Barclays Remains a Buy on Oracle (ORCL)
Barclays analyst Raimo Lenschow reiterated a Buy rating on Oracle (ORCL – Research Report) today and set a price target of $202.00. The company's shares closed today at $176.38.
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Lenschow covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Microsoft, ServiceNow, and CoreWeave, Inc. Class A. According to TipRanks, Lenschow has an average return of 10.7% and a 60.00% success rate on recommended stocks.
Currently, the analyst consensus on Oracle is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $178.95, representing a 1.46% upside. In a report released today, Citizens JMP also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $205.00 price target.
ORCL market cap is currently $497.7B and has a P/E ratio of 41.70.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 51 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of ORCL in relation to earlier this year. Last month, Leon Panetta, a Director at ORCL sold 17,500.00 shares for a total of $2,646,525.00.
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