Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) Stock Price Up 3.1% – Time to Buy?

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)’s share price shot up 3.1% on Monday . The company traded as high as $206.60 and last traded at $204.6930. 25,054,079 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 29% from the average session volume of 19,349,656 shares. The stock had previously closed at $198.52.

Key Stories Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Jefferies reaffirmed a Buy rating and a $400 price target, citing confidence in Oracle’s positioning for AI infrastructure — a signal that institutional research sees meaningful upside from Oracle’s cloud/AI strategy. Jefferies’ $400 Oracle (ORCL) Target Reflects Confidence in AI Infrastructure
• Positive Sentiment: Multiple analysts/upgrades remain bullish on ORCL (coverage noted in roundups), reinforcing demand-side expectations for AI/cloud revenue growth and helping lift the stock. Upgrades: Analysts are Still Bullish on Nvidia (NVDA), Crowdstrike (CRWD) and Oracle (ORCL) Upside
• Positive Sentiment: Oracle announced a healthcare customer win: Community Memorial Hospital will implement Oracle Health Foundation EHR and the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent — a tangible enterprise adoption case for Oracle’s AI-driven healthcare stack. Customer wins help validate commercial traction and recurring revenue potential. Community Memorial Hospital Chooses Oracle Health to Enhance Patient Care and Power Operational Excellence
• Positive Sentiment: Oracle unveiled an AI-driven Retail Supply Chain Collaboration solution at NRF — another product rollout that supports cross-selling into retail customers and reinforces the company’s AI/cloud monetization narrative. Retailers Help Mitigate Risk with Oracle’s AI-Driven Supply Chain Collaboration
• Positive Sentiment: MarketBeat and other pieces highlight Oracle as a leading cross-cloud operator with strong hyperscaler-driven gains and a large RPO pipeline — reinforcing bullish forward-growth expectations tied to AI/cloud infrastructure. 5 AI Stocks Positioned to Win, No Matter What
• Negative Sentiment: High-profile investor Michael Burry has taken short positions and put options on Oracle, publicly criticizing its cloud strategy and highlighting ~ $95B of debt tied to data-center expansion — a headline risk that fuels selling pressure and raises governance/financial-concern narratives. Oracle (ORCL) Stock: Burry Takes Short Position on Database Company

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms have commented on ORCL. Barclays set a $310.00 price target on Oracle in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $375.00 price target on shares of Oracle in a report on Wednesday, November 26th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of Oracle in a research report on Monday, December 29th. KeyCorp dropped their target price on shares of Oracle from $350.00 to $300.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada cut their target price on shares of Oracle from $250.00 to $195.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, January 5th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have assigned a Buy rating, ten have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $305.50.

Oracle Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.28, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 0.91. The business’s 50-day moving average is $207.33 and its 200-day moving average is $242.25. The company has a market capitalization of $588.11 billion, a PE ratio of 38.48, a PEG ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.65.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.26 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.64 by $0.62. Oracle had a net margin of 25.28% and a return on equity of 70.60%. The business had revenue of $16.06 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $16.19 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.47 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 14.2% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, research analysts anticipate that Oracle Corporation will post 5 earnings per share for the current year.

Oracle Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, January 23rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 9th will be issued a $0.50 dividend. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 9th. Oracle’s payout ratio is 37.59%.

Insider Transactions at Oracle

In other news, Director Jeffrey Berg sold 49,365 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, October 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $283.02, for a total transaction of $13,971,282.30. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 151,999 shares in the company, valued at $43,018,756.98. This trade represents a 24.52% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider Mark Hura sold 15,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $196.89, for a total transaction of $2,953,350.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 234,077 shares in the company, valued at approximately $46,087,420.53. The trade was a 6.02% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 126,588 shares of company stock valued at $33,155,596. 40.90% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Oracle

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in ORCL. Winnow Wealth LLC bought a new stake in shares of Oracle in the 2nd quarter worth $28,000. FSA Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Oracle during the third quarter valued at $28,000. Kilter Group LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Oracle during the second quarter valued at $30,000. Darwin Wealth Management LLC increased its holdings in Oracle by 130.0% in the 3rd quarter. Darwin Wealth Management LLC now owns 115 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $32,000 after buying an additional 65 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Investors Research Corp raised its position in Oracle by 465.5% in the 4th quarter. Investors Research Corp now owns 164 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $32,000 after buying an additional 135 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

About Oracle

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.