MGO One Seven LLC Grows Position in Oracle Corporation $ORCL

MGO One Seven LLC grew its position in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCLFree Report) by 5.2% during the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 81,417 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,014 shares during the quarter. Oracle comprises 0.5% of MGO One Seven LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 28th biggest position. MGO One Seven LLC’s holdings in Oracle were worth $22,898,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of ORCL. Swiss National Bank lifted its holdings in shares of Oracle by 7.6% in the 2nd quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 5,093,200 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $1,113,526,000 after purchasing an additional 360,000 shares during the last quarter. Patton Fund Management Inc. grew its stake in Oracle by 626.1% during the 3rd quarter. Patton Fund Management Inc. now owns 11,537 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $3,245,000 after buying an additional 9,948 shares during the last quarter. Private Wealth Asset Management LLC increased its position in Oracle by 9.2% during the second quarter. Private Wealth Asset Management LLC now owns 3,817 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $835,000 after buying an additional 321 shares during the period. Soltis Investment Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Oracle by 4.8% in the second quarter. Soltis Investment Advisors LLC now owns 32,937 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $7,201,000 after buying an additional 1,515 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Cascade Investment Group Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Oracle in the second quarter valued at approximately $239,000. 42.44% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ORCL has been the subject of several research reports. HSBC reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $382.00 price target on shares of Oracle in a research report on Wednesday, November 26th. Baird R W raised shares of Oracle to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 8th. Barclays set a $310.00 target price on shares of Oracle in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Mizuho set a $400.00 price target on Oracle in a research report on Monday, December 15th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reduced their price objective on Oracle from $364.00 to $339.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-seven have issued a Buy rating, ten have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $305.50.

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Oracle Stock Performance

Shares of ORCL stock opened at $204.69 on Tuesday. The company has a current ratio of 0.91, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.28. Oracle Corporation has a 12-month low of $118.86 and a 12-month high of $345.72. The company has a market cap of $588.11 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 38.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.76 and a beta of 1.65. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $207.33 and a 200-day simple moving average of $242.25.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCLGet Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, December 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.26 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.64 by $0.62. Oracle had a net margin of 25.28% and a return on equity of 70.60%. The company had revenue of $16.06 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $16.19 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.47 EPS. The business’s revenue was up 14.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities analysts forecast that Oracle Corporation will post 5 EPS 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 given a dividend of $0.50 per share. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.0%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 9th. Oracle’s dividend payout ratio is presently 37.59%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, Director Jeffrey Berg sold 49,365 shares of Oracle stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, October 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $283.02, for a total transaction of $13,971,282.30. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 151,999 shares in the company, valued at approximately $43,018,756.98. This trade represents a 24.52% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, CEO Clayton M. Magouyrk sold 40,000 shares of the business’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 value of $11,065,600.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 154,030 shares in the company, valued at $42,610,859.20. This trade represents a 20.62% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 126,588 shares of company stock valued at $33,155,596 in the last 90 days. 40.90% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

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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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