Pincus Capital Management LP acquired a new position in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL – Free Report) during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 2,570 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock, valued at approximately $501,000.
Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of ORCL. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of Oracle during the 4th quarter worth approximately $4,336,031,000. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Oracle by 3.5% during 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 buying an additional 5,841,584 shares during the period. American Century Companies Inc. lifted its position in shares of Oracle by 333.7% during the 3rd quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 5,238,006 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $1,473,137,000 after buying an additional 4,030,382 shares during the period. Amundi lifted its position in shares of Oracle by 32.9% during the 3rd quarter. Amundi now owns 9,636,090 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $2,809,609,000 after buying an additional 2,385,556 shares during the period. Finally, SG Americas Securities LLC lifted its position in shares of Oracle by 921.6% during the 4th quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 2,311,815 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $450,596,000 after buying an additional 2,085,514 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 42.44% of the company’s stock.
Oracle Trading Up 9.6%
ORCL stock opened at $247.45 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $711.69 billion, a P/E ratio of 44.43, a PEG ratio of 2.15 and a beta of 1.65. Oracle Corporation has a twelve month low of $134.57 and a twelve month high of $345.72. 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 business has a fifty day moving average of $172.65 and a 200-day moving average of $177.99.
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 dividend of $0.50 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, April 9th. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.8%. Oracle’s payout ratio 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 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 sale, the executive vice president owned 3,429 shares in the company, valued at $604,155.51. The trade was a 81.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction 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: Oracle’s participation in Arm’s AGI CPU ecosystem highlights its push into AI-optimized data centers and strengthens the market’s growth narrative around Oracle’s cloud and infrastructure strategy. Arm says ByteDance, Oracle use its data centre CPU chips
- Positive Sentiment: Oracle’s stock is also benefiting from broader AI enthusiasm after Nvidia’s agentic-AI push helped lift the whole AI infrastructure complex, reinforcing momentum in the shares. Oracle Stock (ORCL) Continues to Rally on Nvidia’s Agentic AI Push
- Positive Sentiment: Technical traders are also seeing bullish signals, with Oracle breaking above its 200-day moving average and showing strong upward momentum, which can attract more buying. Oracle (ORCL) Recently Broke Out Above the 200-Day Moving Average
- Neutral Sentiment: Oracle scheduled its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 earnings release for June 10, keeping attention on the upcoming report, but this announcement alone is not a major new fundamental driver. Oracle Sets the Date for its Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Announcement
- Negative Sentiment: Offsetting the optimism, a shareholder law firm announced a fiduciary-duty investigation tied to Oracle’s AI infrastructure spending, raising concerns about capex, cash flow, and debt if the growth payoff takes time to materialize. Kuehn Law Encourages Investors of Oracle Corporation to Contact Law Firm
Analyst Ratings Changes
ORCL has been the subject of several analyst reports. Piper Sandler cut their target price on Oracle from $240.00 to $210.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 11th. Mizuho cut their target price on Oracle from $400.00 to $320.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, March 16th. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating on shares of Oracle in a research report on Monday, February 2nd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upgraded Oracle from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and cut their target price for the stock from $230.00 to $210.00 in a research report on Wednesday, March 11th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut their target price on Oracle from $375.00 to $300.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, March 9th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have given a Buy rating, nine have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Oracle presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $261.46.
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Oracle Company 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.
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