Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading 5% Higher – Still a Buy?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s stock price rose 5% during trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as high as $195.60 and last traded at $193.23. 20,589,276 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 19% from the average daily volume of 17,331,111 shares. The stock had previously closed at $184.11.

More Nebius Group News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Investor optimism ahead of earnings is supporting NBIS, with analysts and investors focused on the company’s rapid revenue growth, large customer backlog and ability to expand AI cloud capacity. Nebius Gains Ahead of Q2 Results as Investors Weigh Expansion Push
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s reported plan to provide up to $500 billion in financing for AI infrastructure is being viewed as a potential benefit to specialized cloud providers such as Nebius, even as Oracle shares declined on concerns about competitive and capital-spending pressures. NVIDIA Funding Plan and Nebius
• Positive Sentiment: Recent financing and expansion initiatives—including a roughly $775 million secured debt facility, infrastructure partnerships designed to reduce balance-sheet intensity, and plans involving up to 1.2 gigawatts of Pennsylvania capacity—strengthen the long-term growth narrative. Nebius Secured Debt Financing
• Neutral Sentiment: Wednesday’s report is a major near-term catalyst. Investors are likely seeking confirmation that demand, pricing, capacity additions and contracted revenue can justify the company’s aggressive investment plans. Nebius Q2 Earnings Preview
• Negative Sentiment: DA Davidson cut its price target from $250 to $175 and assigned a neutral rating after a site visit and planning hearing raised concerns that delays at the Vineland, New Jersey, data center could jeopardize 2026 guidance. DA Davidson Cuts Nebius Target
• Negative Sentiment: Michael Burry’s disclosed short position continues to pressure sentiment, highlighting concerns about Nebius’ heavy capital spending, cash burn and whether projected infrastructure growth can be delivered on schedule. Michael Burry Shorts Nebius
• Negative Sentiment: Insider trading data shows numerous sales and no reported purchases over the past six months, a potential sentiment concern as NBIS trades at a demanding valuation ahead of results.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several brokerages have issued reports on NBIS. Wolfe Research initiated coverage on Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. They set a “peer perform” rating for the company. Robert W. Baird assumed coverage on Nebius Group in a report on Wednesday, July 22nd. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $250.00 price target on the stock. Piper Sandler assumed coverage on Nebius Group in a research note on Monday, August 3rd. They set a “neutral” rating and a $224.00 price target for the company. Northland Securities boosted their price objective on Nebius Group from $248.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Finally, Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on Nebius Group from $126.00 to $144.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 14th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have issued a Buy rating and seven have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Nebius Group presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $216.29.

Nebius Group Trading Up 5.0%

The stock’s 50-day moving average price is $222.83 and its 200 day moving average price is $164.42. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16, a current ratio of 8.33 and a quick ratio of 8.33. The firm has a market capitalization of $48.89 billion, a PE ratio of 62.33 and a beta of 4.23.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last announced 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 analyst estimates of $375.13 million. The company’s revenue was up 684.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, sell-side analysts expect that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.57 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Nebius Group

In other Nebius Group news, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 46,627 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total value of $10,978,327.15. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 821,662 shares in the company, valued at approximately $193,460,317.90. This represents a 5.37% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, insider Andrey Korolenko sold 33,871 shares of the stock in a transaction on Wednesday, July 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $235.45, for a total value of $7,974,926.95. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 551,338 shares in the company, valued at $129,812,532.10. The trade was a 5.79% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 651,704 shares of company stock worth $137,422,230 over the last quarter.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

A number of hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank boosted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 34,371.3% during the fourth quarter. Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank now owns 93,762 shares of the company’s stock valued at $7,848,000 after purchasing an additional 93,490 shares in the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. bought a new position in Nebius Group in the fourth quarter worth approximately $24,756,000. Lombard Odier Asset Management Switzerland SA purchased a new stake in Nebius Group during the first quarter worth $1,087,000. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in Nebius Group by 1,095.7% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 2,046,799 shares of the company’s stock worth $169,840,000 after buying an additional 1,875,612 shares during the period. Finally, HB Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in Nebius Group during the 1st quarter valued at $735,000. 21.90% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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.