Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading Up 1.9% – Time to Buy?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s stock price rose 1.9% on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as $122.77 and last traded at $118.56. Approximately 35,606,468 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 136% from the average daily volume of 15,119,044 shares. The stock had previously closed at $116.33.

Trending Headlines about Nebius Group

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

• Positive Sentiment: Nebius expanded a multi‑year AI infrastructure agreement with Meta to as much as ~$27 billion, a contract that materially increases contracted demand and supports Nebius’s capacity buildout and revenue runway. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: Nebius has deepened its tie‑up with NVIDIA — including collaboration on AI infrastructure, robotics/physical AI platforms and a reported $2B strategic investment — which helps secure GPU supply and technical integration for future clusters. Article Title
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street attention is increasing: new coverage and upgrades (including a raised $200 price target from BWS Financial and Citi beginning coverage) lift analyst visibility and longer‑term upside expectations. Article Title
• Neutral Sentiment: Strategic partnerships beyond chips — e.g., CrowdStrike for integrated security on Nebius’s AI cloud — strengthen enterprise adoption but are incremental to near‑term revenue. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: Nebius priced an upsized private offering of convertible senior notes totaling $4.0B (two tranches: 1.250% due 2031 and 2.625% due 2033). While demand was strong, the raise increases leverage and creates potential future equity dilution on conversion — a key concern for some holders. Article Title
• Negative Sentiment: The market has reacted to the planned capital raise — shares fell sharply after the initial convertible offering announcement amid investor worry about funding needs, dilution and execution risk on the rapid data‑center buildout. Article Title

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have recently commented on NBIS. BWS Financial upped their price target on Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday. Morgan Stanley assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research report on Thursday, January 15th. They set an “equal weight” rating and a $126.00 target price on the stock. Compass Point started coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Wednesday, February 18th. They set a “buy” rating and a $150.00 target price for the company. Citizens Jmp initiated coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a report on Wednesday, November 19th. They issued a “market outperform” rating and a $175.00 price target for the company. Finally, Freedom Capital upgraded shares of Nebius Group to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 3rd. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eight have given a Buy rating, one has given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $157.80.

Nebius Group Price Performance

The company has a market cap of $29.87 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -81.24 and a beta of 4.02. The company has a current ratio of 3.08, a quick ratio of 6.57 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $98.15 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $99.22.

Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 12th. The company reported ($0.69) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.42) by ($0.27). The firm had revenue of $227.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $246.05 million. Nebius Group had a net margin of 19.02% and a negative return on equity of 11.70%. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Nebius Group N.V. will post -1.1 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in NBIS. State Street Corp increased its stake in Nebius Group by 2,391.3% in the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,219,326 shares of the company’s stock valued at $269,474,000 after acquiring an additional 3,090,103 shares during the period. Capital Research Global Investors bought a new position in Nebius Group during the fourth quarter worth about $231,635,000. Fred Alger Management LLC boosted its holdings 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 valued at $1,137,551,000 after purchasing an additional 2,536,832 shares in the last quarter. Accel Leaders 3 Associates L.P. acquired a new stake in Nebius Group during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $188,496,000. Finally, Qube Research & Technologies Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Nebius Group in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $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.