Accenture (NYSE:ACN) & Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) Head-To-Head Review

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) are both large-cap technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Accenture and Nebius Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Accenture	1	14	12	0	2.41
Nebius Group	0	7	9	2	2.72

Accenture currently has a consensus price target of $192.96, indicating a potential upside of 9.95%. Nebius Group has a consensus price target of $221.64, indicating a potential upside of 17.91%. Given Nebius Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nebius Group is more favorable than Accenture.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.9% of Nebius Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Accenture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Accenture and Nebius Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Accenture	10.66%	26.47%	12.89%
Nebius Group	95.27%	-9.11%	-3.73%

Risk & Volatility

Accenture has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nebius Group has a beta of 4.23, meaning that its share price is 323% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Accenture and Nebius Group”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Accenture	$69.67 billion	1.68	$7.68 billion	$12.52	14.02
Nebius Group	$529.80 million	89.77	$82.50 million	$3.10	60.64

Accenture has higher revenue and earnings than Nebius Group. Accenture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nebius Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Accenture beats Nebius Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Accenture

Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

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. It also offers Avride, an autonomous driving solution which targets ride-hailing, logistics, e-commerce, and food/grocery delivery as application domains, as well as focuses on autonomous vehicles and delivery robots; and TripleTen, an EdTech service that prepares specialists for STEM roles, and equipping them with essential technology skills. The company was formerly known as Yandex N.V. and changed its name to Nebius Group N.V. in August 2024. Nebius Group N.V. was founded in 1989 and is based in Schiphol, the Netherlands.