SVB Wealth LLC Has $7.02 Million Position in Oracle Corporation $ORCL

SVB Wealth LLC cut its stake in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) by 7.5% during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 47,901 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after selling 3,902 shares during the period. SVB Wealth LLC’s holdings in Oracle were worth $7,020,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. California State Teachers Retirement System boosted its stake in shares of Oracle by 14,636.4% during the 2nd quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 382,756,945 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $56,093,030,000 after buying an additional 380,159,589 shares during the period. State Street Corp grew its holdings in shares of Oracle by 4.4% during the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 76,527,759 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $14,916,026,000 after acquiring an additional 3,216,915 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Oracle by 1.8% in the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 37,734,944 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $7,328,754,000 after acquiring an additional 665,374 shares during the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors increased its stake in shares of Oracle by 29.3% in the fourth quarter. Capital Research Global Investors now owns 30,137,126 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $5,874,070,000 after acquiring an additional 6,826,299 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised its holdings in shares of Oracle by 1.9% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 27,125,099 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $5,286,953,000 after acquiring an additional 495,146 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

ORCL has been the subject of a number of research reports. Wedbush reduced their price objective on Oracle from $275.00 to $240.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Stephens reaffirmed an “equal weight” rating and issued a $164.00 target price on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Piper Sandler raised their price target on Oracle from $210.00 to $225.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, June 11th. Oppenheimer reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of Oracle in a report on Tuesday. Finally, Citigroup reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Oracle in a research note on Wednesday, August 26th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have assigned a Buy rating, nine have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $261.68.

Oracle Trading Up 2.4%

Oracle stock opened at $162.52 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21, a current ratio of 1.12 and a quick ratio of 1.12. The company has a market capitalization of $468.13 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.88, a PEG ratio of 1.18 and a beta of 1.74. Oracle Corporation has a one year low of $114.50 and a one year high of $345.72. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $140.26 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $160.39.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, June 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.11 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.96 by $0.15. Oracle had a return on equity of 58.62% and a net margin of 25.37%.The company had revenue of $19.18 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $19.10 billion. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.70 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 20.6% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts forecast that Oracle Corporation will post 6.49 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Key Stories Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Analysts are becoming more bullish ahead of earnings. Guggenheim reportedly named Oracle its “best idea” and set a $400 price target, while other firms cited accelerating cloud growth and a large contracted backlog. Guggenheim Calls Oracle Stock Its Best Idea
• Positive Sentiment: Investor enthusiasm is centered on Oracle’s roughly $638 billion cloud-infrastructure backlog and its role in supporting OpenAI’s expanding AI ecosystem. The launch of OpenAI’s latest model has renewed expectations that Oracle can convert AI contracts into long-term cloud revenue. Oracle’s Stock Gets a Boost as the OpenAI Ecosystem Comes Back Into Favor
• Positive Sentiment: Oracle’s ability to deploy AI infrastructure quickly is another bullish factor: Bloom Energy delivered power to an Oracle data center in 55 days, highlighting the importance of speed as customers compete for AI capacity. Bloom Energy Delivered Power to an Oracle Data Center in 55 Days
• Neutral Sentiment: Thursday’s results are the immediate catalyst. Wall Street reportedly expects approximately 28% revenue growth, with investors focused on cloud-services growth, remaining performance obligations, backlog conversion, and management’s outlook.
• Neutral Sentiment: The stock’s options market is implying an unusually large post-earnings move, signaling elevated expectations and risk rather than a clear directional forecast. Oracle Could Swing by $47.8 Billion After Earnings
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that Oracle’s AI expansion requires heavy capital spending and additional debt. Rising leverage, financing costs, and weak free-cash-flow conversion could limit the value of its large backlog. Oracle’s $638 Billion Backlog Meets Its Balance Sheet
• Negative Sentiment: European regulators have issued an early warning regarding Oracle’s cloud licensing practices, creating a potential regulatory overhang. Separately, reported insider activity shows selling rather than purchases, which may temper bullish sentiment.

Insider Activity at Oracle

In other news, Vice Chairman Jeffrey Henley sold 400,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $159.16, for a total transaction of $63,664,000.00. Following the transaction, the insider owned 400,000 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $63,664,000. This represents a 50.00% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Corporate insiders own 40.90% of the company’s stock.

Oracle Company Profile

Oracle Corporation is a global enterprise technology company that develops and provides database software, cloud infrastructure, business applications and related technology services. Its offerings help organizations manage data, run applications, support business operations and build technology environments across on-premises, hybrid and cloud-based settings.

The company’s products include Oracle Database, MySQL, Java, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and a broad portfolio of cloud applications for enterprise resource planning, financial management, human resources, supply chain management, customer experience and industry-specific operations.