Cinctive Capital Management LP Purchases New Holdings in Nebius Group N.V. $NBIS

Cinctive Capital Management LP purchased a new stake in Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 9,859 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,107,000.

Other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd boosted its holdings in shares of Nebius Group by 12.4% in the 2nd quarter. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd now owns 17,651,930 shares of the company’s stock valued at $976,681,000 after buying an additional 1,949,708 shares during the last quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. acquired a new position in Nebius Group during the third quarter worth $202,168,000. Ghisallo Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in Nebius Group during the third quarter worth $180,084,000. BNP Paribas Financial Markets raised its position in Nebius Group by 1,679.9% during the third quarter. BNP Paribas Financial Markets now owns 1,651,336 shares of the company’s stock worth $185,395,000 after acquiring an additional 1,558,557 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Gilder Gagnon Howe & Co. LLC bought a new stake in Nebius Group during the second quarter worth $49,337,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

Nebius Group News Roundup

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius signed a five‑year agreement to provide Meta with $12B of dedicated AI compute capacity and an option for up to $15B more (totaling ~ $27B), a blockbuster commercial win that materially expands contracted demand and underpins Nebius’s growth story. Nebius signs AI capacity deal with Meta
• Positive Sentiment: NVIDIA’s strategic relationship and financing (including a disclosed ~$2B investment) remains a strong catalyst — validates Nebius’s tech roadmap (Vera Rubin deployments) and eases access to hardware and engineering support. QuiverQuant analysis of Meta deal and NVIDIA tie-up
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street upgraded/raised targets: BWS Financial bumped its price target to $200 (buy) and Citi initiated coverage with a buy and $169 target — fresh analyst backing likely added momentum to the rally. Benzinga coverage of analyst moves
• Neutral Sentiment: Broad market tailwinds (equities up, oil and yields down) and heavy NBIS trading volume amplified the move, helping push the stock higher alongside sector peers. US Equity Indexes Rise After US Proposal
• Neutral Sentiment: Institutional and analyst coverage has increased (multiple price targets and buy ratings, median targets well above current levels), which supports liquidity and interest but also concentrates expectations. QuiverQuant institutional and price target summary
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation concerns: some DCF-based commentary argues the stock looks stretched after the rally, warning that the current price already prices in aggressive growth assumptions. That can raise downside risk if execution or demand slips. DCF model suggests Nebius is overvalued
• Negative Sentiment: Execution & capex risk remains: Nebius’s growth depends on large, capital‑intensive buildouts (management flagged CapEx as the key variable), so missed build schedules or higher-than-expected costs could hurt margins and cadence. Seeking Alpha: CapEx is the key variable

Nebius Group Trading Up 15.0%

NBIS stock opened at $129.85 on Tuesday. Nebius Group N.V. has a one year low of $18.31 and a one year high of $141.10. The stock has a market cap of $32.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -88.94 and a beta of 4.02. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $97.83 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $98.89. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a current ratio of 3.08 and a quick ratio of 6.57.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 12th. The company reported ($0.69) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.42) by ($0.27). The company had revenue of $227.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $246.05 million. Nebius Group had a net margin of 19.02% and a negative return on equity of 11.70%. Equities analysts anticipate that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.1 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have recently commented on NBIS shares. Freedom Capital raised shares of Nebius Group to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 3rd. Compass Point started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Wednesday, February 18th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $150.00 target price on the stock. DA Davidson raised their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $150.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday. Morgan Stanley initiated coverage on Nebius Group in a report on Thursday, January 15th. They set an “equal weight” rating and a $126.00 price target for the company. Finally, BWS Financial boosted their price target on Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eight have given a Buy rating, one has issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $157.80.

Nebius Group Company Profile

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.