The American technology giant specialized in providing enterprise applications, cloud infrastructure, hardware, and database software, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), is scheduled to pay its second dividend of 2026 next week on April 24.
Furthermore, the amount set to be paid on the day remains unchanged compared to the one from January 23, and will amount to $0.50 per ORCL share. Indeed, the dividend has remained at 50 cents since the second quarter (Q2) 2025, when it rose from $0.40.
Thus, given the annual yield of 1.45% – high for the technology sector as Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) offers 0.021% and Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) 0% – and the actual quarterly dollar amount, investors will be receiving $50 for every 100 Oracle shares they own.
Simultaneously, the ex-dividend date for April 24 passed on April 9, and, at press time, it is estimated that traders will have to invest in ORCL stock by July 9 to receive money from the equity on July 23.
Larry Ellison, co-founder, CTO, and Executive Chairman, is expected to receive approximately $580 million, considering he is also the firm’s biggest individual shareholder with an estimated 1.16 billion Oracle shares.
Oracle stock dividend remains unchanged despite steep ORCL 2026 decline
Elsewhere, the news ORCL stock dividend payment might come as something of a surprise considering the equity’s performance since 2026 started.
Specifically, Oracle declined as much as 29.44% from $195.71 on January 2 to $138.09 at the most recent stock market close on Friday, April 10.
The downturn was driven by a mix of factors, which are, by press time on Monday, April 13, generally linked to the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom and the fears that it may have created a dangerous bubble.
Why Oracle stock is under pressure in 2026
Indeed, Oracle is bound by an extensive infrastructure agreement with OpenAI: a dependence that has been punished on multiple occasions by investors in 2026, as dramatically seen with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) earlier in the year.
So far, the agreement has led Larry Ellison’s company to substantially increase its capital expenditures and to raise billions in debt, and likely contributed to the recent and sudden layoff of 30,000 employees and the arrival of a new CFO.
Notably, Wall Street remains generally bullish regarding Oracle stock despite the turmoil, though some observers caution that the OpenAI commitment might become an existential risk for the company in a handful of years.
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