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Larry Ellison Becomes Third-Richest Man As Oracle Shares Hit Year’s High
4 minutes Posted Jun 3, 2026 at 8:30 pm.
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Oracle shares hit a 2026 intraday high Monday, extending a furious late-May rally that has recast the database pioneer as a marquee AI-infrastructure player and boosted the fortune of cofounder Larry Ellison, who holds roughly 40% of the company.
Oracle traded as high as $233.72 Monday, after surging about 11% Friday to cap software's strongest month since 2001.
The company has pivoted from a mature software vendor into a major player in the AI boom, renting compute power to the largest AI developers like OpenAI.
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