Citizens Financial Group Inc. RI Acquires Shares of 154,372 Oracle Corporation $ORCL

Citizens Financial Group Inc. RI acquired a new stake in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) during the second quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund acquired 154,372 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock, valued at approximately $22,623,000.

Other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in Oracle during the 4th quarter valued at $4,336,031,000. Bank of New York Mellon Corp acquired a new position in Oracle in the 2nd quarter worth $1,911,930,000. Capital Research Global Investors lifted its holdings in Oracle by 29.3% in 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. boosted its position in Oracle by 3.5% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 174,802,084 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $34,070,674,000 after buying an additional 5,841,584 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Cardano Risk Management B.V. grew its stake in shares of Oracle by 882.3% during 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. 42.44% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts have recently issued reports on ORCL shares. Stephens reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and set a $164.00 target price on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Bank of America increased their price target on Oracle from $200.00 to $240.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, June 9th. Weiss Ratings downgraded Oracle from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Wedbush cut their target price on Oracle from $275.00 to $240.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets increased their price target on shares of Oracle from $200.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have assigned a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $263.97.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Oracle news, Vice Chairman Jeffrey Henley sold 400,000 shares of Oracle stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $159.16, for a total value of $63,664,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider directly owned 400,000 shares in the company, valued at $63,664,000. The trade was a 50.00% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, 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 insiders.

Oracle Stock Down 2.5%

ORCL stock opened at $146.71 on Tuesday. The firm 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 Corporation has a 1-year low of $114.50 and a 1-year high of $345.72. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $148.60 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $161.26. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21, a current ratio of 1.12 and a quick ratio of 1.12.

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

Oracle Announces Dividend

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

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.