Catenaa, Saturday, September 26, 2026- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has pledged 67 million shares of Oracle worth $9.2 billion as collateral for personal loans, more than he had last year.
An Oracle filing shows that the share pledges represent a 19% increase in the number of shares Ellison has pledged since 2025. The stock’s value is calculated using Oracle’s closing price of $137.1 on Friday.
Ellison is helping Paramount acquire Warner Bros. in a $111 billion transaction. Paramount is led by his son David.
According to Bloomberg News, the Ellisons have committed to $47 billion in equity funding for that deal, about $24 billion of which is coming from three Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. Paramount is also looking to raise debt financing.
Paramount is reportedly nearing the deal for Warner Bros. after negotiating a settlement earlier this week with 12 state attorneys general and the Writers Guild trade union, who had sued to block the merger.
Oracle officers and directors are forbidden from pledging company shares as collateral for personal loans, with one exception: Larry Ellison, the company’s executive chair and chief technology officer, the Bloomberg report said.
The total stock pledged now represents about 36% of Ellison’s total holdings of 1.16 billion shares.
The Oracle regulatory filing also disclosed that Oracle’s co-chief executive officers will receive $870 million in combined stock option awards.
Clay Magouyrk’s package was valued at $621.7 million, while Mike Sicilia’s was worth $248.7 million. The executives were named joint CEOs a year ago, taking the job from Oracle veteran Safra Catz.
Ellison, who didn’t receive awards in the previous two fiscal years, got a package valued at $117.8 million.
The 82-year-old technology mogul announced earlier this month plans to sell as much as $7.5 billion in Oracle stock, but then quickly canceled them.
