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![TrungTPhan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::945817135816654848.png) Trung Phan [@TrungTPhan](/creator/twitter/TrungTPhan) on x 716.2K followers
Created: 2025-06-13 15:08:10 UTC

Oracle hit a record market cap of $586B and Larry Ellison owns XX% of the company ($240B), making him 2nd richest person in the world.

At the end 2010, Oracle valued at $87B and Ellison owned ~27% of it ($24B).

How did his ownership of Oracle increase over that span? Since 2011, the company has spent ~$155B on buybacks — mostly using free cash flow (with some debt) — and reduced shares outstanding from over X billion to under X billion.

Ellison didn’t sell into the buyback program and increased his stake from XX% to XX% (he owned XX% of Oracle at its 1986 IPO).

Depending on the pace of buybacks, Ellison could own a majority of Oracle in a few years amidst the AI boom that has been huge for Oracle’s data center business (ORCL is up more than 3x in last X years).

![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtVSCLebMA0x4sr.jpg)

XXXXXXX engagements

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**Related Topics**
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[cash flow](/topic/cash-flow)
[$155b](/topic/$155b)
[$24b](/topic/$24b)
[$87b](/topic/$87b)
[$240b](/topic/$240b)

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