Currently, there are 2.80B common shares owned by the public and among those 1.64B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 12.12% and -1.77% over the past three months. ORCL shares are trading 3.56% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 58.76% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $106.51 and touched a high of $198.31 over the same period. ORCL has an average intraday trading volume of 7.94 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 4.82%, -2.14%, and 14.95% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Oracle Corp (NYSE: ORCL) shares accounts for 44.06% of the company’s 2.80B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $482.67B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.05. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 42.23, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $4.09. The company has a PEG of 3.97 and a Quick Ratio of 0.81 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 6.45. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.64% over the week and 2.20% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Oracle Corp (ORCL) will achieve an EPS of 1.49 for the current quarter, 1.8 for the next quarter and 7.03 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 1.4 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 1.4. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 1.41 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 10.47%, and 14.33% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 10.65% over the next five years, compared to 4.54% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the ORCL, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Cantor Fitzgerald stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on January 17, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $214. Monness Crespi & Hardt coverage for the Oracle Corp (ORCL) stock in a research note released on December 20, 2024 offered a Sell rating with a price target of $130. RBC Capital Mkts was of a view on October 23, 2024 that the stock is Sector Perform, while Melius gave the stock Buy rating on September 16, 2024, issuing a price target of $210. JMP Securities on their part issued Mkt Outperform rating on September 10, 2024.
