake in shares of Oracle in the 2nd quarter valued at about $625,454,000. New Mexico Educational Retirement Board grew its position in Oracle by 4.2% during the 4th quarter. New Mexico Educational Retirement Board now owns 76,590 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $14,928,000 after acquiring an additional 3,100 shares during the last quarter. Planning Center Inc. grew its position in Oracle by 142.2% during the 4th quarter. Planning Center Inc. now owns 6,376 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $1,243,000 after acquiring an additional 3,743 shares during the last quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC increased its stake in Oracle by 4.6% in the 2nd quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC now owns 80,686 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $11,825,000 after purchasing an additional 3,584 shares during the period. Finally, Axxcess Wealth Management LLC lifted its position in Oracle by 870.0% in the fourth quarter. Axxcess Wealth Management LLC now owns 671,452 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $128,012,000 after purchasing an additional 602,230 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at Oracle

In other news, Vice Chairman Jeffrey Henley sold 400,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $159.16, for a total value of $63,664,000.00. Following the sale, the insider directly owned 400,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $63,664,000. This represents a 50.00% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available 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.

Oracle Stock Performance

Oracle stock opened at $146.71 on Tuesday. Oracle Corporation has a fifty-two week low of $114.50 and a fifty-two week high of $345.72. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $148.60 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $161.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21, a quick ratio of 1.12 and a current ratio of 1.12. The stock has a market cap of $422.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.16, a PEG ratio of 0.94 and a beta of 1.72.

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

Oracle Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 10th were issued a dividend of $0.50 per share. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.4%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, July 10th. Oracle’s payout ratio is 34.31%.

More Oracle News

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Oracle’s expanding partnership with Amazon Web Services now supports Oracle AI Database@AWS across 22 regions, strengthening its cloud distribution and enterprise AI positioning. As Oracle Deepens Its Partnership with AWS
• Positive Sentiment: A bullish investment thesis argues that the market continues to value Oracle like a legacy database provider even as it builds hyperscale cloud and AI infrastructure. Strong demand visibility and backlog conversion could support long-term growth. Oracle as a Tier-1 Hyperscaler
• Neutral Sentiment: Unusually large, long-dated call-option activity may indicate institutional investors are positioning for a recovery, although the trades could also represent covered-call strategies rather than outright bullish bets. Unusual Oracle Call Options
• Negative Sentiment: Oracle and other software shares sold off as the AI trade rotated toward favored chip and infrastructure companies, making software stocks less attractive in the near term. Oracle and Software Stocks Drop
• Negative Sentiment: Investor concerns are growing over Oracle’s aggressive AI infrastructure commitments, potential additional debt or equity financing, negative free cash flow, execution timelines and customer concentration. Separate commentary also highlighted heavy AI spending across big technology companies and higher interest-rate risks. Oracle AI Data Center Investment Commentary
• Negative Sentiment: Reported insider activity showed Oracle insiders selling shares without recorded purchases during the past six months, adding a potentially cautious signal for investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have recently issued reports on ORCL. Scotiabank restated an “overweight” rating on shares of Oracle in a report on Thursday, June 11th. Barclays upped their price target on shares of Oracle from $240.00 to $250.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, June 11th. Evercore reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $245.00 price target on shares of Oracle in a research report on Monday, June 8th. Wolfe Research reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $225.00 price target on shares of Oracle in a report on Thursday, June 11th. Finally, Mizuho set a $320.00 price objective on shares of Oracle in a research report on Wednesday, June 3rd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have issued a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Oracle currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $263.97.

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.