15. Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)
Number of Hedge Fund Holdings in Q4 2025: 111
AI computing infrastructure firm Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) has shaped up to be one of the more important stocks in today’s AI era. Its shares are up by 49% over the past year and are down by 5.9% year-to-date. However, like several other AI and enterprise software stocks, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)’s shares have also demonstrated momentum recently. They are up by 19% over the past month and have gained 33% since April 10th. Keybanc recently discussed the computing firm. It reiterated an Overweight rating and a $300 share price target on the firm and pointed out that Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) was engaged in several important industry such as AI computing infrastructure and agents to automate work. Mizuho discussed the firm on April 2nd. It reiterated a Buy rating and a $320 share price target for Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL). The coverage came a day after Barclays had kept a Buy rating and a $240 share price target. Cramer discussed the recent share price movement:
“This is the complete revenge of the software companies, . . .whether it be Oracle and of course, Microsoft. And, the question is what’s real, what’s not. What’s oversold, and what’s really taking off. And I’ll tell you, you mentioned Oracle. Oracle is the one that makes people feel, you know what, it, this is all fine. It’s going to happen. Oracle was a bridge too far. Not unlike, I don’t want to conflate too much, not unlike Blue Owl with private credit. What we’re doing is solving some of the puzzles, that really were out there. Now David, all of these are linked. You and I knew that Blue Owl could make it. . .that it was a gating issue, liquidity issue. We knew that Oracle has got the orders, but people didn’t believe. . .This is a conversion of people who didn’t believe. And you know that’s not early, it’s not early when you finally get the short sellers to cover.”
Clearbridge Dividend Strategy discussed Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in its Q1 2026 investor letter:
“In IT, we exited Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) and trimmed Broadcom. Our five-year investment in Oracle proved highly profitable as the company transitioned its business model from licensing to software-as-a service (SAAS). In the last year, Oracle went all-in on building data centers for AI customers, pushing its backlog north of $500 billion. In 2025, the stock surged as Oracle announced eye-popping AI contracts; we took advantage of that surge to begin exiting the position. More recently, investors have begun to question the return profile of these projects, given the hundreds of billions of dollars in required capital investment and their overdependence on one, single customer: OpenAI. Aligning with OpenAI seemed like a no-brainer two years ago when it was the clear leader in AI, but with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude catching up to ChatGPT, Oracle’s concentrated bet on one player now seems questionable. We sold our remaining Oracle shares in the first quarter of 2026.”
