Larry Ellison Just Collected a $579 Million Dividend Check.
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Quick Read – Ellison’s 40.6% stake in ORCL translates to roughly $579 million per quarter, or about $2.3 billion annually in dividend income. – Oracle has raised its dividend for 12 straight years to $2.00 per share even as the stock dropped 55% from its 2025 peak. – Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Oracle didn’t make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. Oracle cut its latest quarterly dividend check on July 24, 2026, sending $0.50 per share to holders of record.
For Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), that routine payment translated into an estimated ~$579 million in a single quarter, an amount that exceeds the entire market value of many small-cap public companies. That reflects arithmetic driven by one of the largest individual equity stakes in corporate America. The Math Behind Ellison’s Check Per Ellison’s most recently disclosed SEC filings, he owns roughly 1.158 billion shares of Oracle, or about 40.6% of the shares outstanding as of mid-2025.