Oracle stock slipped 5% on Tuesday after a report from The Information that raised questions in regards to the company’s plans to purchase billions of Nvidia chips to lease as a cloud supplier to purchasers like OpenAI.
Oracle had 14% gross margins on $900 million in gross sales in its Nvidia cloud enterprise within the three months ending in August, according to the report, which cited inside paperwork. That’s considerably decrease than Oracle’s total gross margin of round 70%.
The report mentioned that Oracle’s latest transformation into one of the crucial essential cloud and synthetic intelligence corporations could run into profitability challenges due to how costly Nvidia chips are and aggressive pricing on its AI chip leases.
In September, Oracle mentioned that its backlog of cloud contracts, which it referred to as remaining efficiency obligations, had jumped 359% in a year. It forecasted $144 billion in cloud infrastructure income in 2030, up from simply over $10 billion in 2025.
Much of that forecasted income is from Oracle’s position in the Stargate project, through which the enterprise vendor is working with OpenAI to open five massive data centers stuffed with AI chips from Nvidia.
Year-to-date stock chart for Oracle.