Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Shares Gap Down – What’s Next?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) gapped down prior to trading on Tuesday . The stock had previously closed at $129.85, but opened at $120.34. Nebius Group shares last traded at $115.15, with a volume of 18,524,689 shares trading hands.

Key Nebius Group News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius secured a massive commercial opportunity with Meta that could be worth up to $27 billion over five years, underpinning multi‑year revenue visibility and supporting the long‑term growth thesis. Zacks: NBIS jumps on $27B Meta deal
• Positive Sentiment: Strategic tech partnerships — including a reported $2B NVIDIA investment and a global security alliance with CrowdStrike — strengthen Nebius’ access to GPUs, engineering support and enterprise security, lowering execution risk on large customer deployments. CrowdStrike press release
• Positive Sentiment: Nebius priced an upsized $4.0 billion private offering of convertible senior notes (two tranches, 2031 and 2033 maturities) after what the company described as strong institutional demand — providing capital to accelerate its data‑center expansion tied to those large customer contracts. BusinessWire: $4.0B convertible notes priced
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts are responding: coverage and price targets have been raised/initiated (including a notable target lift to $200), which supports upside expectations and helps buyer sentiment. Analyst upgrade / price target lift
• Neutral Sentiment: Market commentary frames the convertible raise as a tradeoff — it lengthens the company’s runway to meet exploding AI demand but changes the capital structure; some view the increased debt as manageable given expected revenue growth. MarketBeat: silver lining to debt
• Negative Sentiment: Near‑term concerns about dilution/leverage have already pressured the stock in recent sessions (shares previously dropped after the initially announced convertible plan), and convertible issuance raises potential future share count and interest costs. Yahoo: stock fell on bond offering
• Negative Sentiment: Recent quarterly results saw an EPS miss and revenue slightly below consensus, reminding investors that execution and margin improvement still need to materialize as Nebius scales. (Company earnings released Feb. 12.)

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on NBIS shares. Weiss Ratings lowered Nebius Group from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “sell (d+)” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 15th. Citigroup initiated coverage on Nebius Group in a research report on Monday. They issued a “buy” rating and a $169.00 price objective for the company. Citizens Jmp assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Wednesday, November 19th. They set a “market outperform” rating and a $175.00 target price on the stock. Freedom Capital raised shares of Nebius Group to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, February 3rd. Finally, Compass Point initiated coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Wednesday, February 18th. They set a “buy” rating and a $150.00 price target for the company. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eight have assigned a Buy rating, one has given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $157.80.

Nebius Group Price Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a quick ratio of 6.57 and a current ratio of 3.08. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $98.60 and a 200-day moving average price of $99.36. The firm has a market capitalization of $29.85 billion, a P/E ratio of -81.21 and a beta of 4.02.

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

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. State Street Corp grew its holdings in Nebius Group by 2,391.3% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,219,326 shares of the company’s stock valued at $269,474,000 after purchasing an additional 3,090,103 shares during the period. Capital Research Global Investors acquired a new stake in Nebius Group during the 4th quarter worth $231,635,000. Fred Alger Management LLC grew its stake in Nebius Group by 33.4% in the third quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC now owns 10,132,279 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,137,551,000 after acquiring an additional 2,536,832 shares during the period. Accel Leaders 3 Associates L.P. acquired a new position in Nebius Group in the fourth quarter valued at about $188,496,000. Finally, Qube Research & Technologies Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the third quarter worth about $238,511,000. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

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.