Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC Raises Holdings in Oracle Corporation $ORCL

Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC grew its holdings in Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) by 62.5% in the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 11,638 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after buying an additional 4,475 shares during the quarter. Oracle accounts for about 0.7% of Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 19th biggest holding. Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in Oracle were worth $3,273,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Kampmann Melissa S. grew its stake in shares of Oracle by 0.3% during the 3rd quarter. Kampmann Melissa S. now owns 11,910 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $3,350,000 after purchasing an additional 35 shares during the period. McLean Asset Management Corp lifted its stake in shares of Oracle by 0.7% in the third quarter. McLean Asset Management Corp now owns 5,319 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $1,551,000 after purchasing an additional 36 shares during the period. Mine & Arao Wealth Creation & Management LLC. boosted its holdings in Oracle by 0.7% during the third quarter. Mine & Arao Wealth Creation & Management LLC. now owns 5,281 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $1,485,000 after buying an additional 36 shares in the last quarter. Voisard Asset Management Group Inc. grew its position in Oracle by 3.4% during the third quarter. Voisard Asset Management Group Inc. now owns 1,127 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock worth $317,000 after buying an additional 37 shares during the period. Finally, Avion Wealth increased its holdings in Oracle by 16.6% in the third quarter. Avion Wealth now owns 260 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock valued at $73,000 after buying an additional 37 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 42.44% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have recently commented on ORCL. William Blair reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of Oracle in a research note on Friday, October 17th. Royal Bank Of Canada cut their target price on shares of Oracle from $250.00 to $195.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 5th. Stifel Nicolaus reduced their price target on shares of Oracle from $350.00 to $275.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Oppenheimer reissued a “market perform” rating on shares of Oracle in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reduced their target price on Oracle from $400.00 to $320.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, December 11th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have given a Buy rating, eleven have assigned a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $300.46.

Oracle Stock Down 1.2%

Shares of NYSE:ORCL opened at $172.89 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 0.91, a quick ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.28. The firm has a market cap of $496.72 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.50, a PEG ratio of 1.54 and a beta of 1.65. The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $195.63 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $238.35. Oracle Corporation has a 12-month low of $118.86 and a 12-month high of $345.72.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.26 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.64 by $0.62. Oracle had a net margin of 25.28% and a return on equity of 70.60%. The business had revenue of $16.06 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $16.19 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.47 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 14.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts forecast that Oracle Corporation will post 5 EPS for the current year.

Oracle Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 23rd. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 9th were issued a $0.50 dividend. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.2%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, January 9th. Oracle’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 37.59%.

Insider Activity at Oracle

In other Oracle news, Director Naomi O. Seligman sold 2,223 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $196.61, for a total transaction of $437,064.03. Following the completion of the sale, the director directly owned 25,596 shares in the company, valued at $5,032,429.56. This represents a 7.99% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, EVP Douglas A. Kehring sold 35,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $194.89, for a total value of $6,821,150.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 33,638 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,555,709.82. This trade represents a 50.99% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold 62,223 shares of company stock valued at $12,136,764 over the last quarter. 40.90% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Key Headlines Impacting Oracle

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: AI infrastructure tailwind — coverage highlights Oracle’s high-performance computing cost advantage and market-share gains in AI infrastructure, supporting the long-term growth story. The AI Infrastructure Stock That’s Stealing Market Share in 2026
• Positive Sentiment: New business win — Alrajhi Medicine selected Oracle Health Foundation EHR and Fusion Cloud, a concrete enterprise win that supports recurring cloud/healthcare revenue expansion. Alrajhi Medicine to Digitize its Healthcare Operations with Oracle
• Positive Sentiment: CapEx ramp backing AI growth — Analysts note Oracle is ramping cloud CapEx toward ~$50B to build GPU-rich data centers aimed at accelerating revenue growth from FY2027 onward. This supports the long-term AI revenue thesis (but increases near-term financing needs). The Zacks Analyst Blog Oracle’s, Amazon and Alphabet
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst/coverage attention — Zacks includes Oracle among names tied to AI and VMware integration in its research picks; supportive but not an immediate catalyst. The Zacks Analyst Blog Broadcom, Oracle, Mastercard, Geospace and Gencor
• Negative Sentiment: Operational outage — A weather-related power outage at an Oracle data center disrupted U.S. TikTok users, raising short-term reliability and reputational concerns (repeated coverage). Oracle says outage at data center causes issues faced by US TikTok users
• Negative Sentiment: Credit-market stress — Credit default swaps on Oracle have surged to levels not seen since the COVID era, signaling investor unease about the company’s rising debt load to fund cloud/GPU expansion. Chamath Palihapitiya’s Nervous ‘Gulp’ A Sign Of Things To Come? Oracle’s Credit Default Swaps Surge Past COVID-19 Levels
• Negative Sentiment: Legal/SEC risk — Multiple investor law firms (Rosen, Pomerantz) have filed/investigated class actions tied to Oracle’s senior note offering documents, adding legal exposure and headline risk. ORCL Investors Have Opportunity to Lead Oracle Corporation Securities Lawsuit
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst cut & execution concerns — At least one analyst sharply cut its price target and investor letters/notes (Polen) flagged execution risks, amplifying near-term selling pressure. Why 1 Analyst Just Slashed Their Price Target on Oracle Stock by More than 30%
• Negative Sentiment: Market reaction summary — Zacks notes the stock fell more than the market in the latest session, reflecting a combination of the above operational, credit and legal headlines. Here’s Why Oracle (ORCL) Fell More Than Broader Market

Oracle Company 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.