Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Trading 2.5% Higher – Time to Buy?

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ:NBIS)’s stock price was up 2.5% on Thursday . The stock traded as high as $121.80 and last traded at $121.52. Approximately 14,520,830 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 4% from the average daily volume of 15,144,937 shares. The stock had previously closed at $118.56.

Key Nebius Group News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Major strategic partnerships and investments: NVIDIA agreed to a deep engineering collaboration and a $2 billion investment to help Nebius scale hyperscale AI clouds — a credibility and supply-of-GPUs boost that supports long-term capacity buildout and revenue potential. Nvidia, Nebius Partner
• Positive Sentiment: Large commercial win with Meta: Nebius is linked to a reported up-to-$27B multi-year Meta commitment, which (if realized) materially increases Nebius’ backlog and revenue runway and is a central bullish thesis for the stock. Nebius $27B Meta Deal
• Positive Sentiment: Successful upsized financing: Nebius priced an upsized $4.0B convertible senior notes offering after strong institutional demand — provides immediate funding to accelerate data-center expansion and GPU purchases needed to service large customers. Nebius Prices $4B Convertible Notes
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrades and momentum: Several brokers raised coverage/targets (including a notable $200 target) and recent strong short‑term returns have prompted renewed investor interest and helped drive price momentum. Analyst Upgrade
• Neutral Sentiment: Industry partnerships increase ecosystem tailwinds: Partnerships in the AI stack (e.g., CrowdStrike integrations, CoreWeave/other infra plays) improve addressable market visibility but are supportive rather than immediate revenue drivers. CrowdStrike AI Partnerships
• Negative Sentiment: Market reaction to capital raise and dilution/leverage concerns: The convertible offering and larger-than-expected debt raised investor fears about dilution and the cost of scaling, which triggered sharp share weakness earlier in the week and prompted some analysts to call NBIS a higher‑risk trade. Stock Falls on Bond Offering
• Negative Sentiment: Execution and capital-intensity risk remains: Several writeups warn that Nebius is a capital-intensive buildout with execution risk (timing of capacity, GPU procurement, and margin realization), which could pressure returns if growth slips or costs rise. Fool: Biggest Risk

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

NBIS has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Citizens Jmp assumed coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Wednesday, November 19th. They issued a “market outperform” rating and a $175.00 target price for the company. DA Davidson raised their price target on Nebius Group from $150.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Monday. Freedom Capital upgraded Nebius Group to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 3rd. BWS Financial raised their target price on shares of Nebius Group from $130.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday. Finally, Citigroup initiated coverage on shares of Nebius Group in a research note on Monday. They issued a “buy” rating and a $169.00 price target for the company. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, eight have assigned a Buy rating, one has issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $157.80.

Nebius Group Stock 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 firm has a market cap of $30.60 billion, a P/E ratio of -83.23 and a beta of 4.02. The company’s 50 day moving average is $98.60 and its 200 day moving average is $99.36.

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

Institutional Trading of Nebius Group

Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in NBIS. Orbis Allan Gray Ltd raised its holdings 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 worth $976,681,000 after purchasing an additional 1,949,708 shares during the last quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC lifted its position in shares of Nebius Group by 33.4% in the 3rd quarter. Fred Alger Management LLC now owns 10,132,279 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,137,551,000 after purchasing an additional 2,536,832 shares during the period. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. boosted its stake in shares of Nebius Group by 55.7% in the 3rd quarter. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. now owns 4,607,497 shares of the company’s stock valued at $517,284,000 after purchasing an additional 1,648,497 shares during the last quarter. Morgan Stanley increased its position in shares of Nebius Group by 35.2% during the fourth quarter. Morgan Stanley now owns 3,704,659 shares of the company’s stock worth $310,099,000 after buying an additional 964,984 shares during the period. Finally, Invesco Ltd. increased its position in shares of Nebius Group by 2.7% during the second quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 3,587,811 shares of the company’s stock worth $198,514,000 after buying an additional 92,710 shares during the period. 21.90% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

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.