Oracle Corporation $ORCL Shares Sold by Natixis Advisors LLC

Natixis Advisors LLC reduced its position in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) by 7.4% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 2,097,721 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after selling 168,443 shares during the quarter. Oracle comprises approximately 0.6% of Natixis Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 21st largest position. Natixis Advisors LLC’s holdings in Oracle were worth $408,867,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Xponance Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Oracle by 1.8% during the 3rd quarter. Xponance Inc. now owns 406,544 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $114,336,000 after purchasing an additional 7,320 shares during the period. DDD Partners LLC purchased a new position in shares of Oracle during the 4th quarter worth $1,677,000. William Blair Investment Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of Oracle by 28.6% during the 3rd quarter. William Blair Investment Management LLC now owns 1,107,586 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $311,497,000 after purchasing an additional 246,243 shares during the period. New Mexico Educational Retirement Board grew its holdings in shares of Oracle by 4.2% during the 4th quarter. New Mexico Educational Retirement Board now owns 76,590 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $14,928,000 after purchasing an additional 3,100 shares during the period. Finally, KADENSA CAPITAL Ltd grew its holdings in shares of Oracle by 1,945.8% during the 3rd quarter. KADENSA CAPITAL Ltd now owns 92,736 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $26,081,000 after purchasing an additional 88,203 shares during the period. 42.44% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key Stories Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Oracle’s participation in Arm’s AGI CPU ecosystem highlights its push into AI-optimized data centers and strengthens the market’s growth narrative around Oracle’s cloud and infrastructure strategy. Arm says ByteDance, Oracle use its data centre CPU chips
• Positive Sentiment: Oracle’s stock is also benefiting from broader AI enthusiasm after Nvidia’s agentic-AI push helped lift the whole AI infrastructure complex, reinforcing momentum in the shares. Oracle Stock (ORCL) Continues to Rally on Nvidia’s Agentic AI Push
• Positive Sentiment: Technical traders are also seeing bullish signals, with Oracle breaking above its 200-day moving average and showing strong upward momentum, which can attract more buying. Oracle (ORCL) Recently Broke Out Above the 200-Day Moving Average
• Neutral Sentiment: Oracle scheduled its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 earnings release for June 10, keeping attention on the upcoming report, but this announcement alone is not a major new fundamental driver. Oracle Sets the Date for its Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Announcement
• Negative Sentiment: Offsetting the optimism, a shareholder law firm announced a fiduciary-duty investigation tied to Oracle’s AI infrastructure spending, raising concerns about capex, cash flow, and debt if the growth payoff takes time to materialize. Kuehn Law Encourages Investors of Oracle Corporation to Contact Law Firm

Insider Activity

In other news, EVP Stuart Levey sold 15,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, April 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $176.19, for a total value of $2,642,850.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 3,429 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $604,155.51. The trade was a 81.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders own 40.90% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ORCL has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Morgan Stanley lowered their price target on Oracle from $213.00 to $207.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, April 23rd. Melius Research set a $160.00 price objective on Oracle in a research note on Monday, February 9th. DA Davidson lifted their price objective on Oracle from $180.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 11th. Oppenheimer lifted their price objective on Oracle from $210.00 to $235.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 12th. Finally, Monness Crespi & Hardt restated a “hold” rating on shares of Oracle in a research note on Wednesday, March 11th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have assigned a Buy rating, nine have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $261.46.

Oracle Trading Up 9.6%

NYSE:ORCL opened at $247.45 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $711.69 billion, a P/E ratio of 44.43, a PEG ratio of 2.15 and a beta of 1.65. The company has a current ratio of 1.35, a quick ratio of 1.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.66. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $172.65 and its 200-day simple moving average is $177.99. Oracle Corporation has a 12-month low of $134.57 and a 12-month high of $345.72.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, March 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $1.79 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.71 by $0.08. The business had revenue of $17.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $16.91 billion. Oracle had a return on equity of 62.70% and a net margin of 25.30%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 21.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.47 earnings per share. Oracle has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 1.960-2.000 EPS. Equities analysts anticipate that Oracle Corporation will post 6.08 EPS for the current year.

Oracle Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, April 24th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, April 9th were issued a $0.50 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, April 9th. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.8%. Oracle’s payout ratio is presently 35.91%.

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.