SpaceX Wants to Borrow $40 Billion to Buy Nvidia Chips Omor Ibne Ehsan Wed, October 7, 2026 at 7:15 AM EDT 5 min read NVDA +0.14% SPCX +0.49% APO +0.52% MS +0.44% GS +0.42% Explore stocks on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
SpaceX is borrowing $40 billion for NVIDIA chips while posting a $541 million quarterly loss on capex more than double its revenue.
Apollo Global Management is expected to lead the deal, as Morgan Stanley warns AI infrastructure will need $1.5 trillion in outside financing by 2028.
Lockup expirations will release up to 1.3 billion SpaceX shares after Q3 earnings, pressuring stock as insiders sell right after a post-IPO rally.
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A recent report citing people familiar with the matter said SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) is seeking about $40 billion of financing to pay for an order of AI chips from NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA). In after-hours trading, SpaceX fell about 1%, and NVIDIA rose about 0.5%.
Under the reported plan, SpaceX would take on the debt to fund the purchase, while NVIDIA would record the chip order as revenue when it ships.
SpaceX, Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO) and NVIDIA did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The financing remains at the discussion stage.
SpaceX is reportedly seeking about $10 billion in bank loans and about $30 billion in investment-grade debt. Investment-grade means bonds rated as having low default risk, which pension funds and insurance companies can hold.
The bank loans are the easier part, because a small group of lenders can agree on terms quickly, but selling bonds that large to a wide investor base requires work with rating agencies and a marketing process that takes quarters.
Apollo is expected to lead the deal and place pieces with other buyers. Pimco is among the lenders in talks.
The financing is expected to close in 2027, which means the terms, the lender group and the final size could all still change before any money moves.
In the second quarter of 2026, SpaceX reported revenue of $7.81 billion against capital spending of $18.37 billion, of which $15.83 billion went to AI. It posted a net loss of $541 million.
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On the August 4 earnings call, management said the next two quarters should look "very similar" on spending, and Elon Musk said, "So we're exclusive to NVIDIA."
Borrowing avoids diluting shareholders today. Even so, lockup expirations will add 328.4 million marketable shares on October 9, another 328.4 million on October 24 and up to 1.3 billion after third-quarter earnings.
The stock priced at $135 in its June 11, 2026 initial public offering, peaked at $225.64 and closed at $171.92 on October 6. That close came one session after a 7.63% gain to its highest close since June, so insiders got their first chance to sell right after a rally, as the debt was being marketed.
NVIDIA closed at $239.24 after a record intraday high of $243.37, worth about $5.78 trillion. A large order matters, but at that size, no single customer changes the business.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) estimates AI infrastructure will need $1.5 trillion of outside financing by 2028. When more buyers borrow to pay for chips, NVIDIA's revenue stability depends in part on whether those buyers can carry their debt.
Analysts are bullish. Adam Jonas carries a $300 target, Eric Sheridan of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is at $230, and the average is near $235. Those targets assume the spending pays off, and lenders are now being asked to fund that same plan with debt.
At a market value of about $2.2 trillion to $2.3 trillion, with losses, heavy borrowing, and new share supply, SpaceX carries risks that the analyst targets may not fully reflect.
NVIDIA's exposure to the same AI spending carries less balance-sheet risk, because it gets paid when the chips ship, while SpaceX carries the debt for years. The power, cooling, and networking suppliers behind the expansion sit in a similar spot, paid up front as capacity gets built (we covered seven of them in a free report here).
It will be worth tracking whether SpaceX confirms the financing in a filing, whether rating agencies publicly engage, and whether the stock holds $171.92 through the October 24 unlock.
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