{"id":560056,"date":"2026-02-02T03:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/560056\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T03:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:31:17","slug":"oracle-says-it-plans-to-raise-up-to-50-billion-in-debt-and-equity-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/560056\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle says it plans to raise up to $50 billion in debt and equity this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Oracle expects to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026 to build additional capacity for \u200bits cloud infrastructure, the software company said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The \u200ccompany, chaired by billionaire Larry Ellison, said it plans to achieve its funding \u200cobjectives using a combination of debt and equity financing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;Oracle is raising money in order to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from our largest Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers, \u2060including AMD, Meta, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/NVDA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:NVIDIA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NVIDIA<\/a>, \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a>, TikTok, xAI and others&#8221;, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Oracle plans to raise around \u200dhalf of the funding through a combination of equity-linked and common equity issuances, including mandatory convertible preferred securities and a new at-the-market \u200bequity program of up to $20 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The software group plans to \u200craise the other half of its funding by issuing senior unsecured bonds early in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Investors have scrutinized Oracle&#8217;s AI infrastructure build-out in recent weeks as its debt climbs and its fortunes become increasingly tied to OpenAI, which is not \u2060profitable and has not detailed how \u200bit would finance its infrastructure plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Oracle \u200bwas sued earlier this month by bondholders who say they suffered losses because the company concealed \u200dits need to \u2060sell significant additional debt to build out its <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The cost of insuring Oracle&#8217;s debt against default \u2060surged in December last year to its highest in at least five \u200cyears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; editing by \u200cDiane Craft and Lincoln Feast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Oracle expects to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026 to build additional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":560057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,47016,92329,93532,182476,19781,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-560056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cloud-infrastructure","tag-larry-ellison","tag-oracle-cloud-infrastructure","tag-oracle-plans","tag-software-company","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115998929614034641","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}