Oracle has expanded in recent years from providing database software management to cloud computing, which has been its biggest contributor to sales. In its fiscal 2026 year, the tech giant posted net income of $17 billion on revenue of $67 billion, with its cloud business accounting for just a little more than half of the top line. One of Oracle’s biggest services is OCI Generative AI, which is used for developing and operating generative AI applications.Oracle’s profit has increased in recent years to record levels, and the company has used some of that money to pay back shareholders. Here’s how much dividends it has paid back to shareholders, and what its payout ratio and dividend yield are.Oracle dividend quick facts*Current quarterly payout:$0.50 per shareCurrent annual payout: $2.00 per shareYield: 1.4%Payout Ratio: 34%Frequency: QuarterlyNumber of dividend increases: 8*Based on Oracle’s July 9, 2026 stock price, fiscal 2026 earnings and dividends.How often does Oracle pay dividends?Oracle pays a cash dividend on a quarterly basis. The company’s fiscal year runs from June 1 to May 31, and the payments are made in July, October, January, and April.Related: Does Meta pay dividends? Its yield and payouts explainedWhen did Oracle start paying dividends?Oracle was founded in 1977, but it only started paying dividends more than three decades later. Its first dividend payment was on May 8, 2009, at 5 cents a share. For fiscal 2010, the tech giant paid an annual dividend of 20 cents, on net income of $1.21 a share. That put its payout ratio, which is total annual dividend per share divided by total earnings per share, at 17%. The dividend payments came as profits continued to rise. Net income in fiscal 2009 was $5.59 billion, up more than fourfold from $1.29 billion in 1999.How much dividends does Oracle pay?For its first quarterly dividend, Oracle paid 5 cents a share, in May 2009. Since then, Oracle has raised its dividend typically every two years — for a total of eight times — and has even paid out special dividends. Two years after the first payment, the quarterly dividend was raised by a penny, to 6 cents. In August 2013, the dividend was doubled to 12 cents a share. In April 2015, the dividend rose by a quarter to 15 cents, and two years later by 4 cents to 19 cents. In April 2019, it rose by 5 cents to 24 cents, and in April 2021 by a third to 32 cents. In April 2023, the dividend rose by a quarter to 40 cents, and again by the same amount in April 2025 to 50 cents.More on dividends:Apple’s dividend explained: Yield, history & moreAmazon’s dividends & stock splits: What you need to knowHow much does Home Depot pay in dividends?
Oracle founder Larry Ellison, shown here in the Oval Office of the White House on February 3, 2025, is Oracle’s largest individual shareholder. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
Who benefits the most from Oracle’s dividend?Large shareholders, especially company founders, tend to benefit the most from dividend payments. Larry Ellison, a company founder who also serves as Oracle’s executive chair and chief technology officer, owned 1.158 billion shares, or 40.6% of common stock, as of September 2025, according to the company’s 2025 proxy statement. Based on fiscal 2025 dividends of $1.70 a share, Ellison would have been paid $1.97 billion. What is Oracle’s payout ratio?In fiscal 2026, Oracle paid a total of $2 a share in dividends, and posted net income of $5.83 a share. That payout ratio was 34% That seems to be generous compared to other tech companies, which have been investing earnings back into their businesses. Nvidia, the leader in making hardware for use in artificial intelligence, had a payout ratio of 0.8% in 2025.What is Oracle’s dividend yield?Oracle’s 12-month dividend yield was 1.4% in early July 2026. That’s based on the 12-month dividend payment of $2 for fiscal 2026, and its July 9 share price of $144.22. By comparison, Nvidia had a 12-month dividend yield of 0.49%.Related: Alphabet’s dividend history, yield & future prospects explained