Royal Bank of Canada Purchases 54,277 Shares of Nebius Group N.V. $NBIS

Royal Bank of Canada increased its position in Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS) by 21.7% during the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 304,401 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 54,277 shares during the quarter. Royal Bank of Canada’s holdings in Nebius Group were worth $31,585,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in NBIS. State Street Corp boosted its position in Nebius Group by 2,391.3% during 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 during the period. Capital Research Global Investors purchased a new position in shares of Nebius Group in the fourth quarter valued at about $231,635,000. Accel Leaders 3 Associates L.P. bought a new position in shares of Nebius Group during the fourth quarter valued at about $188,496,000. Qube Research & Technologies Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of Nebius Group during the third quarter worth about $238,511,000. Finally, Orbis Allan Gray Ltd boosted 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. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Nebius Group News Summary

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

• Positive Sentiment: AI infrastructure growth narrative: Nebius is being promoted as a leading “neocloud” provider, supported by vertically integrated infrastructure, a strategic relationship with NVIDIA, and strong revenue-growth visibility. Nebius: The Neocloud Leader
• Positive Sentiment: Expansion potential: Potential data-center development in India could broaden Nebius’ geographic footprint and lift its long-term capacity beyond current guidance. Recent job postings were cited as evidence of possible expansion. NVIDIA’s reported 9.3% stake also strengthens the company’s technology and customer relationships. Nebius: Too Cheap To Ignore
• Positive Sentiment: Funding and demand: Nebius’ approximately $775 million senior secured debt facility provides capital for AI-cloud expansion and is backed by deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows. Investors are also anticipating the company’s August 12 second-quarter earnings report amid continued large AI-capacity spending by major customers. Nebius shares jump amid financing and AI demand
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst coverage: Piper Sandler initiated coverage with a “neutral” rating and a $224 price target, implying modest upside but signaling that valuation and execution risks remain. The target is below several other recent analyst targets.
• Neutral Sentiment: Market support: Nebius participated in a broad Nasdaq rally led by AI infrastructure stocks, suggesting part of the move reflects favorable sector-wide momentum rather than only company-specific news. Nasdaq midday rally
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling: Reported insider activity showed 46 sales and no purchases over the past six months, including sales by senior executives. This may weigh on sentiment by raising concerns about valuation or near-term profit-taking.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts recently issued reports on NBIS shares. Freedom Capital raised Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Monday, July 20th. Zacks Research upgraded Nebius Group from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, July 17th. Wall Street Zen upgraded Nebius Group from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Saturday, May 16th. Piper Sandler began coverage on Nebius Group in a research note on Monday. They set a “neutral” rating and a $224.00 target price on the stock. Finally, Northland Securities upped their target price on Nebius Group from $248.00 to $410.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, July 20th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nine have issued a Buy rating and six have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Nebius Group presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $222.29.

Nebius Group Trading Up 11.6%

Shares of NBIS opened at $212.58 on Tuesday. Nebius Group N.V. has a 1-year low of $52.88 and a 1-year high of $299.86. 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 firm’s 50-day moving average price is $225.46 and its 200-day moving average price is $161.01. The firm has a market capitalization of $53.79 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 68.57 and a beta of 4.23.

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

Insider Activity

In related news, CTO Danila Shtan sold 16,937 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 $3,987,816.65. Following the sale, the chief technology officer directly owned 274,763 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $64,692,948.35. This represents a 5.81% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, insider Andrey Korolenko sold 500,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, May 13th. The stock was sold at an average price of $203.24, for a total value of $101,620,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 585,209 shares in the company, valued at approximately $118,937,877.16. The trade was a 46.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last three months, insiders have sold 662,523 shares of company stock worth $139,422,230.

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.