DUTCH ASSET Corp Makes New $1.51 Million Investment in Oracle Corporation $ORCL

DUTCH ASSET Corp acquired a new stake in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm acquired 7,774 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock, valued at approximately $1,515,000. Oracle makes up about 1.2% of DUTCH ASSET Corp’s portfolio, making the stock its 20th largest position.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the stock. Green Ridge Wealth Planning LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Oracle in the fourth quarter worth about $750,000. PeakShares LLC acquired a new stake in Oracle during the fourth quarter worth about $1,265,000. Corient Private Wealth LLC raised its position in Oracle by 26.7% during the fourth quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 1,208,733 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $235,782,000 after acquiring an additional 254,437 shares in the last quarter. EMC Capital Management lifted its holdings in Oracle by 53.3% in the fourth quarter. EMC Capital Management now owns 4,600 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $913,000 after acquiring an additional 1,600 shares during the period. Finally, Auto Owners Insurance Co lifted its holdings in Oracle by 19,391.0% in the fourth quarter. Auto Owners Insurance Co now owns 2,826,195 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $550,854,000 after acquiring an additional 2,811,695 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Oracle’s quarterly results showed strong demand for AI infrastructure, with remaining performance obligations jumping to $638 billion, reinforcing the company’s long-term cloud growth story. Oracle Corporation Stock (ORCL) Opinions on Earnings and AI Capex Plans
• Positive Sentiment: Mizuho reiterated an outperform rating with a $320 price target, saying Oracle’s cloud growth and financing clarity help offset some of the market’s concerns about the AI buildout. Oracle Corporation Stock (ORCL) Opinions on Earnings and AI Capex Plans
• Neutral Sentiment: Oracle continues to benefit from large government contracts and strong institutional interest, which supports the investment case but does not directly change the near-term trading narrative. Oracle Corporation Stock (ORCL) Opinions on Earnings and AI Capex Plans
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain focused on Oracle’s aggressive AI data-center spending and the recently announced $40 billion financing raise, which has raised concerns about margins, dilution, and capital intensity. Oracle Corporation Stock (ORCL) Opinions on Earnings and AI Capex Plans
• Negative Sentiment: Separate commentary noted that the data-center boom is straining insurance capacity, highlighting broader financing and execution risks around the AI infrastructure expansion. Zurich warns data centre boom is outpacing insurance capacity – report
• Negative Sentiment: Insider and congressional trading data showed more selling than buying in ORCL, which may add a slight cautionary tone for sentiment. Oracle Corporation Stock (ORCL) Opinions on Earnings and AI Capex Plans

Insider Activity

In other news, EVP Stuart Levey sold 15,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 16th. The shares were 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 of the company’s stock, valued at $604,155.51. The trade was a 81.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 40.90% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts have recently commented on the stock. KeyCorp reaffirmed an “overweight” rating on shares of Oracle in a research note on Thursday, June 11th. Stifel Nicolaus decreased their target price on shares of Oracle from $275.00 to $220.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, March 11th. Bank of America increased their price target on shares of Oracle from $200.00 to $240.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, June 9th. UBS Group raised their price target on shares of Oracle from $250.00 to $285.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, June 2nd. Finally, Stephens reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and issued a $164.00 price objective on shares of Oracle in a report on Thursday, June 11th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have issued a Buy rating, seven have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Oracle has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $268.27.

Oracle Trading Up 0.2%

Shares of ORCL stock opened at $184.66 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.84, a current ratio of 1.12 and a quick ratio of 1.35. The company has a market cap of $531.10 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.67, a PEG ratio of 1.16 and a beta of 1.65. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $188.84 and a 200-day simple moving average of $177.39. Oracle Corporation has a 1-year low of $134.57 and a 1-year high of $345.72.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, June 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.11 earnings per share (EPS) 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 return on equity of 56.43% and a net margin of 25.37%.The business’s revenue was up 20.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter 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. On average, equities research analysts expect that Oracle Corporation will post 6.45 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Oracle Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, July 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 10th will be given a $0.50 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Friday, July 10th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.1%. Oracle’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 34.31%.

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.