Oracle Share Price Today

(NASDAQ: ORCL)

Oracle's share price today stands at $168.60, Open. $163.20 ; Previous Close. $170.06 ; High. $169.84 ; Low. $163.49 ; 52 Week High. $198.31 ; 52 Week Low: $106.51

The stock opens at $163.20, after a previous close of $170.06. The stock reached a daily high of $169.84 and a low of $163.49, with a 52-week high of $198.31 and a 52-week low of $106.51.

You can buy Oracle shares starting ₹85.83 or $1 as on January 6, 2025 on the INDmoney app.

Indian investors can buy Oracle shares in fractions or a part of the whole stock value instead of the entire stock. In simple terms, you can even buy 0.1 or any fraction of Oracle stock units. 

Let us understand this better with an example. If you have $10 or ₹858.3 to invest, and the cost of Oracle stock is $165.69 or ₹14,216.2, you can still invest your $10 or ₹858.3 and get 10/165.69, that is 0.060 units of the Oracle stock in your account.

Another way to understand this is, if 1 Oracle stock costs $165.69 or ₹14,216.2, you can buy Oracle stock worth $250 or ₹21,457.5 which will give you 250/165.69 units which means you will get 1.50 Oracle shares.

An investor investing in US stocks from India not only benefits from stock or capital returns but also gets the benefit of dollar appreciation versus rupees.

If an Indian resident would have invested in Oracle from India, 5 years ago then the total returns (including dollar appreciation) from Oracle stocks would be 266%. The annualised return would be 33%. 

To understand this in simple terms, capital appreciation in the last 5 years from Oracle stocks would be 206.61%. 

On top of this, the investors will enjoy the gains from appreciation in dollar value versus rupees which would be 19.44%. The calculation is for the last 5 years.

Hence, investing in US stocks from the US will only give an investor capital gains, but an Indian investor will enjoy additional gains from dollar appreciation.

Oracle stock has given 266% returns in the last 5 years, whereas Salesforce stock has given 128% and Microsoft has given 221%. $100 invested in Oracle stock 5 years ago would have become $366 and $100 invested in Salesforce, Microsoft stocks would have become $228 and $321, respectively.
 

5 years returns of Oracle → 266% (Capital Appreciation 206.61% & Dollar Appreciation 19.44%)

5 years returns of Salesforce → 128% (Capital Appreciation 90.56% & Dollar Appreciation 19.44%)

5 years returns of Microsoft → 221% (Capital Appreciation 169.04% & Dollar Appreciation 19.44%)

$100 invested in Oracle stock vs Salesforce vs Microsoft stock 5 years ago:

Oracle has paid a total of $6.56 in dividends per share in the last 5 years which translates into ₹528.68. So if you had 10 Oracle shares you would have received ₹5,286.8 in dividends in India from your Oracle stocks.

Oracle declares dividends every quarter. The latest dividend amount Oracle paid each shareholder was $0.4 or 33.6 per share in October 2024. For investors holding shares in fractions the same amount was paid in proportion to the units of shares they hold. For example, if an investor has less than 1 unit ~ 0.12 units, they will still receive $0.048 or ₹4 in dividends.

Oracle is a popular stock amongst top global investors. Top 3 institutional investors include: Vanguard ($25 billion), Blackrock ($21 billion) and State Street Corp ($11 billion). FMR Llc, Morgan Stanley, Geode Capital Management, JP Morgan Chase & Co also hold significant stakes worth up to $6.8 billion.