Cornerstone Advisors LLC Makes New $13.76 Million Investment in Oracle Corporation $ORCL

Cornerstone Advisors LLC purchased a new position in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) during the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm purchased 93,903 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock, valued at approximately $13,761,000.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the business. Buckland Partners Management Co LLC bought a new stake in shares of Oracle during the 2nd quarter valued at about $1,099,000. UNIVEST FINANCIAL Corp bought a new position in Oracle in the second quarter worth about $971,000. K.J. Harrison & Partners Inc acquired a new position in Oracle in the second quarter valued at approximately $667,000. Lee Johnson Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in Oracle in the second quarter valued at approximately $476,000. Finally, Grandfield & Dodd LLC bought a new position in shares of Oracle during the second quarter valued at approximately $928,000. 42.44% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Oracle News Summary

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.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

ORCL has been the topic of a number of research reports. Mizuho set a $320.00 price target on Oracle in a research report on Wednesday, June 3rd. Royal Bank Of Canada restated a “sector perform” rating and set a $190.00 price objective on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Weiss Ratings downgraded Oracle from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a research note on Monday, July 20th. Wedbush dropped 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, Guggenheim reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Oracle in a research note on Thursday, July 23rd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have issued a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Oracle presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $263.97.

Insider Activity at Oracle

In other Oracle news, Vice Chairman Jeffrey Henley sold 400,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction 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 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 ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. 40.90% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Oracle Stock Down 2.5%

Shares of Oracle stock opened at $146.71 on Tuesday. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $148.60 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $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. The company has a market capitalization of $422.59 billion, a P/E 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.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last announced 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. The company had revenue of $19.18 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $19.10 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 58.62% and a net margin of 25.37%.The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 20.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.70 EPS. Oracle has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 1.720-1.760 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 8.050-8.050 EPS. As a group, research analysts forecast 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. Investors of record on Friday, July 10th were issued a $0.50 dividend. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.4%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, July 10th. Oracle’s payout ratio is presently 34.31%.

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.