14,099 Shares in Oracle Corporation $ORCL Purchased by Rayburn West Financial Services LLC

Rayburn West Financial Services LLC bought a new position in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCLFree Report) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund bought 14,099 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock, valued at approximately $2,748,000. Oracle accounts for about 1.7% of Rayburn West Financial Services LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 23rd largest holding.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the stock. Cardinal Point Capital Management ULC boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 4.7% during the 4th quarter. Cardinal Point Capital Management ULC now owns 69,582 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $13,562,000 after buying an additional 3,149 shares during the period. Pacific Sun Financial Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 13.4% during the 4th quarter. Pacific Sun Financial Corp now owns 1,595 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $311,000 after buying an additional 189 shares during the period. Strategic Family Wealth Counselors L.L.C. boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 232.5% during the 4th quarter. Strategic Family Wealth Counselors L.L.C. now owns 3,907 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $703,000 after buying an additional 2,732 shares during the period. Biltmore Family Office LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Biltmore Family Office LLC now owns 15,827 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $3,085,000 after buying an additional 548 shares during the period. Finally, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund boosted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund now owns 192,592 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $37,538,000 after buying an additional 3,119 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

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Analyst Ratings Changes

Several brokerages recently commented on ORCL. UBS Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of Oracle in a report on Monday, February 2nd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of Oracle from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and reduced their target price for the stock from $230.00 to $210.00 in a report on Wednesday, March 11th. DA Davidson lifted their target price on shares of Oracle from $180.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 11th. Weiss Ratings downgraded shares of Oracle from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a report on Friday, January 23rd. Finally, Citizens Jmp cut their price objective on shares of Oracle from $342.00 to $285.00 and set a “market outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, February 5th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have issued a Buy rating, nine have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Oracle has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $261.46.

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Oracle Stock Performance

NYSE ORCL opened at $189.81 on Thursday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.35, a current ratio of 1.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.66. The company has a market capitalization of $545.89 billion, a P/E ratio of 34.08, a P/E/G ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 1.55. Oracle Corporation has a 12-month low of $134.57 and a 12-month high of $345.72. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $161.22 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $183.47.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCLGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, March 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $1.79 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.71 by $0.08. The firm had revenue of $17.19 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $16.91 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 25.30% and a return on equity of 62.70%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 21.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.47 EPS. Oracle has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 1.960-2.000 EPS. Analysts anticipate that Oracle Corporation will post 6.08 earnings per share for the current year.

Oracle Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 24th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 9th were given a $0.50 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 9th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.1%. Oracle’s payout ratio is presently 35.91%.

Insider Activity 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 shares were sold at an average price of $176.19, for a total value 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 position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders own 40.90% of the company’s stock.

Oracle Company Profile

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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.

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