TREE NEWS reports: Larry Ellison pledged an additional 67 million Oracle shares as collateral for personal loans, boosting his pledged holdings by 19% since 2025. The newly pledged shares are worth about $9.2 billion at Oracle’s Friday close of $137.10. Ellison is helping his son David’s Paramount Skydance pursue a $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, with the family committing $47 billion in equity.
Ellison Pledges 67M More Oracle Shares as Loan Collateral
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The scale of Ellison's personal balance-sheet leverage is now a governance signal in its own right: a 19% increase in pledged shares ties a growing slice of his Oracle stake to loan performance, not just company performance. That matters for Oracle holders because forced-selling risk in a sharp drawdown is a structural overhang, and it matters for the Warner Bros. Discovery bid because the family's $47 billion equity commitment rests on collateralised borrowing rather than liquid cash. The open question is whether further pledges follow, and how Oracle's own stock reacts to being the funding base for a media megadeal.
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