Oracle Corporation $ORCL Shares Sold by Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co.

Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co. lowered its stake in shares of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) by 8.6% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 301,411 shares of the enterprise software provider’s stock after selling 28,428 shares during the quarter. Oracle comprises 2.7% of Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co.’s portfolio, making the stock its 8th biggest holding. Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co.’s holdings in Oracle were worth $84,769,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

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

Key Oracle News

Here are the key news stories impacting Oracle this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Guggenheim reiterates a long-term bullish view, arguing worries about Oracle’s AI-related debt and concentration with OpenAI are overblown and that cloud & AI adoption plus data-center expansion create a multiyear growth runway. This supports the buy-and-hold thesis. Oracle’s stock could be a big winner for the next decade, according to this analyst. Here’s why.
• Positive Sentiment: Several bullish write-ups (Seeking Alpha, InsiderMonkey summaries) highlight Oracle’s accelerating transition from on‑premise to cloud/AI services, a large backlog, and analyst support — all items that underpin revenue visibility and make a “buy the dip” case for long-term investors. Oracle: ‘Buy’ The Dip As Backlog Diversification Continues
• Positive Sentiment: AI ecosystem tailwinds (e.g., potential deals and data‑center demand) are cited across coverage — third‑party GPU and cloud deployments could indirectly lift Oracle’s cloud and services revenue as enterprises roll out AI workloads. MarketBeat’s AMD piece explicitly notes Oracle as a potential beneficiary of broader AI deployments. AMD Rebound Begins: It’s Not Too Late to Get In (ORCL)
• Neutral Sentiment: Oracle will pay a small upcoming dividend (Jan. 23) — a modest positive for income investors but unlikely to move the stock materially. Oracle to pay dividends on January 23; Here’s how much 100 ORCL shares will earn
• Neutral Sentiment: Valuation takes and fair‑value analyses (Yahoo Finance piece) argue the recent pullback and renewed cloud focus leave Oracle in a more reasonable range — useful context but not an immediate catalyst. Is Oracle (ORCL) Fairly Priced After Recent Share Price Pullback And Cloud Growth Focus
• Negative Sentiment: Legal pressure: bondholders have filed a lawsuit tied to Oracle’s AI‑related debt losses. That legal headline is a direct near‑term negative and has been cited as a key reason for today’s selloff as it raises questions about debt terms and investor recovery. Bondholders Are Suing Oracle for Its AI Losses. Is There a Case to Keep Buying ORCL Stock and Waiting for AI to Pay Off?
• Negative Sentiment: Contrarian/critical takes warn of an AI valuation bubble and concentration risk with OpenAI; some analysts and articles urge caution or even selling before broader AI sentiment corrects. These narratives amplify volatility and can pressure shares when sentiment shifts. Oracle: Sell Before The AI Bubble Bursts
• Negative Sentiment: News roundups (MSN) tie today’s decline to the legal filing and investor concern about Oracle’s AI strategy/debt — reinforcing that headline risk is currently dominating trading. Why Oracle (ORCL) Shares Are Falling Today

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently commented on ORCL. DA Davidson lowered their price objective on Oracle from $200.00 to $180.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, December 11th. Rothschild Redb upgraded shares of Oracle to a “strong sell” rating in a report on Thursday, September 25th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of Oracle in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Baird R W raised shares of Oracle to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Oppenheimer reiterated a “market perform” rating on shares of Oracle in a report on Thursday, December 11th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-seven have issued a Buy rating, ten have assigned a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $305.50.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Oracle news, EVP Douglas A. Kehring sold 35,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on 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 transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 33,638 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $6,555,709.82. This represents a 50.99% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO Clayton M. Magouyrk sold 10,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $192.52, for a total transaction of $1,925,200.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 144,030 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $27,728,655.60. The trade was a 6.49% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 116,588 shares of company stock valued at $27,511,146. Insiders own 40.90% of the company’s stock.

Oracle Stock Down 5.9%

Shares of NYSE:ORCL opened at $179.83 on Wednesday. The company has a market capitalization of $516.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.68 and a beta of 1.65. The company has a 50 day moving average of $201.12 and a two-hundred day moving average of $240.80. Oracle Corporation has a 52-week low of $118.86 and a 52-week high of $345.72. The company has a quick ratio of 0.91, a current ratio of 0.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.28.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, December 10th. The enterprise software provider reported $2.26 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.64 by $0.62. The business had revenue of $16.06 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $16.19 billion. Oracle had a net margin of 25.28% and a return on equity of 70.60%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 14.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.47 earnings per share. As a group, analysts forecast that Oracle Corporation will post 5 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Oracle Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, January 23rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 9th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.1%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 9th. Oracle’s payout ratio is presently 37.59%.

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.