Oracle's Larry Ellison pledged $9.2 billion more stock to get personal loans.
Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, executive chair and chief technology officer, has pledged 67 million more Oracle shares as security for loans than a year earlier.
Bloomberg reported this on 25 September, citing a document submitted by Oracle. At Friday's closing price of $137.10, those shares are worth about $9.2 billion.
The number of pledged shares is 19% higher than it was in 2025. About 36% of his roughly 1.16 billion Oracle shares now serve as security for loans, Bloomberg calculated.
Oracle's policy generally prohibits executives and directors from pledging company stock. Ellison has an exception.
Bloomberg's report also noted a family deal. Ellison is backing his son David's Paramount Skydance in its $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Earlier in September, Ellison announced a sale of up to $7.5 billion of Oracle stock. He then cancelled it.
The report included no comment from Oracle or Ellison. The figures come from Oracle's own document.
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