Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Stock Rating Upgraded by Freedom Capital

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) was upgraded by equities research analysts at Freedom Capital from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note issued on Monday,Zacks.com reports.

Other equities research analysts have also issued reports about the stock. Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 20th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of Nebius Group from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Saturday, May 16th. Northland Securities raised their price objective on shares of Nebius Group from $248.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday. Morgan Stanley increased their target price on Nebius Group from $126.00 to $144.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 14th. Finally, DA Davidson cut Nebius Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and upped their price objective for the stock from $200.00 to $250.00 in a report on Monday, May 18th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have given a Buy rating and five have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Nebius Group currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $219.83.

Nebius Group Price Performance

NASDAQ:NBIS opened at $182.62 on Monday. The firm has a market capitalization of $46.21 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 58.91 and a beta of 4.10. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 8.33 and a current ratio of 8.33. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $227.96 and a 200 day moving average of $154.07. Nebius Group has a 52-week low of $49.00 and a 52-week high of $299.86.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.81) by $0.58. Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 9.11% and a net margin of 95.27%.The firm had revenue of $399.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $375.13 million. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 684.0% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts expect that Nebius Group will post -1.91 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Nebius Group

In other Nebius Group news, CFO Sanchez Maria Del Dado Alonso sold 1,509 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $276.20, for a total value of $416,785.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 12,672 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,500,006.40. This represents a 10.64% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CTO Danila Shtan sold 16,937 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total transaction of $3,987,816.65. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 274,763 shares in the company, valued at $64,692,948.35. This represents a 5.81% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 668,405 shares of company stock valued at $140,422,170.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Nebius Group

Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in NBIS. State Street Corp increased its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 2,391.3% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,219,326 shares of the company’s stock worth $269,474,000 after acquiring an additional 3,090,103 shares in the last quarter. Capital Research Global Investors purchased a new stake in Nebius Group during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $231,635,000. Accel Leaders 3 Associates L.P. bought a new position in Nebius Group in the fourth quarter worth approximately $188,496,000. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd purchased a new position in Nebius Group during the third quarter valued at $238,511,000. Finally, Orbis Allan Gray Ltd grew its holdings in Nebius Group by 12.4% during the second quarter. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd now owns 17,651,930 shares of the company’s stock valued at $976,681,000 after purchasing an additional 1,949,708 shares during the period. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Trending Headlines about Nebius Group

Here are the key news stories impacting Nebius Group this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Northland Securities raised its price target on Nebius Group to $410 from $248 and kept an Outperform rating, signaling significant upside potential. Benzinga source article
• Positive Sentiment: Freedom Capital upgraded Nebius from Hold to Buy and raised its target to $200 from $159, saying much of the risk has already been priced in. Stocktwits source article
• Positive Sentiment: Zacks added NBIS to its Rank #1 (Strong Buy) momentum list, which may attract additional momentum-driven buyers. Zacks source article
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts and commentators are debating Nebius versus other AI growth names and whether the recent drop makes the stock more attractive, reflecting a broader re-rating rather than a new fundamental catalyst. Zacks source article
• Neutral Sentiment: Some articles frame Nebius as a potential “buy-the-dip” opportunity after a more than 40% decline, but they also note ongoing cash burn and financing needs as the company scales its AI cloud infrastructure. Seeking Alpha source article

About Nebius Group

Nebius Group N.V., a technology company, builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning and other technologies to help consumers and businesses navigate the online and offline world. The company’s services include Nebius AI, an AI-centric cloud platform that offers infrastructure and computing capability for AI deployment and machine-learning oriented solutions; and Toloka AI that offers generative AI (GenAI) solutions at every stage of the GenAI lifecycle, such as data annotation and generation, model training and fine-tuning, and quality assessment of large language model for accuracy and reliability.