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Jul 12, 2026

S&P Global Downgrades Oracle Credit Rating to BBB- Over OpenAI Dependency Risk

S&P Global downgraded Oracle's credit rating to BBB-, one notch above junk status, citing OpenAI's concentration risk as the AI company accounts for roughly half of Oracle's $638 billion in contractual obligations.

Jul 12, 2026·1 source
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  • ▪According to S&P Global, Oracle's AI business is consuming far more cash than expected.
  • ▪Unlike Oracle, competitors like AWS, Google, and Microsoft can use internal workloads to absorb excess data center capacity.
  • ▪S&P Global considers OpenAI a "key credit risk" for Oracle.

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