Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading Up 1.1% – Still a Buy?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) shares traded up 1.1% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as high as $204.57 and last traded at $190.41. Approximately 25,471,833 shares changed hands during trading, an increase of 49% from the average daily volume of 17,114,490 shares. The stock had previously closed at $188.43.

More Nebius Group News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Coverage linked Nebius’s sharp advance to a major AI infrastructure contract and the company’s Nvidia-powered data-center buildout, reinforcing expectations for significant future revenue growth. Why Nebius Stock Popped Today
• Positive Sentiment: A Vera Rubin compute rack has gone live at Nebius’s Mäntsälä, Finland, facility. The milestone demonstrates progress in deploying next-generation Nvidia infrastructure and could support additional customer capacity. Nebius stock soars on achieving an incremental milestone
• Positive Sentiment: Nebius’s approximately $775 million senior secured debt facility, backed by deployed GPUs and contracted cash flows, provides funding for further global expansion while potentially reducing the need for immediate equity financing. Nebius Group’s $775 million debt facility
• Positive Sentiment: Speculation that Meta could commit as much as $62 billion to capacity from Nebius and CoreWeave highlights the scale of potential AI-cloud demand, although the report describes a possible arrangement rather than a confirmed contract. Meta could spend $62 billion with CoreWeave and Nebius
• Neutral Sentiment: The stock was a major high-volume mover in the prior session, but analysts noted that recent earnings-estimate revisions may not support another near-term advance. Strength Seen in Nebius Group
• Negative Sentiment: After a roughly 172% 12-month return and the latest rally, valuation and execution risks are becoming more important. Investors are questioning how much future AI growth is already reflected in NBIS’s price. Nebius stock valuation after fresh AI partnership news

Analyst Ratings Changes

NBIS has been the topic of several recent research reports. Freedom Capital raised shares of Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Bank of America raised their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $240.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, June 8th. Zacks Research upgraded shares of Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Friday, July 17th. Citigroup upped their price target on shares of Nebius Group from $169.00 to $287.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, May 15th. Finally, Wolfe Research assumed coverage on Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. They set a “peer perform” rating on the stock. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have issued a Buy rating and five have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $222.15.

Nebius Group Trading Up 1.1%

The company has a market cap of $48.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 61.42 and a beta of 4.10. The company has a quick ratio of 8.33, a current ratio of 8.33 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.16. The company’s 50-day moving average is $225.99 and its 200 day moving average is $159.67.

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

Insider Transactions at Nebius Group

In related news, CEO Arkadiy Volozh sold 46,627 shares of Nebius Group stock in a transaction dated 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 transaction, the chief executive officer owned 821,662 shares in the company, valued at $193,460,317.90. The trade was a 5.37% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Elena Bunina sold 10,894 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $206.87, for a total value of $2,253,641.78. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 10,772 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,228,403.64. The trade was a 50.28% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold 668,405 shares of company stock worth $140,422,170 over the last quarter.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

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

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.