Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Shares Gap Up Following Analyst Upgrade

Shares of Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) gapped up before the market opened on Tuesday after Bank of America raised their price target on the stock from $240.00 to $280.00. The stock had previously closed at $218.00, but opened at $230.00. Bank of America currently has a buy rating on the stock. Nebius Group shares last traded at $231.9850, with a volume of 3,573,579 shares.

Other equities analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock. Wolfe Research started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. They set a “peer perform” rating for the company. Freedom Capital lowered shares of Nebius Group from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, April 13th. BNP Paribas Exane assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Tuesday, June 2nd. They set a “neutral” rating and a $255.00 target price for the company. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Saturday, May 16th. Finally, BWS Financial increased their price target on shares of Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, March 16th. Nine analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $203.25.

Insider Transactions at Nebius Group

In other news, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $206.87, for a total value of $2,253,641.78. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 10,772 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,228,403.64. The trade was a 50.28% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CRO Marc Boroditsky sold 10,776 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $276.20, for a total transaction of $2,976,331.20. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive owned 26,886 shares in the company, valued at $7,425,913.20. This trade represents a 28.61% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 694,898 shares of company stock worth $130,681,379.

Nebius Group News Roundup

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius launched the Physical AI Living Lab, a six-month program giving robotics startups in the UK and Europe access to NVIDIA’s physical AI tools plus Nebius cloud compute, which could help attract early-stage AI/robotics customers and deepen its ecosystem. Nebius Unveils Robotics Accelerator Powered by NVIDIA AI Technologies
• Positive Sentiment: The company announced a £1.7 billion UK build-out with three new NVIDIA-powered deployments, adding up to 65 MW of capacity by 2027 and strengthening its London commercial and R&D hub. This supports the long-term growth narrative and signals continued demand for Nebius’s AI cloud services. Nebius expands in UK with more NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, more customers, and more cloud capabilities
• Positive Sentiment: Bank of America raised its price target to $280 from $240 and kept a Buy rating, reflecting confidence in Nebius’s expanding compute demand and infrastructure build-out. Bank of America price target raise on Nebius
• Neutral Sentiment: Some headlines note that NBIS has seen a sharp pullback after a huge run-up this year, but they also point to strong fundamentals, including rapid revenue growth and a large contracted backlog. The recent weakness may reflect volatility in high-beta AI names rather than any company-specific deterioration. Nebius Group up more than 40% over the past month

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd increased its holdings in shares of Nebius Group by 12.4% during the second quarter. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd now owns 17,651,930 shares of the company’s stock worth $976,681,000 after purchasing an additional 1,949,708 shares during the period. Fred Alger Management LLC grew its position in Nebius Group by 33.4% during the third quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC now owns 10,132,279 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,137,551,000 after buying an additional 2,536,832 shares in the last quarter. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. increased its stake in Nebius Group by 55.7% during the 3rd quarter. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. now owns 4,607,497 shares of the company’s stock worth $517,284,000 after acquiring an additional 1,648,497 shares during the period. Morgan Stanley increased its stake in Nebius Group by 35.2% during the 4th quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 3,704,659 shares of the company’s stock worth $310,099,000 after acquiring an additional 964,984 shares during the period. Finally, Clear Street Group Inc. raised its holdings in Nebius Group by 95.0% in the 4th quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. now owns 3,511,656 shares of the company’s stock valued at $293,943,000 after acquiring an additional 1,710,924 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 21.90% of the company’s stock.

Nebius Group Trading Up 3.4%

The stock has a market capitalization of $57.01 billion, a P/E ratio of 72.65 and a beta of 4.03. The company has a current ratio of 8.33, a quick ratio of 8.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $174.71 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $124.14.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 14th. The company reported ($0.23) EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.77) by $0.54. The company had revenue of $399.00 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $375.13 million. Nebius Group had a negative return on equity of 9.11% and a net margin of 95.27%.The company’s revenue was up 684.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts expect that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.91 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.