Oracle Corp (ORCL) concluded trading on Tuesday at a closing price of $166.64, with 4.25 million shares of worth about $708.47 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 16.30% during that period and on December 31, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -0.16%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 2.80B shares, out of which, 1.63B shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.48% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -9.85%. Year-to-date (YTD), ORCL shares are showing a performance of 58.06% which increased to 58.06% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $101.74 but also hit the highest price of $198.31 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Oracle Corp shares is 7.57 million. The stock is currently trading -4.89% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -6.88% for SMA50 and it goes to 12.56% higher than SMA200.
Oracle Corp (NYSE: ORCL) currently have 2.80B outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 44.12% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $465.33B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.05. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 40.78, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.09 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.83 and has Quick Ratio of 0.81 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 6.45. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ORCL, volatility over the week remained 1.62% while standing at 2.46% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Oracle Corp (ORCL) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.49 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 1.8 and it is 7.05 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.4 which is 1.53 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 1.41 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 10.58% while it is estimated to increase by 14.54% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 10.65% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 4.54% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Monness Crespi & Hardt on December 20, 2024 offering a Sell rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $130 to it. Coverage by RBC Capital Mkts stated Oracle Corp (ORCL) stock as a Sector perform in their note to investors on October 23, 2024, suggesting a price target of $165 for the stock. On September 16, 2024, Melius Upgrade their recommendations, while on September 10, 2024, JMP Securities Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $175. Stock get a Market perform rating from BMO Capital Markets on September 10, 2024.
