Oracle Corporation $ORCL Holdings Cut by Greenup Street Wealth Management LLC

Greenup Street Wealth Management LLC cut its stake in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCLFree Report) by 84.4% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 3,228 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after selling 17,522 shares during the quarter. Greenup Street Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Oracle were worth $908,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the stock. Winnow Wealth LLC acquired a new stake in Oracle in the second quarter worth $28,000. Kilter Group LLC acquired a new position in shares of Oracle during the second quarter valued at $30,000. LGT Financial Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Oracle during the second quarter worth about $33,000. Legend Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Oracle in the 2nd quarter worth about $34,000. Finally, HighMark Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Oracle in the 2nd quarter worth about $38,000. Institutional investors own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

Key Stores Impacting Oracle

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Analyst Ratings Changes

ORCL has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Melius Research boosted their target price on shares of Oracle from $270.00 to $370.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, September 10th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $375.00 price target on shares of Oracle in a report on Wednesday, November 26th. Robert W. Baird reduced their price objective on Oracle from $365.00 to $315.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, November 18th. Cowen restated a “buy” rating on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, December 4th. Finally, Redburn Partners set a $175.00 target price on Oracle in a research note on Thursday, September 25th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-seven have assigned a Buy rating, eleven have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $307.72.

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Oracle Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE ORCL opened at $198.00 on Friday. Oracle Corporation has a 1 year low of $118.86 and a 1 year high of $345.72. The firm has a market cap of $568.88 billion, a P/E ratio of 37.22, a PEG ratio of 1.77 and a beta of 1.66. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $224.39 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $242.89. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.28, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a current ratio of 0.91.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCLGet Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.26 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.64 by $0.62. The business had revenue of $16.06 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $16.19 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 70.60% and a net margin of 25.28%.The company’s revenue was up 14.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.47 earnings per share. Research analysts forecast that Oracle Corporation will post 5 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Oracle Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, January 23rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 9th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 9th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.0%. Oracle’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 37.59%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, EVP Stuart Levey sold 19,758 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, October 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $300.00, for a total value of $5,927,400.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 18,429 shares in the company, valued at $5,528,700. The trade was a 51.74% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, CEO Clayton M. Magouyrk sold 40,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, October 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $276.64, for a total transaction of $11,065,600.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 154,030 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $42,610,859.20. The trade was a 20.62% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 131,346 shares of company stock worth $36,129,646. 40.90% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Oracle Profile

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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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Institutional Ownership by Quarter for Oracle (NYSE:ORCL)

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