Centaurus Financial Inc. Lowers Stock Position in Oracle Corporation $ORCL

Centaurus Financial Inc. trimmed its position in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) by 17.4% in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund owned 54,366 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after selling 11,483 shares during the quarter. Centaurus Financial Inc.’s holdings in Oracle were worth $7,998,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of ORCL. Cim LLC raised its holdings in shares of Oracle by 10.4% during the first quarter. Cim LLC now owns 2,660 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $391,000 after purchasing an additional 250 shares during the last quarter. Bull Harbor Capital LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Oracle during the 1st quarter worth about $544,000. Strategic Investment Advisors MI grew its position in shares of Oracle by 210.0% during the 1st quarter. Strategic Investment Advisors MI now owns 11,509 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $1,611,000 after acquiring an additional 7,797 shares during the period. South Dakota Investment Council increased its stake in shares of Oracle by 34.6% in the 1st quarter. South Dakota Investment Council now owns 73,869 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $10,867,000 after purchasing an additional 19,000 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Altshuler Shaham Ltd increased its position in shares of Oracle by 0.5% in the first quarter. Altshuler Shaham Ltd now owns 1,324,210 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $194,805,000 after buying an additional 6,927 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria argues that the market is assigning essentially no value to Oracle’s reported $630 billion AI backlog. Growing confidence in OpenAI’s long-term computing commitments could eventually improve investor perceptions of Oracle’s cloud infrastructure opportunity. Wall Street Is Valuing Oracle’s $630B AI Backlog at Zero
• Positive Sentiment: Several analysts and opinion pieces see significant long-term upside, citing Oracle’s record cloud growth, AI contracts and a roughly $7 billion Pentagon agreement. However, these bullish views have not yet overcome concerns about valuation and execution. A $7 Billion Reason to Buy Oracle Stock Now
• Neutral Sentiment: Founder Larry Ellison has personally guaranteed approximately $40.4 billion of equity financing for Paramount Skydance’s proposed Warner Bros. Discovery transaction. The guarantee is personal rather than an Oracle obligation, but his 40.6% ownership makes the deal relevant to shareholders because of potential concentration and governance concerns. Larry Ellison and the Media Deal
• Negative Sentiment: Oracle’s credit-default-swap costs have risen to about 200 basis points, substantially above those of several other AI-linked issuers. Investors are increasingly worried that heavy borrowing for data centers could compress margins, raise financing costs and delay returns on AI spending. Oracle Stock and Default Insurance
• Negative Sentiment: Technology companies have issued roughly $194 billion of bonds for AI investment in 2026 through early July. Weaker demand and rising yields are fueling an industry-wide “AI debt fatigue” trade, with Oracle viewed as especially exposed because of its substantial infrastructure commitments and leverage.
• Negative Sentiment: Bearish commentary highlights the possibility of further selling if AI capital spending slows, OpenAI-related credit concerns worsen or Oracle’s expected margin compression becomes more pronounced. One investment firm also trimmed its Oracle position after strong cloud gains, reinforcing the near-term risk-off sentiment.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Vice Chairman Jeffrey Henley sold 400,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $159.16, for a total value of $63,664,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly 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 sale 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 currently owned by corporate insiders.

Oracle Stock Down 1.8%

Shares of NYSE ORCL opened at $117.77 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 1.12, a quick ratio of 1.12 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.21. The stock has a market cap of $339.23 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.20, a PEG ratio of 0.75 and a beta of 1.72. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $166.35 and its 200-day simple moving average is $165.16. Oracle Corporation has a 12-month low of $114.50 and a 12-month high of $345.72.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, June 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.11 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.96 by $0.15. The firm had revenue of $19.18 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $19.10 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 25.37% and a return on equity of 58.62%. The company’s revenue was up 20.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.70 earnings per share. 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, equities analysts predict that Oracle Corporation will post 6.47 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Oracle Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, July 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, July 10th were issued a $0.50 dividend. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, July 10th. Oracle’s dividend payout ratio is presently 34.31%.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts have recently commented on the stock. BMO Capital Markets boosted their target price on shares of Oracle from $200.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, June 11th. Wedbush lowered their price target on shares of Oracle from $275.00 to $240.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Arete Research set a $255.00 target price on shares of Oracle and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated a “sector perform” rating and issued a $190.00 price objective on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Finally, Citigroup reaffirmed a “market outperform” rating on shares of Oracle in a research report on Thursday, June 11th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have given a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $265.03.

About Oracle

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.